le château – centre d’art contemporain
et du patrimoine d’Aubenas
A place of life, creation and discovery totally accessible to English-speaking people
All exhibitions offer mediation in English
Each year, several exhibitions spread over two seasons highlight the richness of contemporary creation. They put the (inter)national scene in dialogue with the local and regional artistic pool.
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Wednesdays: 1p.m.-6p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: 11a.m.-6p.m.
During school holidays (zone A): Wednesday to Sunday: 11a.m.-6p.m.
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Adult : 9€
Discounted rate : 6€
Free for children under 10
Family pass (1 to 2 adults and up to 4 children under 18) : 20€
From october 18th to march 8th
After an inaugural year featuring nine exhibitions, Le Château – Centre d’Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d’Aubenas confirms its commitment to contemporary creation. On October 18, 2025, it will unveil a new artistic season with two new exhibitions, entrusted to artists whose approaches demonstrate a keen attention to the forms, narratives and realities of the contemporary world.
For his first monographic exhibition within an institution, French artist Baptiste Caccia takes over the ground floor and part of the first floor of the Château. Bringing together some fifty works created since 2018, several of which were specially produced for the occasion, the exhibition offers an immersive look at a hybrid practice where painting interacts with the printed image in a complex interplay of layering, erasing and overpainting.
At the same time, the 18th century salons and medieval rooms will host a group exhibition bringing together six artists. Through a variety of plastic approaches, their works outline possible worlds, free from many hierarchies and based on the principles of coexistence, care and interdependence.
Finally, the retrospective dedicated to Gilbert Garcin, spreading across the entire second floor and acclaimed by the public during the summer, has been extended. This success reinforces the efforts made to engage with audiences, particularly schoolchildren, through the development of new outreach projects.
18.10.25 – 08.03.26
Baptiste Caccia
This first institutional exhibition of Baptiste Caccia brings together around fifty works created since 2018, including
several created specifically for the occasion. Spread across two levels of the Château, it offers a broad overview of his practice.
Born in 1988 in Angers and a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013, Baptiste Caccia draws from a vast repertoire of images, both personal and public: family photographs, candid snapshots, repurposed historical artworks, images found online or generated by artificial intelligence. This heterogeneous material forms the foundation of his work.
Blending painting and screen printing, his canvases are constructed through layering, erasure, and overpainting.
Like a palimpsest—an ancient manuscript in which a previous text is erased to make room for new inscriptions— each painting retains visible traces of earlier images. His work explores the lingering presence of these images and the mental projections that shape our memory and perception of the world around us.
Through this process, Baptiste Caccia examines the mechanisms of vision: how images settle, collide, and resist within our gaze. Rather than telling a story, his works reveal the silent contaminations between images and what they inadvertently express about the saturated, fragmented visual flow of our time, where the intimate and the collective merge in a chaos devoid of hierarchy.
Baptiste Caccia, Discipline BLD (balade), 2023, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Baptiste Caccia © Adagp, Paris, 2025.
Molly Greene, Herd, 2023, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Bremond Capela. Photo credit: Thomas Marroni.
18.10.25 – 08.03.26
I am vertical, but…
With Nadia Ayari, Molly Greene, Rose Lowder, Isa Melsheimer, Emma Reyes and Jacqueline Sotta
“I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal”—so begins a poem by Sylvia Plath, in which the author, imagining herself lying among flowers and trees, expresses a deep yearning to merge with nature. Borrowing its title from this verse, the exhibition brings together six artists from diverse generations and backgrounds: Nadia Ayari, Molly Greene, Rose Lowder,
Isa Melsheimer, Emma Reyes, and Jacqueline Sotta.
Archaic plant forms, flamboyant flowers, cellular motifs evoking fictional flora… Through gestures infused with ecological thought and decentered perspectives, these artists seek to reimagine our relationship with the world of living. Guided by a longing for horizontality, they plant the seed of another vision—one without hierarchy, where curiosity and mutual care take root. A space in which nature is respected and species coexist in harmony.
A quiet manifesto, the exhibition unfolds as an ode to earthly poetry—revealing the invisible and honoring a world on the brink of disappearance.
Gilbert Garcin, Les précautions élémentaires, 2002, silver print. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Camera Obscura.
1st.05.25 – 08.03.26
Gilbert Garcin
This retrospective pays tribute to the work of Gilbert Garcin, whose poetic and surreal world continues to fascinate.
Born in 1929 in La Ciotat, Gilbert Garcin had a long career running a lighting company before dedicating himself to photography in the early 1990s. Using simple tools – a table, minimalist sets, spotlights, and a video projector – he transformed the small garden shed of his family home into a studio, where he crafted his singular visual universe.
In his black-and-white compositions, Mister G., the artist’s fictional alter ego, embodies a modern-day Pierrot. With humor and wit, Gilbert Garcin explores the paradoxes of existence, offering a tender yet absurd perspective on the human condition.
His works have been exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the Malmö Museum in Sweden.
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