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2023
Exhibition
Éveillée
Mélanie Matranga

Melanie Matranga was born in 1985 in Marseille. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2011. In 2014, she was awarded the Frieze Artist Award and was nominated for the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard prize in the same year, as well as the Aware prize in 2018. She is represented by the galleries High Art (Paris, Arles, FR) and Karma International (Zurich, CH). Her work, which combines installations, sculptures, and films, has been the subject of several solo shows, notably at the Palais de Tokyo (2015), Villa Vassiliev (2018), and in her French and Swiss galleries. She uses language as a witness, approaching it through appropriations (personal narratives, pieces of music…) or direct messages integrated into her works. Her relationship to space, altered through a sensitive apprehension of its architecture or luminous perception, disturbs the visit and enhances the dreamlike sensation of the exhibition Éveillée.

2023
Residency
Sarah Holveck & Florent Dégé
Sarah Holveck & Florent Dégé

In residence at Passages, artists Sarah Holveck and Florent Dégé explore a project between text and drawing, working together in the Centre d’art contemporain’s apartment. Both are interested in drawing, and for Passages they make it the heart of their subject. Their practice confronts, intertwines and experiments.

2023
Residence
Carla Adra
Carla Adra

Carla Adra is a French-Canadian artist born in Toronto in 1993.

2023
Exposition collective
SAUGE
Carla Adra, Jean-Pierre Dolveck, Jimmie Durham, General Idea, Irina Lotarevich, Aapo Nikkanen, Mira Schor, Franz West

The exhibition “Sauge” brings together fifteen artworks in the space of the art center, marked by the domestic characteristics of a late 19th-century mansion.

2023
Résidence
Visual Identity
Marie-Mam Sai Bellier et Clara Pasteau

Marie-Mam Sai Bellier and Clara Pasteau are two graphic designers who met during their studies at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon. They are currently redesigning the visual identity of “Passages,” which originates from an environment observation residency at the art center. The launch of this new graphic design and the new website is planned for September 2023.
Based on a set of specifications, their travels across the Aubois region, and their interactions with local cultural figures (historians, artisans, specialized production entities, etc.), their focus has been on two main aspects:

2023
Exposition
Plus haut tremble
Marine Wallon

Starting from January 27, 2023, discover “Plus haut tremble,” a solo exhibition by Marine Wallon.

2022
Residency
Irma Kalt
Irma Kalt

Following her exhibition at the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, the artist is pursuing a two-month residency in the same line as the works shown in February 2022. A graduate of the École des Beaux arts de Nantes in 2012, Irma Kalt pursues her artistic research within various collectives such as Second Kiss Company (Nantes, Paris, Beijing) and Silence Forêt (Nantes, Berlin, Beijing). Through various residencies, a network of artistic research affinities has been forged across Asia and Europe: 798 art center in Beijing, China, Art in Nature in Busan, South Korea, Atelier Nimmanhaemin in Chiangmai, Thailand, Treptow Atelier in Berlin, Germany. In parallel with her artistic work, she has the pleasure of regularly intervening in schools with the support of the Frac des Pays de la Loire, as well as in art schools: Nancy, Nantes, Metz, Quimper, Beijing.

2022
Exposition
Poas
Nicolas Momein

First presented at the Villa du Parc and then at the Biennale d’art contemporain in Lyon three years ago, the artist reactivates the Bouilleur de Savon project in a new form at Passages. For Troyes, the idea is to start recycling the three-tonne puddle to produce a series of sculptures and an artist’s soap edition. This participatory project invites 28 artists and associations to provide illustrations for the production of stamps. We find : Anita Molinero, Antoine Grulier, Antwan Horfee, Bruno Peinado, Cecile Pancafe, Ceel Mogami de Haas, cONcErn, Daniel Otero Torres, Fabienne Radi, Florent Meng, François Durif, Gaëlle Choisne, Haydée Marin Lopez & Camille Besson, John Fou, Jules Dumoulin, Le Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, Lyla Marson, Mario Picardo, Mathieu Mercier, Nina Childress, Pablo Tomek, Pauline d’Andigné, Renaud Loda, Romain Sarrot, Samy San, SKKI©, Thomas Koening et Alice Guittard, la Villa du Parc avec un design d’Ismaël Abdallah et Constance Jacob.

2022
Residency
Yan Tomaszewski
Yan Tomaszewski

Winner of the Ateliers Médicis’ Création en Cours 2022 program and in collaboration with the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, Yan Tomaszewski was able to benefit from a creative and research residency as part of a transmission program at the École Jean Moulin in La Chapelle-Saint-Luc. A graduate of Le Fresnoy, the artist creates investigations, often structured by myths, through the prism of sculpture and film. Imagination and reverie are an integral part of the artist’s questioning. Always experimenting, he tries to bring new techniques into his practice, as is currently the case with fire art.

2022
Exposition
Rivière de corps
Yan Tomaszewski

For his solo show at Passages, Yan Tomaszewski has linked works from several of his projects. Usually working in large sets anchored in specific contexts, the artist creates sculptural worlds and films intertwining mythology with reality.

