The 6th edition of Normandie Impressionniste concluded on September 27th, after four months of creations, exhibitions, and events throughout the region. However, several projects presented as part of the festival will remain accessible to the public in the coming weeks.
From Giverny to Deauville, from Caen to Cherbourg, these exhibitions offer a final opportunity to discover or rediscover works about the garden and the legacy of Claude Monet.
1. Jacques Perconte – At the edge of the forest
During a residency in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Jacques Perconte envisioned a "possible garden" between land and sea. Since the 1990s, the Rotterdam-based artist has developed a practice of digitally transforming images and videos, playing with alterations of color and form. " À fleur de forêt" (At the Forest's Edge) highlights works that recompose landscapes where vegetation, the sea, and the Normandy hills are transformed by digital technology.
Presented in the form of prints and videos, the exhibition invites an immersion in imaginary plant landscapes, where the image becomes matter and where the gaze on nature is renewed.
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📍 Michel Ciry Museum, Varengeville-sur-Mer
📅 Until November 1, 2026
🕑 Every day except Tuesday (2 pm – 6 pm)
🎟️ €9 | Reduced price: €7 | Free for under 16s
2. Lionel Sabatté – The Memory of Silt, a tribute to Claude Monet
In Giverny, Lionel Sabatté draws directly from the material of Claude Monet's garden. The artist collected the silt from the water lily pond during its dredging and transformed it into pigment. This organic material became the starting point for a series of screen prints created from archival and contemporary photographs.
Between the memory of the place and the transformation of matter, "The Memory of Silt" offers an immersion into the world of Monet's water and flower gardens. It's a way of looking at the Giverny landscape differently, transforming what was once a residue into a fully-fledged artistic material.
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📍 Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Museum, Giverny
📅 Until December 23, 2026
🕑 Tuesday to Sunday (10:00 AM – 12:30 PM and 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM)
🎟️ €5.50 | Reduced price: €3.50
3. Les Franciscaines – Claude Monet, gardens as a legacy
What if Monet's garden was much more than a painted motif? At Les Franciscaines, the exhibition offers a rediscovery of this legacy through a dialogue between the painter's works and those of artists from different generations and backgrounds.
Thanks to exceptional loans, notably from the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the museums of Dreux and Saint-Étienne, and the Arab World Institute, the exhibition juxtaposes Monet's works with those of artists inspired by his fascination with light, gardens, and color. From Japan to North Africa, from Europe to North America, the exhibition demonstrates how his work continues to nourish contemporary art.
The garden designed by Monet at Giverny thus appears as a true space for experimentation: a living work, in perpetual transformation, which continues to inspire artists and visitors.
Practical information
📍 Les Franciscaines, Deauville
📅 Until November 1, 2026
🕑 Tuesday to Sunday (10:30 am – 6:30 pm)
🎟️ Prices vary depending on the tour package
4. Daniel Buren – “Plantations”, site-specific works, 2026
For this carte blanche at the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, Daniel Buren transforms the garden and museum spaces with a unique site-specific installation. True to his work exploring color, light, space, and perspective, the artist plays with his signature motif of 8.7 cm vertical stripes to reveal the surrounding architecture and landscape in a new light. In a dialogue with the gardens and the museum's collections, his intervention alters the perception of the site and invites visitors to see their environment in a new light. This approach echoes that of Claude Monet, who was also attentive to variations in light, color, and viewpoint.
Practical information
📍 Museum of Impressionisms Giverny, 99 rue Claude Monet, Giverny
📅 Until November 1, 2026
🕑 Every day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
🎟️ Adults: €12 / Concessions: €9. Free for under 18s and on certain Sundays (conditions apply).
5. Laurent Proux – Ground Melody
With Ground Melody, Laurent Proux continues his exploration of the relationship between the body and its environment. A painter and draftsman, the artist constructs images where human figures sometimes seem to blend into natural or industrial settings, somewhere between realism, deconstruction, and abstraction.
For this exhibition, his work was inspired by images gleaned from the gardens of Caen and by encounters with those who care for them. Paintings and engravings thus compose a landscape that is both familiar and strange, where plants, bodies, and spaces seem to converse with one another.
