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Born in 1974 in Paris, lives and works in Rennes.
Sophie Kaplan is the director of La Criée centre d'art contemporain Since 2012. His critical approach and his curatorial practice is develop around the importance attached to collaborations – in particular with artists via the setting up at La Criée des cycles and associated artists; from the space left to the as engines of research, creation and transmission; from interest to the crossing of the arts, disciplines and knowledge.
Judith Kakon
From February 4 to May 14, 2023
La Criée centre d’art contemporain, in partnership with the Centre culturel suisse. On Tour, is presenting Swiss artist Judith Kakon’s first solo exhibition in France.
Evariste Richer
From October 12 to December 30, 2023
With « Avaler les cyclones », Evariste Richer offers La Criée a sensorial experience that unfolds in every dimension of the art centre’s space. Composed of works specially conceived for the occasion, …
exposition collective
From June 15 to August 25, 2019
Inspired by the tidal wave of change that has been sweeping the world, At the Gates is an exhibition celebrating the distinctive and powerful voices of artists engaging with social histories and …
Bertille Bak
From January 22 to April 24, 2022
Imagine that this communiqué is being joyfully bellowed out over a slightly crackling megaphone attached to the top of a van that has been customised with the colours of the art centre and a rainbow** …
Jeremy Deller
From June 10 to September 17, 2023
Art is Magic is the first French retrospective of the celebrated English artist Jeremy Deller (born in London in 1966), winner of the prestigious 2004 Turner Prize and Britain’s representative at the …
Seulgi Lee
From September 21 to November 17, 2019
Titled SOONER'S TWO DAYS BETTER - from the Breton proverb 'N abretañ ar gwellañ, a quirky equivalent of "the sooner the better" - Seulgi Lee's exhibition at La Criée centre for contemporary art …
Pour ne pas dormir
From May 19 to August 29, 2021
A major figure on the Swedish art scene, Jockum Nordström has devoted over thirty years to his mischievous mix of worlds quotidian and oneiric, human and animal, abstract and naive, natural and …
Euridice Zaituna Kala
From February 8 to April 27, 2025
What does the river tell us when we listen to it?
What does the city reveal to us if we look at it from a different angle?
La Couleur crue
From June 2 to August 29, 2021
In response to the exhibition Au-delà de la couleur, le noir et le blanc dans la Collection Pinault (Beyond colour: black and white in the Pinault Collection) at the Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes’ …
Vincent Gicquel
From June 23 to August 26, 2018
La Criée centre for contemporary art is welcoming Vincent Gicquel for his first solo exhibition in an art centre. To mark the occasion the artist will be premiering a new series of large …
Amadou Sanogo
From May 26 to August 30, 2020
At La Criée centre for contemporary art Amadou Sanogo is presenting a group of thirteen large paintings specially created for the occasion. They add up to an incisive, La Bruyère-style portrait of …
Anne-Charlotte Finel
From February 3 to April 28, 2024
Camera in hand, Anne-Charlotte Finel explores interstices and boundary zones: between light and darkness, wild and man-made spaces, animal and plant, human and non-human, living and machine, etc. With …
exposition collective
From March 14 to May 27, 2018
The Museum of fine arts, the Frac Brittany and La Criée are joining forces for a group exhibition devoted to sculpture in France since the 1980s.
Rasmus Myrup
From June 1 to September 8, 2024
This summer, La Criée presents Rasmus Myrup’s Salon des refusées, the Danish artist’s first solo show in a French venue. Some twenty characters, extravagant anthropomorphic sculptures, seated, lying …
group exhibition
From April 6 to May 26, 2019
The anxiety, the excesses, the slumps and the frenetic, breakneck era, we and the Earth are going through: this new group exhibition at La Criée centre for contemporary art offers a response in the …
David Horvitz
From January 19 to March 10, 2019
For his first institutional solo show in France, Californian artist David Horvitz is looking to our perceptions of time and space in terms of variation and interchange. His work makes use of a range …
Katia Kameli
From May 21 to August 28, 2022
From 21 May to 28 August 2022, La Criée centre for contemporary Art is presenting « Le Cantique des oiseaux » (The Canticle of the Birds), a choral exhibition and new production by Katia Kameli, in …
Éléonore Saintagnan
From December 14, 2019 to February 23, 2020
Titled L'Œuf pondu deux fois (The Egg Layed Twice), Éléonore Saintagnan's exhibition at La Criée centre for contemporary art brings together a selection of films presented in tree houses put …
Hélène Bertin
From October 10, 2025 to January 18, 2026
Conceived and produced at a particular moment in her career, during which she travelled extensively between France, Italy and Brazil, Hélène Bertin's exhibition dansetremblenage …
group exhibition
From June 12 to December 20, 2026
Between June and December 2026, to celebrate its 40 years of creation, La Criée centre d'art invites you to Bienvenue à La Criée, an exhibition and programming full of discoveries and rediscoveries.
Charbel-joseph H. Boutros
From September 24 to December 23, 2022
After rising in the East (at Home Works 8/Beirut Art Center in 2019, with a different title), then finding its zenith in the North (at S.M.A.K in Ghent in 2020), Charbel-joseph H. Boutros’s exhibition …
Marcel Dzama
From February 14 to May 10, 2026
From 14 February to 16 May 2026, La Criée is presenting an exhibition by Marcel Dzama, an internationally renowned Canadian artist based in New York, but rarely exhibited in …
Pierre Jean Giloux
From October 10 to December 29, 2024
From 10 October to 29 December 2024, La Criée centre d’art contemporain presents Biomimetic Stories, an opus in augmented reality by artist Pierre Jean Giloux. At the crossroads of documentary, …
Violaine Lochu
From June 5 to September 7, 2025
Exploring voice and language as well as notions of transformation and transposition, Violaine Lochu has developed an artistic practice at the crossroads of the visual arts, …
sept. 2019 – august 2022
From September 2019 and for three seasons, La Criée centre d'art contemporain developed a cycle of exhibitions, events, research and encounters around the vernacular and its relationship to …
Each season, La Criée works with artists, researchers, authors and/or associate curators. These partnerships enable us to experiment with new ways of working over the long term, to develop more …
Having already regularly echoed the crises - ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social - that punctuate and shape our globalised societies, and the questions that arise from them, La …
Jean Philippe Antoine, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Téo Betin, Caroline Cieslik, Matthieu Gounelle, Catherine Guesde, Aliocha Imhoff, Sophie Kaplan, George Kubler, Léa Muller, Kantuta Quirós, Evariste …
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