Marseille-Provence has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture in 2013. All year long, hundreds of cultural and artistic events will take place throughout the Provence region: in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Aubagne, Gardanne, Istres, La Ciotat, Martigues, Salon-de-Provence and, of course, Marseille.

On the menu: dance, music, visual arts, theatre, exhibitions, street art, literature, digital art, gastronomy and cinema.

Visitors will be invited to take part in events at museums, theatres and open-air venues in both urban areas and natural environments. Marseille-Provence 2013: an unmissable event.

Christelle MAUREAU / christelle@claudinecolin.com

Following the exceptional donation by Severin Wunderman of 1525 works of Jean Cocteau and his entourage, after three years of construction works, the Jean Cocteau Museum - Severin Wunderman Collection, a major cultural project led by the town of Menton, opens this autumn. The building will be created by the international architect, Rudy Ricciotti.

The museum will become the world's first and most important public resource for the work of Jean Cocteau.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

La Fabrique is a new cultural space in Nantes dedicated to contemporary art and specially music and new numerical technologies. Initiated by the City of Nantes, it is part of a wider a new cultural and artistic outreach project, which combines land planning and cultural networking. Its goal is to create a network between the city’s various neighborhoods such as Dervallières, where a first lab which opened its doors in December 2009. 

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com 

This exhibition presentq a selection of historical pieces and new works from the François Pinault Collection, including several site-specific projects, which question the idea of uncertainty, our convictions about identity, and revisit the relationship between intimate space and the space of the artwork. Among the twenty artists in the exhibition In Praise of Doubt, almost half of them have never been included in previous exhibitions of the François Pinault Collection.

Eva Astaburuaga Dalla Venezia / eva@claudinecolin.com
Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

A NEW MUSEUM OF 20th AND 21st CENTURY OUTSIDER ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE

Reopening exhibition: The World as a Poem 

After over four years of renovation and extension work, the Museum of Modern Art of Lille Métropole (Villeneuve d’Ascq) will be reopening to the public on 25 September 2010 under a new name: the LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art). Its two fine architectural complexes, surrounded by a sculpture park (Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Eugène Dodeigne, etc.), will henceforth house three prestigious collections of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including a unique collection of Outsider Art.

Press opening: 21 September 2010

Anne Monéger-Laval / Letizia Calcamo / lam@claudinecolin.com

Situated at the heart of the Quartier of creation on the Ile de Nantes, the Manny building is being built on the initiative of Patrice Coupechoux, CEO of the Coupechoux group by the Nantes-based agency Tetrarc who create emblematic architecture, an urban event that bears witness to the vitality of the creation.

Official Partner of Estuaire Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire since its creation in 2007 (supporting "les anneaux" (“the rings”) by Daniel Buren and Patrick Bouchain), the Coupechoux group proves once again its engagement in inviting two artists, Rolf Julius and Angela Bulloch, to respond to the architecture of the building.