Upcoming – 2026

Marine Wallon

That Place

Estrine Museum – Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
13 June — 20 September 2026
June 13 — September 20, 2026

The Estrine Museum is particularly pleased to present, in co-production with the Musée de l’Abbaye de Saint-Claude, the first major monographic exhibition devoted to the work of Marine Wallon.

A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2009, the artist is part of the revival of contemporary painting, of which she is one of the leading figures. Since her first works on canvas in 2013, Marine Wallon has developed a distinctive body of work that questions the traditional codes of landscape painting while more broadly exploring the notion of place, conceived as a space of both individual and collective memory. Inspired by screenshots drawn from forgotten documentary archives as well as notes taken from direct observation, her painting brings forth spaces of drifting, wandering and passage. The multiplication of viewpoints creates open, almost labyrinthine spaces in which the viewer’s gaze is invited to move, linger and project itself towards a mental hinterland. The human or animal figure, often reduced to a discreet and anonymous presence, blends into vast fields of colour in constant movement, oscillating between abstraction and figuration. Through the simplification of forms and the use of large brushes, the artist imbues the pictorial surface with a distinctive vibration, heightened by sustained chromatic intensity. Certain areas, smooth and rendered in flat planes of colour, contrast with others that are thicker and worked using a variety of tools — wide brushes, scrapers, palette knives, cloths or glass wool — suggesting the materiality of ground, rock or even a wave.

Bringing together more than sixty works — paintings, drawings and prints, including the work created for the Chalcographie du Louvre — the exhibition offers a retrospective journey through fifteen years of artistic creation.

Curators: Anne Dary, Chief Heritage Curator, and Élisa Farran, Curator and Director of the Estrine Museum.

17 October 2026 → 7 March 2027 in Saint-Claude.