2022
Exposition
40 years of the Centre d'art contemporain / Passages
Roger Balboni, Clothilde Evide, Pierre Jaingueneau , Ibraheem Ramadan, Charlotte Sauvat, SuperChevreuil

Le Centre d’art contemporain / Passages has been in existence for 40 years, thanks to its founding members: Dominique Letscher, Guy Mansuy, Françoise Balboni-Gibert, Roger Balboni, and Martine Rog.

2022
Group exhibition
Restitution du PAG et des ateliers

We invite you to discover all the week from May 9 to 14, 2022,
the work of PAG students (Global Artistic Projects), as well as productions
as well as productions made during workshops
by the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages.

2022
Group exhibition
Je me sens comme sur une surface imaginaire 
ESAD Reims

The exhibition is a selection of work by students at the École supérieure d’art et de design de Reims, France.

exhibition
March 18 – April 01, 2022

Je me sens comme une surface imaginaire is an exhibition
by 2nd and 3rd year Art students at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design
d’Art et de Design de Reims, as part of a course taught by
by Gérard Cairaschi, Jean-Michel Hannecart and Vanessa Morisset.

2022
Group exhibition
Irma Kalt et Charles Kalt
Irma Kalt et Charles Kalt

At the suggestion of Metz-based Galerie Modulab, father and daughter set up a discussion between their two practices. At the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, harmony is created by a scenography devised by curator Aurélie Amiot and the artists.

2021
Exhibition
 D’une rive à l’autre 
Nicolas Dhervillers

Exhibition from October 15 to December 11, 2021

2021
Residency
Nicolas Dhervillers
Nicolas Dhervillers

The artist works in the fields of photography and drawing. He is renowned for his Nuit Américaine photographic series, a technique derived from cinema and adapted to photography, enabling him to establish a new narrative for his decontextualized characters. He generally operates by elaborating a new scenario for an image in transit, and over the past five years, he has taken a step aside in his photographic career, gradually becoming a true visual artist.

2021
Residency
Vincent Perrottet et Thomas Chevalier
Vincent Perrottet et Thomas Chevalier

Alternately graphic designer and painter, these two creators have confronted their two practices in their exhibitions.

2021
Group exhibition
Vincent Perrottet et Thomas Chevalier
Vincent Perrottet et Thomas Chevalier

Exhibition from Friday June 11 to Friday July 23, 2021

2021
Residency
Philippe Lepeut
Philippe Lepeut

The Nantes-born artist immerses his work in tensions and paradoxes: nature/architecture, intuition/reason, discursivity/poetry.

2021
Exhibition
Surface de contemplation et Azoth
Philippe Lepeut

Exhibition from Friday, April 02 to Friday, May 14, 2021 (opening subject to health conditions – health crisis period)

2020
Exhibition
 Je me sens comme sur un lit de roses 
Romuald Jandolo

Exhibition from Friday 02 October to Friday 11 December 2020

2020
Exhibition
Grand Salon
Deborah Bowman

Exhibition from Friday, January 24 to Friday, March 20, 2020

2019
Group exhibition
Un pyjama pour deux
Sara Bichão & Manon Harrois

Exhibition from Friday, October 04 to Friday, December 13, 2019

2019
Exhibition
Simon Nicaise
Simon Nicaise

Exhibition from Friday 07 June to Friday 19 July 2019

2019
Residency
Simon Nicaise
Simon Nicaise

In the manner of a journeyman’s tour of France, Simon Nicaise embarks on several long-term residencies, with the opportunity to relocate his practice and discover new skills.

2019
Group exhibition
Passages / nocturne, la suite
Joël Ducorroy & Jade Collet & Delphine Gatinois

from Tuesday 02 April to Tuesday 07 May 2019,

2019
Group exhibition
Nouvelles acquisitions du FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Caroline Achaintre & Meris Angioletti & Eva Parto & Tom Castinel & Gaëlle Choisne & Natalie Czech & Michel D'heure & Nicolas Giraud & Anne Le Troter & Tania Mouraud & David Posth-Kohler & Julien Tiberi

Exhibition from Friday February 15 to Friday March 22, 2019

2018
Exhibition
Christian Lapie
Christian Lapie

Exhibition from Friday, October 05 to Friday, December 13, 2018

2018
Exhibition
Hugo Capron
Hugo Capron

Exhibition from Friday, May 25 to Friday, July 13, 2018

2018
Exhibition
Sascha Nordmeyer
Sascha Nordmeyer

Exhibition from Friday, February 9 to Friday, March 30, 2018

2017
Group exhibition
Aliénor Welschbillig / Félix Bressieux
Aliénor Welschbillig & Félix Bressieux

What interests Aliénor Wlschbillig is the unexpected emergence, exit or expulsion of a material that rushed out of a place from which it was not visible. Above all, she likes to share the birth of a form that modifies space and enters into full resonance with it… Indeed, it is in the sensitive interaction of fullness and tenuous emptiness, where opposites coexist, touch and penetrate, that Aliénor finds the principal material for her creation.

