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CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME
PRESS KIT
GUE(HO)ST HOUSE
BERDAGUER & PÉJUS
PUBLIC COMMISSION INAUGURATION
SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2012 - 12 pm
Foreword
La synagogue de Delme - Contemporary Art Centre
Gue(ho)st House, the art project
Artists’s statement of intention
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus
Biography of the artists Berdaguer & Péjus
Public commission
Work specifications
Press visuals
Practical details
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I am particularly happy to have the duty of inaugurating a public commission in the
Lorraine region at the Synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Centre.
On the impetus of the City of Delme, whose mayor Roland Geis I would like to sincerely
thank, it has been possible to entrust a large-scale project to artists Christophe Berdaguer
and Marie Péjus. Their captivating work of architecture-sculpture, Gue(ho)st House, is enabling
novel encounters with the public.
A 19th-century synagogue in this Moselle commune houses the only contemporary art centre in
Lorraine to be accredited by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. This commission was
conceived especially for this essential partner of government cultural policy in the field of
contemporary art. It offers not only an exceptional work of sculpture, but also a new meeting
place for all visitors.
Having been asked to accept a public commission for the first time, artists Berdaguer and
Péjus were given the means to implement an ambitious project worthy of their talent.
Their creation, which was unanimously approved by the national public commission’s consultative
committee, demonstrates just how effectively this program can bring all members of the public
into contact with the works of the creators of our time. By enriching our shared surroundings,
this work of art makes a major contribution to the civic life and collective memory of the city
and surrounding area.
Given the fundamental importance of facilitating access to culture for as many people as
possible, I am particularly appreciative of this project, which, alongside the contemporary
art centre, ensures that art has a very high quality presence in the Lorraine region, allowing
people to see this rural area in a different light.
This work would never have seen the light of day without everyone’s commitment. All of the local
and regional bodies concerned were fully invested from the very beginning of the project.
I would therefore like to extend my gratitude to the Presidents of the Lorraine Regional
Council and the Moselle General Council, as well as to their respective teams, who fully
supported this commission, aware of what was at stake. It is the product and proof of a shared
vision of cultural policy in Lorraine.
I should also mention the funding received from the EAFRD for this commission, confirming the
European dimension of artistic creation. In this respect, the support of MEP Nathalie Griesbeck
was vital.
Let us hope that now all members of the public will quickly make this major work their
own, thanks to the contemporary art centre’s exemplary efforts to give guidance to students
and the wider public.
Finally, I would like to commend the on-site work of the DRAC Lorraine, an external service of
my ministry. In working towards the realisation of this far-reaching project, they played a
decisive role, showing special consideration for contemporary art and rural life.
I am delighted by this region’s generous arts policy, and I thank the artists, who made
the most invaluable contribution.
Aurélie FILIPPETTI
Minister of Culture and Communication
LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE / Gue(ho)st House, Public Commission / Berdaguer & Péjus / Delme
33 rue Poincaré F - 57590 Delme / +33 (0)3 87 01 43 42 / www.cac-synagoguedelme.org / [email protected]
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The Syagogue de Delme art centre took advantage of the Ministry of Culture and
Communication’s public commission procedure to make the art centre even more open to all
members of the public, to enhance the visitor experience, and to offer a new space for life and
social interaction, so that everyone can feel at home here.
This is how the Gue(ho)st House concept by Marie Péjus and Christophe Berdaguer was
born. It is a project that mixes architecture, plastic arts and design. The quality of their
work and the international recognition they have garnered fully legitimize their involvement
in this project.
It is a very fluid project, of a white simplicity composed of undulations and recesses,
appealing to the imagination and dreams, but also participating in the history of the place,
which it recounts in its own fashion.
Our challenge today is to more strongly anchor in our regional territory the work that
the Synagogue de Delme team has carried out for the benefit of the public and for contemporary
art. Contemporary art is appearing powerfully throughout the region thanks to the richness of
the network of small and large premises that display it, the dynamism of the professionals that
give it life, and the presence of quality artists making a positive contribution to Lorraine’s
image.
Jean-Pierre MASSERET
President of the Lorraine Regional Council
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When Victor Hugo imagined the 20th century, he pictured a long procession of minds moving
from ignorance to illumination. He hoped for “prisons transformed into schools”. Was he already
glimpsing this place which, moving in and out of the shadows over the years, successively
became a prison, a school, a funeral home and a place to see art? Marie Péjus and Christophe
Berdaguer’s Gue(ho)st House project surely surpasses the dreams of that visionary poet.
