With artists: Evan Barbedette, Jules Boillot, Heloïse Farago, Alix Le Boucher, Paul Lemaître and Lila Vignot

Hidden behind a tree, sheltered by a bush, trapped in the alcove of a gloomy building or your own silhouette, running in pursuit of your goal, be careful not to put your elbows on the table. Welcome to this escapade where the surreal world of six artists will transport you into their dreams, utopias and memories. This is not a call for vigilance but rather an invitation to pause and contemplate. Leave your bearings at the entrance and don’t expect to get them back. »

Through La Serrure, conceived as a carte blanche for the Collectif DdD, six artists from the young contemporary drawing scene—Alix Le Boucher, Héloïse Farago, Jules Boillot, Lila Vignot, Paul Lemaître and Evan Barbedette—are brought together to create a shared landscape.
Like a cabinet of curiosities, the exhibition brings together unique works by artists discovered through the French-language fanzine scene and scattered across the country. Whether medieval scenes, excerpts from video games, or domestic scenes brought into the exhibition space, the works on display are as much drawings as they are invitations to immerse ourselves in them. Au Travers de la Serrure highlights the role of the visitor behind the fourth wall of images, confining them to their position as spectators, or even voyeurs, due to the impossibility of verifying whether or not they are welcome through the drawing. So lean in, move on, or take the time to witness the scenes before your eyes.

While the motif acts as punctuation in the exhibition space, it does not take into account the rhythm imposed by the different shapes of the supports. Here, the artists offer a vision that reinvents the quadrilateral form in favour of supports that have been gleaned, cut, torn and assembled. Through a vivid, sometimes acidic palette, the works on display evoke both a certain unease and an emancipatory freedom.
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The DdD collective was founded in 2022 by Clémentine Taupin, Clément Morlé and Antoine Graff while they were students at ENSAD in Nancy.
Motivated by the desire to produce a collective edition of drawings based on the reinterpretation of audiovisual extracts, they launched an annual magazine called Cristal Liquide. The project expanded to include a total of ten artists from the same school, giving rise to the name DdD, which stands for Dizaine des Dessinateurs (Ten Artists).

From the second issue onwards, the collective began to invite emerging artists from other schools in the French-speaking world and established an artistic direction that led to an interest in a drawing practice that brought together a dozen artists producing different aesthetics. The second issue therefore focused on drawings with very saturated colours, leaving visible traces of the tools used (felt-tip pens, coloured pencils, pastels, ballpoint pens, etc.). The third and most recent issue, published in 2025, invited visual artists whose drawing practice was ambiguous between surface and volume.

In an effort to serve as a platform for dissemination, the collective regularly attends trade fairs to sell its productions and thus promote the work of guest artists. Having gradually moved away from comics and closer to contemporary art, the magazine now uses the medium
of publishing to forge links between these two worlds. As the works created for the book may be exhibited, the book takes on the dual role of drawing magazine and exhibition catalogue.

Exhibition from 11 February to 25 April 2026

Opening on Saturday 7 February 2026 from 6pm
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm
Free admission
Group visits, reservations: starter@lastation.org

© Antoine Graff © Clément Morlé

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With artists: Loïc Alsina, Arnus, Sarah Barthe, Sinem Bostanci, Marie-Pierre Brunel, Lucas Compagnoni, Yannick Cosso, Nicolas Gaillardon, Marine Gambardella, Robin Genoux, Jérémy Griffaud, Julien Griffaud, Chloé Héreau, Ugo Lange, Lego My Ego, Alexandre Louvenaz, Guangli Liu, Loïc Le Pivert, Céline Marin, Gérald Panighi, François Paris, Maxime Parodi, JP Racca Vammerisse, Mathilde Reynaud, Jimmy Richer, Julien Sampson, Quentin Spohn, Valentine Trassy, Florent Testa and Claude Valenti.

One day, soon, tomorrow, everything will change shape (Hugo, Légende, vol. 5, 1877, p. 908)

Drawing on these few words by Victor Hugo, the SUPER ISSUE collective uses its divinatory talents to offer you its vision of the future (!), that eternal object of fantasy whose substance is constantly changing in line with societal, scientific and climatological developments, to name but a few…
When it comes to exhibitions, SUPER ISSUE extends this dynamic of openness by regularly inviting artists from outside the team…
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SUPER ISSUE is a collective of visual artists who publish fanzines, artists’ books, screen prints and other artistic objects in any form, in a completely independent and self-financed manner.
For the editorial section, each print run is very limited and numbered by hand.
The collective is based in Nice, but the artists published can come from all over France and even abroad.

