Fabras, Ardèche

Opening : From Saturday 20 to Sunday 21 September 2025.
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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Guided tours of the castle and exhibitions (1.5 hours). The tour can be combined with a visit to the gardens, which are classified as a Jardin Remarquable (Remarkable Garden) and also feature artworks. Painter's studio, cabinet of curiosities, exhibitions, art workshops.

Architecture and freedom
Freedom? The freedom of a typical fortified house in the Cévennes region of Ardèche from the 12th to the 20th century: how, over the course of its inhabitants, a place is built, dismantled and rebuilt. The gardens of the Château du Pin, terraced dry stone gardens, accompany these transformations. The château and gardens (labelled ‘Remarkable Garden’) welcome contemporary creators who, with their works, give rhythm and life to the site. Among them are architects Joël Unal and François Seigneur. A world to discover in spaces where dreams are built during very friendly visits.

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2025 exhibition programme:

The gardens of Château du Pin have been awarded the ‘Remarkable Garden’ label as ‘artist's gardens’. Surrounding a 16th-century fortified house, slopes and terraces create a mysterious and intimate world. Old roses, wisteria and other plants provide a backdrop for works by contemporary artists: sculptures by Martine Diersé (who also designed the gardens), Odile Rivière, Luc Rouault and Louis Capron; glass flower sculptures by Annet Perrin; photographs by Stéphane Brochier; drawings and sculptures by Armand Guérin; and digital reproductions printed on canvas by Jean Chièze.

Exhibitions.
Somewhere within us, above us, below us, beyond us: ‘Zeus, Somewhere,’ with photographs by Isabelle LIV, vast skies deep within the soul, abstract landscapes inhabiting the castle's walls, ramparts, and gardens.
. ‘Mycelium’, in the château's printing room, an installation by Tristan ZILBERMAN and his photographs: ‘Insects, arachnids and C°, Family portraits’. Dissection and dissolution are pinned down with sculptural precision in the staircase and gallery.
. ‘Fleurs de plomb’ (Lead Flowers), a myriad of dry pastels and stencils by LOUISENEIGE, ‘Cœurs céramique’ (Ceramic Hearts) by MARTINE DIERSÉ and mini-tapestries by anonymous artists climb the spiral staircase in an endless dream. .
By Martine Diersé:
‘Winter pastime of the idle old woman,’ according to Martine DIERSÉ – when, in the castle, the stylobate colour pays homage to bright rose bushes and dead birds.
‘Flowers from the garden’: reproduced on tarpaulins, a series of drawings by Martine Diersé, roots and metamorphoses of plants.
‘Mécanique Carmontelle’: a series of engravings, black and translucent landscapes (almost) without end in an optical box.
‘Roses en bataille’ among the paintings and drawings of Colette BONZO (1917-1967), a focus on paintings of rose gardens, via a text written and narrated by Isabelle DESCOURS.

Also in the stair tower, with ‘Insulaires oxydations’ and ‘Vanités’ by middle school and high school students, who, through work on forgetting or in connection with Martine Diersé's ‘Vanités’, question the works of the visual artists exhibiting this season, the thirtieth of its kind initiated by the Colette Bonzo Association at the château and in the gardens of Le Pin.
From 19 July, ‘THE RETROSPECTIVE’. A testimony to 30 years of exhibitions, concerts and theatre initiated by the Colette Bonzo Association in the château, the gardens of Le Pin and sometimes outside the walls: along the garden, a path of tarpaulins displaying reproductions of works by artists who have exhibited or performed at Le Pin since 1995.

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