The public commission program allows the public to experience contemporary art outside
of its usual settings, and here it assumes its full significance: it is a felicitous confluence
of a reflection on the space’s history and geography, the resolve of several sponsors, the needs
of users and an artistic project. Here art is directly connected to life.
Through its commitment alongside the Synagogue de Delme art centre and other public partners to
build this new visitor centre, the Moselle General Council is championing several key ideas.
It is about promoting an ambitious art project, sustained by a structure that advocates
a challenging program linked to history and local heritage. Supporting initiatives originating
in the region, encouraging creativity, generating new kinds of interaction: these are the
objectives of the advocated cultural policy.
Supporting this program no doubt means creating “added value” in the region, making
it more attractive by means of discovery and curiosity. The work of Berdaguer and Péjus can
certainly be aesthetically shocking in a rural landscape commonly identified with natural,
handmade heritage. But it also invites viewers to question themselves, to see a bit differently,
sometimes leading them towards the unknown, opening their minds to something new.
I am particularly proud of the existence of this new space. It reinforces the idea of
art supported by the public sector. Because, at a time when every initiative is bound to be
evaluated in light of the need for every group like the General Council to be responsible,
displaying audaciousness, seeking out innovation, opening new avenues, also gives genuine depth
to public action. Such is the hope that we are placing in the work of Marie Péjus and Christophe
Berdaguer.
Patrick WEITEN
President of the Moselle General Council
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For over twenty years, the municipal team’s intention has been to contribute to the
cultural influence of the canton, whose centre is Delme. Our cultural orientation flows quite
naturally from a school infrastructure that enables every child in Delme to visit cultural
institutions up to the age of 16. In order to complete the educational system and avoid the
culture gap often found in rural areas, we have expanded what already exists by building a
media library—a genuine educational hub at the heart of an area comprising 22 communes and all
of the canton’s school groups—and offering an efficient local service to new populations.
The opportunity to use the synagogue, with its architecture and its emotional weight,
helps us enter a new phase in the quest for a quality cultural offering.
By renovating the building and once again giving it an inner life that is constantly renewed
according to the cycle of contemporary art exhibitions—an art niche that has not competed with
any neighbouring museum—we have broadened the influence of our locality.
In the same spirit, we have extended this influence by enhancing our public spaces: in 2008
through the installation of the Pendula fountain by Didier Marcel and Olivier Vadrot, and
currently through Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche Ovize’s work in the Delme Nursery School
in the context of the 1% art program (1% of renovation work must be dedicated to the creation
of a work of art).
The latest project in progress, Gue(ho)st House, is part of this same drive to endow Delme and
its canton with quality cultural added value, opening minds to art, but also generating an
unquestionable tourist economy, not to mention the reputation for quality that will surround
Delme’s image. And finally, artwork and heritage renovation are joining forces to give this
building a new life.
In 1981, a century after its construction, the synagogue was closed to worship due
to the appreciable decline of Delme’s Jewish population. With the agreement of the Moselle
Israelite Consistory, which retains ownership of the premises, the municipality quickly planned
a cultural function for this building infused with local and international history.
After a few exhibitions of a regional nature, and a decisive meeting with visual arts
advisor Alain Rerat, the synagogue’s cultural orientation was permanently enshrined.
On 6 February 1993, the synagogue opened its doors for its first exhibition, of works by Michel
Paysant. For five years, this contemporary art space lived according to the rhythm of artists
and their creations.
In 1998, the art space became an art centre, thanks to a contract with the DRAC, enabling us
to enter a new phase: that of the recognition and confirmation of a centre of excellence in the
realm of artistic creation.
In 2005, a regeneration of the area surrounding the synagogue was planned in order to give the
centre more visibility and establish an environment for quality, work and social interaction.
While it may be surprising to find an art centre in a rural setting, particularly in a commune
with only 1000 residents, the expansion project enables the centre’s distinction to reach well
beyond Lorraine.
Transforming the building behind the synagogue —into a work of art in appearance,
into a reception space in practice (artist accommodation, public space, library)— has been a
fundamental step for the future of the art centre, a step worthy of the efforts and hopes of
several people, all of whom I wish to thank.
Each of them added a link to the magnificent chain that enabled us to give this space a reputation
worthy of our local environment. And let us not forget the tireless support of the Ministry of
Culture, the DRAC Lorraine, the Moselle General Council and more recently the Lorraine Regional
Council.
Roland GEIS
Mayor of the Commune of Delme
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LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME
CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE
The Centre for contemporary Art in Delme is located in a former synagogue, built in an
Oriental style in the late nineteenth century. Not least among its special features are a
dome, an arcaded entryway decorated with latticework, and windows with geometric stained
glass.