2017
Group exhibition
Félix Bressieux / Aliénor Welschbillig
Félix Bressieux & Aliénor Welschbillig

“… Painting is performance, ritual, living…”.
Félix Bressieux’s paintings are based on a simple, uncluttered language. It’s a protocol-driven process in which the artist remains in the background, letting the dance of a protagonist gesture create and recreate itself. He uses schemas, mathematical and logical systems, sometimes borrowed, sometimes improvised. These schemes and systems organize shapes and colors to extract their essence and strength. The paintings evoke the appearance of scientific experiments, organic images that suggest the existence of a living, self-sufficient universe in each canvas. It’s the research and study of color, of the emotions it arouses, of what is visible and invisible, as seen through a microscope.

2017
Group exhibition
Trakif
Trakif

Whether prints or projections… the members of the Trakif graphic and multimedia development studio like to understand, define and reveal. Stirred by exchange and participation, their devices are distinguished by their inciting, playful and immersive character. The “in-house” design of visual systems and digital instruments leads the people of Lyon towards objects that are far from expected, and the situations are never repeated, as their processes meet with each intervention and renew plasticity.

2017
Exhibition
Le Tour de France 1969 d'Eddy Merckx
Jef Geys

Jef Geys is a confirmed Belgian artist. In 2009, he represented his country at the Venice Biennale.
Since the 1950s, his work has been an ongoing exchange between the personal and the universal. He meticulously keeps an inventory, from which he draws, to create new narratives around three fundamental axes: his environment, his private life and his relationship with the outside world. Since birth, his life has been in Kempens: the name of the region that is also, by extension, Kempens. Informatieblad, the name of the newspaper in which Jeff Gens began working and which he has adopted as the artistic medium for his research. Jeff Gens likes to multiply his experiences: working with neighborhood committees, taking part in strikes, leading a political party and mixing the notions of minor and major art… experiences that aim to propose forms of transmission, or even apprenticeship.

2016
Residency
Marc Rebollo
Marc Rebollo

Painting, sculpture, collage, sound, statement, Marc Rebollo uses a multitude of mediums, sources and references linked mainly to music, with which he deploys a mise en tension. In 2014, for his “Sold out” exhibition at the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, he produced an instrumental sound work conceived as a soundtrack engraved on vinyl and printed in 300 copies. Like an echo, two years later, Marc Rebollo is once again invoking the multiple for his residency, but this time in the form of a silkscreen project produced in collaboration with the Trojan workshop Oasp, whom he met on his wanderings around the city of the tricasses.

2016
Exhibition
Aniline Black
Élodie Lesourd

The exhibition Aniline Black, conceived specifically for the Centre d’art contemporain Passages by Élodie Lesourd, is both an exploration of the different facets of her work and an invitation to trace the genealogy of the site and the painting itself. Taking as its starting point the history of the building and its links to the hosiery industry, and more specifically to the preparation of black inverdissable dye, the project unfolds a whole chromatic reflection around the desire to fix the ephemeral.

2016
Outside the walls / group exhibition
Expérience sonore
016*
2016
Exhibition
Les Porteurs
Delphine Gatinois
2016
Residency
Delphine Gatinois
Delphine Gatinois

Born in 1985 in Reims, Delphine Gatinois is a graduate of the Épinal and Metz art schools. Working back and forth between France and West African countries such as Mali and Senegal, the artist reflects on the world through myth. Her main fields of practice are photographic staging and installation in the plastic sense of the term.

2016
Exhibition
Mic Mac Fractal-Pot-Pourri
Joël Hubaut
2016
Residency
Jagna Ciuchta
Jagna Ciuchta

Jagna Ciuchta was born in 1977 in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland. Today, she lives and works in Paris, developing a protean and processual practice, linked to the very status of the exhibition. From January onwards, she will be in cross-residence, enabling her to work directly in the spaces of the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, in order to create a proposal that responds to the specificity of this venue.

2016
Exhibition
 Silver Cover 
Jagna Ciuchta

Jagna Cicuta was born in 1977 in NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland. Now living and working in Paris, she is developing a protean and processual practice, linked to the very status of the exhibition. She deals both with the forms used to represent works of art – such as displays and documentation – and with the question of authority inherent in an exhibition produced in a given context.

2015
Exhibition
Sophie Hasslauer
Sophie Hasslauer

“You have to see it to believe it”. Well no, with Sophie Hasslauer, you have to look at it to know that you shouldn’t believe it… well no, you have to look at it to know that you shouldn’t believe it, but in fact you have to believe it. Limits are a matter of education, we know. And in art too. Doesn’t reality appear when there’s nothing left to see? Isn’t this what Sophie Hasslauer’s practice is all about?
So why does she give so much to see? It’s a pretext! Yes, a smokescreen, a deception, a form, a color, a thickness, a weight, a reality in place, but one that speaks only of that which cannot be palpated, gives thickness to the air, shows the invisible, tells things, criticizes, grumbles or sleeps. Sophie Hasslauer is a painter. She shows objects, but what really interests her is painting, another oddity. “No”, she says, “it’s not odd, it’s in the process, I’m looking for what in the elaboration and presentation of the object is painting”.

