TERRA 2025
Curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond
Produced by Milena Berman
24th October – 28th November, 2025. Burgundy, France.
TERRA 2025. Dan Graham, Tight Squeeze, 2015, Courtesy of Dan Graham Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery, Installation view at La Folie. Photography James Retrief.
Set against the backdrop of Burgundy’s UNESCO World Heritage vineyards, TERRA is an international group exhibition unearthing dialogues between contemporary art, heritage and winemaking.
TERRA 2025 is curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, presenting both established and emerging voices. A constellation of artists 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. Alina Vergnano, Hansol Kim, Filipa Tojal, Ilona Balaga, Henry Hudson, Alice Magne, Georgina Odell, Jingshan Ding, Mark Jackson, 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.
TERRA 2025. Installation view at La Cuverie de Cîteaux. Photography James Retief.
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, Pieter Vermeersch 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.
TERRA 2025. Jean-Christophe Norman, ‘Ulysses (James Joyce)’, 2022. Installation view at La Chapelle de l’Oratoire. Photography Alban Gatti.
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 Patricio Tejedo, Claudio Massini, Jill Tate, Graziela Guardino, Claudio Coltorti, Viktoriia Oreshko, Anouk Albertini, Elio Schultz, Jules Lobgeois, Joerg Koziol, Shaan Bevan and Owen Pratt, and Ioanna 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.
TERRA 2025. Left to right: Éloi Schultz, Totem “Au Début”, 2025; Viktoriia Oreshko, Chambre à Vienne, 2024; Viktoriia Oreshko, Sapin de Noël, 2024, Installation view at Château C du Domaine Frey. Photography James Retief.
La Maison de Pommard, a maison de vigneron belonging to the de Montille family, hosts the theme of Intimacy and Domestic Space. Here, artists address the language of home, kinship, and ritual. Androulla Michael, Martha Freud, 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.
Shaan Bevan and Owen Pratt, Burning Embers (Coastal Erosion), 2024. Installation view at La Maison de Pommard. Photography James Retief.
Additionally, TERRA presents a unique pilgrimage moment to the famous La Folie de Vougeot for an installation by Dan Graham, in collaboration with Marian Goodman Gallery. Situated next to the Clos de Vougeot vineyards at the convergence of several famous vineyards, the sculptural work incites a dialogue between Graham’s architectural language and the surrounding landscape.
Dan Graham, ‘Tight Squeeze’, 2015. Courtesy of Dan Graham Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery. Installation view at La Folie. Photography James Retief.
About the founders of TERRA
Jenn Ellis – Curator of TERRA and Founder of Apsara Studio
Ellis FRSA is a curator and founder from Switzerland, Colombia and the UK based in London following five years in Hong Kong. Passionate about the considered meeting of art, space and context, she has created over the last decade meaningful projects and connections between artists, galleries and institutions globally. As the founder of curatorial studio APSARA, she has led projects from the UNESCO heritage vineyards in Burgundy to Frieze 9 Cork Street, and collaborated with international galleries and institutions including Silverlens, Sullivan+Strumpf, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Lehmann Maupin, Tate and South London Gallery. Ellis is equally the co-founder of acclaimed platform AORA, which combines art, architecture and music to instill a sense of calm and wellbeing. Ellis’ projects have gained critical recognition in publications such as Art Newspaper, Artforum, Frieze, CN Traveller, BBC, Evening Standard. Ellis guest lectures at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, is a Tate Young Patrons Ambassador and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Ellis hold a Law Degree from King’s College London and a History of Art Degree from the University of Cambridge.
Emie Diamond – Writer and curator of TERRA
Diamond is an art historian based in London. She has curated exhibitions featuring over seventy international artists. This Spring she curated Ici Repose for Oliver Miro’s platform Vortic, which was on view at The House of KOKO. Diamond also recently curated Fortnum and Mason’s inaugural show following the restoration of their Piccadilly flagship. She contributes to The Art Newspaper, where she served as Daily Diarist for the 2024 Venice Biennale, as well as interviewed Edward Enninful for the cover story of their new bi-annual magazine. Diamond is a contributor to Cultured Magazine and has written arts analyses for a range of publications like Hunger Magazine and The Critic. She is also an academically published art critic, as seen in the Courtauld’s annual journal Immediations and Rutger’s University’s bi-annual journal. Diamond has given curatorial tours at institutions such as Gagosian and White Cube, as well as spoken on panels at Soho House, Sotheby’s and KOKO. She has a History of Art Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art and received a prior Master’s degree from Harvard University.
Milena Berman – Producer of TERRA
Berman is German-American, raised in the US, and has been living in Burgundy since 2013. Her maternal family is from Kassel, Germany, where her interest in contemporary art took root as she attended documenta from a young age and worked for documenta13 after graduating university. Milena studied Art History as an undergraduate and received her Master’s in Art Business with Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Before co-founding Hautes Côtes with her partner, Milena worked in commercial and non-profit galleries, for a private photography collection, and for wineries in France and the US. Since 2013, she has created and hosted international travel programs for patrons, curators, and directors of the world’s top cultural institutions including the Guggenheim, LACMA, SFMoMA, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Seattle Art Museum and others. Being based in Beaune, Milena has been immersed in wine, and found a home in its dynamic wine community. Today she produces cultural moments in the realms of wine and art and is most interested in their intersections, bridging the two worlds, and fostering connections between people and places through meaningful experiences. TERRA was born from her desire to produce a focused cultural moment in Burgundy in collaboration with curators Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond.
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TERRA is advised and generously supported by Monica Irani, a London-based collector and
patron with a passion for art and wine. Irani is on the Development Board of the National Gallery
and is the co-chair of their young patrons. In addition, she sits on the Frieze 91 committee.
TERRA is sponsored by Blue Pool Capital, Hundle, Sotheby’s, Private Partners, Wine & Art
Expertise, Mouchonnat, and the proprietors of the three sites who have offered their spaces in kind.