Summer and autumn 2026 exhibition program

Plastic Newspaper by Lucy McKenzie
With Plastic Newspaper, Lucy McKenzie (a Scottish artist born in 1977) revisits the major themes that have characterised her work over the past five years: statuary, fashion and window display, feminist critiques of power and elites, craftsmanship, leisure, and the mass media.

The exhibition brings together a wide-ranging selection of murals, sculptures, posters, and installations. McKenzie explores the formal and cultural inventions that turned everyday life into a permanent spectacle, much like the painted panoramas of the nineteenth century—spaces of art, science, and entertainment where playful experience merged with mass spectatorship.

The monograph Lucy McKenzie: The Tenant, with a text by Marie Canet, has been published by Bierke Verlag in June 2026.

Curated by Marie Canet.

Maison-main, une assemblée des gestes #2
With: Nils Alix-Tabeling, Jacques Averna, Hélène Bertin, Emma Bruschi, Clara Denidet, Charlotte Dualé, Daniel Firman, Rodrigo Hernández, Ninon Hivert, Île/Mer/Froid, JN Mellor Club, Maria Laet, Yoonjeong Lee, Pascal Monteil, Élise Peroi, Célia Picard et Hannes Schreckensberger, Marcel Robelin, Si jeune montagne, Arnaud Vasseux, Betty Woodman, Xolo Cuintle…

The exhibition explores gesture, material and the blurring of boundaries between the visual arts and craft, bringing together works that take a variety of approaches: raw or ornamental, poetic or politically engaged, flirting with the sacred or the domestic.The exhibition presents a collection of narratives suspended within the works and the space, re-creating meaning through the act of making: assembling, embroidering, cutting, stretching, engraving, binding, moulding, pleating, weaving… A veritable assembly of gestures, revealing the richness of contemporary practices and their materiality. Following an initial instalment with the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, presented at the Magasins Généraux in spring 2026, the curators propose a new working hypothesis at Crac Occitanie.

Curators: Anne-Laure Lestage and Christian Rizzo

Nesrine Salem: For Kheira
Occitanie Medicis Award 

Nesrine Salem’s exhibition For Kheira, follows on from the artist’s residency at the Villa Medici in Rome in late 2025. Through writing, poetry, video, performance and installation, Nesrine Salem has developed a new exhibition for the Crac Occitanie, building on her research into practices of mourning, funerary spaces and intergenerational memories.

Nesrine Salem works at the intersection of two cultures, French and Algerian, whilst expressing her voice and writing across several languages—English, French and Arabic—three languages that intertwine and reinforce one another in her life and in her works.

Curator: Marie Cozette