An effervescent 2022 season for La Cité Du Vin

Vinocity : City Of Wine, the season 2022 and thePicasso exhibition

Guests

Solène Jaboulet: Marketing & Communication director for the report and outlook

Philippe hernandez : director of cultural programming and development for major cultural programming events

Laura Dubosc : exhibition project manager for the temporary exhibition dedicated to Picasso: “Picasso, the effervescence of forms“

After a year 2021 marked by the health crisis and several months of closure, the Cité du Vin is looking to the future and multiplying projects for 2022. In start with a unique cultural program and rich in meetings, debates and discoveries, as well as a new temporary exhibition event : Picasso, the effervescence of forms, from April 15. Changes to the Permanent Route, offers for subscribers and residents of Bordeaux Métropole complete the 2022 program.

An event exhibition : Picasso, the effervescence of forms

From April 15 to August 28, 2022, the Cité du Vin will offer a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most important artists of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. Picasso, the effervescence of forms will explore the place of wine and popular spirits in Picasso’s work, through a wide variety of themes and media (paintings, drawings, ceramics, films, etc.). Bringing together more than eighty works, the exhibition will shed new light on Pablo Picasso’s achievements and reveal the effervescent creativity that animated him throughout his life. An exhibition for the general public, as original as it is ambitious, imagined by the Foundation for the Culture and Civilizations of Wine and the historian and art critic Stéphane Guégan (scientific curator).

Positive results in 2021 despite a mixed year

Second consecutive year punctuated by the health crisis, 2021 was marked by the closure of the Cité du Vin for nearly 5 months, until it reopened on May 19. Thanks to good attendance during the summer due to the return of local and French tourists, the Cité du Vin recorded a total of 211,000 visitors. ” This is a rather positive result given the situation and the many months of closure. Especially since we have a very international profile, used to welcoming visitors from all over the world. If Spanish visitors have made a comeback (-35% vs 2019 over the period from May to December), other nationalities have not yet returned significantly like the English (-83%) Americans or Italians (-73%). We are therefore delighted to have been able to count once again this year on the growth of French tourists and the local public.. »Confides Philippe Massol, Managing Director of the Foundation for Wine Culture and Civilizations. our

The highlights of the new cultural season

This new cultural season will be the occasion to inaugurate a new meeting: masterclasses with renowned sommeliers! A unique moment of meeting and sharing around the tasting of 3 wines selected by the guest sommelier, these masterclasses will start on January 18 at 7 p.m. with Philippe Faure-Brac (Best Sommelier of the World 1992). On February 5 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.), the 3rd Wine & Health Meetings : a day of conferences and debates around professionals to take an interest in the multiple motivations and behaviors vis-à-vis alcohol consumption. Finally, as part of the International Women’s Day, a major meeting on Women and the Love of Wine will be offered on March 8 in partnership with the Association Journées de la Nutrition.

Without forgetting the Bordeaux Wine week which will be held from June 16 to 26! The event meeting of players in the world of wine will put down its suitcases at the Cité du Vin on June 20 and 21, for the “Act for Change” symposium: a series of conferences led by renowned international speakers on “Le vin en 2030 ”. The revolutions linked to climate change will be approached from three angles: production, marketing and consumption.