Brest sous les bombes
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Mar 06, 2026 — Jun 06, 2026
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Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain is moving for one year into the former Cercle Naval in Brest, a place laden with history and which used to be reserved for officers of the French Navy. In the former dining hall the art centre is setting up the first exhibition devoted to the history of graffiti in Brest from the 1980s to the year 2000. An unexpected dialogue will therefore be triggered between the prestigious architecture of the Cercle Naval and the underground urban culture that has made its mark on the city. Such programming clearly demonstrates the wish of Passerelle to play with codes and cause memories to speak to each other.
The exhibition Brest under the bombs – A history of graffiti 1984-2004 illustrates the use of the aerosol (called the bombe aérosol in French) in the Brest public space, and recounts the first twenty years of its urban art. Through many previously unseen archive documents (photographs, films, press articles, ephemera, objects, contributions by artists,…
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Brest sous les bombes
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Mar 06, 2026 — Jun 06, 2026
Press Release
Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain is moving for one year into the former Cercle Naval in Brest, a place laden with history and which used to be reserved for officers of the French Navy. In the former dining hall the art centre is setting up the first exhibition devoted to the history of graffiti in Brest from the 1980s to the year 2000. An unexpected dialogue will therefore be triggered between the prestigious architecture of the Cercle Naval and the underground urban culture that has made its mark on the city. Such programming clearly demonstrates the wish of Passerelle to play with codes and cause memories to speak to each other.
The exhibition Brest under the bombs – A history of graffiti 1984-2004 illustrates the use of the aerosol (called the bombe aérosol in French) in the Brest public space, and recounts the first twenty years of its urban art. Through many previously unseen archive documents (photographs, films, press articles, ephemera, objects, contributions by artists,…
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