5 Art galleries to visit without moderation

What to do in Bordeaux if you love Art? Already, go to CAPCone of the most interesting French institutions in terms of contemporary creationinstalled in a former colonial goods warehouse. In the same building, can be visited Rainbow in dreama small exhibition center around l’architecturewith demanding but accessible programming.

Then we can go see the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECAnestled in a spectacular building near the station co-designed by the famous Danish agency Bjarke Ingels. In the city center, you can turn to the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (currently in the midst of metamorphosis work, reopening planned for 2025), or the Museum of Fine Artswhose collections include works by Camille Corot, Antoine van Dyck, Odilon Redon, Pierre-Paul Rubens… And now, head to the galleries!

At the Bakery Art Gallery, cakes and works

This first address is not trivial, since it is both a contemporary art gallery and a bakery (organic and gluten-free), installed in an old palace classified as a historic monument. Its founders, Sylvie and Christian Pallatier, began in 1991 by organizing conferences through their association Connaissance de l’art contemporain; before moving to Bordeaux, and making a major life change by opening the Bakery Art Gallery. Also equipped with a cooking laboratory, a bookstore and a large terrace, where films are regularly shown, the gallery combines exhibitions and editions of multiplenotably taking charge of the dissemination of the Cneai (National Center for Art Image Publishing) collection. Cannon!

At Zone Three gallery, new blood

At the origin of this new gallery opened in 2023 in the Chartrons district, there is the young and dynamic Jules Duplantier. In 2020, he had the idea, with his friend Jérémy Aterchane, to launch an application for selling works of art online called Artlee. The virtual adventure takes place in 2022 in a first gallery in Place de Lerme, before the application is closed. Responsive, the gallery owner immediately reopens another address, Notre-Dame Street. On its walls since the inauguration, emerging painters (Julien Laporte, Anaïs Vindel), international young shoots (Issi Nanabeyin, Duda Moraes) and some inventors (the amazing replicas of ancient Greek ceramics created by Rom BC from cut-up skateboards!). The gallery doubles as a online storewhere you can browse and purchase the works of all the artists already on display.

At the Sweeney Gallery, the legacy of modern art

He had a thousand lives! Born in a small village at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, Manus Sweeney his grandfather is the former director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, James Johnson Sweeney. The future gallery owner thus discovers from childhood, hung in his living room, the works of the greatest artists of the 20th century.^e century, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Georgia O’Keeffe… After a youth marked by numerous moves, he turned to art studies at Sotheby’s Institute in London, and works for the Peggy-Guggenheim Collection of Venice. Then he returned to the United States and worked as an archivist for the Alexander Calder Foundation. Before settling in Paris, where he collaborated with the Maeght gallery, and opened his own… Covid finally inspired him with the idea of ​​leaving everything to go to Bordeaux, where he inaugurates the Sweeney gallery in March 2022. Since then, he has exhibited the painters Jean-Christophe De Clercq, Vicki Sher and Joan Punyet Miró (grandson of Joan Miró), were interested in posters and labels commissioned by Bordeaux businessman Louis-Gustave Soubiran… An address that has character, like its founder.

Bad Reputation, a not-so-prescient name

It’s an institution – which already has 22 years of existence behind it! Originally, that is to say when it opened in 2002, Bad Reputation was all at once a bookstore and gallerywhich highlighted artists carrying out editorial projects (in drawing, photography, etc.). Then, in 2016, LMR got a makeover by focusing on his activities as a gallery owner. Recently, we could see the paintings of Damien Deroubaixthe musical compositions of Rainier Lericolais or the trashy and virtuoso drawings ofAmandine Urruty. An excellent gallery.

La Trame, or when architecture mixes with art

It’s new! More and more architectural agencies are choosing to welcome the public, for example by dedicating part of their offices to exhibition spaces. In Bordeaux, this is the case of ZW/Aarchitecture and town planning agency, which inaugurated the La Trame micro-galleries in 2022. The artists are invited to take over a windowand to comply with its reduced format, “even within a place where architectural creation is often under constraint(s)”, rightly specify the curators Sébastien Chevalier and Mathieu Quilici. The delightful little paintings of Ivan Lasserre, the urban photographs of Hugo Martin and the enigmatic engravings of Blandine Galtier… neat exhibitionsin an atypical space.