LIFE
Exhibition from August 7 to 31, 2025
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
This summer, the gallery is hosting Dutch visual artist Sander de Klerk (born in 1975) first solo exhibition in France.
After several years of experimentation with techniques and media, Sander de Klerk turned to collage in 2020. He then discovered the immense potential of silk paper, long used in art for its many plastic virtues, which would become the common foundation for all his work. Delicate and fragile, this material perfectly matches the artist's main theme of reflection, namely the impossible dissociation between the beauty and precariousness of life.
Let us admire it before it all disappears... LIFE is a cry of love. A big burst in which butterflies, birds, and plants flourish and then decay, finally dissolving into a great chaos that heralds the end.
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MOVED BODIES
Duo show by Bergstein and Chantal Lacout
Exhibition from July 10 to August 4, 2025
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
Tournemine Gallery presents this summer an unprecedented duo show by French artists Bergstein and Chantal Lacout. A dialogue between two artists who differ in terms of technique (drawing / sculpture) and generation (born in 1988 / born in 1943). "Moved bodies" attempts to uncover, behind the classicism of the subject and the sobriety of the form, the timid radiance of feeling.
​Both artists share a delicate approach to materials: Bergstein's monochrome nuances and the exposed fiber of linen canvas, Lacout's hammered surface of bronze and deep patinas. Both also favor a certain formal bareness, which is less austerity than restraint. But it is precisely to this absence of frills, this refusal of the superfluous, that we owe the inner emotion that emanates from and surprises these silhouettes captured in the moment.
OFF-SCREEN
Exhibition from April 5 to May 11, 2025
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
Beyond the obvious, pure, direct aesthetic that emerges, Marius Messinese has always sought to instill an element of strangeness into his visions. A discreet but palpable tension permeates the idyllic settings, which turn out to be less tranquil than they appear. A dual reading is therefore possible. More ambivalent, it gives his work its full density.
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In his new solo exhibition "Off-screen", the young French painter from Marseilles invites us to explore even further the recesses of the visible. By simply shifting the camera, he places the eye right next to the action taking place, or sometimes right after it. We can feel the human presence, but it's no longer there. And the viewer, blind and alone, is left to his or her own speculations.
LILLE ART UP 2025
March 13th to 16th , 2025
Opening on Wednesday March 12th, 6-11 pm
Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France
For its third appearance at the Lille International Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Tournemine will be presenting recent works by Léo Caillard, Aline Zalko, Bergstein, Laurent Askienazy, Alban Lanore and Marius Messinese (booth C14-D13). 130 exhibiting galleries and no fewer than 40,000 visitors are expected over four days. Opening on Wednesday, March 12th. The "Nuit de l'Art" will take place on Thursday March 13th: a nocturne with multiple live artistic performances. We look forward to seeing you there!
MAR ADENTRO
Exhibition from October 16 to November 11, 2024
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
This autumn, Thomas Tournemine welcomes a solo exhibition by Chilean painter Franco Salas Borquez.
From his youth spent watching the Pacific tear itself apart, from the deck of his father's boat or from the rocks of his native island in southern Chile, he has preserved what he calls his “memory archive”, from which he constantly draws, like an obsession, his visions of the ocean.
With his minimalist palette and single subject, his work is more about movement and sensation than pure representation. His painting is visceral. It's the intimate chaos, the inner sea that shakes before our eyes.
LAURENT ASKIENAZY : UTOPIA
Exhibition from August 14 to September 3, 2024
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
"Utopia" is a chimerical voyage on the uncertain frontier of photography, painting and digital image. French photographer Laurent Askienazy interweaves his enigmatic, sensual and poisonous visions in atmospheres with a delicately surrealist accent.
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Thomas Tournemine is delighted to welcome the artist's first solo show at the gallery. A selection of 16 works is offered exclusively and in limited edition.
MARIUS MESSINESE, LIMINAL SPACE
Exhibition from July 24 to August 13, 2024
Meeting with the artist on August 10 & 11
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
This summer, Thomas Tournemine is delighted to welcome a new solo exhibition by Marius Messinese. Through his canvases, the young artist from Marseilles tirelessly explores the “liminal spaces”, those empty places still inhabited by human presence. Transitory states where time seems frozen.
Beyond the pure, attractive aesthetics that emerge, these deserted places carry a certain ambivalence. In this way, Marius Messinese suggests that, behind appearances, things may not be as simple as we think...
BERGSTEIN / CAILLARD : CONTORTIONS
Exhibition from July 6 to 23, 2024
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
To inaugurate the summer season, Thomas Tournemine proposes a dialogue between two young French artists on the study of the body and its dynamics. From the undulating marble busts of Léo Caillard (b. 1985) to the elastic silhouettes of Bergstein (b. 1988), flesh is stretched, distended, put to the test of opposing forces to celebrate all its plastic beauty.
VEGETABLE KINGDOM
Exhibition from June 4 to July 4, 2024
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
Since April, Tournemine Gallery has been offering its artists a second space dedicated exclusively to solo or thematic exhibitions. A “white cube” allowing total immersion in a single universe, resulting in a multiplied experience. Following on from the solo shows by Marius Messinese and Julie Susset, now it's time for “Vegetable kingdom”, a thematic exhibition that takes a close look at those all-powerful yet discreet beings that are plants and trees. With recents works by Federico Fiorentini, Julie Susset, Marius Messinese, Aline Zalko and Étienne Viard.
