This summer, Château La Coste will present an ambitious three-part exhibition centred on artistic partnership and community. From 5 July 2026 to January 2027, the estate hosts interconnected presentations by Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian, alongside a group show curated by the couple, staged across three architect-designed pavilions.
Johnson’s exhibition, on view until 17 January 2027 in the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, follows his recent mid-career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which travelled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. In Provence, he presents paintings, new bronze sculptures conceived for the site and a film installation. Installed within Niemeyer’s sweeping concrete structure, the works extend Johnson’s long-standing exploration of personal and cultural histories, collective rituals and the ways in which communities construct meaning. The inclusion of film underscores his interest in time and voice, transforming the auditorium into a space of shared reflection.
Running concurrently from 5 July to September 2026, Hovsepian’s presentation occupies the light-filled, subterranean Renzo Piano Pavilion. The exhibition features three large-scale sculptures, the most ambitious of her career to date, alongside her characteristic interplay of photography, drawing and assemblage. Responding to Piano’s architecture, the works investigate concepts such as absence and fragmentation. Materials are bent, suspended and reconfigured, activating the pavilion through subtle tensions between mass and void, intimacy and monumentality.
The collaborative dimension is foregrounded in Rashid, Sheree, and Their Friends, on view from 5 July to September 2026 in the Richard Rogers Gallery. Bringing together more than sixteen artists from the couple’s close circle, the group exhibition privileges relationships over theme, proposing artistic practice as a network sustained by dialogue and mutual support.
Together, the three exhibitions form a continuous journey across Château La Coste, where architecture, landscape and art converge. Distinct practices remain autonomous, yet are bound by a shared commitment to community.