Exhibition from 11 February to 25 April 2026

Opening on Saturday 7 February 2026 from 6pm
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm
Free admission
Group visits, reservations: starter@lastation.org

© Claude Valenti

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As part of Eclairage Public au 109,

• Friday, June 27: 6 pm to 10 pm

- Nocturne for the exhibition Le Chant des Sirènes
– Nocturne for Lucille Jallot’s residency project, L’instinct de surface
– Cyberflæmme performance at La Station
– Installation of the vintage Music truc 06 truck in front of La Station

• Saturday June 28: 3 pm to 10 pm – Witch you were here #3 presents Cymatic

With artists : Eve Aboulkheir, Thelma Cappello, Adrian De Alfonso, Oï les Ox, Ursula Sereghy and Cliché Toupee.

In 2025, Witch You Were here #3 welcomes the Cymatics project, a proposal by Aude Van Wyller.

In his essay on sound, « Ocean of sound », David Toop takes us on an exploration of environmental music, from Debussy’s impressionism, Eric Satie’s furniture music and the surge of ambient music in Amsterdam in the early 90s.

In this book, he foreshadows our erratic navigation from hyperlink to hyperlink, a few years later, in the digital age. This « oceanic » feeling of plunging into a saturation of links, places and information, demands to be re-localized, in order to focus attention, concentrate on listening, choose to let go and distract, in a hypnagogic state: Cymatics, named after the sound waves we visualize, will be a multi-channel listening structure and device to welcome the public and artists exploring the sound environment, playing with narration and sound perception, within the same envelope. An uninterrupted flow of concerts will develop, sometimes solos, sometimes collective improvisations, composing and decomposing according to the hours and the mood.

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With the artists: Antoine Boudin & Olivier Millagou, Suzanne Husky, Eloïse Le Gallo & Julia Borderie, Camille Llobet, Navire Avenir, Eleonora Strano & Vincent Malassis and Guido Van Der Werve.

As part of the biennial event and the Year of the Oceans, to be held in Nice in conjunction with the United Nations conference in 2025, La Station presents Le Chant des Sirènes, a special event from May to August 2025, combining exhibitions, performances and a listening festival.
An ambivalent mythological figure, an evil chimera, synonymous with seduction and destruction, the mermaid, with the body of a bird and the head of a woman, announces (and leads to) shipwreck.
Transported into Nordic beliefs, then into pop culture, the mermaid dives beneath the sea, gaining a fish tail and the reductive adjective of “small”. Reinvested in (eco)feminist or queer fields, the mermaid finally becomes an emancipatory figure, synonymous with the reappropriation of the body and the anger of nature.

But the siren also gives its name to powerful sound devices designed to produce a signal, on land or at sea, to maneuver or alarm. The ship’s siren warns of danger, sounds in distress, saves or befalls.
The exhibition Le Chant des Sirènes at La Station freely explores the relationships between several worlds in peril: the human world and the marine world.

Le Chant des Sirènes will also host a listening lounge, designed by resident and guest artists, echoing the Witch You Were Here #3* listening festival, and inviting spectators to a time of discovery of sound and artistic works.

Exhibition from May 9 to August 23, 2025
Opening on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 6 p.m.

* Sound festival organized for the third year running at La Station, on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

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Group show with : Stéphane Arcas, Fabien Boitard, Clémentine Taupin & Caroline Vicquenault.

In 2017, La Station presented the exhibition Back to the painting.
Bringing together artists Dominique Figarella, Yann Gerstberger, Tom Giampieri, Virginie Hervieu-Monnet, Adrien Vescovi and We Are The Painters, it questioned the influence of Supports/Surfaces on French contemporary artists.
That’s Oil Folks! returns like an echo, inviting four contemporary artists – Stéphane Arcas, Fabien Boitard, Clémentine Taupin and Caroline Vicquenault – to extend this reflection on contemporary painting.

