Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian

Château La Coste is pleased to announce its Summer 2026 exhibition programme, a sequence of three interconnected exhibitions unfolding across the domain from July 2026 to January 2027. Bringing together Rashid Johnson, Sheree Hovsepian, and a group of invited artists, the programme is conceived as a shared endeavour, rooted in partnership, friendship, and a belief in art as a communal practice.
Developed in close dialogue with the estate’s architecture and landscape, the exhibitions reflect Château La Coste’s enduring commitment to artistic exchange and to relationships that evolve over time. Together, they form a celebration of community, love, and collaboration, where individual practices remain distinct yet are meaningfully connected through place, architecture, and shared values.

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Rashid Johnson
Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
5 July 2026 – 17 January 2027

Rashid Johnson presents an exhibition of painting, sculpture, and film in the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer, following the recent conclusion of his landmark retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which will travel to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Installed throughout the pavilion and its auditorium, the exhibition brings together paintings alongside new sculptural works, including bronzes conceived specifically for Château La Coste. A film will be presented in the auditorium, extending Johnson’s engagement with time, voice, and collective experience.
Johnson’s practice draws on personal and cultural histories to explore how individuals come together, sustain one another, and create meaning through shared structures and rituals. In dialogue with Oscar Niemeyer’s fluid modernist architecture and the surrounding Provençal landscape, the exhibition foregrounds themes of community, connectivity, and togetherness, with works that respond directly to the ethos of Château La Coste as a site of encounter, openness, and exchange.

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Sheree Hovsepian
Pavillon Renzo Piano
5 July – 6 September 2026

In parallel, Sheree Hovsepian presents an exhibition of new work in the Pavillon Renzo Piano, unveiling three large-scale sculptural works, the most ambitious of her career to date. Working across photography, painting, drawing, assemblage, and sculpture, Hovsepian’s practice explores the instability of identity and perception through fragmentation, absence, and reconfiguration. Conceived specifically for Piano’s light-filled, subterranean pavilion, the new sculptures respond to the building’s openness and natural luminosity, activating the space through subtle tensions between mass and void, intimacy and scale. At Château La Coste, sculpture becomes an expanded spatial language, deeply attuned to light, architecture, and the surrounding landscape.

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Rashid, Sheree and Friends
Galerie Richard Rogers
5 July – 6 September 2026

Extending the spirit of partnership outward, Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian co-curate Rashid, Sheree and Friends, a group exhibition presented in the Galerie Richard Rogers. Featuring works by over sixteen artists—details to be announced—the exhibition brings together close friends and long-standing artistic peers. Emerging from the couple’s shared commitment to dialogue and mutual support, the exhibition foregrounds community as both subject and structure. Rather than following a single thematic framework, it offers a space shaped by relationships, generosity, and the belief that artistic practice is sustained through networks of care and exchange.

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A Shared Landscape
Together, the three exhibitions form a continuous journey across Château La Coste, linking artists, architectures, and ideas while remaining grounded in the estate’s core values. Moving between the pavilions, visitors encounter art as part of a living ecosystem in which architecture frames experience, nature shapes perception, and community gives meaning.
The Summer 2026 programme affirms Château La Coste as a place where art is not presented in isolation, but emerges through collaboration, friendship, and a shared sense of responsibility to one another and to the environment.