Exhibitions

The transfer from paper to digital is but a short step, which the two partners decided to take by combining their expertise. From the first edition of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1929 to the most recent publications, ‘Tintin, l’aventure immersive’ (‘Tintin: the Immersive Adventure’) pays tribute to the famous reporter with the powder puff, an inveterate traveller whose voyages around the globe have been part of popular culture for almost one hundred years.

During this immersive exhibition, all the themes and images present in the artist’s repertoire are projected onto the walls of the Atelier des Lumières, like intertwined cut-out images.

Explore the reality of daily life, following in the footsteps of the great masters who represented the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Painting light and atmosphere is the main theme of the exhibition itinerary.

In an interplay of horizontal and vertical lines and moving from the figurative to the abstract, this immersive exhibition follows the artistic development of the painter, who broke away from traditional painting and immersed himself in visionary painting: Neoplasticism.

This immersive experience poetically tells us about the birth of synesthesia, taking us through worlds where sound vibrations and shimmering colours connect in surprising ways.

In the form of ten paintings, you will follow the Ferryman as he sails with the currents, taking with him a pot in which a tree grows, sequence after sequence.

Discover his entire oeuvre: from his regionalist interpretations of Spain to his family portraits, landscapes, and gardens, and the representations of the seaside that made him internationally famous.

The concept is based on the notion of a horizon of events. From a real horizon to an horizon of events generated by a black hole, other horizons and alternative realities appears.

As you explore the Grand Canal and the canals, lanes, squares, buildings, and churches, embark on a journey through Venetian interiors and exteriors—both holy and secular—in search of the visible symbols of the city’s extraordinary history.

The exhibition immerses you in a maze of stars, planets, nebulae, and supernovae. A unique voyage of discovery that begins in the heart of the tropical rainforest of Guyana and ends in the outer reaches of the universe.

‘Dalí: the endless enigma’ encompasses more than sixty years in the career of the Catalan master, who developed and invented various artistic styles.

This exhibition is a journey between dreams and reality, ranging from the Parc Güell, the Casa Batlló, and the Casa Milà to the Sagrada Família. Between spirals, bright colours, colossal and towering buildings, the exhibition highlight the Catalan architect’s limitless creativity and bold projects.

Following the theme of nature, Provence, and the Mont Sainte-Victoire, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey into the heart of the artist’s major works.

"The Last Sentinels" pay tribute to Jimmy Nelson, who has been photographing native cultures all his life.

A painter, poet, art theorist, and founder of abstract art, Kandinsky revolutionised the history of art with his many compositions, which are now exhibited around the world. A veritable invitation to explore Kandinsky’s inner cosmos, the immersive exhibition disorientates the visitors and eventually attains an abstract and liberated osmosis.

To mark its opening, Fabrique des Lumières focuses on a century of Viennese painting and take an original look at Gustav Klimt and his successors through a presentation of portraits, landscapes, nudes, colours, and gilding. 

This exhibition focuses on another artist who symbolised Viennese creativity: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000). Painter and architect, he is the inheritor of the Viennese Secession, a few decades later. In an explosion of colour, the Atelier des Lumières establish a link between the various eras and provide a visual and musical journey through the creative works of the past and the present.

This digital exhibition highlight the link between artistic creativity and the Mediterranean shores, as the principal centres of the modernist movement. The exhibition immerse visitors in the masterpieces of twenty artists, including Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Matisse, Signac, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, and Chagall, amongst others.

The exhibition explores van Gogh’s numerous works, which radically evolved over the years, from The Potato Eaters (1885), Sunflowers (1888) and Starry Night (1889) to Bedroom at Arles (1889). 

This ten-minute-long work immerses visitors in the plurality of the artist’s works, going beyond the famous International Klein Blue (IKB), a combination of ultramarine pigment and special binder. Amongst other works, visitors will discover the body prints with his Anthropometries, and nature with his Cosmogonies and his Planetary Reliefs.

The exhibition pay tribute to Klee’s pictorial world. It take visitors from an opera overture in an imaginary city to an underwater concerto amidst gold and multicoloured fish, and the rhythm of its geometric structures.

Digitised masterpieces by Picasso, Goya, and Sorolla will create a dialogue to the sound of music on the immense limestone surfaces of the Art Centre. A veritable invitation to go on a journey of discovery, this original multimedia show retraces a century of Spanish painting.

This production by the Danny Rose Studio, which highlights van Gogh’s fascination with Japan, is a contemplative and audio journey into the environment of the masters of Japanese prints.

This short program is dedicated to the quintessence of the Flower Power movement. Travel through into an imaginary city, around which the viewers are invited to stroll and lose themselves as they follow in the footsteps of the idealistic generation at the end of the 1960s, which changed the world.

From Hieronymus Bosch’s most emblematic triptychs, such as The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and The Hay Wagon, to Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s remarkable compositions of flowers and fruit, and the village festivities depicted by the Bruegel dynasty, the Carrières de Lumières embraces the fascinating worlds of the great masters who represented these animated scenes of life and the duality of a world shifting between good and evil. Their work shares the same excellent facture and incredible inventiveness. Bosch’s hallucinatory imagination and Arcimboldo’s highly creative and improbable faces are complemented by the joyous triviality of Bruegel’s works, whose many figures are inspired by reality.

In this voyage of discovery into Méliès’ poetic and surrealist world, the spectators in the Carrières de Lumières discover his workshop, a veritable hotchpotch of bits and bobs where the craziest dreams take shape, climb aboard a space rocket, land on the moon, explore the North Pole, plunge into the abysses, get lost in the centre of the earth, journey right into the caves of Hell, and so on. During this magical journey, they encounter monsters and fantastical creatures and travel through ever-changing landscapes created by Méliès.

In addition to Chagall’s painted work, the show also reveals his collages, mosaics and stained glass windows, thereby illustrating the full range of Chagall’s talents. The show fills Les Carrières de Lumières with a sea of vibrant colours, characteristic of the artist’s palette, infusing the site with a poetic and particularly dynamic atmosphere.
The choice of the soundtrack accompanying the show has been guided by pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, a close friend of Marc Chagall’s. Music and images complement each other allowing audiences to revel in the majesty of the site.

The Carrières de Lumières is the setting for masterpieces created by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael between the late 15th century and early 16th century in Florence, Milan and Rome. The spectacle offers a moving face to face with portraits that display their perfection in fine detail on the quarry walls, whereas the frescoes impress as much by their monumental dimensions as by the extraordinary gallery of characters which populates them. During the show, certain details of the frescoes that normally decorate the walls and vaults of churches, villas and Italian palaces, are specially highlighted in the quarries thanks to digital technology, offering the visitor a unique opportunity to see them as never before.