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2025 Festivals
Overview

An overview of 2025 festivals in Provence, French Riviera : Aix's international Festival of Lyric Art, Arles' photography, Avignon, Piano festival
June, July, August, 2025

Dance with daemons
A major experimental exhibition : the interconnections between art and reality and the ways in which artists’ works relate to each other

Until Nov 2, 2025 / Arles

Même les soleils sont ivres

From a phrase by Albert Camus taken from La Postérité du soleil
Until August 31, 2025 / Avignon

Mustapha Azeroual - Sillage Light Sculptures

Contemporary art - The experimental aspect of the photographic medium
Until August 31, 2025 / Mouans

Vertigo Art center

The dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, the sigh of the mistral, the spray of the sea, the telluric power deep within the earth
Until November 2, 2025 / Porquerolles

Dubuffet and the magicians- Singular expressions 1945-2000

Unconventional artists, true individualists and diverse expressions who shaped the future of contemporary art
Until Nov. 2, 2025 / Hyeres

Laurent Mattio
Paint the light - Peindre la lumière

Provençal painter master of drawing, colour and light
Until September 28, 2025 / Marseille

Cézanne au jas de Bouffan
A deep dive into the artist’s private life and the family home.

An exceptional selection of a hundred paintings, drawings and watercolours.
From June 28 to October 12, 2025 / Aix-en-Provence

Hervé Di Rosa A family affair - Une affaire de famille
Contemporary art - A captivating exploration of artistic dialogue and cultural exchange

Until September 1, 2025 / Marseille

M A R S E I L L E - A I X EN P R O V E N C E

Éléonore False
The Warp Thread
A decade of creations and research exploring the image and its worlds of imagination

Until August 31, 2025 / Marseille

Niki de Saint Phalle

The magic bestiary
The influence of animals and imaginary creatures on the artist
Until Oct. 5, 2025 / Aix

Aix en Provence
. The city of King René
. La cité du roi René
. Paul Cézanne
. Opera festival
. Festival d'Art lyrique

Le mauvais oeil
Silio Durt
A bubbling graphic universe, nourished by the underground, black humour and pictorial avant-garde

Until July 24, 2025 / Marseille

Grandeur nature - Claude Como

A glimpse into Claude Como's larger-than-life supernatural world
Until June 15, 2025 / Aix

Marseille
. The oldest city in France
. La plus vieille ville de France

C O T E D'A Z U R - F R E N C H R I V I E R A

Dubuffet and the magicians
Singular expressions 1945-2000 Unconventional artists, true individualists and diverse expressions who shaped the future of contemporary art

Until Nov. 2, 2025 / Hyeres

Barbara Hepworth
Art & Life
How the physical encounter with sculpture could impact the viewer and alter their perception of the world

Until Nov. 2, 2025 / Saint-Paul

Marc Riboud - L'œil du voyageur A selection of photographs with a focus on Asia, where the photographer went in the 1950s
Until Sept. 21, 2025 / La Seyne

Chagall - The Vence years A Mediterranean renaissance
A freer, more sensual style with the magic of color

Until Nov. 2, 2025 / Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Les Années folles de Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel’s abundant production in the specific context of the Côte d’Azur in the 1920s

Until Oct. 5, 2025 / Monaco

Nice
Métropole Côte d'azur
De la ville antique à l'avènement touristique du XXe siècle

A R L E S - A V I G N O N

Sigmar Polke
Beneath the Cobblestones, The Earth
Truths about our world, while exploring the idea of a new kind of beauty beyond the conventional

Until Oct 26, 2025 / Arles

Othoniel COSMOS

or the Ghosts of Love
A gigantic artistic constellation in the city of the popes, with Love as its celestial vault
Until January 4, 2026 / Avignon

Avignon

From the city of the popes to the drama festival
De la cité des papes au festival d'art dramatique

GUIDE - PROVENCE - COTE D'AZUR - FRENCH RIVIERA

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Guide Provence Côte d'azur - French Riviera

Overview & Map

Abbayes cisterciennes de Provence - Abbeys

Sénanque, Silvacane, Le Thoronet
Plus de 900 ans d'histoire

Parcs et jardins / Parks and gardens

Un patrimoine artistique, un rendez-vous, des ateliers...

CITY GUIDES - GASTRONOMY

Marseille

The oldest city in France
La plus ancienne ville de France

Gastronomy
Plaisirs des sens

Le bien manger
Chocolats, calissons, glaces... Abricots de Provence...

Arles

Little Rome of the Gauls
La petite Rome des Gaules

Aix en Provence

The city of King René - La cité du Roy René
From aquae Sextiae to the Aix festival - D'aquae Sextiae au festival d'Aix

Nice

Métropolis of the French Riviera
Métropole de la Côte d'azur

Avignon

From the city of the popes to the drama festival
De la cité des papes au festival d'art dramatique

GALERIES, ART CONTEMPORAIN

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Terre bénie des artistes : Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Chagall, Matisse...

BOTOX'S

Réseau d'Art contemporain

Alpes et Riviera

PAC

Provence Art contemporain

Marseille - Aix en Provence

AAC

Avignon Arts contemporains

Avignon et sa région

Arles contemporain

Arles et sa région

SPECTACLES

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Provence Côte d'azur - Terre d'arts et de spectacles

SPECTACLES

Marseille

Aix en Provence

Avignon

SPECTACLES

Arles

Cannes

Nice

SPECTACLES

Bars et Clubs

Cinémas

Enfants

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