The Jardiniers

A hybrid cultural venue, Les Jardiniers hosts contemporary art exhibitions, an eco-responsible canteen, and events open to all: workshops, talks, salons, creative residencies, concerts… It is within the former workshops of Montrouge's municipal gardeners that this 600 m2 rehabilitated space develops a cultural project in dialogue with reflections on environmental ecology and our contemporary social fabric. A plural living space, Les Jardiniers aims to be an open space — somewhere to come and go, sometimes to stay, to wander, to learn, to work, to meet. Opening up the field of possibilities. First and foremost an exhibition venue, Les Jardiniers follows the rhythm of cultural seasons, revealing itself through other voices and other perspectives on our world. In a spirit of conviviality, the Les Jardiniers canteen offers a daily food and drink service with a conscience, oriented towards local, seasonal products from small producers — for a way of eating well that respects environmental and social conditions. Within this movement of ideas, Les Jardiniers envisions an ecosystem of the commons: where new relationships are formed, where tools lend themselves to experimentation. Fertile ground, Les Jardiniers invites the collective construction of other narratives of living better together. In a state of permanent transformation, conceived as a hut, a refuge, this space will evolve and reinvent itself through and for the uses of who we are and who we will become. Les Jardiniers is co-founded by artists Fabrice Hyber and Adrien van Melle–Nehama, and by Henri van Melle, exhibition curator, and Christophe Vix-Gras, artistic director.