Photographies : une histoire sensible de Romenay brings together work by the local photographers Alexandre, Bonnet and Meunier. Organised by the Friends of Vieux Romenay, the exhibition follows photographic practice from glass plates to film. The images connect family memory with a view of the surrounding region, presenting Romenay’s past through its photographers.
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Galerie Métairie Visit in Scaër: Breton Costumes and Collections
The Galerie Métairie visit in Scaër brings together several collections under one roof: minerals from around the world, Breton costumes, cameras from the 19th and 20th centuries, paintings and photographs from the 1960s. The range gives the visit a cabinet-of-curiosities character, moving between local dress heritage, visual culture and natural specimens. It is especially relevant for visitors interested in how private or local collections can preserve material traces of daily life, image-making and regional identity.
Michel Thersiquel Photography Exhibition in Douarnenez
À terre en mer, les îles de Michel Thersiquel presents 65 black-and-white photographs by the Breton photographer at the Port-musée in Douarnenez. The retrospective focuses on daily life in the Ponant islands, including Batz, Belle-Île, Sein, Groix and Ouessant. Work, domestic scenes and island environments appear with a direct eye, giving maritime communities a documentary presence beyond postcard imagery.
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne in Saint-Broladre: Art Show
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne places contemporary art inside a small Breton chapel whose restoration remains part of the story. Pastels, paintings, watercolors, graphic pieces and photography share the space, so the building reads as both gallery and protected local monument. The seasonal program also keeps the Pardon Ste Anne and the Fête des Peintres in view, linking Saint-Broladre’s religious setting with living artistic practice.
Escales Photos Festival in Locmariaquer: Monochrome Focus
Escales Photos Festival in Locmariaquer presents monochrome photography in a coastal Morbihan setting. The festival uses outdoor and public display formats to connect contemporary image-making with streets, shoreline and local movement. Its black-and-white focus gives the route a clear visual identity while keeping the exhibition accessible beyond a conventional gallery.
Mammals of Brittany Photo Exhibition in Tréfumel: Nature’s B
Les mammifères de Bretagne is an outdoor photography exhibition at the Maison des Faluns in Tréfumel. Produced by the Groupe Mammalogique Breton, it accompanies the Atlas des Mammifères de Bretagne with images of the region’s wild mammals and the habitats they depend on. The Faluns setting links natural history, local geology and conservation work in a form that can be read at walking pace.
Traditional Dance in Brittany: Cultural Evolution
La danse traditionnelle en Bretagne examines social dance as a record of a society in motion. Videos, photographs and explanatory texts trace ridées, pilé-menus and related forms from rural community practice through aristocratic and bourgeois influence. Material developed with the Groupement Culturel Breton des Pays de Vilaine shows how industrialisation and rural migration reshaped dance around the Pays de Redon.
Trois Expositions at Musée Yan’ Dargent: Art & History
Trois expositions au Musée Yan’ Dargent places the painter back among the Léon landscapes, neighbors and spiritual references that shaped his work. Loans from regional museums sit beside large canvases by Alain Le Nost and Roger Moizan’s black-and-white photographs from Brittany and Ireland. Saint-Servais becomes the hinge between nineteenth-century Breton painting, parish enclosure imagery and a contemporary gaze on sacred places.
Exposition “Partir en fumée” in Morlaix: Art Narrative
Partir en fumée presents Gabrielle Manglou’s drawings, photographs, volumes, archival images and found objects in Morlaix. Born in La Réunion and based in Locmiquélic, the artist works with Creole culture, fictional storytelling and forgotten narratives. The exhibition gives Brittany a meeting point with island memory, archival fragments and contemporary visual practice.
Exposition ‘YS’ in Guimiliau: Celtic Legend
YS by Benjamin Deroche revisits the Celtic legend through photography, painting and a trail of reproductions across the Landivisiau region. The work draws on sources such as Émile Souvestre’s Foyer Breton, Théodore de la Villamarqué’s Barzaz Breiz and Charles Guyot’s adaptations. Guimiliau’s interpretation centre gives the exhibition a heritage frame where myth, landscape and contemporary image-making meet.