The exhibition VALÉRIE BELIN “Le songe des idoles” marks the beginning of our new collaboration with one of the most outstanding contemporary artists on the French art scene.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new location in Düsseldorf and celebrating the exhibition with you in the presence of the artist.

Over the summer, the Van der Grinten Gallery will be moving out of its current location on Gertrudenstraße.
The reopening is scheduled for fall 2026

Valérie Belin, one of the leading voices in contemporary photography, focuses her work on the relationship between reality, representation, and artifice. Through frontal, serial images influenced by minimalism, she introduces the human figure to explore questions of identity and simulacrum.
From 2006 onwards, she has incorporated colour and developed a visual language she defines as “magical realism”. With an international career that includes institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou, her work invites us to look beyond the surface and engage with the power of contemporary imagery.

Driven by a desire to renew the historic collaboration between their collections, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Frac Pays de la Loire are jointly organizing an exhibition that will take shape in both institutions.
Entitled “Plants and People,” the exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary works—photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings—that explore the place of living things in our relationship with the world. Two complementary approaches are pursued: plants at the Musée d’arts de Nantes and animals at the Frac in Carquefou.