Pussybilities, Dance Club

This autumn, 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 these former attics 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 (Bouches-du-Rhône), Anne-Lise Coste lives and works in Paris. Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kiasma in Castelnau-le-Lez (2025), the Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel (2022), the URDLA in Villeurbanne (2021), the Dortmunder Kunstverein (2020), and the CRAC Occitanie in Sète (2019).

Her work is included in the collections of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the MRAC in Sérignan, the FRAC Corse, Ile-de-France and Pays de la Loire, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Migros Museum in Zurich, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.