2015
Group exhibition
Ex-libris / La Bibliothèque grise
Laurent Sfar & Jérôme Dupeyrat
2015
Group exhibition
Un passage à bout portant
ESAD Reims

Un passage à bout portant is an exhibition idea put forward by Giuseppe Gabelle and Guillaume Leblon, teachers at Ésad de Reims. It involves a dozen students from the art section of the École supérieure d’art et de design, chosen for the quality of their work, whose principle is to create the conditions for their projection into a professional environment, such as that of the Centre d’art contemporain Passages.

2014
Exhibition
27m2 
Hélène Agofroy

“The exhibition brings together the film Arrangements (2012) and the installation Home-Scape (2005). The former follows the transformations of a small house through the 20th century to the present day. Entirely realized in the studio, it places the notion of décor at the center of autobiographical and historical interrogations. Until she was a teenager, Hélène Agofroy lived opposite the factory to which her house was attached. From these memories, she has extracted an element, the only one to have survived the end of the textile industry: this small building, now relocated at the foot of tennis courts, a kind of “house-witness” to the transition from industry to leisure. As for Home-Made (2003), an envelope containing a cardboard model of the house mentioned above was given to each participant, who took it with them on their travels. They were then invited to build it and position it in the places or situations of their choice, documenting their action with photos or videos posted on the dedicated website. ”

2014
Exhibition
Marc Rebollo
Marc Rebollo
2014
Group exhibition
Manon Harrois & Merhyl Levisse
Manon Harrois & Merhyl Levisse

“Mehryl Ferri Levisse is not a photographer, but photography plays an important role in his artistic work. This technique, which he calls “captationphotographique”, enables him to offer almost documentary traces of events in time, in the intimacy of his studio. A space he calls the theater of all his thoughts and fantasies, in which he constructs, on a scale of 1, contexts in which he stages the body. Closed, doorless and windowless are the images of his dreams, in which it is impossible to hold on to a material reality. His large-format photographic recordings create a direct frontal relationship between the body presented and the body of the viewer. By choosing to display these prints in the space of the Centre d’Art Contemporain /Passages in a horizontal arrangement, rather than opting for a conventional hanging, he proposes to create a stronger intimacy between the viewer and the viewed. You are cordially invited to move around, look at and apprehend the visual proposition, whose links and layout are not lost on the distracted eye.”

2014
Group exhibition
Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky
Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky
2013
Group exhibition
Les 30 ans du FRAC
Gavillet & Rust
2013
Residency
Shqipe Gashi
Shqipe Gashi

The repository of possible sculptures

2013
Exhibition
Gaël Davrinche
Gaël Davrinche

 

2013
Residency
Manon Harrois & Mehryl Levisse
Manon Harrois & Mehryl Levisse

Manon Harrois

2015
Residency
Nadine Monnin
Nadine Monnin

… framing a void studded with paint stains and dust on the negative… alchemy in the surprise of failures… chance in the emulsified meanders of powder and watery secretions stirred up with a brush… this is beyond aesthetics, it’s an ethical position, difficult to hold, but one that Nadine Monnin pursues without concession. Take it or leave it, there’s never any pretense, no plastic effects, no emphasis on image. Always the tightest, the most modest. So, let’s go for the worst. That’s our truth.

2013
Exhibition
29 473
Julien Carreyn

a) …encountering corpus 29 473 with the woodwork of the Centre d’art contemporain Passages, or a visit to a natural history museum in the process of moving, in any case a desire for total non-astentation, if the images are present everywhere, consulting them is uncomfortable, requires effort, they are arranged, sorted or piled up, the walls used like the pages of a book, possibly displayed in an unfinished scenography…

2013
Residency
Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky
Élise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky

Élise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky’s wandering fieldwork, attentive to manifestations of the irrational, the resurgence of myths and mechanisms of resistance, is expressed in all kinds of audio-visual forms: structural, narrative or hypnotic. Operating by successive disjunctions between what is said and what is seen, their research questions the construction of a multiple self through different contexts: geographical, historical and political.

2013
Exhibition
La filière imaginaire
Matali Crasset

Magali Crasset trained as an industrial designer. In the image of one of her emblematic objects, the hospitality column “Quand Jim monte à Paris”, she has developed her own methodology in which she questions the obviousness of the codes that govern our daily lives, the better to free herself from them and experiment.

2012
Residence
Julien Carreyn
Julien Carreyn

In 2010, Andra / Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs launched a major multidisciplinary project on the memory of radioactive waste disposal centers. Art is one of the avenues being explored. To this end, Andra has entered into a 3-year partnership with the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages de Troyes. It involves the funding of a grant and an artists’ residency in Troyes.

2012
Exhibition
 5En 2012 
Eugène van Lamsweerde
2012
Group exhibition
Les 30 ans du FRAC « On ne peut régner innocemment »
013*
2012
Exhibition
Anita Molinero
Anita Molinero

“Do we know exactly what inspires us? Inspiration is, in a way, a non-discernible artistic urge, given its mysterious origin. Whereas a pregnant woman’s urge, despite its equally mysterious origin, will never merit the term inspiration.
In short, I think this particular house, built in 1862 for a hosiery industrialist, inspired me. This house, even when refurbished as a contemporary art center and thus neutralized in its “animism”, suggested this exhibition to me.
A fireplace, wood panelling or a picturesque, typical or stylish terrazzo floor are preserved here, as you wish and according to your own taste. No doubt these beautiful traces of an era on the verge of being beautiful have sent me back to my own, and I’ve been thinking about equally stylish sculptures from 1995 to 2003, which I’m delighted to see installed on the mantelpiece or in the conservatory. But, as decorating consultants say, the old goes with the contemporary and, as sentimentalists say, the present is often contained in the past. So, on the other hand, I made a wall, a huge, ravaged, flamboyant relief, a scab, the kind that sizzles under laziness.”

