Domaine de Kerguéhennec

Bignan, France
2024
Status: restricted competition, aborted
Client: Département du Morbihan
BERGER&BERGER (architect and exhibition designer)
Team: Théo Vachon
Collaborators: Pierre-Antoine Gatier (ACMH), Eckersly O’Callaghan (structural engineering), Ethis (MEP), Studio DAP (acoustics), BMF (cost), ZOO (graphic design), RELAB (audiovisual), Les Eclaireurs (lighting design), Eodd (environmental), Horizon (roads and utilities works), Vertical Sea (hydrogeological)
Surface: 4 700 m²

Construction of a reception building, renovation and redevelopment of 5 buildings, and exhibition scenography at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Bignan.

The Domaine de Kerguéhennec is a place where contemporary art engages directly with history and heritage, while opening onto nature and the surrounding landscape. Its diverse components—the sculpture park and art center, the château and 18th-century outbuildings by Olivier Delourme, the gardens, orchards, stables, and the Chapel of the Trinity—create a complex, layered context for visitors.

Our project aims to make this context tangible, allowing visitors to understand the site while experiencing the immediacy of the present. Contemporary creation and historical interpretation here challenge traditional models, question representation codes, redefine functions, and renew modes of artistic and historical engagement.

By expanding the horizons of perception and reconnecting people with the world around them, this restructuring project seeks to revitalize the Domaine de Kerguéhennec as a site of both memory and contemporary experience.