PORT TONIC ART CENTER
Artists’ Residencies and Promotion of Contemporary Art
Already 10 Years of Contemporary Art at Port Tonic Art Center!
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the ART TONIC 2025 exhibition, in the presence of some of our resident artists.
A friendly opportunity for a retrospective on the different editions of Art Tonic shared with you!
Port Tonic Art Center is pleased to present “Visions Salées”, an exhibition of new works conceived by the artists Bjorn Calleja, Maria Duque, Kim Lim, Luca Martini, Chengcheng Sheng et Damini Yadav.
Vision Salée invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a universe where light intertwines with matter, where transparency meets opacity, and where each canvas becomes a sensitive landscape suspended between clarity and mystery.
The title — salée, meaning “salted” — lingers like an aftertaste, a trace upon the skin. It evokes tactile and emotional atmospheres, akin to a crystallized memory. These images speak of fragility and transformation, of the tension between purity and imperfection, and of the fluid movement between the visible and the hidden.
Through their distinct approaches, the six artists in the exhibition — Bjorn Calleja, Maria Duque, Damini Yadav, Kim Lim, Luca Martini, Chengcheng Sheng — each summon a form of sensitive matter: a fragment of an inner universe, a texture of memory, an echo of lived experience. Their works explore painting and visual language as sites of transformation — where emotion takes shape, perception slows down, and the world reveals itself through layered surfaces and material presence.
An artist residency all year round, and an art gallery from July to September, PTAC is housed in a former shipyard directly on the Mediterranean Sea near Saint Tropez.
Guided tours by appointment are organized to present and offer for sale the works of artists received during the year.
Organized and run by an association of collectors and contemporary art enthusiasts, this artists’ residency selects and welcomes international artists for one-totwo-month residencies all year round, setting up and working in workshops facing the sea.
PTAC supports contemporary creation by bringing together galleries and collectors to develop exhibition projects and host artists.
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Port Tonic Art Center is an artists’ residency in a former shipyard on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
Our studios overlooking the sea provide an exclusive setting for artistic creation to the sound of the waves.
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AN EXCEPTIONAL SITE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
The PTAC is an artists’ residence all year round and an art gallery from July to September, located in a former shipyard directly on the Mediterranean Sea near Saint-Tropez.
Guided tours by reservation are organized to showcase and offer for sale the works of the artists received during the year.
Organized and run by an association gathering collectors and enthusiasts of contemporary art, this artist residency selects and welcomes international artists throughout the year for residencies lasting one to two months, set up and working in studios facing the sea.
The PTAC supports contemporary creation by bringing together galleries and collectors for the execution of exhibition projects and the hosting of artists.