Le Grand Café – contemporary art centre is above all a creative site dedicated to the art of today. Every year, four exhibitions present a work of research and production to the public. Solo exhibitions are characteristic of Le Grand Café’s desire to allow artists to unfold the thinking behind their work across the whole of the building. This concrete creative support is an opportunity to produce major new works that intersect personal research with the experience of the site or the town. For international artists it is often their first solo exhibition in France, and French artists frequently create significant works in their careers here.
The projects produced by the art centre go on to enter private or public collections of national and international standing, enhancing the reputation of the town of Saint-Nazaire.
![Les Formes dans la nature [Shapes in nature] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lechappebelle_grandcafe_phmarcdomage_300dpi_3917-750x499.jpg)
![[-Co] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018_01_life_les_enfants_d_abord_02-1-750x532.jpg)
![Restos de mar n°8 [Restes de mer n°8] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dsc0614-750x508.jpg)
![Voile n°4 : un drapeau pour l’arrivée en terre [Sail n°4: a flag for the arrival in the ground] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_01-750x563.jpg)
![A la recherche du vent perdu [In search of the lost wind] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_13-750x563.jpg)
![Soy del sur [I’m from the South] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1-_dsc0602-750x499.jpg)
![Restos de mar n°7 [Restes de mer n°7] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_03-499x750.jpg)
![Restos de mar n°1 [Restes de mer n°1] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dsc0802-hd-750x496.jpg)
![Restos de mar n°9 [Restes de mer n°9] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dsc0813-1-750x495.jpg)
![4820 brillos [4820 beams] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_02-750x563.jpg)
![Cruz-mar del plata [The Silver Sea Cross] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_15-750x563.jpg)
![El intento de un mar [The Attempt of a Sea] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_20-750x563.jpg)
![Dos brillos blancos agrupados y giratorios [Two grouped and rotating white beams] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_16-750x563.jpg)
![El dia de la patria, extrait du journal «El Mercurio» du 18 septembre 1979, Chili [El dia de la patria, excerpt from the newspaper “El Mercurio” of 18 September 1979, Chile] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2-_dsc0549-750x499.jpg)
![Page 1 carnet bord Esmeralda 11 septembre 1973 [Page 1 Esmeralda logbook 11 September 1973] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2017_01_gc_e-ramirez_11-499x750.jpg)
![Soy americano como dice la Geografia [I am American as geography says] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/dsc0546-499x750.jpg)
![Entretien Serge François [Interview with Serge François] - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/enrique-ramirez_entretien-serge-francois-1-300x200.jpg)
![Sans titre ( Veut dire qu’il pourrait très bien, théoriquement, exister au milieu de cette table […]) - Le Grand Café](https://www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2008_02_gc_s-thidet_09-750x563.jpg)
