Bathhouses: exhibition of contemporary art

Name: Baños de ducha: exposición de arte contemporáneo
Start: 2022-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Les Bains Douches

Exhibition of contemporary art by guest artists for the 31st edition of Art in the Chapels!

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

©Ville de Pontivy

The art in the chapels is an artistic project committed to the development of the territory of the Pontivy Country and the Blavet Valley.
The baths and showers are the starting point of the three tours that will lead you to the discovery of 18 heritage sites, Remarkable churches and chapels of the territory but also of the 14 contemporary installations set up for this 31st edition of the event.
They are also a place of exhibition, presenting a work of each of the fourteen artists invited to invest the chapels of the territory (Mali Arun, Dirk Braeckman, Flavie Cournil, Julia Cottin, Nils Guadagnin, Géraldine Guilbaud, Vincent Hawkins, Laura Lamiel, Stephen Maas, Romain Métivier, Erik Nussbicker, François Réau, Andrew Seto and Geert Vanoorlé).

About the location

Les Bains Douches

13 Quai Presbourg, 56300, Pontivy

Morbihan
Bretagne

After the publication of a circular of the Ministry of the Interior in 1907, establishments public baths increase at the beginning of the XXth century to fight against the distribution(broadcasting) of tuberculosis. In Pontivy, the decision of construction is taken in 1912\. It will be necessary to wait for 1930 so that public baths take up the post. The establishment closed in October, 2011\. Public baths were redeveloped and serve, since 2013, as artist studio and as place of exhibition(exposure).