In conjunction with her installation Les Mistériennes — located in the heart of the Jardin Extraordinaire as part of Voyage à Nantes — the gallery is pleased to welcome Barbara Schroeder for a special exhibition. The gallery invites visitors to discover the many facets of the artist’s work through a selection of pieces ranging from installation and sculpture to drawing and performance.

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Barbara Schroeder was born in 1965; she lives and works in Teuillac.
Since the 2000s, the artist has been exploring rural life and the connection between humans and nature. She seeks to reveal what binds us together: living things, the human hand, or even ritual. Her artistic practice revolves primarily around natural elements. She loves it when materials tell a story, whether agricultural, intimate, or simply human. This is what she calls anthropography: a human narrative of the landscape.

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Les Mistériennes, Barbara Schroeder - Le Voyage à Nantes
(July 4 to September 6)

For the 2026 edition, Le Voyage à Nantes has invited artist Barbara Schroeder — whose approach to working with the earth reveals what is invisible, the plants that make it up, and the people who work it — to take over the Jardin Extraordinaire.

Like primitive architecture, Les Mistériennes evoke both the monumentality of ancient civilizations and an organic fragility, a rural memory transposed into an exotic landscape.

GALERIE MELANIE RIO FLUENCY
3, place Albert Camus, 44200 Nantes (Île de Nantes district)

Exhibition from July 3 to 31.
Opening times :
- from 2:30pm to 6.30pm on july 3, 4 and 5
- by appointment on other days : 02 40 89 20 40