The synagogue was partly destroyed during the Second World War. The outer walls survived, but
the interior was rebuilt along stricter lines after the war. The synagogue was permanently
de-consecrated in the early 1980s for lack of sufficient numbers of worshippers. The first art
exhibition was held in 1993.
The many artists who have exhibited in this unusual venue in the past fifteen years,
generating an identity and reputation for the art center both locally and internationally,
include: Daniel Buren, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jean-Marc Bustamante, François Morellet,
Tadashi Kawamata, Stéphane Dafflon, Delphine Coindet, Jeppe Hein, Jugnet & Clairet, Peter
Downsbrough and, more recently, Katinka Bock, Julien Prévieux, Gianni Motti, Yona Friedman…
All have developed a special view of the venue by creating site specific works.
In addition to three or four temporary shows presented in the former synagogue every year,
the Delme art center manages an artist-in-residence program in the village of Lindre-Basse in
the heart of the Lorraine regional park area.
The Delme synagogue, of modest size and located in a rural region of Lorraine, has always
positioned itself as an art lab, a site of artistic exploration and production. The art
center makes a concerted effort to establish a dialogue with all potential audiences,
focusing on the local area.
Exhibitions
Team
Erick Beltrán, La part abyssale
Till 30 September 2012
Jacques Wermuth, President
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
Solo exhibition, Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
In partnership with
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine
Susan Hiller
Solo exhibition, March - May 2013
Marie Cozette, Director
Laurène Macé, Visitor Service Officer
Agathe Borgne, Administrator and Media
Relations Officer
Alain Colardelle, Registrar
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GUE(HO)ST HOUSE
THE ART PROJECT
The art project and the context of the commission
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus are creating a remarkable work of architecture-sculpture
in the area surrounding the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre: by enhancing the art
centre’s visibility, by creating new reception spaces for visitors and artists, this work
makes it possible to use the public space for new purposes.
The heart of the project is the transformation of an existing building that was once a
prison, then a school and then a funeral home. Keeping this context in mind, the artists
used the memory of the place and transformed the building into a ghost house, a veritable
architectural phantasmagoria, which the title echoes. Gue(ho)st House borrows Marcel
Duchamp’s wordplay: a Guest + A Host = A Ghost. This served as a trigger for the project,
which offers an interface between hosts (art centre, commune) and guests (visitors, artists).
Berdaguer and Péjus are covering the original house in a white veil that drips onto the
surrounding area and creates a living body, a moving form that looks to the past as well as
to the future. As the spatial projection of a collective psyche, the house becomes not only
a place of emotions, perceptions and memories, but also a great mediation tool for the art
centre.
This public commission constitutes a major milestone in the history of the Synagogue de
Delme, which has always presented itself as a place where artists can work and research, open
to all members of the public, in a spirit of dialogue and proximity. In 2013 the art centre
will be celebrating it’s 20th year of operation and will then be able to offer everyone a
very a high quality experience.
Future uses
The ground floor of the building will contain a reception centre (for groups and schoolchildren,
and for the art centre’s educational events), an information office and a documentation centre.
The upper floor will be transformed into a studio that will occasionally provide accommodation to
artists, students, interns and other art world professionals.
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ARTISTS’ STATEMENT OF INTENTION
CHRISTOPHE BERDAGUER AND MARIE PÉJUS
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp’s wordplay ended up being a trigger, a base line for drawing up the
project. It contains the key words for understanding the complexity of the specifications.
Guest is the common denominator, the sharing space that we imagined. Ghost is a metaphor, a
phantasmagoria (the origins of this term being “the art of making ghosts speak in public”; in
the late 18th century, phantasmagoria consisted of projection and animation on a screen of
smoke or canvas, miniature paintings either painted on glass plates or engraved on an opaque
medium).
In our proposal, we were careful to respond to the needs of locals, of users who may not have
any direct link with the art centre, and of more “informed” visitors making a special trip to
Delme to see an exhibition, guests and hosts together in one place. A place where eyes can
dwell and stray.
The history of the place speaks to us of ghosts in its transformations and mutations, from
synagogue to art centre, from prison to school, from funeral home to welcoming members of the
public.
We felt it was important to take into consideration this archaeological dimension, these
different sedimentations; this is always the spirit in which we relate to the sites and
contexts in which we work—working with the place and not against it, taking into account
that the site has something to tell us and listening to it. This gives us the possibility of
telling a new story, while giving us the possibility of playing a part in it instead of being
a passive witness to it.
