Résonance events

“Voyages en cité” is an invitation to a journey through some working-class suburbs and towns in the region of Lyon. It is a journey through time—from the first oil crisis to the creation of the Ministry for Urban Affairs—and a journey through space, exploring the diversity of these neighbourhoods.

BDPD, Francesc Ruiz, from June,11th until October,10th, 2026. Curator : Camille Richert. For one summer, artist Francesc Ruiz transforms la Salle de bains into a homoerotic bookstore. The publications are available for consultation on site and sold for 5 euros each.

“The Paper Tells a Story of Silk” is an immersive exhibition that explores the memory and imaginaries linked to sericulture. Through paper and its installations, the transmission of knowledge, intercultural exchanges, and the poetry of ancient legends are questioned.

During their research and creative residency in the spring and summer of 2026, the artist duo Sarah Laaroussi and Matteo Magnant, known as Atelier Bicéphale, are developing a project rooted in their everyday lives: ‘Habiter la pente’.

Tout se touche
Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center of Lacoux, 55th Season
Everything moves, you told me?"
Yes, a rare truth.
Everything moves. Everything moves me.
Everything, infinitely and without boundaries, from the earth to the vast sky.
Tell me, what does not move?

This exhibition, featuring eight living contemporary artists, is part of the ongoing and sustained efforts of a local nonprofit organization, Souchaud Art Project, one of whose goals is to actively participate in the “poetic economy” of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region by bringing artists and the public together around sensitive artistic projects connected to heritage sites, rooted in the history and development of the region.

Since 1998, Michel Jeannès and the collective La Mercerie have been exploring social relations using the button as a mediating object. Stated by the artist as "Smallest Common Cultural Object", it becomes revealing of memories and vector of intergenerational links. In the heart of the hospital, this living work invites everyone to tell their story.

The exhibition of Isabelle Monge-Roffarello’s project celebrates living memory, particularly through the photographs of Laurence Papoutchian. Our daily lives, our places, our habits, and our connections come together to form something unique: the identity of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune.

"Art is what makes life more interesting than art." It's astonishing how all of István Pető's work resonates with these words by Robert Filiou. His painting, indeed, abstract yet warm, free yet structured, bold yet never haughty, bursts forth like a furious invitation to live.

Eryka JURA : A guest academic artist who differs greatly from the gallery’s usual exhibition programme “rubs shoulders” with other creators closely associated and inspired by Art Brut

Promenades presents a journey through the work of Pierre Mercier (1946–2016), whose practice combined sculpture, photography, film, language and transmission. Presented at Laroquebrou Castle, the exhibition brings together works, films and installations created between 1980 and 2010.

For the opening of Promenades, Paul Souviron presents a sound performance conceived as an extension of the exhibition experience through listening, movement and perception.

"The exhibition focuses on the disorder of perception, the limits of imbalance, Marc Chopy's favourite subjects, which he has experimented with by blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture. In different forms, the artist offers new works, spread over all the spaces. [...]"