2012
Exhibition
 Space Oddity 
Morgane Tschiember

For Morgane Tschiemer, the exhibition is an opportunity to bring her own pieces back into play, to reconstruct and reinterpret them. The Space Oddity exhibition is conceived as a context of revelation.
Space Oddity extends the research begun with Folded Spaces and Unspecific Spaces. The working protocol is that of a laboratory. The ensemble is envisaged as a specific temporal space, at once a culmination and a beginning, a transition and a metaphor for place, understood as a physical and mental space, where thought circulates and is transmitted.

2011
Exposition
Hélène Juillet & Thomas Dupouy
Hélène Juillet & Thomas Dupouy

The proposal for Passages, center d’art contemporain is directly in line with my research into formatting and behavior. These works have led me to develop spaces, sculptures, scores or, as today, environments based on the idea of sound.
“phonons and photons beam” illustrates the wave-corpuscle duality of sound and light. Phonon (from the ancient Greek phonê, voice) designates a quantum of vibrational energy, a quality in common with the photon, which is a “packet” of elementary energy, endowed with nodular behavior, and simultaneously having corpuscular properties.

2011
Group exhibition
Le mois du mécénat
012*
2011
Exhibition
 Ce qui n’a pas pu se faire !
Veit Stratmann

Veit Stratmann’s approach revolves around a reflection on space and its use. His works are generally closely linked to the places where the artist is invited to intervene. Their dimensions, the neutrality of their shapes and colors, the materials used and their positioning generate “devices” that can sometimes resemble unlikely street furniture, engaging his culture of space.

2011
Group exhibition
Run Silent, Run Deep 
Sarah Fauguet & David Cousinard

“There’s a strange, nagging pleasure in coming face to face with a work of art, a curious exhilaration in entering a space like going on a first date, full of longing and apprehension. Fear that everything will go wrong. Hoping it will sweep you off your feet. Entering an exhibition by Sarah Fauguet and David Cousinard instantly soothes our aesthetic fears, before immersing us in the magma of a world closing in behind us. The encounter is like diving into thick, murky water. And everything goes wrong, and we’re swept away. Their generous work doesn’t inhabit the space, it turns it upside down, skins it, prevents it, counters the permanence of the place to replay it in its entirety. It asserts a presence that shakes our certainties about what we expect from art. Clearly, all this is not a charming rendezvous, it’s a head-on collision that leaves its mark on the mind.”

2010
Group exhibition
Storytellers 
011*
2011
Residency
Veit Stratmann
Veit Stratmann

Veit Stratmann, a visual artist, was the first to examine the subject. At the end of 2011, he submitted his report entitled “The Hill”. To combat memory loss, he proposes a ritual every 30 years. The final cover of the storage centers would be raised regularly. At the end of 300 years of monitoring, the final cover would reach a height of 57 meters and become a hill.

2010
Group exhibition
Natures mortes
Véronique Ellena & Alexandre Joly

Natures mortes is an original series of events based on a unifying theme, designed to bring together contemporary works with the collections of the Musée des Beaux-arts and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Troye.

2010
Exhibition
Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro
2010
Exhibition
Inhale / Exhale
Dominique Blais
2009
Exposition
Faces
Jean-Michel Hannecart
2009
Group exhibition
L’avenir d’une illusion
010*
2009
Exhibition
Moteur !
Karine Bonneval
2009
Group exhibition
« x / y box » « Envisager / dévisager »
Frédéric Garnier Nicolas Crouigneau
2008
Exhibition
Trouer n’est pas jouer 
Dominique de Beir

“When Dominique De Beir pierces her cardboard boxes, she doesn’t totally ruin the notion of painting, but rather puts them in crisis. Indeed, what is a painting where there is nothing to see, where the gaze falls into sock traps? What a thing is,” writes Aristotle, “is always determined by its function: for a thing is truly itself when it can perform its function, an eye, for example, when it can see; on the contrary, the thing incapable of performing its function exists only by homonymy, for example a dead eye or an eye of stone, just as a saw of wood is no more a saw in painting. “These are not mere surfaces, like a painting, a fresco, a sheet of paper or a wooden panel; they are surfaces that criticize themselves as such, i.e. that are based on their own crisis. Indeed, they call for touch as much as life, to caress these holes which are often, at the same time, protuberances. As Dominique de Beir reads Braille, the tactile dimension of her works takes on a particular relief. It’s the whole body that takes over: the impotent eye gives way to the hand.”

2008
Exhibition
 Portrait de Dante
Philippe Berta

“Can I claim to be living in my time by taking an interest in ancient figures?
What is my relationship with the past, with my past?
What is our relationship with history? How does history shape us?
To what extent do the past and cultural history shape us?
Can we imagine a being without culture?
Culture for whom?
Art for what?”