To us, architecture is a space for imaginative possibilities, for telling stories to
ourselves and others. It is above all the materialisation of a collective dream, that of a
community of people and ghosts… This is what we tried to illustrate in this project, through
undulations, atmospheres, reappearances on which the imagination can be projected.
The project was based on the one hand on a dialogue between a public and a private space,
a twofold architecture made of undulations, of tensions, resulting from the uses and
transformations of the existing building; on the other hand it was based on context, that of
the site, of usage scenarios, and obviously of the specifications.
This proposal stemmed from the architectural gesture in its form and its perspective, and
also from the questioning of sculpture, the veil generating both low-relief and high-relief.
It is architecture that is white, porous, visually simple, fluid, but has undulations and
recesses that make it possible to imagine another house, a parallel life, in the vacuums in
this twofold architecture’s junctions and grafts.
In the layout of the site we created a dynamic that would enable the area behind the
synagogue to become a living space not just for Delme residents but also for visitors to
the art centre. The links that the white veil generates between the garden and the former
courtyard make it easy for visitors and users to make this place their own.
The garden surrounding the synagogue is conceived as an open space, a “public plaza” that
creates potential connections between inhabitants. The Gue(ho)st House is the centrepiece of
all of these connections, through its presence and its ability to react and mutate according
to external stimuli. It generates the shape of the exterior furnishings which are an
integral part of the sculpture. Gue(ho)st House is an open, porous apparatus, a “veil” that
contaminates the architecture and the landscape.
The art of no longer fearing ghosts…
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus
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CHRISTOPHE BERDAGUER AND MARIE PÉJUS
Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have been working with four hands for fifteen years.
Sharing a passion for the architectural utopias that punctuated the 20th century, to them,
architecture and cities are like ghosts of history: projections of the body, the psyche, or
of social organisations.
Their work draws on various disciplines: biology, psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology...
To Berdaguer & Péjus, a house is not just a purely mechanical construction, it is no less
an aggregate of emotions, perceptions and memories. This is why in Delme, they have quite
naturally been working with the place’s memory.
Born in 1968 and 1969 respectively, Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus live and work
in Paris and Marseille. Residents of the prestigious Villa Médicis and laureates of the
Ricard Foundation Prize in 2007, their work has been presented in numerous solo and group
exhibitions in France and Europe over the past fifteen years. In 2003, they took part in the
Unheimlich exhibition at the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre. In 2012, their work
has been the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Villeurbanne Institute of Contemporary
Art, and is also being presented at the Musée du quai Branly as part of the exhibition Les
Maîtres du Désordre (Masters of Disorder).
A few works by Berdaguer & Péjus
Psychoarchitecture, 2006
resin (stereolithography)
one unique work, private collection
architecture fantôme (ghost architecture), 2011
wax, wood, plastic
Anesthetic Landscape, 2003
View of the Unheimlich exhibition at the
Synagogue de Delme art centre
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTISTS BERDAGUER & PÉJUS
Christophe Berdaguer was born in 1968. Marie Péjus was born in 1969.
They live and work in Marseille and Paris.
For more information on their work: www.cbmp.fr
Recent solo exhibitions (selection)
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
Insula, IAC-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
Jardin d’addiction, Abbaye de Silvacane, La-Roque-d’Anthéron
Tempodrome, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Time store, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Tours
Utopia bianca, Musée Chagall, Nice
Blitz, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
Dreamland, Frac Basse Normandie, Caen
« que diriez-vous d’un supplément de vie ? », Lieu Unique, Nantes
Recent group exhibitions (selection)
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
2003
Les maîtres du désordre, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Erre, variations labyrinthiques, Centre Pompidou-Metz
Une forme pour toute action, Musée des Augustins, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Ce qui vient, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Rennes contemporary art biennale
Double bind / arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre!, Villa Arson, Nice
Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Institute of Visual Arts (Inova),
Milwaukee, United States
Archipels réinventés, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit..., Musée d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart
Dérives, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris
Archi-peinture, Frac Ile-de-France Le plateau, Paris/ Camden Arts Center, London,
United Kingdom
La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris
Unheimlich, La synagogue de Delme - Contemporary Art Centre
Monographs (selection)
- Berdaguer & Péjus, Un, Deux... Quatre éditions, 2004
- Berdaguer & Péjus, Editions Hyx, 2001
Residencies, prizes
2007
2004
2001
Villa Médicis, Rome
Ricard Foundation prize
Altadis Plastic Arts prize
Villa Médicis Hors-les-murs, United-States
SOON TO BE PUBLISHED: MONOGRAPH
Publisher
Graphic artists
Authors
Texts
Release date
ISBN
Co-producers
Analogues, Arles, France
Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé
Sébastien Pluot, Pascal Rousseau, Jean-Pierre Rehm
English, French
september 2012
978-2-35864-035-0
This book was published with the support of the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’azur Region, the Bouches-du-Rhône General Council and the City of
Marseilles, with the participation of the Villeurbanne Institute of
Contemporary Art, the Paca Regional Contemporary Art Fund and the
Villa Médicis, Rome.
