Expositions & Temps forts passés
2024
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Le Phare (The lighthouse)
Since 12 January 2024, a beacon of light has been rising into the sky from Fort Saint-Jean. Artist duo Brognon Rollin have transformed the Fanal to…
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Achievements and masterpieces
Today's art cannot ignore sport, the backdrop to our contemporary societies. At the behest of the Frac Sud - Cité de l'art contemporain and at the…
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Shared passions
From Basquiat to Edith Piaf, The Lambert Collection at the Mucem
The Collection Lambert and the Mucem join forces for a brand new exhibition.
Mediterranean culture has profoundly shaped the destin…
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Naturist paradises
In recent years, a new craze for nudity in nature has arisen, going hand in hand with the search for healthy, vegetarian…
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Return
Experiences of returning in the Mediterranean area
The Mucem has been tackling the issue of migration in the Mediterranean for several years now. While this theme has appe…
2023
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Barvalo
Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Gitanos, Travellers...
In Romani, barvalo means "rich" and, by extension, "proud". This polysemous word is the title of a new exhibition at Mucem devoted to the…
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Mucem 10 ans
Mucem first opened on 4 June 2013, and is now celebrating its tenth anniversary.
From June 2023 to June 2…
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Fashion Folklore
The dialogues between traditional costume and haute couture are rarely exhibited and may seem to be based on contradictions: traditional costume is…
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Another history of the world
This exhibition aims to present a decentred history of the world from the 13th to the 21st century in an accessible and reflective manner. Without…
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Motherhood from A to Z
Since February 2018, the Mucem has dedicated a space to an atypical way to discover its collections: located in the Fort Saint-Jean, the "Collectio…
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Household Arts Show
Flying tray, motor washer, instant mash (1923 – 1983)
"Flying tray, motor washer, instant mash" – this triad echoes Boris Vian's famous Complainte du progrès (Les Arts ménagers) [Complaint aga…
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René Perrot
My poor heart is an owl
René Perrot (1912-1979) was a prolific artist, constantly experimenting with new styles and techniques. He is particularly well known for his tapes…
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Alexandria : Past Futures
The exhibition "Alexandria: Past Futures" revisits the history and present of the Egyptian city, far from the myths and stereotypes traditionally a…
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Semaine nationale de la petite enfance 2023
Le Mucem participe à la Semaine nationale de la petite enfance en mars.
Au programme, des spectacles et des visites à destination des plus p…
2022
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Earth from A to Z
Earth is one of the first and oldest materials available to man and ceramics, whose name comes from the ancient Greek “keramos” meaning “potter’s e…
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Atlas in motion
Atlas in Motion revisits the work Mathieu Pernot has been doing with migrants for over a decade and proposes a new perspective in the repr…
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Abd el-Kader
Emir of the resistance, holy fighter, founder of the Algerian state, precursor of the codification of modern humanitarian law, warrior, statesman,…
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Ghada Amer
The Ghada Amer exhibition is the first retrospective of the artist in France. Born in Cairo in 1963, Ghada Amer moved to Nice in 1974 with her pare…
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The Friends’ room
Musée national de la Marine
The Mucem puts its network of museums and partner institutions in the spotlight! After the new archaeological museum in Chania, Crete, which will b…
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Pharaoh Superstars
Cheops, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ramesses and Cleopatra are names that are familiar to us, thousands of years after the death of the rulers who bore…
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Young people create their museum
This is the third edition of “Young people create their museum”, the principle of which is to give young students carte blanche by making them exhi…
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Friendships in art — Collective works
In 1871, at the Hôtel des Étrangers, in Paris’ Latin Quarter, practically at the same time as or just after the Commune (in which several of the la…
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Story(ies) of René L.
