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COLLECT|MC

collect|mc is an artistic initiative showcasing the work of emerging artists, enriched by cross-disciplinary research and multiple narratives, soliciting significant and anticipatory artworks, responding to questions about our common future, concerned with the ambiguity of our current times.

Exhibition hours: July – September, Thursday to Saturday, 1 pm – 6 pm (closed in August)

During the MAW 2025:
Nocturne Monday 7th for the MAW, 5 – 8 pm
Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm
Open Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 am to 6 pm

COLLECT|MC

Le Saint-André

20 Boulevard de Suisse

2025

Suska Bastian, Of Feelers and Furies

04.07.2025 - 12.10.2025

After two group exhibitions, this third edition presents the work of the artist Suska Bastian, a graduate of Villa Arson who has been living in Nice since she joined the artist’s studios of La Station. Suska Bastian will present a new body of work, developing new techniques while retaining the vocabulary and atmosphere so characteristic of her work. Following her process of research and production around ambivalent forms, the exhibition Of Feelers and Furies reconsiders the boundaries between nature and culture, the tensions and ambivalences that these concepts entail, and encourages us to rethink the relationship between man and the environment.

As every year, part of the exhibition will be based on works from a young private collection that respond to the theme of the guest artist.

Spinal spike

Suska Bastian "Spinal spike" 2024 Palm thorns, paint, Photo: eac

Pierre percée (Balance Act I & II)

Suska Bastian "Pierre percée (Balance Act I & II)", 2024
 Stone, sanded bit Variable dimensions Photo: eac

Forêt de talons

Suska Bastian "Forêt de talons" 2025 Palm heels, color Variable dimensions

Previous editions

CONCRETE BEACHES, ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES

7th of June - 30th of September 2024

Suska Bastian, Caroline Bergonzi, Marco Colazzo, Maria David, Florian Ferrua, Camille Franch-Guerra, Dorian Teti, Anna Tomaszewski

The Office: a Private Collection, Katie Armstrong, Jules De Ballincourt, Adeline de Monseignat, Torkwase Dyson, Peter Halley, Minam Kobayachi, Victor Seaward

Undergoing violent ecological changes, natural landscapes are being shaped, augmented and supplanted by synthetic artifice, driven by discordant projects.

What kind of future do we dream of?

The group exhibition CONCRETE BEACHES, ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES is built around a hypothetical scenario – abstract, metaphysical, uncertain.

Visitors should see it as a fictional narrative in which each of us can place our own allegory of a shared future. Each piece and object animates these fantasized futures, sometimes already realized.

Taking as its inspiration the flamboyant reveries of J.G. Ballard’s first collection of short stories, Vermillon Sands (1973), the exhibition aims to provoke the imagination around hybrid narratives.

Empathie sonore n° 2 - Purple Misery, 2019

Camille FRANCH-GUERRA

Camille FRANCH-GUERRA
Empathie sonore n° 2 - Misère Pourpre, 2019
Therapeutic crystal tuning fork, burnt oak plank, misère pourpre
Photography: François Fernandez
Courtesy: Collection Privée
Protective Shell IV, 2022

Suska BASTIAN

Suska BASTIAN
Protective Shell IV, 2022
Fallen palm leaf with car paint
68 x 33 x 15 cm