2008
Group exhibition
Clara 
009*

“We are four visual artists.
Each CLARA encounter goes beyond the sum of our individual practices to achieve a collective force. Our actions are not guided by words, but by urgency and a constantly renewed attention to context.
For the first CLARA exhibition, we present Sans préméditions. This installation is the result of a series of collective actions carried out from May 12 to 20 in the art center. The materials, provided in part by patrons and partner companies, were also found on site, during the installation of the exhibition.
The installation takes into account the entirety of the art center’s spaces.”

2008
Exhibition
Feu l’artifice
Alain Bazin

“An existential reflection, supported by psychoanalytical theory, fuels my artistic commitment …

2008
Group exhibition
La joie de vivre 
008*
2008
Exhibition
I quit, I give up… 
Myriam Bâ

“… references to our dreams, our images, our fantasies, our culture, our desires, everything mixes and intertwines, one object next to another, the artist proceeds from images superimposed layer upon layer …”

2007
Exhibition
Partage d’égoïsme 
Éric Fournel

Éric Fournel is a freelance graphic designer and works under the Éric Fournel & Cie identity on projects with other studios (architect, designer, photographer, etc.) to cover all creative fields, and thus best respond to multi-disciplinary projects.

2007
Exhibition
Meublopages et autres dérivations 
Christopher Varady-Szabo

Christopher Varady-Szabo is a Canadian artist living in Gaspésie, Québec. Exploring concepts of inhabitation and architectural systems, he creates ephemeral installations that aim to reveal the relationship between being and environment. His sculptures are inspired by primitive structures, and to design them, he borrows and adapts authentic traditional construction methods.
This new body of work finds its meaning through links between forms produced by these traditional primitive construction techniques and objects from domestic life. In a context revealing a parasitic and territorial cohabitation, the resulting fusions and inlays will give rise to a body of hybrid works and installations, taking on the appearance of a fabulous new living species…

2007
Exhibition
Expiry date 
Jeanne Susplugas

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2006
Exhibition
Bad dreams
Rémy Marlot

For the Passages contemporary art center in Troyes, Rémy Marot is showing 2 series of photographs and a selection of videos, most of which have never been shown before.

2006
Exhibition
Le théâtre des pesanteurs 
Ghislaine Vappereau
2006
Exhibition
Peintures, photographies
Nadine Monnin
2006
Group exhibition
Mémoires 
007*
2006
Group Exhibition
Marionnette d’ici et d’ailleurs : entre tradition et modernité
2006
Exhibition
Fanzinat 
Rachel Redon & Tib-Gordon
2006
Exhibition
Tirant d’air
Bruno Goosse
2006
Exhibition
Le bruit du rouge 
Bernard Metzger
2005
Exhibition
Zone d’activité passagère 
Baptiste Roux
2005
Exhibition
Objets, collages-contacts 
Guy Mansuy
2005
Group exhibition
Conversations 
Corinne Philippi & Philippe Brame
2005
Exhibition
Zones 
Daniel van de Velde
2005
Exhibition
 … et ! Est-ce qu’il y a des arrêtes ? … 
Alain Bresson
2005
Exhibition
L’inconsistance des instants oubliés
Serge Lhermitte
2005
Exhibition
Archi-txt 3 : des montages 
Daniel Azelie
2004
Exhibition
 Photographies 
Éric Aupol
2004
Group exhibition
Kara-collages
Christine Pelle & Yota Hanazawa
2004
Exhibition
Ville départ 
Matthias Meyer
2004
Exhibition
Champs libres paysages
Ivan Polliart
2004
Exhibition
Arbres, horizons 
Bernadette Tintaud
2004
Group exhibition
Multiplies 
006*
2004
Exhibition
Site d’observation
Roland Cognet
2003
Exhibition
Strophoïdes 
Anne Huff
2003
Exhibition
 La surface de réparation 
Françoise Quardon
2003
Exhibition
Comment s’y retrouver
Ivan Messac
2003
Group exhibition
Attitude d’artistes 
Louis Couturier Jacky Georges Lafargue
2003
Group exhibition
Bestiaire 
005*
2003
Exhibition
Poncif habitable
Denis Pondruel
2003
Exhibition
Dedicate to
Fanny Adler
2003
Exhibition
Après la terre, la lumière 
Sun Cheol Kwun
2002
Exhibition
Extases 
Ismaël Kachtihi
2002
Exhibition
Voeux d’artistes
004*

“There is life
There is the autumn sun
There are men
There are women
The sweet grapes
The golden trees
Oil lakes and quiet mountains…
And snowy peaks.
Explain my approach?
I’m not sure I can.
On what pleases and delights me?
See below, and so on…
About my obsessions?
Let’s keep it modest, I don’t spread my life around, I’m not sure anyone would be interested.
About the paintings I present at “voeux d’artistes”?
They’re too recent, so let’s let the poetry of things misunderstood live on,
Let the dark sky fill with stars,
And our brains sailing in the pink clouds of the irrational.
RUDOLF: you stick a needle in a piece of tapestry, a white thread in the cat’s eye, and voila, it’s all there.
The needle, and voilà, you have a painting. But what does it really mean?
is it ridiculous?
BERTA: Well, you see, you’re the one who says it best!
Ridiculous is a very interesting subject, but it doesn’t interest me.
What else do you want to know?
“The 8 paintings for sale are all almost square, i.e. 23.9 x 24.8 centimetres.
The piece at 75 euros” ”

