Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibitions in Strasbourg

The CEAAC is partnering with the Aubette 1928 to present a dual exhibition by artist Florian Fouché, marking the first stage in a programme devoted to public health issues. The exhibition builds on Fouché’s ongoing artistic research project entitled Manifeste assisté (Assisted Manifesto), a broad perceptual inquiry initiated in 2020 around what the artist calls ‘assisted life’. Since 2024, he has developed this research into a multi-chapter exhibition series titled SÉCURITÉ SOCIALE PRÉLUDE, which offers an oblique exploration of the history and current transformations of public healthcare. Rather than presenting a strictly documentary reading of these themes, Florian Fouché stages the devices, architectures, and imaginaries that concretely organize assistance, accessibility, or the exclusion of bodies in public space. The fourth chapter of this series, SÉCURITÉ SOCIALE PRÉLUDE La rampe PèreMèRe, brings together installations, sculptures, films, and documents to examine how the institutional forms of care are organized for both bodies and objects in today’s society. At the CEAAC, the exhibition takes the form of an immersive installation that engages in dialogue with the Art Nouveau architecture of the building, a listed monument, addressing a central issue raised by the artist: the site’s inaccessibility for people with reduced mobility. Here, the artist deploys a reworked version of the visual language of the Aubette 1928 within a phantasmagorical scenario. The Père Cuillère, represented as both miraculous and in a state of gestation, is a central sculptural figure in the exhibition. The character evolves through an environment of inclined coloured planes, ramps, and sculptures deriving from Nicole Parent’s ‘Inclipan’ method of gymnastics and the theory of ‘oblique living’ developed by her brother Claude Parent. In this unstable landscape, somewhere between accessibility device and obstacle, bodies, whether wheeled or upright, appear caught in a paradoxical system of assistance, effort, and constraint. Nearby, in the spaces of the Aubette 1928, amid the coloured surfaces designed by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, her husband Hans Arp, and Theo van Doesburg—which were subsequently covered over in 1938 and restored for reopening to the public in 2006—the exhibition continues with the first presentation of the 2026 film Mort assistée (Assisted Death). Commissioned and produced by the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne in Paris in the context of its closure for renovation, the film offers a phantasmagorical vision of a museum under maintenance. Through a series of filmed actions, Florian Fouché explores how cultural institutions organize the preservation, disappearance, or transformation of their artworks. The film is accompanied by sculptures, drawings, and documents related to its production, extending the reflection on forms of ‘assistance’ applied to institutions and artworks. By linking these two Strasbourg heritage sites, the exhibition creates a tension between architecture, art history, and contemporary policies of public assistance. Between impossible accessibility, bodies in motion, partial reconstructions, and suspended cultural institutions, Florian Fouché proposes a critical and poetic exploration of the visible and invisible infrastructures that organize both assisted life and, sometimes, assisted death.

Traduttore, traditore is an exhibition by Alexandre Caretti at the CEAAC in Strasbourg in 2026. The exhibition features a series of photographs capturing various aspects of the artist's work and creative process.

À deux occasions, la visite du premier week-end du mois se transforme en double-visite entre le CEAAC et l’Aubette 1928, en compagnie de Florian Fouché. Une belle opportunité de voir comment l’artiste a investi ces deux lieux et d’appréhender la manière dont les deux parties de l’exposition dialoguent l’une avec l’autre.

For the first time, this exhibition presents to the public the discoveries made during the preventive archaeological operations carried out prior to the motorway developments on Strasbourg's Western Bypass. It is the result of a partnership between the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles du Grand Est - service régional de l'archéologie and the Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg. It has been awarded the Exhibition label of national interest by the Ministry of Culture. At the end of 2010, 24 kilometres of motorway were built to the west of Strasbourg. As with any project of this scale, and in accordance with the French Heritage Code, it was necessary to check for the presence of archaeological remains in the construction area and, if necessary, to study them. From September 2016 to August 2019, substantial resources were deployed on prescription of the State. Nearly 200 archaeologists, attached to five preventive archaeology operators (Inrap, Archéologie Alsace, ANTEA-Archéologie, Archeodonum and Éveha) were mobilised for the 34 excavations spread along the route. In total, 380 hectares were the subject of a diagnostic and 62.5 hectares of an excavation. The main advantage of an archaeological operation of this kind is that it enables us to observe an area continuously and comprehensively . These excavations have made it possible to discover, uncover and document the long, dense and complex history of this area. Archaeologists have identified traces of more than 200 human occupations from a wide range of periods, from the Middle Palaeolithic to the First World War. The exhibition ‘Un passé incontournable’ looks at these discoveries from a number of different angles: from the formation and evolution of landscapes in the Palaeolithic to the intimacy of the graves of men, women and children. There is a wealth of previously unpublished evidence. They are profoundly renewing our knowledge and understanding of past societies. At the same time, the public is invited to discover the new methods and technologies that are helping archaeologists to gain a better understanding of these societies, their environments and the changing climate on the Rhine plain. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication presenting all the discoveries and results of the excavations. Curator: Bertrand Béhague, research engineer at the regional archaeology department of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles du Grand Est (Ministry of Culture) and Mathilde Villette then Quentin Richard, Archaeological Museum of Strasbourg An exhibition organised by the DRAC Grand Est and the Museums of the City of Strasbourg.