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.

Fleurs révoltées, Acier hacké – Naomi Maury

For her solo show at 40mcube, Naomi Maury creates an immersive environment composed of sculptures, lights, and sound, that she imagines as a forest of exoskeletons. Her sculptures include weaves of prostheses and orthoses inspired by endangered or extinct species, ceramic bones, bent stainless steel tubular forms and light. For her sound composition, she works from the testimonies of disabled people whose bodies do not fit into validist norms, as well as from the words of caregivers who use machines and tools to take care of patients, and workers whose bodies have been damaged by their jobs. Naomi Maury questions notions of power, hybridization and robustness through robotics and biotechnology, inviting us to examine our bodies and their evolution.

Invisibles

In the British TV series The Invisible Man (1958), physicist Peter Brady becomes accidentally invisible after a scientific experiment goes wrong. Forced to bandage his face to appear visible to others, he nevertheless chooses to turn this disappearance into a force for action. Less visible but just as effective, he adopts a discreet, underground form of intervention — detached from spectacle, yet impactful.

This exhibition draws on the idea of presence through absence, resonating with the concept of fugitivity as developed by poet and thinker Fred Moten. For Moten, fugitivity is not withdrawal but a refusal to be captured by dominant norms. The fugitive invents collective, improvised forms of life from the margins, resisting without revealing themselves. To be invisible is sometimes to survive differently — to create from the shadows, to care from the periphery.

The forms of invisibility explored here are social, political, and ecological. They affect a large majority of the global population, pushed to the margins of society and into the background of representation due to gender, origin, social status, health, age, among other factors.

These forced invisibilities often lead to isolation and, at times, even to hostility toward others. Yet we must not forget that it is not difference itself that fuels the tensions of contemporary society, but the diffuse violence of a political and economic system that weakens solidarity, instrumentalizes diversity, and pits people against one another in order to maintain inequality.

The exhibition explores these imposed disappearances — of bodies, voices, territories — and highlights what endures at the margins: discreet gestures, fragmentary presences, silenced narratives. Perhaps these are other ways of living in the world.

Artists : Zoé Aubry, Lounis Baouche, Denis Briand, AA Bronson, Mohamed Bourouissa, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Scarlett Coten, Julien Creuzet, Roland Fischer, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Estelle Hanania, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Jacob Holdt, Sharon Kivland, Latifa Laâbissi, Letizia Le Fur, Hervé Le Nost, Mehryl Levisse, Anna López Luna & Mounir Gouri, Maha Maamoun, Basir Mahmood, Jingban Hao, Barbara McCullough, Julieth Morales, Benoit Piéron, Sequoia Scavullo, Marion Scemama & David Wojnarowicz, Ahlam Shibli, Malick Sidibé, Maryam Tafakory, The School of Mutants, Yves Trémorin

Cui Cui – Lendroit éditions

What do the birds tell us? What do artists sing to us? The “Cui Cui” event features four exhibitions of artists’ work, publications and vinyl exploring the world of birds. Discover never-before-seen works, listen to birdsong and discover visual and sound creations dedicated to birds. “Cui Cui” is a creative and sonorous journey to new lands all summer long.

Cui Cui – Panneaux 4×3

What do the birds tell us? What do artists sing to us? The “Cui Cui” event features several exhibitions of artists’ work, as well as publications and vinyl exploring the world of birds. Discover never-before-seen works, listen to birdsong and discover visual and sound creations dedicated to birds. “Cui Cui” is a creative and sonorous journey to new lands all summer long.

Visible all year round in the urban space of Rennes, Lendroit éditions’ 4 × 3 panels showcase the work of contemporary artists invited to present large-format images to the public.

Submersion – Samia Kachkachi

The Grand Angle imoja unveils the works of artist Samia Kachkachi. Her preferred technique is linocut, or relief engraving on linoleum. By superimposing patterns and solid areas of colors, sometimes to the point of saturation, she evokes visual emotion and subtly explores social issues related to gender, work, and access to resources. The Submersion installation, made of long printed and suspended rice paper banners, translates and shares this feeling of saturation, which is detrimental to humanity, its environment and our analytical capacities in the face of exponential flows of data, information, images, goods, waste, and population movements.

Traverse.s – Florent Drouin

The Grand Angle imoja showcases the work of Rennes-based artist Florent Drouin. A graduate of the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne (Lorient campus) in 2018, Florent Drouin produces polymorphic work that he develops through painting, collage, engraving, silkscreen printing and installation. His work explores the question of landscape and the images that humans propose of it, highlighting territories undergoing transformation due to industrial activities, tourism or urbanization. During his explorations, he photographs, draws, and collects samples that become material for conceptualizing his projects. From these pieces, he implements processes of construction, deconstruction, arrangement, and manipulation, like an image of a world that is either organized or escaping the rules of order.

Rêverie – Julie Giraud

The Grand Angle imoja features the works of Rennes-based artist Julie Giraud. This painter and silkscreen printer is a founding member of the publishing and silkscreen collective La Presse Purée.

“Rêverie” is an invitation to contemplation, to waiting, to that suspended moment where everything seems possible. The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings and silkscreen prints from the Les Adolescents and Motel series. These two seemingly distinct universes — portraits of adolescents and latent landscapes — engage in a dialogue through a shared luminous and colorful atmosphere. Here, everything is about waiting. The characters seem frozen in a moment of suspension, as if absorbed in their thoughts. As for the landscapes, they are marked by a strange absence: devoid of human presence, they become the backdrop for a latent story, ready to unfold.

By assembling photographs and drawings collected from social media, Julie crafts images that hover between reality and fiction. With brooding teenagers, empty landscapes, and dim lights, “Reverie” delves into this liminal space, the intersection of the immediate and the eternal, of what is seen and what is imagined.