GROUP SHOW WITH JULIETTE MINCHIN
PAR QUATRE CHEMINS

CHÂTEAU LA COSTE, PUY-SAINTE-RÉPARADE, FRANCE
12 APRIL – 9 JUNE 2025

From April 12 to June 9, 2025, Château La Coste will honor emerging artists by inviting POUSH, Europe's largest artists' incubator, the ideal vantage point for observing the French contemporary art scene. After Damien Hirst, who benefited from this exceptional gesture for the first time in 2024, the entirety of the emblematic pavilions and the estate will once again welcome 35 artists of 14 nationalities. Curated by Yvannoé Kruger and Margaux Knight, Par quatre chemins is an invitation to wander and detour, a sensitive wandering off the beaten track.Château La Coste’s collaboration with POUSH aims to foster a dialogue between a generation of artists and the eloquent architecture of the pavilions, nestled within and overlooking the Provençal landscape. The artists selected by Yvannoé Kruger, POUSH director, have crafted works that harmonize with the vineyards and the Aix countryside, delving into the poetic and physical geology of the site.

© Images by Martin Argyroglo

Opposite Tadao Ando’s chapel and Jean-Michel Othoniel’s cross, at the highest point of the vineyard, Juliette Minchin has erected “NYMPHEUM, weight of tears”, a rough assemblage of stone blocks from a nearby quarry. They are carved in several geometric modules, one on top of the other, in the centre of the calade where the wheat used to be threshed. Faithful to how Minchin responds to the architecture, it is in dialogue with the vertical ruin of the village of La Quille du Puy-Sainte-Reparade, on the opposite hill.

FEATURED ARTIST

JULIETTE MINCHIN
Juliette Minchin (b. 1992) lives in Paris, where she developed her sculpture, installation, video, and drawing practice. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in scenography and Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she stages her work using materials, light, smell, and sound.

“The use of natural materials (plaster, earth, wax or liquid) gives her sculptures an undeniably organic dimension, whose surface is close in its appearance of the skin. The repetition of the same gesture and the random evolution of the material gives them a processual aspect. Environmental and immersive, they finally include the viewer by ...
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