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.

For almost 50 years, Gilbert Brun has photographed the worlds he has crossed, sometimes living in them, looking tirelessly for contact with the people inhabiting them. The exposition presented at the MAC of Pérouge retraces this long itinerary.

Eclats d'Ombre brings together two artists. Jean-Baptiste Martin, an art photographer, works on light. He produces his own film prints. He specializes in black and white. Nadine Bell works with porcelain in a refined approach. She was interested in the techniques acquired in Asia during her multiple residencies, and ancestral know-how.

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.

PILE proposes an archaeology of the urban ordinary. By turning over paper skins collected from the city's infrastructures, Claire Georgina Daudin reveals the discreet architectures that support urban life and brings the present to the surface as a landscape of ruins in the making.

"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. [...]"

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.

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.

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.