Featured Events in Paris in January, 2025 (May Updated)

At the beginning of the 20th century, Céline Laguarde established herself as an international figure in the first artistic movement in the history of photography, pictorialism. Her work is now emerging from a century of oblivion. The rediscovery to which the exhibition invites is twofold: that of a female photographer who achieved a degree of recognition that was unique and unprecedented in France since the invention of the medium, but also, and above all, that of an artist already considered, during her lifetime, among the major photographers of her time.

A new Scandinavian artist to watch at the Petit Palais! From October 1, 2024 to February 16, 2025, Bruno Liljefors will be taking you on a journey through wild Sweden and its animals in a new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs at the Petit Palais in Paris. Although his work remains relatively unknown in France, Bruno Liljefors was an important figure in the Scandinavian art scene at the end of the 19th century. At the time, he was considered the Prince of Animal Artists. It must be said that the artist created a large number of works with animals as the subject, helping to renew the genre of animal painting. Swedish nature also played an important role. Wild geese in flight, hawk-owls in the heart of the forest, hares on the snow, goshawks and black grouse, starlings and butterflies, cats and grouse... the list goes on, and each of them highlights Bruno Liljefors's talent and unique creative skills. The Swedish painter is particularly interested in the relationship between animals and their habitats in the heart of the Swedish wilderness. A total of about one hundred paintings, drawings and photographs will be exhibited at the Petit Palais, which will be a chronological and thematic tour.

A new Scandinavian artist to watch at the Petit Palais! From October 1, 2024 to February 16, 2025, Bruno Liljefors will be taking you on a journey through wild Sweden and its animals in a new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs at the Petit Palais in Paris. Although his work remains relatively unknown in France, Bruno Liljefors was an important figure in the Scandinavian art scene at the end of the 19th century. At the time, he was considered the Prince of Animal Artists. It must be said that the artist created a large number of works with animals as the subject, helping to renew the genre of animal painting. Swedish nature also played an important role. Wild geese in flight, hawk-owls in the heart of the forest, hares on the snow, goshawks and black grouse, starlings and butterflies, cats and grouse... the list goes on, and each of them highlights Bruno Liljefors's talent and unique creative skills. The Swedish painter is particularly interested in the relationship between animals and their habitats in the heart of the Swedish wilderness. A total of about one hundred paintings, drawings and photographs will be exhibited at the Petit Palais, which will be a chronological and thematic tour.

深圳將舉辦一場盛大的文化藝術活動——“巴黎大皇宮巡展深圳站-重返龐貝·亞洲首展”。此次展覽將在海上世界文化藝術中心2F聯合國教科文組織展廳舉行，地址位於中國深圳市南山區蛇口望海路1187號。展覽時間為2024年9月30日至2025年3月3日。門票價格介於49元至149元之間，讓您可以輕鬆欣賞來自巴黎大皇宮的珍貴藝術珍品。這是一次難得的機會，讓您在深圳近距離感受重返龐貝的震撼體驗，絕對不容錯過。

Created in 2000 to shine a spotlight on the teeming creativity of the French art scene, the Marcel Duchamp Award aims to honour the artists who best represent their generation and promote the diversity of practices at work today in France on the international scene. The 2024 shortlist comprises: Abdelkader Benchamma; Gaëlle Choisne; Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain and Noémie Goudal. The loyal partnership between ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French art) and the Centre Pompidou strives to promote the French art scene to as many people as possible and consolidating the support that these artists need.

Created in 2000 to shine a spotlight on the teeming creativity of the French art scene, the Marcel Duchamp Award aims to honour the artists who best represent their generation and promote the diversity of practices at work today in France on the international scene. The 2024 shortlist comprises: Abdelkader Benchamma; Gaëlle Choisne; Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain and Noémie Goudal. The loyal partnership between ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French art) and the Centre Pompidou strives to promote the French art scene to as many people as possible and consolidating the support that these artists need.

This exhibition is the finale of a global tour of the collections of the Berggruen Museum and the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin in Germany. It displays works by 20th-century masters collected by German businessman and collector Heinz Berggruen, presenting his relationship with artists and the network of the post-war Paris art market.

