Collection Lambert
Le murmure des Libres
Shilpa Gupta, Jumana Manna, Geumhyung Jeong
May 24 to September 20, 2026
In summer 2026, the Collection Lambert reaffirms its strong commitment to women artists by shifting its focus to the Near, Middle, and Far East. The Avignon-based institution invites three major artists who maintain particularly powerful ties to these territories, which lie at the heart of today’s global upheavals.
Hailing from Palestine (Jumana Manna), India (Shilpa Gupta), and South Korea (Geumhyung Jeong), these artists share a practice shaped by a series of physical and sensorial displacements, offering perspectives that are both profound and far-reaching on contemporary artistic and political issues.
Through a multiplicity of forms and media (videos, installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, sound works, performances), and through contemplative and immersive experiences, the works produced or presented in the three monographic exhibitions unfold as a series of narratives and songs.
Like as many sidesteps deployed throughout the historic rooms of the Hôtel de Montfaucon at the Collection Lambert, they guide us through the vicissitudes of a world whose darkness we must outwit with poetry.
Stories for a body
Kim Gordon
May 24 to September 20, 2026
For the past 40 years, Kim Gordon has established herself as a major figure on the contemporary artistic and cultural scene. After studying at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in the late 1970s — where she associated with numerous artists including Mike Kelley and Dan Graham — she left California for New York. In 1981, she presented her first exhibition there at White Columns gallery under the name Design Office. Since then, she has developed an experimental artistic practice shaped by a reflection that is as radical as it is subversive, and by an extraordinary punk energy, working across a wide range of disciplines.
At the Collection Lambert, she will take over the entire basement galleries of the Hôtel de Montfaucon. There, she will present a wide selection of works from the past ten years, including several previously unseen pieces. Conceived as a total installation, the ensemble of paintings, watercolors, sculptures, and videos reflects on the place of individuals in a world governed by technological fetishism and the glorification of the commodity object — a world where the political and the intimate are inextricably intertwined, and where the performative body emerges as a powerful form of possible resistance.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of screenings and performances during the 2026 Avignon Festival, in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Dimitri Chamblas, who has worked with the American artist on numerous occasions, notably at the Louvre Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and Chaillot – National Theatre of Dance.
Antichambre de l’été
Melika Sadeghzadeh
May 24 to September 20, 2026
As part of the Antichambre de l’été program — which highlights emerging local artists — Melika Sadeghzadeh, an Iranian artist who lives and works in Montpellier, will present a delicate sculptural body of work evoking the violences of memory and forgetting.
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