La Porcherie lieu d'art contemporain

 Set, in the heart of the Côte d’Or region, part of Burgundy, is named that way because of its own history.
From the end of the XIXth century and until the fifties, it was used as transit place for pig’s trading, about 350 to 400 porks were sheltered there, then this place kept the same function with sheep later on.
In 1963, the owners decided to set up a business of hardware and building materials trading. At this stage my family decided to make the acquisition of it in 1980, which they kept running until mid 2007.

After all these different stages, this exhibiting and contemporary art and experimental space took an important turn, ironically regarding its initial uses.

Why such a name, La Porcherie, would you say?
Obviously because the buildings kept exactly their original structure.
Almost nothing of it had been modified through times; actually the pigs rooms are still there since a hundred years and that’s why their souls is still floating in the air…but not their smell!

My desire - regarding La Porcherie which is made of several rooms - large or small ones and an outside one close to a traditional orchard - is to show some young artists’ art works and to let them use the place as they need it, to create some original and pertinent works and exhibitions. The Porcherie is devoted to offering to the public an opportunity to see some original works in an unexpected context where tradition and contemporary art are linked. We want to provide as well to confirmed artists the opportunity to take part of this adventure.
As it’s possible, why not connecting to each others, some confirmed artist and some not yet known ones?
This place is a great opportunity for me and I want to share it. Even if it’s usually used as an exhibition space, this art space can also become an artist residence or a workshop.

La Porcherie is a kind of ‘No Man’s land’.
By it’s geographical position, it’s on one side on the edge of the old National 5 road and on the other one it gets open to some large fields - between a urban infrastructure and a rural set up. Where it has to be!
Pragmatically, our art space is made of several rooms going between 25m2 and 200m2, the orchard can also be used and represents a surface of 5000m2.

Considering the access to our pigsty, you need to know that you can reach it in 1 hour from Paris or 2h55 from Bruxelles by TGV or Thalys (high speed trains), 2 hours and a half from Paris and Lyon, about 3 hours from Geneva by the road. Also, it only takes 30min by train from Dijon, stopping at Les Laumes/ Alesia train station.