Forget what you know about zombies… Far from the world of infectious undead creatures in movies and popular culture, the exhibition takes you to Haiti in pursuit of a real myth. While the word “zombie” (nzambi) originates in Africa and refers to the spirit or ghost of the dead, its meaning changed significantly as it crossed the Atlantic during the slave trade, with the fusion of African, Caribbean and Catholic traditional beliefs. In Haiti, the image of the zombie was formed on the margins of voodoo culture, through the practices of its secret societies – especially the Bijango Society – whose judicial role gave it zombified powers. Tried and convicted, the zombie is actually a criminal deprived of his freedom, enslaved and held in a comatose state by his master (bokor). Between fact and fiction, the exhibition reveals the reality behind the fear of this iconic “undead creature”. The exhibition explores the construction of myth in the Western collective imagination, from the 1697 novel by French author Pierre Corneille y Blaisebois to George A. Romero’s legendary film Night of the Living Dead.

The exhibition presented at the Musée d'Orsay in the fall of 2024 takes as its subject Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) predilection for male figures and portraits of men, and aims to question the radical modernity of the artist's masterpieces through the prism of the new perspective that art history has on 19th-century masculinities.

The fall 2024 exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his preference for the male figure and male portraiture, and seeks to examine the artist's profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history's changing perspective on 19th-century masculinity. The exhibition features approximately 70 works, including Caillebotte's most important figure paintings, as well as pastels, drawings, photographs, and documents.

Forget what you know about zombies… Far from the world of infectious undead creatures in movies and popular culture, the exhibition takes you to Haiti in pursuit of a real myth. While the word “zombie” (nzambi) originates in Africa and refers to the spirit or ghost of the dead, its meaning changed significantly as it crossed the Atlantic during the slave trade, with the fusion of African, Caribbean and Catholic traditional beliefs. In Haiti, the image of the zombie was formed on the margins of voodoo culture, through the practices of its secret societies – especially the Bijango Society – whose judicial role gave it zombified powers. Tried and convicted, the zombie is actually a criminal deprived of his freedom, enslaved and held in a comatose state by his master (bokor). Between fact and fiction, the exhibition reveals the reality behind the fear of this iconic “undead creature”. The exhibition explores the construction of myth in the Western collective imagination, from the 1697 novel by French author Pierre Corneille y Blaisebois to George A. Romero’s legendary film Night of the Living Dead.

The exhibition presented at the Musée d'Orsay in the fall of 2024 takes as its subject Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) predilection for male figures and portraits of men, and aims to question the radical modernity of the artist's masterpieces through the prism of the new perspective that art history has on 19th-century masculinities.

This exhibition, titled "Eye", brings together 21 Chinese artists and selects a series of recent works including video, painting, installation, photography and new media. These artists, born between the late 1970s and early 1990s, witnessed the rapid economic development and drastic social changes in China after the reform and opening up. In their works, it is not difficult to see their profound thoughts on globalization, cultural heritage, social changes and technological progress.

This collective exhibition shines a spotlight on the upcoming contemporary Chinese art scene with works by 21 artists, drawing a subjective portrait for the first time in France. The opening of China to the world, environmental upheavals and the transformation of lifestyles in Chinese society are all topics that have been addressed in the contemporary creative output by this young generation of artists, born in the late 1970s through to the early 1990s, as China experienced a great economic boom. Under the theme of the character 目 (mù), meaning “eye”, with reference both to vision and the eye’s capacity to organise reality, the rich selection of works picked out by the Sino-French curators covers a broad spectrum of practices — video, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and new media — with emphasis on creations in recent years. In the post-Covid international scene, these works have not enjoyed much visibility abroad, but the Centre Pompidou has bolstered ties with this art scene during this period, thanks to the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project partnership in Shanghai. Amid this teeming diversity, the exhibition homes in on salient themes regarding the artists’ practices. Core issues explored in the works of many of these artists include Chinese interaction with the rest of the world, thoughts about globalisation and global challenges, especially environmental breakdown. This generation of creators has also tapped into fertile themes such as the major changes in Chinese society, especially incessant transformations in lifestyle in ever-sprawling, urban agglomerations and the shifting paradigm of regulation of various flows and activities. A sense of China’s extraordinarily rich cultural and aesthetic heritage provides structure to the work of certain artists, who strive to place it in perspective and give it a fresh twist in a contemporary context. Lastly, the exhibition devotes a large section to new media, a particularly dynamic field in a country that has undergone swift, massive and intense digitisation of both its economy and society. Artists exhibited:Aaajiao,Alice Chen,Chen Fei,Chen Wei,Chu Yun,Cui Jie,Hao Liang,Hu Xiaoyuan,Li Ming,Liu Chuang,Lu Pingyuan,LuYang,Miao Ying,Nabuqi,Qiu Xiaofei,Shen Xin,Xun Sun,Wan Yang,Yao Qingmei,Yu JiandZhang Ding. After the exhibition, a considerable number of works representative of this generation of artists will be added to the Centre Pompidou collection.