Contrasting heterotopias
One day during a visit to asylums destined for destruction, our gaze stumbled upon these piles of papers, marked “to be thrown away”. The large roo…
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The Friends’ Room
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
The Mucem puts its network of partner museums in the spotlight. Further to the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Crete (hosted from October 2021 t…
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Light
Installation
Financing of the works: Mucem (Ministry of Culture), Département des Bouches - du - Rhône, Région Sud Provence - Alpes - Côte d’Azur
The…
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Another Italy from A to Z
Since antiquity and Rome’s conquest of most of Europe and the Mediterranean, Italy has exerted an influence and fascination that is as lasting as i…
2021
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The Friends Room
Archaeological Museum of Chania
The Mucem honours its network of museums and partner institutions. The end of 2021 will see the inauguration of a new feature, the "Friends Room" […
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Salammbô
Fury! Passion! Elephants!
“It was in Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.”
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Supported by the RMM (Réunion des Musées Métropolitains…
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Psychodémie
The “Psychodemia” exhibition is a reflection on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the “first lockdown” on our bodies, our imaginations and o…
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HIV/Aids
The epidemic isn’t over!
The exhibition “HIV/Aids, the epidemic is not over!” traces the social and political history of Aids. The fight against the epidemic has revealed s…
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I sign therefore I am
From A to Z
The signature is at the heart of the abecedary “I sign therefore I am”. Writing one’s name on a handcrafted object is the mark of a claim by its au…
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Déflagrations
Children’s drawings and mass violence
The exhibition, “Deflagrations”, is a tribute to a very singular creative process: that of children who, after having come into contact with death…
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The desire to look further
The Italian artist Ilaria Turba presents the fruit of her three-year residency at the ZEF—scène nationale de Marseille: a “collection of wishes” si…
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Civilization
The Way We Live Now
”Civilization - The Way We Live Now” presents the work of one hundred and ten photographers from all five continents. Bringing together young…
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Europa, Oxalá
The exhibition “EUROPA, Oxalá” focuses on memory and postcolonial studies, two interdisciplinary fields in themselves, and offers the opportunity t…
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Jeff Koons Mucem
Works from the Pinault collection
The exhibition “Jeff Koons Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection”, conceived in close collaboration with the American artist, will bring to Mars…
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The grand Meze
The Galerie de la Méditerranée is the Mucem’s exhibition space for semi-permanent exhibitions. From 19 May 2021, its first section will host a…
2020
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Flora from A to Z
An abecedary of the collections
A for “acanthe” (acanthus), B for “badiane” (star anise), C for “chardon” (thistle), D for “dahlia” (dahlia), ... To celebrate the arrival of Sprin…
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Model clothing
From the tank top to jogging pants and French blue workwear to the kilt and the espadrille, follow the journey of these five pieces across time and…
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Voyage Voyages
With Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Richard Baquié… A voyage of discovery to new artistic worlds!
Whatever its starting idea (o…
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My Name is Nobody
Alexandre Perigot
An installation of anonymous works from the collections of the Mucem, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, the Musé…
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Orient Resonance
Forgotten music, living music
Based on the exceptional richness of the collections at the Amar Foundation, the exhibition “Orient Resonance” is an opportunity to hear and learn…
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Folklore
Seemingly at odds with the idea of the avant-garde, the world of folklore nevertheless permeates whole sections of modernity and contemporary creat…
2019
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Shall we dance ?
Shall we dance?
