Les Thermes+

Residency and exhibition program 2023. The third exhibition of the year shows works by Kevin Blythe Sampson https://www.kevinblythesampson.com Cesar Melgar https://www.cesarmelgarphotography.com Claudette Lajoyeuse aka DBA. Those works were all created during the residency in Bourbonne and are inspired by the same theme : Displacement and its effects on our state of being. Magic might help….

Champagne-Ardenne, France, is a bathing town. Life center is the thermal bath, managed by ̈Valvital ̈ and belonging to the municipality. The healing powers of the waters of Bourbonne were known to the Romans and the Gauls before them, who had created a cult around the goddess Damona and the god Borvo. Hotels, clubs and streets are…

Espace d’Art Contemporain Les Thermes+   résidences d’artistes  4, Place des Bains, 52400 Bourbonne-les-Bains, France  Contact: eaclesthermes@outlook.com or by facebook.  How to reach:  Nearest airports : Basel and then by train to Vesoul. Paris and then by train to Chaumont. Where you’ll be taken by car to Bourbonne-les-Bains.  Applications:   All year. Receipt of your application will be acknowledged within 3 or 4 days, but the final decision about collaboration…

Resident artists can show in juried and curated exhibitions, mixing  with artists from the region, if possible also in exchange with locals. ( Curated by  D.B.A. , being counselled by more experienced artists/curators. ) Linked to the expo space at 4, Place des Bains,  Bourbonne- les -Bains, there can be created associated projects,  developed around sites of extraordinary character, in landscape or in buildings. 2023 exhibitions:…

2023 The third exhibition of the year 2023 : ¨Displacement and the State of Being¨-¨Déplacement et état d’être ¨ Kevin Blythe Sampson / Cesar Melgar/ Claudette Lajoyeuse aka DBA 08.07.-06.08 2023 All three artists involved are affected by gentrification. Many of their relatives / ancestors were displaced. In differently terrible ways.  Bourbonne-les-Bains suffers from the…