On 9 October 2024, the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection will host a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera. Between legacies and influences, the exhibition comprises more than 250 historic and contemporary works, as well as pieces that have taken their inspiration from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s. This exhibition explains both the Italian birth and the international emanation of this movement through works by the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio. Situated within the unique architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition has been conceived as a landscape that one traverses and which becomes the terrain in which the infinite poetics of Arte Povera are rooted. Envisioned by the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognised specialist of this artistic movement, the exhibition « Arte Povera » features some fifty historic, emblematic works from the Pinault Collection which have been placed in relation to pieces from other prestigious public and private collections.

This collective exhibition shines a spotlight on the upcoming contemporary Chinese art scene with works by 21 artists, drawing a subjective portrait for the first time in France. The opening of China to the world, environmental upheavals and the transformation of lifestyles in Chinese society are all topics that have been addressed in the contemporary creative output by this young generation of artists, born in the late 1970s through to the early 1990s, as China experienced a great economic boom. Under the theme of the character 目 (mù), meaning “eye”, with reference both to vision and the eye’s capacity to organise reality, the rich selection of works picked out by the Sino-French curators covers a broad spectrum of practices — video, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and new media — with emphasis on creations in recent years. In the post-Covid international scene, these works have not enjoyed much visibility abroad, but the Centre Pompidou has bolstered ties with this art scene during this period, thanks to the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project partnership in Shanghai. Amid this teeming diversity, the exhibition homes in on salient themes regarding the artists’ practices. Core issues explored in the works of many of these artists include Chinese interaction with the rest of the world, thoughts about globalisation and global challenges, especially environmental breakdown. This generation of creators has also tapped into fertile themes such as the major changes in Chinese society, especially incessant transformations in lifestyle in ever-sprawling, urban agglomerations and the shifting paradigm of regulation of various flows and activities. A sense of China’s extraordinarily rich cultural and aesthetic heritage provides structure to the work of certain artists, who strive to place it in perspective and give it a fresh twist in a contemporary context. Lastly, the exhibition devotes a large section to new media, a particularly dynamic field in a country that has undergone swift, massive and intense digitisation of both its economy and society. Artists exhibited:Aaajiao,Alice Chen,Chen Fei,Chen Wei,Chu Yun,Cui Jie,Hao Liang,Hu Xiaoyuan,Li Ming,Liu Chuang,Lu Pingyuan,LuYang,Miao Ying,Nabuqi,Qiu Xiaofei,Shen Xin,Xun Sun,Wan Yang,Yao Qingmei,Yu JiandZhang Ding. After the exhibition, a considerable number of works representative of this generation of artists will be added to the Centre Pompidou collection.

On 9 October 2024, the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection will host a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera. Between legacies and influences, the exhibition comprises more than 250 historic and contemporary works, as well as pieces that have taken their inspiration from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s. This exhibition explains both the Italian birth and the international emanation of this movement through works by the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio. Situated within the unique architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition has been conceived as a landscape that one traverses and which becomes the terrain in which the infinite poetics of Arte Povera are rooted. Envisioned by the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognised specialist of this artistic movement, the exhibition « Arte Povera » features some fifty historic, emblematic works from the Pinault Collection which have been placed in relation to pieces from other prestigious public and private collections.

