The Park : Becoming a Body of Water
25 SEPTEMBER– 29 OCTOBER 2020

During Manifesta 13 Marseille, musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille located in Palais Longchamp, investigated the relationship between culture and nature, whilst celebrating the multiplicity of identities.

Inaugurated in 1869, Palais Longchamp was designed by the prominent architect Henri-Jacques Espérandieu, architect of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde. Restored between 1990 and 2019, it was built to house the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and the musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. The museums flank a fountain that was built to celebration the arrival of water of the Durance canal in Marseille in the second half on the 19^th century. The interior decorations of the palace were made by major artists of the time such as Barye and Puvis de Chavannes.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille is the oldest museum of Marseille, created in 1801. The collection spans across all major European artistic movements from the 16^th Century to the 19^th Century: masterpieces from French and Italian schools of the 16^th and 17^th century, Northern schools of the 17^th century, Provencal art of the 17^th and 18^th century, the French school of the 19^th century and an array of paintings and sculptures of Pierre Puget, a leading French Baroque artist from Marseille.

Participants: Minia Biabiany (1988, FR), Ali Cherri* (1976, LB), Reena Spaulings.

Venue accessible to visitors with disabilities.