The Bod Factory
The Concept

The Concept

«Art for all».

Ephemeral exhibitions, one-night openings, monthly exhibitions... The works are for sale.

The basic idea is to give everyone - art connoisseurs, collectors and neophytes alike - a chance to meet up in this unique, unchanged venue in Bordeaux. It's also about giving everyone access to art, which unfortunately is still all too often elitist. 

Free admission, exhibitors of all sensibilities (in principle more oriented towards modern or contemporary art), of greater or lesser renown. Artistic activities include sculpture, painting, photography, and why not concerts with DJs, dancers, theatre and reading?.

The first vernissage.
It took place on 12 June 2025. Six artists decided to exhibit, including the owner (Edouard Marès) and his colleague Alexis Gaucher Piola, who initiated the project (Isabelle Raffard, Frédéric Mahler-Besse, Stéphane Picard, Stéphane Klein). It was a great success. More than 500 people turned up on one evening, and a dozen works were sold out of a hundred or so, despite the fact that the only communication channel had been an article in Sud-Ouest, and that the venue was completely unknown as a site exhibiting works of art. Hence the idea of continuing this adventure and making it an emblematic venue in Bordeaux's cultural life.