Fall cultural program

Katinka Bock’s sculptures, made of ceramic, stone, wood or metal, have deep links with the sites in which she exhibits, the architecture of the place that welcomes her, or even sometimes the cultural, historical or social context of a city.
When she first visits the place where she will exhibit, she “sounds out” the space, observing its shape, the interconnection of its rooms, the circulation of the building’s lighting and fluids, but also the way it integrates into a district or city, what use is made of it by the people who pass through or inhabit it. How it is “shaped” from the inside and outside.

In Sète, Katinka Bock explored the omnipresence of water. The sea on one side, the lake on the other, and the canals that structure the city: all of these deeply infuse its imagination and culture. The new film produced for the exhibition, made on Sète’s beaches and canals, consists of a montage of shots captured with her Super 8 camera, like a series of visual notes. The city is filmed from the canals, giving us the sensation that it is always being seen “from the edge”. This is a notion dear to the artist, whose sculptures materialise the question of the threshold, the limit, the distance between objects, between bodies and spaces. She also raises the question of what holds us together or separates us.

Curator: Marie Cozette

Cultural program at Crac Occitanie

Encounter with philosopher Vinciane Despret
October 19, 6:30pm
in collaboration with the Nouvelle Librairie Sétoise bookshop.

Visit to the exhibition with Katinka Bock and Marie Cozette
November 26, 4pm
This tour will be simultaneously translated into French sign language.

Encounter with the work of Monique Wittig and her book Les Guerillères
December 8, 6:30pm
In collaboration with L’échappée Belle bookshop and the art school in Sète, as part of the #Wittig2023 year and in close dialogue with Les Ami.es de Monique Wittig association.

Experimental flute concert with Violeta Azevedo
December 15, 6:30pm
In collaboration with Le Vent des signes and Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse and GMEA in Albi.

Upcoming exhibition
Gianni Pettena
Opening: February 8, 2024

What is Crac Occitanie?
Located in Sète, on the bank of Canal Royal in the heart of the city, the Crac Occitanie overlooks the port and the Mediterranean Sea. Its architecture’s exceptional volumes reflect the industrial nature of the building, which was originally a refrigerated warehouse used for the conservation of fish. In 1997, architect Lorenzo Piqueras renovated the original building, giving it the current configuration and transforming it into an exceptional exhibition site, offering 1,200 square meters of gallery space distributed over two floors.

The Crac is dedicated to artistic creation. It offers a programme of temporary exhibitions, publishes exhibition catalogues and artist books, and develops a dynamic cultural and educational programme for all audiences, through guided tours, workshops, lectures, concerts, performances and more.

The Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain is managed by the Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée. It receives support from the Ministry of Culture and aid from the Occitanie region’s prefecture and DRAC.