From February 8 to April 12, 2025

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With  the artists : Tom Barbagli, Suska Bastian, Arnaud Biais, Nathan Carême, Johan Christ-Bertrand, Camille Franch-Guerra, Donia Ouassit,
Eleonora Paciullo, Philippe Paradis, David Raffini, Romain Ravera, Omar Rodriguez-Sanmartin, Clémentine Taupin, Cédric Teisseire, Rémi Voche, Agathe Wiesner, Anne-Laure Wuillai.

For the third year running, Support Station presents the work of La Station’s resident artists and their guests!
In an immersive installation designed especially for the event, Support Station the practices of the artists who make it up, bring it to life.

They present works that have emerged from their studios or been produced for the exhibition. Support Station aims to financially support La Station as an artist-run space!
Visual: Agathe Wiesner and Donia Ouassit

Exhibition from December 14, 2024 to January 11, 2025
Opening on Saturday December 14 at 5pm

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Group show with : Patricia Allio, Bianca Argimón, Anaïs Auger-Mathurin & Louise Thurin, AWARE, Minia Biabiany, Kalice Brun & Eve Pietruschi, Leïla Chaix, Ágnes Dénes, Camille Frasca, Cécile Granier de Cassagnac, GAZE MAGAZINE, Carla Gueye, Suzanne Husky, Charlotte Janis, Laura Lafon, Librairie Vigna, Annette Messager, Noémie Monier, Some of Us, Célia Viale and Alicia Zaton.

Vie-ves! Sauvage proposes to rethink the limits
of a so-called conventional group exhibition, where plastic forms
forms are confined to their place.

Based on a curatorial proposal by Camille Franch-Guerra.
Exchanges, narratives and archives intersect to create a theater in which the memories of a past-present-future would reveal different
material strata of our return to the feminine wild. The exhibition takes on the role of a « reclaim » title, which suggests the links between the oppression of women and the oppression of nature
not only insisting on and supporting this concept, but also transfiguring it
this concept with a poetic sting of plural feminine being(s).

Film screening, meeting and performance as part of the OVNI festival, November 15 and 16.

In collaboration with Frac Lorraine, Galerie Alain Gutharc and Festival OVNI.
With the support of the City of Nice, Pavillon Bosio, Villa Arson and MAMAC.

© Elena King

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Here at Doc! La Station, artist-run space is invited to present an exhibition of « Stationnautes », Azurean characters recluse in the former abattoirs of the city of Nice. La Station, a production and distribution space for contemporary artists, has been invited to Paris by Raphaël Emine, whose work includes reflections on biology and the living, supported by dreamlike and fantastical developments. This invitation is no coincidence, particularly given everyone’s interest in the place where they live and work, Nice, no matter how sublime or absurd. In addition to the artistic dimension of the idyllic landscape, conditioned by the policies in place, the environmental reflection that unfolds questions the limits of our tragi-comic end, where our carbon footprint will eventually bury us.

La Station is part of a territory full of doubts and questions for posterity. Thus, the challenges of moving from the Côte d’Azur to the French capital take the form of an artistic proposition whose end is unknown. If the artists borrow from an ecological reflection, it sets the tempo for a post-apocalyptic environment where all that remains is the Machiavellian sound of cicadas’ cymbals transfigured by anti-theft devices. If tables, machines and hybrid objects spread out alone in the 160m2 space, it’s because they’ve simply succeeded in short-circuiting the system in place. Humans are no longer at the top of the chain, they’ve « anthropo-scenized » and become the buried chicken bones that others will find in the next era. After capitalism, it’s time for the aesthetics of Chaos, organized perhaps by the Lombriciens, an ingenious species in the trophic chain that’s still all too forgotten. Paris, Paris on t’embrasse, recreates a space of determined chaotic propagation*, where each piece nevertheless retains its own breath.

*Chaos theory is mainly concerned with the description of systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, often very simple to define, but whose dynamics appear to us to be very disordered.

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Born in 1994 in Jena, Germany.
 » Living by the sea has profoundly shaped my artistic journey. The space where water and land converge is where two worlds collide, preserving traces and ghosts of past lives, like the shell of a seabutterfly (picture of a shell of cybulium peronii).
My tools for exploration are simple—wandering and observing. Through these, I rediscover my curiosity for the more-than-human environment that surrounds us.

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