Yes, Let's dance. We may not necessarily be Nijinski, Beyoncé, or Fred Astaire, but this does not matter as long as that at…
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Behind Us
“Excavating Contemporary Archaeology”, a European cooperation project
The exhibition "Behind us" is the result of the encounter between three parties: the Portuguese artist Francisco Tropa, a class of 11 and 12 year o…
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Kharmohra
Art under fire in Afghanistan
Since 2001, a new generation of artists has emerged in Afghanistan, further to 20 years of war and a Taliban government hostile to art forms and cu…
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Before the 14th, instant tunisien
Archives of the tunisian revolution
On 14 January 2011, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia after twenty-three years of absolute authority. This was the culmination of a process that had b…
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Massilia Toy
A collection of toys from Marseille
Who remembers that in the past Marseille was once the epicentre of a small toy industry? Set against the backdrop of traditional…
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Dare doing the forbidden
Young people make their own museum
The Mucem conservation and resource center (CCR) has a space set aside for experimental and innovative exhibitions, on occasion loaned out to exter…
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Persona
Works by Romanian artists
The exhibition "Persona. Works by Romanian artists" questions notions of identity and identification through different motifs, such as the mask.…
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Séances de rattrapage
Édition 2019
During the month of August, the Mucem becomes the major meeting point for cinephiles. "Catch-up sessions" is a program of films screened in the aud…
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Reliquaries from A to Z
A small A to Z of the collections
A as in "Agnus Dei", B as in "Bras" (arms), C as in "Custos", D as in "Dent" (tooth), E as in "Épine" (thorn) ... The major themes related to Chris…
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FIDMarseille
Édition 2019
The Mucem hosts the 30th edition of FIDMarseille—the Marseille International Film Festival. Featuring more than 150 films, many of them world premi…
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Jean Dubuffet
A barbarian in Europe
Painter, writer, and inventor of "Art Brut" (aka "Outsider Art"), Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a major player on the art scene of the 20th century…
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La Fabrique des illusions
Collection Fouad Debbas et commentaires contemporains
Photography and its history have only ever been questioned from a point of view that has been distorted by painting or, more broadly, the graphic a…
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Island Time
We are all inhabited by islands. Everyone keeps within their mind memories, plans and dreams about islands. Novels, films, atlases, etc., all confe…
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Chance from A-Z
Dice and destinies
A for "aléa" (risks), B for "boule de cristal" (crystal ball), C for "chance", D for "destiny" ... The exhibition "Chance from A-Z" presents multip…
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Giono
On the eve of commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Giono (October 2020), the Mucem presents via some 300 works and documents…
2018
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Georges Henri Rivière
Seeing is understanding
The 20th century was the time that experienced the development of museums and a questioning as to their purpose, of their reinvention and often of…
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Love from A to Z
Beginning in February 2018, the Mucem is dedicating a new space to the display of its collections: located in Fort Saint-Jean, the Collections Room…
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Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo
Thomas Bellinck—Festival de Marseille
Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo (“The House of European History in Exile”, translated from Esperanto)
Thomas Bellinck
Performanc…
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Imaginary voyages : Picasso and the Ballets Russes
Between Italy and Spain
From the Mucem to the Centre de la Vieille Charité, Picasso, Imaginary Voyages is the major exhibition of 2018 in the museums of Marseille.
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5 years already!
Mucem acquisitions since 2013
In June 2018, the Mucem will celebrate its 5th year since it opened its doors – a timely moment for a first retrospective on a little known aspect…
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Gold
Gold is an object of desire and conquest, and a traditional symbol of power and wealth, but its plasticity also makes it the material of metamorpho…
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History of the fort Saint-Jean
In July 2018, a new space opens its doors in the heart of the fort Saint-jean: the Galerie des Officiers invites us for a visual wander through the…
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Ai Weiwei Fan-Tan
The Mucem is hosting Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, one of the major actors on the international art scene. The work of the photographer, architect, scu…
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Animals from A to Z
From A as in “Noah’s Arch” to Z as in “Zoo” – an animal alphabet made up of items from the Mucem’s collections.