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PUBLIC COMMISSION
Public commissioning is the manifestation of the desire to associate the State
(Ministry of Culture and Communication – Office of Artistic Creation) and multiple
partners (local government, public entities or private partners) to contribute to
enriching the surroundings and developing the national heritage through the
presence of works of art outside the institutions that specialise in the area of
contemporary art. It is also aimed at making available to artists a tool that can enable
them to execute projects whose scope, cost, and/or dimensions require uncommon
resources.
The term “public commission” thus refers both to an object (art which leaves the
spaces usually reserved for it and seeks to encounter the population in public places)
and a procedure, marked by various stages, beginning with the commissioner’s
initiative and continuing through to the completion of the work by the artist and its
reception by the public.
This proactive approach has infused new life into public art. Present in all types of
places, from urban spaces to the rural environment, from gardens to historic
monuments, from tourism sites to the new space that is the Internet, contemporary
art in public spaces expresses itself in a wide variety of visual expressions and artistic
disciplines: from sculpture to design, from crafts to the new media, from photography
to graphic arts, and including landscape, lighting, video, etc.
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WORK SPECIFICATIONS
Title
Gue(ho)st House
Artists
Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus
Date
Study completed in 2009. Construction commenced in 2011
Description
Redevelopment of the area surrounding the Synagogue de Delme contemporary
art centre :
- illumination of the surrounding area
- signage
- restoration and transformation of the former funeral chamber into a
reception space
- landscape development
Techniques
High-density polystyrene covered with sprayed resin and painted
Total surface area
500 m2
Location
3 rue Raymond Poincaré F-57590 Delme, Moselle, Lorraine
Project managed by
Commune de Delme
Design assistance
CHD Art production
Building renovation aBC Architecture, Nancy
Contributors
Cap Lor, Carré, Chauvet, Lescure, Metzger, PMP, Pierret
System, Tecmolde, Peinturama, CCE, Théodore, Lycée agricole de
Courcelles-Chaussy
Coordination
La synagogue de Delme - Contemporary Art Centre
Photographs
O.H.Dancy, CHD Art production, CAC la synagogue de Delme
Graphic design
Akatre
Gue(ho)st House was completed according to the public commission program of the Ministry
of Culture and Communication (General Department of Artistic Creation / Lorraine Regional
Department of Cultural Affairs), with the support of the Commune of Delme, the Lorraine
Regional Council, the Moselle General Council, and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural
Development (EAFRD).
CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME
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PRESS VISUALS
Photo credits
3D images © Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus
Worksite © O.H.Dancy
Manufacturing © CHD Art production
3D images of the project
Worksite visits
Manufacturing the slabs of
polystyrene
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Worksite views
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PRACTICAL DETAILS
Inauguration
Saturday 22 September 2012, 12 pm
La synagogue de Delme - Contemporary Art Center
33, rue Raymond Poincaré F-57590 Delme
The inauguration will be followed by a cocktail, and Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus
will be signing their new monograph. The art centre team is offering guided visits to the
exhibition and the new reception spaces.
Free shuttles from Metz. Booking : +33 (0)3 87 01 43 42.
Departure 11:15 am in front of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Media relation officer
Agathe Borgne
[email protected]
+33(0)3 87 01 43 42
Location
La synagogue de Delme - Contemporary Art Center
33 rue Poincaré 57590 Delme
+33 (0)3 87 01 43 42 Fax +33 (0)3 87 01 43 14
www.cac-synagoguedelme.org
[email protected]
Acces
From Paris (by train 90 mins) :
TGV Est, get off at Metz or Nancy
From Metz (by car, 30 mins):
D955, formerly route de Strasbourg
From Nancy (by car, 30 mins):N74 towards
Château-Salins then D955 towards Metz
La synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art is
grateful for support from the French Ministry of Culture
and Communication, the Lorraine contemporary art authority
(DRAC), the regional and departmental governments of
Lorraine and Moselle, and the municipality of Delme.
La synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art is a member of DCA–Association
pour le Développement des Centres d’Art.
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