Beyond the Walls

Extend the experience: Grenoble Art Up! goes Beyond the Walls of Alpexpo.

Grenoble Art Up! aims to be a unifying event in the field of contemporary art, highlighting the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and its cultural structures.

Grenoble Art Up! enriches the visitor experience by orchestrating an exhibition outside the walls. It also puts the spotlight on the abundant offerings of the region’s museums.

For this third edition, 5 museums and art centres from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are joining us : the CAB (Bastille’s Art Center), the Fonds Glénat, the Point Commun, the VOG and the Salomon Foundation are offering special tours of their temporary and permanent exhibitions to coincide with the fair. These visits will help to ensure that the Grenoble Art Up! experience lasts beyond the fair, as well as raising Grenoble’s profile as an influential cultural and artistic player.

Discover the Beyond the Walls program:

Interior Perspective – Diseck

from September 5 to September 26, 2026

Since its opening in 2005, the VOG Contemporary Art Center has established itself as a key venue for showcasing and promoting contemporary art in Fontaine. Housed in a former movie theater at the entrance to the city, the center presents several exhibitions each year featuring a mix of painting, photography, sculpture, installation art, and contemporary creation. Through tours, workshops, lectures, and cultural events, the VOG works to raise awareness among all audiences and promotes a vibrant and accessible approach to art.

In the fall of 2026, the VOG will host the exhibition “Perspective Intérieure 2” by Henri Colomb, also known as Diseck, a key figure in the Grenoble art scene. A painter, photographer, sculptor, and muralist, Diseck has spent several years developing a rich universe where urban culture, animal figures, installations, and hybrid imaginaries intersect. This exhibition follows “Perspective Intérieure,” presented in 2007 at La Bifurk, and brings together different facets of his work in an immersive and sensitive presentation. Through his series “Somos Todos Animales,” the artist casts a gaze that is at once tender, ironic, and critical on our society, using the animal figure as a mirror of our human behaviors. The photographs extend this immersion into a vibrant hip-hop culture, while the sculptures and installations unfold this universe in space, like an interior architecture inhabited by narratives, symbols, and fragments of everyday life.