2002
Exhibition
Souffler - Ride- Temps
In-Sook Lim
2002
Exhibition
Sens giratoire
003*
2002
Exhibition
Assupisma 
Stephen Vee
2002
Exhibition
Rien ne va plus… 
Ramsà
2001
Exhibition
X
Nathalie Rao
2001
Group exhibition
Itinéraire bis : contournements des pratiques urbaines 
Muriel Couteau & Pierre Faure & Brigitte Zieger
2001
Group exhibition
Bienvenu dans le réel
OO2*
2001
Exhibition
De l’armoire aux ruches
Aganetha Dyck
2001
Exhibition
Troyes, pièces sonores avec vue sur le parc… 
Cécile Le Tallec
2001
Exhibition
F comme Force
Daniel Aulagnier
2000
Exhibition
Un site archivé
Cécile Massart
2000
Exhibition
Terriblement forain
Jean-Michel Alberola
2000
Exhibition
Existence - Espace 
Euh Sun Park
2000
Exhibition
Paysages et affleurements 
Thierry Pertuis
2000
Exhibition
Entre centre et absence
Jacqueline Salmon
1999
Exhibition
Espace 
Anne Mangeot
1999
Exhibition
 Pièces détachées 
Diane Gougeon
1999
Exhibition
Fragments 
Marie-Hélène Le Ny
1999
Exhibition
… vers le langage
Mischa Kuball
1998
Exhibition
Lucy Orta
Lucy Orta
1998
Exhibition
Propositions 
Benoît Pereira da Silva
1998
Exhibition
Humeur à patiner
Diane Landry
1998
Group exhibition
WAPA 
Patrice Alexandre & Wani Amoedang
1998
Exhibition
Où commencer, insister
Jacques Leclerq-k
1997
Exhibition
Gravures 1989-1996 
Gérard Garouste
1997
Exhibition
Bib’s Generation
Sylvie Plateau
1997
Exhibition
 Code 46 Saisie-Substance
Franck Morzach
1997
Exhibition
Uno en el mundo
Rena Julieta Hanono
1997
Exhibition
Figures absentes 
François Bruetschy
1986
Exhibition
Dessins gravures
Alain Loiselet
1996
Exhibition
Clairvaux 
Jacqueline Salmon
1996
Exhibition
Quatre sculptures
Dominique Labauvie
1996
Exhibition
Dépositioné
Christian Lapié
1996
Exhibition
 L’assemblée phosphorescente
Pierre Bruneau
1995
Exhibition
Europa, une Histoire d’art
Marina Olympios & Katerina Kana
1995
Exhibition
Peintures récentes 1994-1995
Julia Wachtel
1995
Exhibition
Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
1995
Exposition
 Sculpture de plein air 
Denis Pondruel
1995
Exhibition
Photographies 
Chrystèle Lerisse
1995
Exhibition
Les lumineux paradoxes 
Ramon Herreros
1994
Exhibition
Christophe Vigouroux
Christophe Vigouroux
1994
Exhibition
Chants secrets - Écrits d’écho
Hélène Roy
1994
Exhibition
Opus Cyclopoeum
Jean Gaudaire-Thor
1994
Exhibition
« 1990-1994 » ou « 1990-1992 »
Évelyne Coutas
1994
Exhibition
Dominique Bailly
Dominique Bailly
1994
Exhibition
Chan Ku-yut
Chan Ku-yut
1993
Exhibition
Peintures codées
Jean-Paul Albinet
1993
Exhibition
Olivier Liégent
Olivier Liégent
1993
Exhibition
Naissance perpétuelle de la forme
Lucie Lacerte
1993
Exhibition
Jean Villemin
Jean Villemin
1993
Exhibition
Volume - Installation 
Sylvain Cousineau
1992
Exhibition
Marie-Claude Bugeaud
Marie-Claude Bugeaud
1992
Exhibition
Christophe Cartier
Christophe Cartier
1992
Group exhibition
Melvin Charney & Céline Baril
Melvin Charney & Céline Baril
1992
Group exhibition
L’enfer des images 
Jacques Charlier & Michel Clerbois & Philippe Le Docte

As part of an artist exchange with Belgium, the Cadran Solaire invites Jacques VHARLIER to create a special installation entitled “L’Enfer des Images”.

