Bordeaux
France
As last year’s exhibition programme follows its course (the solo exhibitions of Jasmine Gregory and Maxime Bichon; the retrospective of Jean Sabrier and the collection display Amour Systémique [Systemic Love]), the 2024 season kicks off in March with a mid-career survey of Danish artist Nina Beier in Capc’s nave co-curated by director Sandra Patron and chief curator Cédric Fauq.
In late June, Capc’s groundfloor galleries will host the collective exhibition Itinéraires Fantôme (Phantom Itineraries) curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy (associate curator at Capc). On the second floor will open Cronos, an exhibition of works from the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux curated by artist Benoit Maire (with a scenography by Ker Xavier).
The opening of these projects will coincide with the launch of the 2024 edition of the performance festival “L'Académie des Mutantes” (The Mutant Academy), which will run from June 20 to June 23.
In November 2024, a major group exhibition titled Air de Repos (Breathwork) will open in Capc’s nave and mezzanines. Curated by Cédric Fauq, this exhibition is an invitation to imagine a museum without images and an attempt to learn how to breathe collectively.
All year long, Capc will continue to show video works as part of its Vidéodrame programme, inaugurated in 2024 with Shaun Motsi’s MASTERS (2023). The architecture of Vidéodrame was conceived by Aria Dean.
2024 also marks the fourth year of our residency programme, “Les Furtifs”, devised by associate curator Marion Vasseur Raluy. This year's invited artists are Cameron Rowland, Shanta Rao, Daria Blum (as part of the “Magnetic Residencies” in partnership with Fluxus Arts Project) and Pauline L. Boulba.
Upcoming programme
Nina Beier: Auto
March 8–September 8, 2024
Curated by Sandra Patron and Cédric Fauq
Danish artist Nina Beier is invited to take over the nave for a mid-career retrospective, presented jointly at Capc and Kiasma (Helsinski, Finland). Marble lions, remote-controlled luxury cars, elephant slides, knock-off of Chinese porcelain: using objects gleaned from online platforms and secondhand stores, Nina Beier uses juxtapositions and misappropriations to unveil the mutations and paradoxes of our cultural archetypes. For over 15 years, the artist has been exploring the underlying narratives contained in objects and images populating our daily lives.
Nina Beier’s exhibition Parts at Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland) will run from March 22 to September 8, 2024.
With the support of the Danish Arts Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
Cronos
June 21, 2024–May 25, 2025
Curated by Benoit Maire
Exhibition design by Ker Xavier
Following his monographic exhibition at Capc in 2018, Benoît Maire is invited back to the museum in 2024, this time as curator. For this exhibition, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux—currently closed for renovation—has opened its collections to the artist. Through a selection of objects ranging from the 13th to the 21st century, Benoît Maire offers a reflection on time and progress.
Exhibition produced in partnership with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux.
Itinéraires Fantôme (Phantom Itineraries)
June 21, 2024–January 19, 2025
Curated by Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy
Itinéraires Fantôme is an exhibition based on the premise that certain works of art are haunted. It is based on the intuition that these works have the capacity to attract ghosts (attraction), or that different works have been haunted at different times by the same ghost (passation). The exhibition proposes an inhabited experience, where it is possible to feel beyond seeing, through a selection of works by artists who are themselves inhabited by this subject.
L’Académie des Mutantes
June 20–23, 2024
Curated by Cédric Fauq
The festival of hybrid and living forms L'Académie des Mutantes (The Mutant Academy) comes back for its 2024 edition with a series of performances, screenings, workshops and discussions revolving around the “voice-over”.
Air de repos (Breathwork)
November 15, 2024–May, 4, 2025
Curated by Cédric Fauq
Following on Barbe à Papa”, Air de Repos (Breathwork) pursues Capc’s experimentation to expand the forms the museum can take and test the idea of the exhibition as an atmosphere. The primary ambition of this exhibition is to generate a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, not only at an individual level, but a collective one. The exhibition will be accompanied by a vinyl / publication and a programme of lectures and performances.
With the support of the VALOREM group.
Enquiries/press office: Cécile Broqua, cecile.broqua@mairie-bordeaux.fr
The Capc is a City of Bordeaux Museum supported by the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs Office of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The Capc is labeled “Museum of France” and and “Contemporary Art Centre of National Interest”.
Honorary Patron: Château Haut-Bailly
Major Patrons: Les Amis du Capc, Cultura, Banque Palatine and CIC
Patrons: Lacoste, Cushman & Wakefield, Unikalo, Château Haut-Selve, Château de Camensac, Hôtel de Normandie and Seeko'o Hotel.
