Le Container gallery

The gallery was born in 2016 in shipping containers, a concept dreamt up by Déborah Bosseaux and Clément Dorance, both contemporary art enthusiasts and professionals. For 3 years, it travelled from city to city, introducing Street Art to both initiated and novice amateurs. The inside of the containers, transformed into an art gallery, houses an exhibition of urban and contemporary art. The outside walls of the containers are gradually covered with graffiti, tags, collages and stencils by the artists on show. Each exhibition becomes an architectural and monumental work of art right in the heart of the city.

Today, the gallery has grown and settled in the heart of the historic centre of Aix-en-Provence, on rue Granet. It represents more than twenty artists, including some of the biggest names in urban art, such as C215, a portrait painter recognised as a master of stencil art and exhibited all over the world. They are joined by emerging talents such as L'Insecte, Zeklo and the Austrian graffiti artist Golif, who creates monumental frescoes and will be exhibiting at the Wien Museum in 2019.

The gallery also features silkscreens by Atlas, whose psychedelic lines adorn Marseille's L2 motorway, and by M.Chat and his famous yellow cats with their XXL smiles.

On the contemporary art side, the gallery highlights works by local artists such as Marie Deforche and Aurore Michel-Grégoire, Leberloa's art brut, and sculptures by François Bel, who works with static movement, and Lise Gonthier with her 'tableaux de lumière' as she calls them, poetic and romantic osmoses that reveal all the sensuality of glass.