La Villa du Parc is a contemporary art centre dedicated to the visual arts. The art centre supports and exhibits contemporary artists who are committed to a professional art practice that is bond up with society and the political and esthetic issues it currently faces.
A tool for artists in producing and creating art, La Villa du Parc also serves the general public as a place to meet with others and discover the new. The art centre develops programs for helping our audience to access and enjoy the art of today in made-to-measure initiatives that never lose sight of our audience, solidly anchored in the idea and ideal of discussion and reflecting together before the work of art.
Devising our program of exhibitions and events at La Villa du Parc is based on the diversity of practices, mirroring the world of contemporary art (painting, drawing, photography, video, writing, etc.). Each year the art centre comes up with a theme for the season, a theme that can be esthetic, societal, or geographic, allowing our featured artists to tackle a concept or field of activities from a range of viewpoints and timeframes.
Three major annual shows that are augmented by initiatives in and outside the center in a range of formats (publications, events), along with artists’ residencies taking place in the social domain (businesses, hospitals, etc.), contribute to the art centre’s overall project of artistic experimentation.
La Villa du Parc strives to work across disciplines and with and within the regional community. The art centre regularly collaborates with cultural institutions in and around Annemasse and beyond the border in Geneva. Special coproduction projects are also done both nationally and internationally.
La Villa du Parc was officially designated a “Contemporary art centre of national interest” in 2020 by the French Ministry of Culture, recognizing “the excellence of the work done by the contemporary art center [and] the quality of the support it provides artists,” and reaffirming the art centre’s “singular structuring place in the region, in the service of both contemporary artmaking and the public” it serves.
Director: Garance Chabert