1992
Exhibition
Figures ininterrompues
Olivier Gourvil
1991
Exhibition
Philippe Favier
Philippe Favier
1991
Exhibition
Départs petits et grands
Patrick Raynaud

“Nowadays, the expansion of “in situ” international exhibition practices and art market exchanges tend to turn artists into eternal travelers, like the great painter-decorators of past centuries who went from court to court and castle to castle… The works I produce are therefore at once subject to the demands of a place – both geographical and historical. But at the same time, they are so independent of this place, that they display the way in which they will be moved for the next presentation…”

1991
Group exhibition
Blain, Blocher, Brandl 
Sylvie Blocher & Eva Brandl & Dominique Blain
1990
Group exhibition
Henry Lewis & Christiane Thomas
Henry Lewis & Christiane Thomas
1990
Exhibition
Gina Pane
Gina Pane

The desire of a number of partners to present a major exhibition devoted to Gina Pane stems from the same concern for a privileged apprehension of a work whose actions have not ceased to nourish contemporary art since the end of the sixties. At that time, Gina Pane’s research was rooted in body art. For this major event, we do not wish to use the overly monolithic term “retrospective”, but rather to evoke an articulation between two positions:
Re/reading the installations from the late sixties, situating the period of the actions through historical documentation (writings, photographs, correspondence), re/presenting the graphic works that materialized the conception and realization of the actions opposite other current graphic works proceeding from the same approach.
Reading of works dated between 1986 and 1990, including the installation “La prière des pauvres et le corps des Saints” (“The Prayer of the Poor and the Body of the Saints”) created specifically for the Sundial (Chapelle de l’Hôtel-Dieu) in Troyes.

1990
Exhibition
Fragments nomades 
Michel Labbé
1990
Exhibition
Stephen Bambury
Stephen Bambury
1990
Exhibition
Gabriel F. Corchero
Gabriel F. Corchero
1990
Exhibition
Joaquim Falco
Joaquim Falco

Joaquim Facló draws objects using a plastic box with holes in it, through the bottom of which paint flows. His works produce a surprising sensation: the objects they represent seem as strongly present as if they themselves were springing up before our eyes for the first time. This effect is particularly intense when falcó depicts animals that we barely see in nature, whether they are fleeing or scaring us away.

1990
Exhibition
Entre parenthèses
Thierry Mouillé
1989
Exhibition
Ramsà
Ramsà
1989
Exhibition
La notte
Aki Kuroda

In the works of the series entitled La Notte, Aki Kuroda has painted clues that we usually associate with the immensity of night. He has thus composed spaces in which illusions of depth, contradictory or elusive, give the vertiginous sensation of facing vast expanses, with no apparent limits.

1989
Exhibition
Mains 
John Coplans
1989
Exhibition
O’, O’’, O’’’ 
Son-gui-kim
1989
Exhibition
De l’autre côté
Christine Crozat
1989
Exhibition
Christian Lhopital
Christian Lhopital
1988
Exhibition
Luc Hoenraet et Édouard Nono
Luc Hoenraet et Édouard Nono
1988
Exhibition
Hans van den Ban
Hans van den Ban
1988
Exhibition
Jo Entzweiter et Thomas Wojciechowicz
Jo Entzweiter et Thomas Wojciechowicz
1988
Exhibition
Rosso-Fuoco
Sylvie Boucher
1988
Exhibition
Inventaire 1
1988
Exhibition
Susan Norrie Paintings 1986-87
Susan Norrie
1987
Exhibition
Paris, Pâris 
Raymond Hains

1987 was the year of the Capetian millennium, the 10th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou and the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s birth, all places and people that inspired the artist. 1987 was also the year of Raymond Hains’ first exhibition at the Centre d’art contemporain / Passages. The culmination of his Trojan excursions and research into the Trojan Horse or Troyes.

1987
Exhibition
Le même est l’autre
Pierre Petit
1987
Exhibition
Joaquim Falco et Thierry Job
Joaquim Falco et Thierry Job
1987
Exhibition
François Bouillon
François Bouillon
1987
Exhibition
Japon art vivant
Hajime Ikegaya et Wakiro Sumi et Michiko Yano
1987
Exhibition
Jean-Pierre Vielfaure
Jean-Pierre Vielfaure
1986
Exhibition
Françoise Balboni-Gibert
Françoise Balboni-Gibert
1986
Exhibition
Obscur, Obscurité, Obscurcissement 
Ange Leccia et Michel Verjux
1986
Exhibition
Dimanche, tous les jours dimanche
Jochen Gerz
1986
Exhibition
Michel Gérard
Michel Gérard
1985
Exhibition
Hélène Agofroy
Hélène Agofroy
1985
Exhibition
F. Bekahia & Fouad Bellamine & Mohamed Kacimi
F. Bekahia & Fouad Bellamine & Mohamed Kacimi
1985
Exhibition
Masafumi Maita
Masafumi Maita

Masafumi Maita seeks to produce an image of water that is close to our perception of it.

1985
Exhibition
Oeuvres 1978-1984
Michèle Zaza
1984
Exhibition
François Bard et Dominique Sosolic
François Bard et Dominique Sosolic
1984
Exhibition
Evelyn Ortlieb
Evelyn Ortlieb
1984
Exhibition
L’intuition de l’instant 
Charlotte Dugauquier et Guy Mansuy
1984
Exhibition
La strada occulta
Bernard Turiot
1983
Exhibition
Eugène van Lamsweerde
Eugène van Lamsweerde
1983
Exhibition
Armand Scholtes
Armand Scholtes
1983
Exhibition
Hélène Mugot
Hélène Mugot
1983
Exhibition
Gérard Pascual
Gérard Pascual
1982
Exhibition
Francis Limérat et Marcel Robelin
Francis Limérat et Marcel Robelin