Art galleries in Rennes: directory, map and artistic districts

20 quai Émile-Zola, 35000 Rennes

The museum's historic site unfolds art history from ancient times to the present. Ancient paintings, the Italian drawing cabinet, the Robien collection and modern works by Picasso, Hains and Morellet allow you to move from one century to another without losing track of Rennes' collections.

Allée Georges-de-la-Tour, 35700 Rennes

Opened in 2025 at the foot of the Banane building, this second location transforms the museum into local facilities. Two annual exhibitions, a patio and participatory projects bring the collections and current creation to neighborhood height, in a deliberately open architecture.

10 Allied Courts, 35000 Rennes

Christian de Portzamparc's building brings together a library, museum, sciences and a large exhibition room. Documentary photography, social issues, digital creations and installations combine the resources of the three institutions, with programming designed for a very wide audience.

19 avenue André-Mussat, 35011 Rennes

In Odile Decq's dark building, the Frac preserves and exhibits several thousand works since the 1960s. Abstraction, photography, video, textiles and conceptual practices are regularly reconfigured in three galleries, while young artists meet figures already recognized.

Place Honoré-Commeurec, 35000 Rennes

Based in the former fish market, La Criée has been producing exhibitions since 1986 that combine visual arts, performance, design and research. Its human-sized format favors projects designed for the place, associated artists and precise mediation, always with free access.

48 avenue Sergent-Maginot, 35000 Rennes

Labeled a contemporary art center of national interest, 40mcube combines exhibition space, production workshop, residencies and professional training. The projects there are often ambitious, attentive to digital images, public space and the concrete conditions for producing the works.

56 boulevard Jacques-Cartier, 35000 Rennes

Bought by Rennes Métropole, the former remand center is gradually opening up to cultural uses. Exhibitions from the Municipal Fund, installations, oral memory and in situ creations give a new reading of the courses, cells and circulation of this building, which has long been closed in on itself.

59 rue Alexandre-Duval, 35000 Rennes

The old mustard factory has become an undisciplined collective place where workshops, exhibitions, stage, kitchen and garden coexist. Photography, sculpture, video and performance take experimental forms, often linked to ecological, social issues and collaborative practices.

24 bis place du Colombier, 35000 Rennes

A publishing house, specialized bookstore and gallery, Lplac defends reproducible forms: books, posters, multiples, prints and objects. Its exhibitions make contemporary art accessible through paper, graphic humor and European or local collaborations.

5 rue de Saint-Laurent, 35700 Rennes

In a former desecrated place of worship, the Noir Brillant association has installed workshops and a spectacular exhibition space. The height, volumes and memory of the building invite artists to produce sculptures and installations in situ rather than a simple wall hanging.

66-68 canal Saint-Martin, 35700 Rennes

Basalt hosts the Daphne Oram room within La Longère and explores the intersections between sound, sculpture, invented instruments and digital cultures. The exhibitions continue with listening, performances and meetings, in a unique setting on the banks of the canal.

5 place des Colombes, 35000 Rennes

The PHAKT connects a contemporary art gallery to the amateur practices and daily life of Le Colombier. The artists in residence willingly work with the inhabitants, town planning and uses of the slab, producing exhibitions where documentary, installation and social imagination meet.

4 rue de la Palestine, 35000 Rennes

The two glass wings of the Orangerie welcome artists, collectives and associations throughout the year. The light of the park is suitable for both painting and light installations, and summer exhibitions sometimes overflow into the gardens to create a journey between architecture and vegetation.

38 rue d’Antrain, 35000 Rennes

Founded in 1986 around François Morellet, Oniris has built a demanding identity linked to abstraction and color. Historical artists and new generations alternate in six to eight exhibitions per year, with careful monitoring of painting, drawing and sculpture.

4 place du Parlement de Bretagne, 35000 Rennes

Opened in 2025 in an 18th century building, the gallery benefits from high volumes facing Parliament. Jonathan Roze continues collaborations established in Paris while integrating young Breton graduates, with a line that makes contemporary creation readable without simplifying it.