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📍 L'Artothèque, Contemporary Art Spaces, Caen
📅 Until October 17, 2026
🕑 Tuesday to Saturday (2 pm – 6 pm)
🎟️ Free
6. Caroline Bouyer and Lise Duclaux in residence
For the festival, the Caen Museum of Fine Arts hosted two artists in residence with different practices but united by their attention to landscape, memory and living things.
Caroline Bouyer focused her attention on the museum's collection of engravings. Drawing occupies a central place in her work, which unfolds between engraving and the creation of urban, natural, or dreamlike landscapes. The artist thus explores the links between image and memory.
Lise Duclaux, for her part, is interested in the plant world and what she describes as its "spontaneity that eludes us." Through various media, she explores the adaptive and regenerative capacities of living things.
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📍 Caen Museum of Fine Arts, The Castle, Caen
📅 Until October 18, 2026
🕑 Tuesday to Friday: 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
🎟️ €5 | Reduced price: €4
7. The Point of Day – Creating a garden
What does it mean to "make" a garden? The Point du Jour exhibition focuses on gardens not only as landscaped spaces, but as places constructed by those who cultivate, inhabit and transform them.
Photographs, installations and documents bring together artists who have made the garden a subject or material of their work. Edible gardens, relaxation spaces, collective places or landscape creations: the works show different ways of organizing a space and inscribing practices, gestures and temporalities within it.
In a context marked by the climate crisis and questions about our relationship with living things, Making a garden invites us to consider the garden as a way of inhabiting the world and building a relationship with living things.
Practical information
📍 Le Point du Jour, art center / publisher
📅 Until October 19, 2026
🕑 Wednesday to Sunday (2 pm – 6 pm)
🎟️ Free
Courtesy of the Chantal Crousel Gallery (Paris)
Exhibition "Making a Garden", July 5 – October 18, 2026, Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
8. Citémômes – Together we are Monet 2026
Since 2016, the Citémômes association and its "Knit a Smile" have invited the public to reinterpret Claude Monet's works through knitting. After collecting more than a million small squares of wool and bringing together more than 10,000 participants each year, the project will take on a new dimension in 2026 on the centenary of the painter's death.
The challenge this year: to create ten new paintings in one year. These monumental works, composed of thousands of wool squares, are presented in several cultural venues in Normandy, including the MuMa – André Malraux Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre, the Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Museum, the Pêcheries – Fécamp Museum, the Eugène Boudin Museum in Honfleur and the Carré Saint-Cyr in Le Vaudreuil.
Practical information
📍 Several museums in Normandy
📅 Until January 31, 2027
🎟️ Free admission
🕑 Opening hours vary by location
9. Plant Impressions
- Monet's Birds
At Clères Park, two lesser-known paintings by Claude Monet, The Turkeys and The Magpie, become the starting point for an original plant creation.
The project plays with the principles of the puzzle and the mirror: The Turkeys is cut into sixteen squares, one of which is replaced by a fragment of The Magpie. The composition is then reproduced on a large scale on a monumental 4-meter by 4-meter tarpaulin, while its reflection unfolds on the ground in the form of a plant carpet.
Euphorbias, santolinas, petunias, surfinias, parsley, and other plants make up this interpretation of the painting. Each plant becomes like a dot of color, creating a "plant pointillism" that allows us to look at Monet's pictorial technique in a new light.
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📍 Clères Park, 32 Avenue du Parc, Clères
📅 Until October 31, 2026
🎟️ Accessible with park entrance
- From Léopoldine to Claude
In the garden of Maison Vacquerie, three works by Claude Monet from the collections of the Marmottan Monet museum — White Clematis, The Boat and Roses — are reinterpreted in the form of a plant creation.
The choice of these works resonates with the history of the place. In Villequier, the memory of Léopoldine, Victor Hugo's daughter, is closely linked to the landscape of the Seine. The white clematis evokes the young woman who passed away, while the empty boat recalls her absence. The roses, for their part, echo a variety recently created in homage to Léopoldine.
Printed on large tarpaulins, the paintings extend onto the ground as flowerbeds, like reflections in the nearby Seine. The composition evolves with the seasons and invites visitors to wander between painting, landscape, and memory.
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📍 Maison Vacquerie – Victor Hugo Museum, Quai Victor Hugo, Villequier
📅 Until October 31, 2026
🕑 October: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, from 2 pm to 5:30 pm. Closed on Tuesdays
🎟️ Free
