This fall, artist Anne-Lise Coste takes over the entire top floor of the museum with her exhibition Pussybilities, Dance Club.
Driven by a rebellious spirit and the subversion of language in the tradition of Dada, the artist often produces her works in a burst of spontaneity and urgency using the materials around her. Here, she plays on the contrast between the historic location and the deliberately contemporary nature of her work: collages, assemblages, neon lights, and a new photographic collaboration.
In this former attic marked by a monumental 16th-century wooden framework, the artist imagines an alternative horizon, a place of celebration as much as resistance. She revisits the imagery of the dance club, a place where individual and collective experiences intertwine, but also a symbol of queer and feminist struggles; a place for all “pussybles.”
Born in 1973 in Marignane (France), Anne-Lise Coste lives and works in Paris. Her work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at Frac Occitanie-Montpellier Hors-les-Murs in Castelnau-le-Lez (2025), Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel (2022), URDLA in Villeurbanne (2021), Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund (2020), and CRAC Occitanie in Sète (2019).
Her work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MACBA in Barcelona, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris, MRAC in Sérignan, FRAC Corse, Ile-de-France, and Pays de la Loire.
Anne-Lise Coste is represented by Prats Nogueras Blanchard in Madrid and Barcelona, Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam, Lullin + Ferrari in Zurich and Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff in Stuttgart.