Exporama is an annual celebration of contemporary art held in Rennes, the capital of Brittany. This event embraces around 20 cultural venues: Rennes Museum of Art, La Criée Centre of Contemporary Art, Les Champs Libres, the Convent of the Jacobins, Frac Bretagne, 40mcube Centre of Contemporary Art, visual arts associations, community cultural centres, etc. This shared programme showcases the dynamism and diversity of contemporary art and its promotion in Rennes and Brittany, from fine art and photography to urban art.

This fifth Exporama sees the Pinault Collection and the City of Rennes and Rennes continue their partnership with Eye Contact: Portraits from the Pinault Collection, hosted by the Convent of the Jacobins from June 14 to September 14, 2025. To complement this event, the Pinault Collection is lending an outstanding selection of work by Claire Tabouret to the Rennes Museum of Art in a simultaneous exhibition devoted to the French artist from June 14 to September 21.

This year, Exporama celebrates its 5th edition. The program brings together some twenty different venues.

View the full program (in French) here.

« Claire Tabouret. Between Memory and Oblivion »

Rennes Museum of Art – Quai Zola

June 14 — September 21, 2025

Claire Tabouret’s painting transcends time and yet is profoundly contemporary. This exhibition spans over a decade of Tabouret’s artistic journey, showcasing her wide-ranging techniques, including canvas painting, paper monotypes, porcelain enamels, ceramic modelling and bronze casting. The richness of her artistic output is explored through the lens of a single theme: the portrait, a subject that takes centre stage in her work. The exhibition showcases over 60 pieces by Tabouret with the scope of a retrospective. It is the first major museum exhibition in France devoted to this world-renowned artist. The exhibition is enriched by exceptional loans from the Pinault Collection.

« Eye Contact Portraits from the Pinault Collection »

Jacobin Convent

June 14 — September 14, 2025

It is a title that speaks volumes: over half of all the work in the Pinault Collection centres on the human form. In exploring this theme, the artists present us with our fellow creatures — real or imaginary — and free them from the march of time. Almost 90 oeuvres from the Pinault Collection have been selected for this exhibition, which invites visitors to confront a multitude of faces head on. These gazes and demeanours reveal tensions, emotions, feelings, love, personal histories, rebellions and sometimes violence. Each of the portraits conveys a message, and each is a landscape to be explored while looking them in the eye.

Artists such as Xinyi Cheng, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Annie Leibovitz, Yan Pei Ming, Shirin Neshat, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Luc Tuymans and many others challenge the representation of the self and the other, inviting us to reflect on the individual and contemporary society.