Nantes, Rennes, Brest: Brittany in 7 exhibitions to warm up the winter

Of Rennes has Nantespassing through Brest and the FinistèreBrittany is winning for us! Contemporary or ancient Art, heritage and family outings… Winter 2024–2025 is rich in events in the region.

Opening of The swimming pool in Brest by a duo of artists, exhibition dedicated to linersto knights or the kiss in Nantes: Brittany offers quality exhibitions that should not be missed if you are there or passing through. We tell you everything!

1. The most inclusive: the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts

Who said that at the museum you weren’t allowed to touch? The Rennes Museum of Fine Arts offers an experience that rethinks our relationship to works by letting us explore portraits sculpted with the pads of our fingers. Rennes is the last stop of “Prayer to touch”an exhibition born from exceptional cooperation carried out with visually impaired people and seven Fine Arts museums in France (Lyon, Rouen, Lille, Bordeaux, Fabre museum in Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole and Nantes). Touching offers a variety of sensations which enriches the understanding of the works and reveals them in their smallest dimensions and details. The year 2025 will also see the opening of a new 400 m² space, free and accessible to all, in the Maurepas district with two annual exhibitions, one of which is co-constructed with the inhabitants of the large complexes.

2. The most promising: La Piscine, new place in Brest

Immerse yourself in a bath of creativity and hope at La Piscine! This new place of art and meetings very exciting is supported by the Human Soul association and initiated by the artist duo Anne-Laure Maison and Michel Cam. For its first exhibition, this former 120 m private swimming pool² becomes the cradle of an unprecedented retrospective of the visual artist and photographer Georges Rousse (born in 1947), who for more than 20 years has been multiplying initiatives to decompartmentalize art, from school to the prison world. “I reorder the visible world into a new and unforeseen space,” affirms the one who sees Brittany as a “semaphore”. Affectionate with abandoned places, the artist invests magnificently the old swimming pool by filling it with its geometries and colors: an ephemeral painting in which it is pleasant to bathe your gaze.

3. The most family-friendly: Christmas magic at the Château de Trévarez

Praised last year by more than 100,000 spectators, the magic of Christmas is back at the Château de Trévarez, in Finistère ! Vintage rides, mounts of all kinds, distorting mirrors, sugar wheels, fairground organs or monster shows… This year, the event “Christmas in Trévarez” resurrect them funfairs of yesteryearbetween exhibition, light trail, video projection on the facade of the castle and activities. This smells like cotton candy! Cover up well before going to explore the park transformed into a marvelous multicolored luminous forest.

4. Knights, Winter Journey, liners and kisses: four unmissable exhibitions in Nantes

Impossible to be bored in Nantes this winter! The city is full of good exhibitions, whether you let yourself be taken aboard the most beautiful liners, Nantes Museum of Artsthat you take a leap in time with the knights, to castle of the Dukes of Brittanyor whether you embrace the double journey devoted to kissing, Unique place and at Frac of Pays de la Loire. For those who would like to wander in the open air, follow the thread of Winter travel the third edition of which this year brings together, in a single route through the city, discovery of works of art and heritage, gastronomy, illuminations, choir, beautiful windows and activities for children… Bright!