Centre Pompidou Invites Public to Fabrice Hyber's La Vallée for Hors Pistes Festival
June 23, 2026 — The Centre Pompidou presents Fabrice Hyber's La Vallée in Vendée as part of the Hors Pistes / Hors Champs festival. The artist opens his 100-hectare site, planted with 100,000 trees since age 16, to the public for the first time. Hyber, born in 1961 and winner of the 1997 Venice Biennale Golden Lion, maintains the former family farm between Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais and Château-Guibert as a living laboratory of art, ecology and education.
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The project signals an institutional strategy of decentralised programming that extends museum collections into artists' working landscapes. Residencies bringing Yanomami and Kwoma artists to the site in 2025 and 2026 underscore Hyber's emphasis on cross-cultural exchange around living systems. Collectors and curators gain direct insight into an ongoing body of work that treats land itself as both medium and archive.
- Artists: Fabrice Hyber
- Museums: Centre Pompidou
- Locations: Vendée
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