24 avenue Jules-Maniez, 35000 Rennes

Upstairs occupies the Halles en commun, a wasteland in transition where shared workshops and the social economy coexist. The gallery supports artists attentive to public space, the peri-urban landscape and graffiti, with exhibitions which often extend the exterior walls of the site.

45 rue de la Parcheminerie, 35000 Rennes

In a discreet courtyard in the center, visual artist Constance Villeroy has been opening her studio to guest artists for almost twenty years. Each display is designed as a dialogue of materials and sensitivities, in an intimate atmosphere which promotes direct exchange.

45 rue de la Parcheminerie, 35000 Rennes

Led by a collective of ceramists, Tami presents the earth as a contemporary medium in its own right. Objects of use, sculptures, cooking research and installations follow one another, with quarterly invitations which compare local practices and approaches from elsewhere.

60 A rue de la Rigourdière, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné

For several years, this corporate gallery has been developing a program open to contemporary artists and projects linked to the region. The exhibitions, visible during the week, occasionally extend into the public space of Cesson-Sévigné and the Thabor park.

10 Allied Courts, 35000 Rennes

The Musée de Bretagne tells the story of the territory through objects, images and voices rather than through a fixed history. Its free permanent collections and temporary exhibitions address photography, migrations, popular design, identities and social transformations with accessible museography.

Route de Châtillon-sur-Seiche, 35200 Rennes

Around a large preserved farm, the Écomusée observes five centuries of agriculture, landscapes and know-how. The exhibitions combine archives, photography, objects and contemporary creations to question biodiversity, food and changes in the country of Rennes.

2 place du Recteur-Henri-Le-Moal, 35043 Rennes

During the renovation of its historic space, Art & Essai is deploying off-site programming on campus and with its partners until 2029. Residences, displays, temporary pavilion and documented exhibitions extend the dialogue between international artists, research and learning from curatorship.

Place du Rector-Henri-Le-Moal, 35043 Rennes

This firm presents the artist's book as a portable exhibition space and critical terrain. Thematic selections, historical funds, meetings and activations allow you to really leaf through the works and understand how artists, graphic designers and publishers construct a thought through books.

16 rue de Bertrand, 35000 Rennes

Since 2005, Laute has exhibited around twenty painters, sculptors and designers in the historic center. Monthly exhibitions favor unique works, the diversity of techniques and a simple relationship with visitors who wish to discover or acquire a piece.

20 place Sainte-Anne, 35000 Rennes

The convention center located in the former convent regularly hosts major exhibitions, notably from the Pinault Collection. Cloister, refectory and historic rooms give paintings, photographs and installations a rare scale, at the crossroads of contemporary art and heritage.

34 rue Vasselot, 35000 Rennes

This 35 m² surface area functions like an open-air gallery: an artist is invited to cover the previous work in front of the public. Regular renewal allows you to follow graffiti, illustration, wall abstraction and figurative painting in the same urban setting.

1 rue de la Conterie, 35131 Chartres-de-Bretagne

Integrated into the Pôle Sud cultural center, this gallery has become a metropolitan reference for photography. Author exhibitions, residencies and commissions explore landscape, documentary and experimentation, with ongoing mediation work with residents and schools.

34 rue Hoche, 35000 Rennes

The cloister of the European School of Art of Brittany regularly becomes an open gallery. Graduates, students, teachers and invited artists compare visual arts, design and research in collective formats which show the practices being built.

2 place Pasteur, 35000 Rennes

A former faculty transformed into a project hotel, Pasteur temporarily welcomes artists, associations, designers and citizen initiatives. The raw spaces serve as workshops, laboratories and exhibitions, in a logic of flexible occupation which makes the processes as much as the results visible.

138 avenue du Général-Leclerc, 35700 Rennes

A self-managed collective and place of production, L'Élaboratoire combines workshops, associative cafés, concerts and exhibitions. The programming favors independent approaches, alternative cultures and hybrid forms, with particular attention to artists who work outside institutional circuits.