Opening October 24th, 2025, TERRA returns for its third and most ambitious edition, transforming Burgundy’s UNESCO-recognised terroirs into a monumental scale contemporary art exhibition. Curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, and produced by Milena Berman, the 2025 edition will feature over forty local and international artists working across painting, sculpture, textile, and site-specific installation.
At the core of TERRA lies the notion of terroir and an invitation to reimagine and trace the ties between art, terroir and heritage. Set across four cultural heritage sites, TERRA seeks to rethink the conventional exposition format, by merging the dynamics of a contemporary art exhibition with the curatorial sensibilities of a biennale. The exhibition will be open by appointment through November 23, with two signature weekends anchoring the programme:
• Opening Weekend (October 24–26), directly following Art Basel Paris VIP Days, featuring vernissages, private tours, and a by-invitation gala dinner at the magnificent estate of Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune in the heart of the Côte de Beaune
• Closing Weekend (November 14–16), coinciding with the world-renowned Hospices de Beaune auction hosted by Sotheby’s
Participating galleries span the globe, with Almine Rech joining for the third consecutive year. Additional galleries include Edel Assanti, Marian Goodman Gallery, Enari, Silica, Galerie Chloé Perrin, Palmer, Amelie Du Chalard, Gallery C, Soho Revue, and more.
This edition’s artist open call drew hundreds of applicants, with eight finalists selected by a jury of leading figures across art and cultural institutions. The open call artists account for around fifteen percent of the exhibition, ensuring a strong dialogue between emerging and established practices.
Curatorial
TERRA 2025 is curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, presenting both established and emerging voices. A constellation of artists will inhabit Burgundy’s storied landscapes, placing contemporary gestures in dialogue with centuries of monastic, baroque, and viticultural heritage. Four principal exhibition sites, each carrying distinct histories and architectures, host works under curatorial themes that mirror their atmospheres. Two satellite sites extend the project’s reach into the exclusive world of wine and the landscape itself.
At La Cuverie des Cîteaux in Savigny-lès-Beaune, a former monastic winery linked to Cîteaux Abbey, the theme of Texture / Passages of Time frames a meditation on materiality and transformation. Where monks once pressed grapes and wine slowly aged, artists explore erosion, layering, and memory. Aligna Vergnano, Hansol Kim, Filipa Tojal, Ilona Balaga, Henry Hudson, Alice Magne, Georgina Odell, Carolina Aguirre, Purvai Rai and Charlotte Winifred Guerrard present works spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and tactile experiment, echoing the cuverie’s enduring rhythms where stone and wood still bear the marks of centuries.
Within La Chapelle de l’Oratoire in Beaune, a 17th-century baroque chapel built for the Oratorian order, the theme of Articulations of Tenderness & Softness invites viewers into a space of grandeur. Responding to the charged atmosphere of devotion and ornament, Kym Ellery, Jean Christophe Norman, Agata Bogacka, Oliver Beer, and Max Boyla bring gestures of fragility and emotional resonance. Their works soften the baroque structure, reframing it as a place of vulnerability and affective encounter.
At Château C du Domaine Frey in Aloxe-Corton, a historic wine château among Burgundy’s Corton vineyards, the theme In Nature situates artistic practice in dialogue with terroir and landscape. Surrounded by vines that embody cycles of cultivation, Pieter Vermeersch, Patricio Tejedo, Claudio Massini, Jill Tate, Graziela Guardino, Claudio Coltorti, Viktoriia Oreshko, Anouk Albertini, Elio Schultz, Jules Lobgeois, Joerg Koziol, Shaan Bevan, and Ionna Limniou explore organic growth, elemental matter, and interconnection through painting, sound, and installation. Their interventions resonate with the château’s deep-rooted relationship to seasonal rhythms.
Finally, La Maison de Pommard, a family maison de vigneron belonging to the de Montille lineage, hosts the theme of Intimacy and Domestic Space. Here, artists address the language of home, kinship, and ritual. Androulla Michael, Martha Freud, Freya Fang Wang, Maria Hatling, Imogen Allen, and Carolina Aguirre present works that infuse the private house with tenderness and memory, reframing the domestic setting as a site of creative expression.
Monumental
Extending beyond these four principal sites, a monumental sculptural pavilion by American artist Dan Graham will be on view amongst the vines at art nouveau icon La Folie, located in the UNESCO world heritage climat of the Clos de Vougeot. Whilst FICOFI in Beaune, a private club that unites the world’s leading wine producers with discerning collectors, presents the work of Jingshan Ding, whose practice resonates with refinement and ritual.
Across monasteries, chapels, châteaux, and maisons, the exhibition maps an arc of time, tenderness, nature, and intimacy, with themes mirrored in both the land and in human experience. The participating artists, working across geographies and generations, offer a polyphonic encounter with Burgundy’s layered heritage, where contemporary art acts as both passage and resonance.
Partnerships & Support
Building on recent collaborations with Frieze and Domaine Roulot, TERRA 2025 proudly announces partnerships with: LVMH Vins d’Exception, Sotheby’s, Diptyque, Blue Pool Capital, Private Partners, and FICOFI.
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For more information and opening times visit TERRA’s website here.
