Château La Coste
In the midst of Provence, Château La Coste is a vineyard where wine, art & architecture live in harmony. 38 major works of contemporary art are installed in the open air and 3 gallery spaces, offer a unique experience at the heart of its 500-acres. Artists and architects are encouraged to choose a place in the landscape and are given the freedom to create a work.
In the midst of Provence, Château La Coste is a vineyard where wine, art & architecture live in harmony. 38 major works of contemporary art are installed in the open air and 3 gallery spaces, offer a unique experience at the heart of its 500-acres. Artists and architects are encouraged to choose a place in the landscape and are given the freedom to create a work.
Programme
Damien Hirst
The British artist is the first to take possession of all the galleries on the estate, as well as temporarily presenting 10 monumental sculptures in the gardens. These will be on display until the end of 2024.
Exhibitions still on show:
• Cosmos, Satellites and Météorites, a series of previously unseen paintings and sculptures
• Natural History, dedicated to Damien Hirst's revolutionary works using formaldehyde
• The Secret Gardens (2023), in which Hirst depicts flourishing gardens in which different species of flowers emerge in bright colours, both harmonious and chaotic
Une Chambre à Soi
Venue: Richard Rogers Gallery
Château La Coste is pleased to present ‘Une Chambre à Soi’, a group exhibition curated by Margaux Plessy bringing together over fifteen emerging international artists in dialogue with four leading female figures in art history to tell the story of one night, from sunset to sunrise. Visitors will be immersed in an intimate bedroom setting, guided by a rhythm of works that evoke the different phases of a fragmented, near-sleepless night.
An avid reader of literature and poetry, Plessy takes the title of the show from Virginia Woolf’s extended essay of the same name ‘A Room of One’s Own’, which spoke to her of themes of intimacy, secrecy and the possibility of imagination. Also inspired by her own personal experiences of insomnia, Plessy invited a group of emerging French and international artists to create new works that express their interpretations of dreams, nightmares and restlessness, and explore sleep, or a lack thereof, as an instigator of creativity.
TUNGA
Lieu : Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
A major figure in South American contemporary art, Antônio José de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão (known by the pseudonym Tunga) developed a unique body of work, drawing on his enigmatic personality and inspirations from alchemy, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Coming from a family of writers, poets, and activists, Tunga visited France often during his childhood and then developed a close relationship with the country throughout his career. The exhibition at Château La Coste will pay tribute to the artist's practice and continue the legacy of his work Psicopompos installed on the estate, a piece symbolising his sculptural research in the 1990s in to the energetic relationships between materials.
Access
Château La Coste
2750, route de la Cride
13610 Le-Puy-Sainte-Réparade
+33 (0)4 42 61 89 98
chateau-la-coste.com
Every day: 10 am - 7 pm
8 pm in July & August
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CULTURE & HERITAGE
• La Sainte Victoire (Aix-en-Provence)
• Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence)
• Centre d’Art Caumont (Aix-en-Provence)
• L’atelier Cézanne (Aix-en-Provence)
• Abbaye de Silvacane (La Roque d'Antheron)
• L’Eglise de Louise Bourgeois (Bonnieux)
WALKS
• Promenade de la Torse (Aix-en-Provence)
PLACES TO STAY
• Hôtel Roy René (Aix-en-Provence)
• Hôtel des Augustins (Aix-en-Provence)
• Bastide de Ganay (Aix-en Provence)
• Villa Baulieu (Rognes)
PLACES TO EAT & DRINK
• La librairie de l’hôtel Boyer d’Eguilles (Aix-en-Provence)
• Côté Cour (Aix-en-Provence)
• Le four sous le platane (Aix-en-Provence)
• Jardin Mazarin (Aix-en-Provence)
• Via Baseli (Cabries)
• Le Bocage (La Roque d’Antheron)
