Contemporary art center — Montélimar

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Presentation

The Adhémars' château in Montélimar is a Listed Building (Monument historique) housing a contemporary art centre since 2000. It offers an arts programme in connection with heritage. Established artists and young creators make the place their own along the four yearly exhibitions. Entrusted with a double mission, spreading artistic creations and raising public awareness of contemporary art, the centre supports projects combining both artistic requirements and geographical embeddedness.

Programme

With a yearly artistic programme, the art centre offers to discover established artists (T. Kawamata, J. Armleder, D. Buren, O. Kisseleva) or artists from a new generation (Le Gentil Garçon, M. Hendriks, E. Régent, G. Leon), present on the national and international scene.

Solo or group exhibitions, four or five projects are completed every year, one of which takes on a special form (residence, satellite arts project, Art Outside the Walls). They are combined with other activities (conferences, video-projections, performances). Each exhibition offers a new way of looking at the powerful architecture of the edifice.
Check the exhibition programme in our cultural season.

Foorteen years of exposure

2014 / 2015

2015
Andrea Mastrovito N’importe où hors du monde.
Marcos Avila Forero Estenopeica. Conflictos rurales.
Collectif Les Climats : Gilles Gerbaud, Marine Lanier, Aude Lavenant, Antoine Picard, Myriam Voreppe Comme par une cheminée qui débouche en plein ciel.

2014
Thibault Brunet, Nicolas Daubanes, Jhafis Gonzalez Quintero, Ali Kazma, Rachel Labastie, Joanna Malinowska, Jean-Michel Pancin La Belle Échappée.
Bill Culbert Light Levels.
Su-Mei Tse ...et à l’horizon, il y avait l’orage.
Muriel Rodolosse On the ruins of the pizzeria.

2012 / 2013

2013
Mehdi Meddaci, En attendant.
Guillaume Bijl.
Mat Collishaw, La vie de château.
Glenda León, Bruit bleu.

2012
Emmanuel Giraud, Ivresses vénitiennes
Guillaume Bardet, L’usage des jours
Olga Kisseleva, Crossing flow
Emmanuel Régent, Sortir de son lit en parlant d’une rivière
Marie Hendriks, Adhemarie Show

2010 / 2011

2011
Victoria Klotz, Le ravissement des loups
Ann Veronica Janssens, Dans la poussière du soleil
Betty Bui, Un monument à partager
Eric Rondepierre, Alba, lai, reverdie

2010
Julien Prévieux, Le Dilemme du prisonnier
Pierre Malphettes, Paysage avec chute d’eau
Delphine Balley, L’album de famille
Yan Pei Ming, Les enfants de Montélimar

2008 / 2009

2009
J.L. Elzéard, M. Lefebvre, S. Duby, X. Veilhan, J.F. Gavoty, Reconnaissances
Loris Cecchini
G. Grand, B. Seror, Sound Time Material
Yvan Salomone, Tout est ici retrouvé
Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Ce que j’aimais...

2008
C. Hesse / G. Romier, S. Lautru, Duchesse Vanille
John Armleder, Par ailleurs
Lilian Bourgeat
Christine Rebet

2006 / 2007

2007
Eoin Mc Hugh
Le Gentil Garçon, Le futur est derrière nous car on ne le voit pas venir
Marie-José Burki, Horizons of a world
Etienne Bossut, Des illusions

2006
A. Abramov, A. Jalut, A. Pétrel
Bernhard Rüdiger
David Renaud, Outland
Philippe Durand

2004 / 2005

2005
D. Balley, C. Langan, C. Laquet, S. Nava
Tadashi Kawamata, Détours des tours
Françoise Quardon, Honeymoon tears
Pierre David, La chambre des garçons

2004
V. Litzler, A. Ovize, N. Prache
Sarkis, L’homme qui essayait d’attraper
la lumière
Adam Adach
Stéphane Calais

2002 / 2003

2003
Krijn de Kooning
Felice Varini
Jean-Luc Moulène, Oeuvres
Damien Beguet, Micro entreprise

2002
Danielle Jacqui, Celle qui peint
Daniel Buren, De la cabane aux châteaux
Yvan Fayard, Peintures
Patrick Tosani, Les paradoxes de l’image

Exhibition spaces

The château includes a three-hundred-square-meter exhibition area composed of two rooms 18 x 7 metres – the two levels of the seigniorial abode – and of an adjoining loggia. Those three rooms, through their dimensions and plainness, offer remarkable exhibition spaces. Depending on the project, the courtyard, the park, the rampart walk and Saint-Peter's chapel (11th century) can also be used. The latter can also house conferences. The site does not cater for permanent collections.