JULIE SUSSET : WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Exhibition from May 7 to June 2, 2024
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
This spring, Tournemine Gallery entrusts Julie Susset with the keys to its new space dedicated to solo exhibitions. "Welcome to the jungle" is an immersion into the mental jungle of an artist who craves freedom, using her fingers, hands, forearms and whole body in movement to paint fantasized, intoxicating and ferocious landscapes on canvas. A exalted return to the origins of life, between and primitivism and oneirism.
LILLE ART UP 2024
February 8th to 11th , 2024
Opening on Wednesday February 7th, 6-11 pm
Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France
Thomas Tournemine Gallery is pleased to attend the 16th Lille International Contemporary Art Fair. Recent works by Léo Caillard, Aline Zalko, Bergstein, Laurent Askienazy and Marius Messinese will be presented to the public (booth F20-G15). On this occasion, a monumental painting by Marius Messinese - the largest ever painted by the artist - will be revealed on the booth. On Thursday, February 8 will be held the Night of Art, with multiple artistic live performances.
NUIT BLANCHE DES GALERIES
Thursday July 13th & Saturday August 5th
From 7pm to 11.30pm
La Baule, France
Every year, La Baule's galleries celebrate their Sleepless night. A stroll along an artistic itinerary, allowing as many people as possible to discover art in a nocturnal - then original-, relaxed and even festive context. The idea is to break down the barriers that prevent some people from daring to push open gallery doors.
ALINE ZALKO, INTO THE WILD
Exhibition from July 7 to July 23, 2023
Opening with the artist on July 8 - 4/9 PM
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
This summer, Parisian artist Aline Zalko presents her very first solo show at Galerie Thomas Tournemine. "Into the wild" is a cry to the wilderness. Exuberant, enveloping, sometimes threatening. The colors are fierce, saturated, the forests blazing under her line, which she wants to be fluid, serpentine, undulating like the flames.
COLOR BLOCK @ LE RÉSERVOIR
July - August, 2023
Le Réservoir Sète, 45-46 Quai de Bosc, 34200
Le Réservoir Paris, 56 rue du Verbois, 75003
This summer, Le Réservoir presents the group show "Color Block", held simultaneously in its two spaces in Paris and Sète. Recent works by Marius Messinese are presented, in partnership with Galerie Thomas Tournemine, alongside artists Clémentine Chambon, Quim Corominas, Adda, Goddog, Marion Sagon, Noon, Camille Cottier, Jean-Francois Le Minh and Laurent Marty.
A reflection on the visual and immersive power of color.
LILLE ART UP 2023
From March 9th until March 12th , 2023
Opening on Wednesday March 8th
Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France
Thomas Tournemine Gallery attends for the first time the international fair Lille Art Up (130 galleries, 40.000 visitors) which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The theme for 2023 is "Memory games", variations on memory and past. On the booth, a group exhibition of recent works by Léo Caillard, Benjamin Ottoz, Aline Zalko and Marius Messinese.
ART FAIR DIJON 2022
From September 30th until October 2nd
Opening on Thursday September 29th - 6pm/9pm
Parc des Expositions et Congrès, Dijon, France
For the second edition of Art Fair Dijon, Thomas Tournemine Gallery is pleased to present a solo show by French painter Marius Messinese. Dijon manages to stand out in the panorama of contemporary art fairs with a demanding - really demanding - and refreshing selection of French and European galleries. Three days of artistic encounter on the lands of Bertrand Lavier, Yan Pei-Ming or Philippe Ramette...
MARIUS MESSINESE, PARADISE LOST
Exhibition from July 14 to July 29, 2022
Opening with the artist on July 16 - 4/9 PM
Tournemine Gallery, La Baule
The very first solo exhibition of the young painter from Marseille is being held this summer in La Baule at Thomas Tournemine Gallery. About twenty works revealed to the public, which examine the American Golden Age, in mythical settings of sumptuous gardens, swimming pools and Hollywood villas.
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A long road-trip through a bygone era.
ALINE ZALKO : FIRE !
Exhibition from May 4 to May 28, 2022
Les Arts Dessinés - 19 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
This Spring, Les Arts Dessinés gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Fire! bringing together thirty-two works by Parisian artist Aline Zalko. Between colorful landscapes and female portraits, the artist offers an ambitious retrospective of her work.
FRANCO SALAS BORQUEZ - L'OUTRE-VAGUE
Exhibition from July 31 to November 6, 2021
Centre Cristel - 9 bd de la Tour d'Auvergne, 35400 Saint-Malo, France
Two years after his triumph at the Saint-Sauveur chapel, the Chilean painter Franco Salas Borquez is exhibiting again in the city of Saint-Malo, at the Cristel Art Editor Center.
Twenty resounding works that tell the sea as never before.
LÉO CAILLARD AT DALI PARIS MUSEUM
From June 9 to September 26, 2021
Dali Paris - 11 rue Poulbot, 75018 Paris
By inviting Léo Caillard, whose work has been noticed by the transformation of ancient statues into hipsters, Dali Paris initiates a dialogue on the ancient heritage and the way it endures through the centuries.
The disguise of these divinities, this interference of modernity in the ideal of Platonic beauty, would they not aim, as the obsession of the form in Dali, to counter the attacks of time and overcome death, by achieving immortality through art ?
NON-ESSENTIAL CLOSING
From Saturday April 3 to Tuesday May 18, 2021
Reopening on Wednesday May 19
Due to the health situation, the government has decided to close businesses deemed non-essential for a period of one month.
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The gallery is therefore closed to the public, but remains of course available for any request. Do not hesitate to ask us: we will be happy to answer you and bring to life, even a little, the work of our artists.