Résonance events

"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. [...]"

An exhibition exploring the fringes of the visible—somewhere between areas of shadow, folk knowledge, and fragments of shared memory.

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.

The Missing Piece is an invitation to explore our physical relationship with artworks. Whether instinctive, mundane, playful, or conventional, touch becomes a mode of interaction in its own right: a gesture of intimacy, appropriation, and care. The boundaries between artwork, body, and object—between the living and the inanimate—blur.

Confrontation of two contemporary artists

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.

The gallery Françoise Besson brings together three major figures of contemporary painting: Marine Joatton, Damien Cabanes and Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus. Three painters, three distinct worlds. Yet their works are united by a shared attention to living forms, sensitivity, and all that escapes immediate perception, revealing the quiet power of contemporary painting.

Once a month, L’Assaut de la menuiserie offers a guided tour of the exhibitions and an opportunity to chat with the outreach team, the curator and the artist (subject to availability).

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.