Résonance events

In 1976, Robert Filliou proposed shifting the value of art—moving it away from performance, virtuosity, or the market, and toward the human capacity to invent, play, and transform everyday life. This vision resonates particularly strongly with what is known as art singulier or art brut.

"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.

Galerie Françoise Besson will present Denis Prieur’s exhibition, Souffle Vivant (Living Breath), in the Petite Galerie. Echoing the history of Lyon’s silk workers, Denis Prieur’s work unfolds within a fragile economy—non-productive in the capitalist sense, yet intensely alive—where he will present these silent figures.

From 5 September to 31 October 2026, Ana Jikia and Gaia Vincensini present a new exhibition at In extenso. In the lead-up to the exhibition, the artists will be in residence from July to September at Chalet Lecoq, hosted by the City of Clermont-Ferrand, where they will produce new works. In this exhibition, the house becomes a starting point for thinking about artistic life as an ecology of relationships— between people, objects, economies, texts, and affects.

In Désert, Nils Vandevenne presents a new body of paintings in which abstraction, figuration and the memory of images intersect. Through gesture, material and narrative, the artist creates an inner landscape that is both enigmatic and deeply evocative.

In a world racked by tensions and uncertainties, this exhibition celebrates the power of art as a space to breathe. Colours, sensations and the interplay between the works invite visitors to embark on a sensory journey, brimming with emotion and beauty.

Through sculptures reminiscent of furniture, Ronan Lecreurer reveals the ordinary and the familiar. These objects, straddling the line between function and representation, take on new meanings.

With her Landscapes series, Catherine Mainguy explores the possibilities of ink and water. Between control and unpredictability, her works trace sensitive geographies that invite the viewer to slow down and experience the image as a journey.

Charlotte Maucourt and Margot Pietri focus on the discreet systems that organize our daily lives—the circulation of flows (water, air, narratives...), the regulation of spaces, communication tools, and imposed rhythms—all of which are organizational structures permeated by underground forms of resistance.

A moment to relive the small gestures of kindness we can offer one another—a shared glance, a smile at the sight of a flower or a landscape. An experience born of long-standing relationships with artists who have opened the door to their poetic worlds for Pauline Lisowski.

Valentin van der Meulen, a draftsman, explores erasure, repetition, and overlay. Using charcoal and black stone, he transforms decontextualized news photos into works where the act of drawing is as central as the image itself. His gesture, both destructive and generative, turns drawing into an archaeology of memory.