Beyond the Walls

Vaults, Frederik Exner
From May 23 to July 26

The exhibition Vaults by Frederik Exner invites the viewer into an enigmatic world where time feels fluid and uncertain, shifting between past, future, and present. Across a journey through three rooms, the artist reveals mystical animal figures and suspended hybrid sculptures. The whole evokes a funerary rite, the memory of a lost civilization, or a world in transition. Through this collection of symbols and organic forms, Frederik Exner questions our perception of the body, death, and the sacred.

Free admission to the opening and guided tour of the exhibition Vaults by Frederik Exner, in the presence of the artist
– Opening: Friday, May 23
– Guided tour: Saturday, May 24 at 2:30 PM

Friendship: grief, isolation, madness, taboo, an exhibition by Ferruel & Guédon

from 6 April to 15 June 2025

Aurélie Ferruel and Florentine Guédon work together in sculpture linked to the living world. Legends, traditions (rituals, costumes), stories of local people and local know-how are the raw material for the work of these two artists of rural origin, whose research prior to the works is part of an anthropological approach. The encounters and shared stories they collect, as well as the worlds and lifestyles they discover, enable them to nourish their sculpture and performance work with new materials and new forms.

An exhibition co-produced by the artists and the Centre d’art bastille.

Free admission and guided tours of the exhibition Ferruel & Guédon, Friendship: mourning, isolation, madness, taboo from Thursday, May 22 to Sunday, May 25, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Guided tours are available on request / offered at the entrance of the Centre d’Art Bastille.

Loustal, the Alps along the motorway

from 15 May to 27 September 2025 at the Sainte-Cécile convent

Travel writer Jacques de Loustal has been commissioned by APRR to create tourist and cultural panels on the motorways that cross Isère, Drôme, Savoie and Haute-Savoie. These images, intended to be seen at high speed, must keep motorists alert without distracting their attention. As a result, many technical constraints were imposed on the artist: vertical format, black and white only enhanced by a cameo of brown, simplification of motifs, predefined subjects. And yet, Loustal was able to imprint his style on them through the virtuosity of his line and his very particular graphic universe.

In all, more than 100 panels measuring 6 metres high and 3.3 metres wide were produced for the APRR and AREA motorways. A veritable ‘open-air art gallery’, these illustrations bring the unexpected irruption of an artistic approach to the landscape of motorists, but also reflect the areas they pass through. To comment on this encounter, author and critic Jean-Louis Roux offers his original and facetious vision in texts that accompany Loustal’s illustrations. And to complete this wonderful escape to Isère, Loustal’s views are set against PLM posters, offering a wide range of invitations to explore the region through the prism of art.

Reduced admission (€6) upon presentation of a Grenoble Art Up! ticket to the exhibition Loustal, the Alps Along the Highway from Thursday, May 22 to Saturday, May 24, 2025.
8 flash visit slots (30 minutes) dedicated to the work of Jacques de Loustal:

– Thursday, May 22 at 2:00 PM, 2:30 PM, 3:00 PM, and 3:30 PM
– Friday, May 23 in the morning at 10:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 11:00 AM, and 11:30 AM