Summer 2024 exhibitions in Nantes and its metropolis

Nantes

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Artist based in Marseille, Caroline Mesquita is invited by Voyage à Nantes to the HAB gallery. Each exhibition is an opportunity for her to exploit the space and create a new situation. She deploys here, around an architectural installation, “a metal landscape composed of many surprise metallic hybrids“, made of brass, copper, stainless steel or steel.
Free

More information on the Voyage à Nantes website

Treasures of biodiversity

Before closing for work, the Museum reveals its treasures and in particular the nuggets hidden in its reserves – never seen, not seen for a long time or recently acquired. The exhibition thus demonstrates the evolution of biodiversity over time. Also to be seen at the Museum, the dreams of butterflies between art and science by Fabrice Azzolin.

More information on the Museum de Nantes website

Put on a good face(s) + Behind the door

The patio and chapel of the Museum of Arts house a major personal exhibition by Nantes video artist Pierrick Sorin. A new installation in the form of a triptych sits alongside older works, where Nantes figures prominently. Humor and self-deprecation compete with the incredible inventiveness of the artist, who also opens his studio at 25, rue Fouré, to the public. He presents prototypes of works there.

More information on the Nantes Museum of Arts website

Intoxication of ink

Calligrapher as much inspired by Western painting as the art of the Far East, the visual artist Lassaâd Metouui transcends cultures. He presented his new research at the castle, where he developed his “plant alphabet”. A hundred new works from which the rounded shape emerges, through the supports or materials used.

More information on the website of the Château des Ducs de Bretagne

What can I do for you ?

Lauren Lee McCarthy’s first solo exhibition in France takes place in Nantes! Known for her installations, videos and digital works, the Californian artist transforms the architecture of the Lieu Unique into a film studio or a large furniture store, with her sets, her signs, her fake apartments, her furniture… questions the fragile boundary between technology and humanity. Free.

More information on the Lieu unique website

The factory of success

THE Extraordinary journeys by Jules Verne would they have been as successful without the publisher Hetzel? The Butte Sainte-Anne museum sheds light on the editorial and commercial strategy around a collection aiming to “educate while entertaining”.

More information on the Jules Verne Museum website

Revolution of a single blade of straw

Like every year, the Atelier rue Chateaubriand exhibits the winners of the Visual Arts Prize of the City of Nantes. Claire Amiot, Élise Hallab, Benoît Travers and Clément Vinette, 2022 winners, present their works created over the last two years.

More information on the metropolitan agenda

Barto+Barto = line for line

We owe them the iconic La Pérouse hotel and the Schoelcher footbridge. The Regional House of Architecture immerses us in the abundant work of these figures of the contemporary Nantes architectural scene.

More information on the website of the Maison de l’architecture des Pays de la Loire

Inter-school journey

Three higher education establishments are participating in this 3rd edition, at the invitation of Voyage à Nantes. An invitation to open their doors to discover their “great creative bazaar, the underside of their teachings and their daily lives.”
In the creative district on the Île de Nantes. Free.

More information on the Voyage à Nantes website

Ground level

By welcoming Xavier Veilhan, the Frac branch at Hangar à Bananes invites the viewer on a stroll around questions of mobility and immobility, balance and falling, bestiary and scale games – so many founding themes for the Parisian artist. The scenography imagined by his accomplice Alexis Bertrand uses large cardboard volumes drawing a minimalist landscape. Free.

More information on the Frac des Pays de la Loire website

Francis Hallé

The cemetery park arboretum hosted the large format drawings of this botanist, who devoted his life to the exploration of tropical forests and their canopy with his “raft of crowns”, as well as to the study of trees and their architecture. Free.

More information on the Nantes Métropole website

Carquefou

Take care

From a selection of emblematic works, the public becomes familiar with the tools and gestures of the restoration-conservation team. Until July 14.

More information on the Frac des Pays de la Loire website

Reze

Gladiators

The Chronograph invites you to “descend into the arena“with this immersive and interactive exhibition that will make you fight… preconceived ideas! As a bonus, a focus on the archaeology of gladiatorship on a local scale presents objects found in the Picton territory.

More information on the Chronograph website

Coueron

The reign of silence

La Gerbetière hosts this immersive artistic installation by Fabrice Azzolin, bringing together hundreds of sculptures of seabed creatures. Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

More information on the City of Couëron website