
Located in Jonction, the Usine Kugler is a cultural space situated within a former industrial building. Serving as a hub for the local art scene, the site accommodates numerous artists’ studios, offering both emerging and established artists a platform to present their work and interact with the public. The venue hosts a diverse range of events year-round, including exhibitions, concerts, and performances.
Colombian artist Rubén Barrios‑Rodríguez develops an interdisciplinary practice spanning drawing, photography, photo‑performance, video, performance, installation and object-making. In Désirs brutes the male body becomes a territory where desire, eroticism, constraint, vulnerability and resistance intersect. Through homoerotic imagery, naked bodies, masks, harnesses and deliberate references to football, the artist interrogates patriarchal and heteronormative models and the social codes that shape masculine behaviour. The works repurpose sporting objects and rituals to juxtapose traditional notions of virility with fragility, desire, pain and forms of resistance.
Opening: 12 November, 18:00
Françoise Deladoëy assembles cut-and-paste collages combining watercolor, graphite and mixed media to probe contemporary upheavals and imagine alternative possibilities.
Using images and fragments sourced from the press, she composes visual landscapes where disparate realities collide and metamorphose. The works fuse the living and the mechanical, beauty and unease, highlighting environmental crisis, technological shifts and resource exhaustion. Collage becomes a transformative method that both records fragmentation and opens an imaginative space where new narratives, spiritual questions and other forms of coexistence might be envisioned.
Opening: 18 October, 18:00
Hosted by Sulman, AFRO B4 – Open Deck Session gathers a line-up of DJs exploring Afro-rooted club rhythms. Performers include DJ Bendo, Sulman, Veah, DJ Raya Queen and Manu DJ Freshboy, moving between Afro, shatta, dancehall, bouyon and amapiano textures. The evening privileges DJ-driven discovery, dynamic transitions and physical bass, with tight mixes and imagined lightscapes amplifying dancefloor energy. The result is an immersive, rhythm-centred journey that foregrounds groove and communal release.
Ségolène Romier revisits her practice as a filmmaker while opening a new chapter that foregrounds drawing and material experimentation. Her films, presented across a cluster of televisions, form a living retrospective populated by characters, objects and bodies. Drawing, long confined to sculptural preparation, moves to the fore on cardboard, producing fragmented forms and a kaleidoscopic self‑portrait in which the body appears in pieces between representation and disappearance. The exhibition contemplates passage, creative continuity and the shifting modalities of image and object.
Opening: Wednesday 30 September, 18:00
Closing: Sunday 11 October, 17:00
Stéphane Ducret presents Being Matters, an immersive series of recent paintings that map psyche and the living realm. The presentation gathers seven large to very large oil paintings on linen alongside a series of small-format works on wood. Through layered surfaces, deliberate errors and a dense pictorial process, Ducret explores invisible mechanisms of thought, memory and introspection. The works function as atmospheric studies of materiality and painterly gesture, charting states of mind and organic presence.
Bazartifices celebrates twenty years of Ensemble Vortex in a communal sonic feast. The evening mixes sound installations and workshops with a concert programme: Benoît Morel (prepared snare and video), Patrick Schleuter (Reactable), Daniel Zea (Desplaza_2 and Chin!), Anne Gillot (radiophonic confessional), plus new works by Fernando Garnero and pieces for electric guitars by John Menoud, Arturo Corrales and Antoine Läng. The programme blends electroacoustic creation, live electronics and participatory scores, creating a tactile, magnetic soundscape that invites improvisation and collective play.
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