From prehistory and the a…
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Food for the Eyes
The French at Mealtime
On 15 November 2010, UNESCO inscribed the gastronomic meal of the French on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. By “gastronom…
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The Forest (Marseille)
Pedro Cabrita Reis
253 concrete, iron and wood structures covered in white paint stand at the place d'Armes of the fort Saint-Jean: The Forest (Marseille) is…
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Kacimi
1993-2003, an African transition
Mohammed Kacimi (1942-2003) is one of the most important post-war Moroccan plasticians. An innovative artist with a deep sense of commitment, and b…
2017
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We Are Football
How about we forget everything we think we know about football ? What if we return to…
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Photo-Novel
The photo-novel has received bad press. The term simultaneously implies sentimental fo…
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Lives of Garbage
The Economy of Waste
Lives of Garbage—The Economy of Waste
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Anne-Marie Filaire
Temporary security zone
The possibility of images
For more than twenty years Anne-Marie Filaire has been building a body of work that…
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Graffiti in the Mediterranean
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Jacquemus—Images
Marseille, I Love You
Simon Porte Jacquemus loves blue and white, stripes, the sun, fruit, curves, life, the 1980s and Marseille. Just 27 years old, this “Made in Proven…
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Seafaring Adventurers
Mediterranean_Indian Ocean 7th–17th centuries
This exhibition, a first version of which has been on display at the Arab World Institute since November last, will be opening at the MuCEM on 7 Ju…
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We are here / Nous sommes ici
By Gandolfo Gabriele David
Installation open to the public on the terrace of King René Tower
Large orange flags fly at the…
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Bilingual document
Reserves & Collections, an other Mucem
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Connectivities
Mediterranean Gallery 2
The Mediterranean Gallery is getting a new look, and its second section will house a new semi-permanent exhibition. Connectivities tells the story…
2016
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Albanie
1207 km East
Only 1207 kilometres separate Marseille from Tirana, the capital of Albania - barely twice the distance from Paris to Marseille, and within a few k…
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Parade
Scale models exert a strange power of fascination... For many people they evoke childhood dreams; others study the evolution in technology or simpl…
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Jean Genet, The Great Escape
It has been thirty years since the death of Jean Genet, one of the most flamboyant and most rebellious of twentieth century writers. The Mucem is p…
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Café In
“The café is France’s strongest institution”
Léo…
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Made in Algeria
Genealogy of a territory
The exhibition Made in Algeria, Genealogy of a Territory is the result of a close collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire d…
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Picasso, « a genius without a pedestal »
Picasso and popular arts and traditions
“Art obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most un…
2015
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Shared Sacred Sites
Religious identity is one of the most sensitive issues raised by “living together” in the Mediterranean. Seen in this light, this inland sea seems…
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I love panoramas
From mountain ranges to Mediterranean coasts, certain places offer their visitors privileged points of view, which can provoke the feeling of domin…
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Traces …
Fragments of a Contemporary Tunisia
Fragments I : From 13 May to 28 September 2015
Fragments II : From 4 November 2015 to 29 February 2016
In the footsteps of Abdelha…
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Divine migrations
The Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) is taking a fresh look at the great polytheistic religions of antiquity, thro…
2014
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The topsy-turvy world
Carnivals and masquerades in Europe and the Mediterranean
In the 1960s, it was thought that one could predict the death of the carnival, reduced to a childish party or a folkloric show. In the end, this is…
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The Splendours of Volubilis
Ancient Bronces from Marocco and The Mediterranean
Trough the exceptional loan of the ancient bronze collection from Morocco discovered at the archaeological site of Volubilis, the Mucem presents on…
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History Zero
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
In a museum of civilisations like the Mucem, curators, scientists, researchers in social sciences and humanities are not the only ones able to shed…
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Raymond Depardon
Such a sweet moment
Colour appeared in the work of Raymond Depardon from the very first images. He was at that time 16 years old. Since then, it has accompanied him th…
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Food : produire, manger, consommer
37 artists from five continents present the fruits of their labours on the different questions and issues linked directly or indirectly to food : t…
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Artists in the city
#1 Art at Work
The “Art at Work” exhibition presents works that reflect the socially engaged art currently flourishing in Morocco, throwing into relief the positi…
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Artists in the city
#2 Artistic Bridge: Strange Paradox
Companion and accomplice to our daily existence, the paradox insidiously inhabits our lives, our social relationships, our environment, our thought…
2013
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Presented Alive
The first exhibition, that will open its doors to the public at the same time as the rest of the museum and that will last until the end of the yea…
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Mare-Mater, Patrick Zachmann
From June 2013 until the end of January 2014, the Georges Henri Rivière Building of the Mucem hosts four photography and video exhibitions in copr…
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The Black and the Blue, a mediterranean dream…
The black and the blue, Goya and Miro, ombre e sole…
The Enlightenment and its shadows, like both sides of a same world, a respo…
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At the Bazaar of Gender, Feminine-Masculine in the Mediterranean
Depending on one's gender at birth, each individual is attributed different roles in society: gender is what defines this social organisation. In t…