With the support of France’s international cultural network, the Institut français is inviting nearly twenty international programmers from more than twenty countries across five continents. This event will be structured around several featured events in the cities of Montpellier, Nîmes, Sète, Sérignan and Arles:

• The opening of the MOCO – Montpellier Contemporary. One institution, three locations 

For several years now, the city of Montpellier has been constantly reinventing itself, offering bold and innovative cultural experiences, making artistic creation an industry which extends across the city. With the MOCO, which will launch in June, Montpellier becomes the first city to invent a next-generation art centre. Led by Nicolas Bourriaud, co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo and former director of the Paris École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the MOCO includes a school, an art centre and a museum dedicated to its collections. This three-pronged project which brings together the entire life cycle of the artistic sector, from education to exhibition, will be showcased during this programme.

• 100 artists in the city – ZAT 2019: an exhibition-event in the heart of Montpellier

To accompany the opening of the MOCO, a “100 artists in the city” exhibition will be held simultaneously. The event will offer an ambitious programme of works created for public spaces. Featuring the works of Neïl Beloufa, Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus, Hicham Berrada, Mathieu Mercier, Melik Ohanian, Julien Prévieux, Lili Reynaud-Dewar

• The Rencontres d’Arles  

An annual summer photography festival founded in 1970, The Rencontres d’Arles has acquired an international reputation by offering an inside look at contemporary photographic creation each summer. Nearly forty exhibitions benefit from unique staging every year in some twenty heritage sites in the town of Arles.

• The programme will also be supplemented by visits to flagship institutions located in Montpellier and in the region: the Carré d’art – Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes, the Regional Contemporary Art Centre in Sète, the FRAC Occitanie – Montpellier. The itinerary will also include a visit to the Serignan Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, which has been developing its offering for two years since the inauguration of its new extension. Since then, the MRAC has housed within its walls an extended repository of items from the National Centre for Fine Arts as part of its permanent collection.

On the agenda:

5 flagship institutions

• Le Fonds régional d’art contemporain Occitanie Montpellier (FRAC)
• MoCo - Hôtel des Collections
• Carré d’art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes
• Centre Régional d’art Contemporain (CRAC), Sète
• MRAC (Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain), Sérignan

10 exhibitions

• ANTIQUITÉS (Les) Sont toujours de fabrication moderne. Gustave Flaubert – Dictionnaire des idées reçues. Tjeerd ALKEMA 
• La collection Ishikawa au MOCO 
• 100 artistes dans la ville - ZAT 2019 
• La Rue. Où le monde se crée, by Hou Hanru 
• Fragments, Rayyane Tabet 
• La vie en rose, Anne-Lise Coste 
• Tu m’accompagneras à la plage, Valentine Schlegel
• Isidro Guerra, François Daireaux
• Les Chemins du Sud, une théorie du mineur
• Les Rencontres d’Arles