This collective exhibition shines a spotlight on the upcoming contemporary Chinese art scene with works by 21 artists, drawing a subjective portrait for the first time in France. The opening of China to the world, environmental upheavals and the transformation of lifestyles in Chinese society are all topics that have been addressed in the contemporary creative output by this young generation of artists, born in the late 1970s through to the early 1990s, as China experienced a great economic boom. Under the theme of the character 目 (mù), meaning “eye”, with reference both to vision and the eye’s capacity to organise reality, the rich selection of works picked out by the Sino-French curators covers a broad spectrum of practices — video, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and new media — with emphasis on creations in recent years. In the post-Covid international scene, these works have not enjoyed much visibility abroad, but the Centre Pompidou has bolstered ties with this art scene during this period, thanks to the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project partnership in Shanghai. Amid this teeming diversity, the exhibition homes in on salient themes regarding the artists’ practices. Core issues explored in the works of many of these artists include Chinese interaction with the rest of the world, thoughts about globalisation and global challenges, especially environmental breakdown. This generation of creators has also tapped into fertile themes such as the major changes in Chinese society, especially incessant transformations in lifestyle in ever-sprawling, urban agglomerations and the shifting paradigm of regulation of various flows and activities. A sense of China’s extraordinarily rich cultural and aesthetic heritage provides structure to the work of certain artists, who strive to place it in perspective and give it a fresh twist in a contemporary context. Lastly, the exhibition devotes a large section to new media, a particularly dynamic field in a country that has undergone swift, massive and intense digitisation of both its economy and society. Artists exhibited:Aaajiao,Alice Chen,Chen Fei,Chen Wei,Chu Yun,Cui Jie,Hao Liang,Hu Xiaoyuan,Li Ming,Liu Chuang,Lu Pingyuan,LuYang,Miao Ying,Nabuqi,Qiu Xiaofei,Shen Xin,Xun Sun,Wan Yang,Yao Qingmei,Yu JiandZhang Ding. After the exhibition, a considerable number of works representative of this generation of artists will be added to the Centre Pompidou collection.

This exhibition, titled "Eye", brings together 21 Chinese artists and selects a series of recent works including video, painting, installation, photography and new media. These artists, born between the late 1970s and early 1990s, witnessed the rapid economic development and drastic social changes in China after the reform and opening up. In their works, it is not difficult to see their profound thoughts on globalization, cultural heritage, social changes and technological progress.

This is an opportunity to get to know this Italian artistic movement through the collection of works by thirteen of its main protagonists. Arte Povera is an Italian artistic movement that emerged on the international stage in the 1960s. From October 9, 2024 to January 27, 2025, this magnificent monument in the heart of Paris will host a major exhibition that traces the birth of this artistic movement in Italy and its international impact. Artists closely associated with this movement include Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Ioannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Plini and Gilberto Zorio. These artists, mainly from Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Milan and Rome, have truly changed the language of contemporary art by expanding the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography.

The Museum of Modern Art in Paris proposes to revisit the history of modernity in the 20th century through The Imagination of the Atom. The exhibition invites the public to explore the artistic expressions provoked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb, whose devastating consequences changed the destiny of humanity. By bringing together nearly 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations), as well as often unpublished documents, the exhibition presents for the first time in a French institution the very different positions taken by artists in the face of scientific progress and the controversies it has provoked. Dealing with a topic that is more topical than ever, it is part of the museum's wish to echo contemporary cultural and social issues in its programming.

The Museum of Modern Art in Paris proposes to revisit the history of modernity in the 20th century through The Imagination of the Atom. The exhibition invites the public to explore the artistic expressions provoked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb, whose devastating consequences changed the destiny of humanity. By bringing together nearly 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations), as well as often unpublished documents, the exhibition presents for the first time in a French institution the very different positions taken by artists in the face of scientific progress and the controversies it has provoked. Dealing with a topic that is more topical than ever, it is part of the museum's wish to echo contemporary cultural and social issues in its programming.

Olga de Amaral is an internationally renowned artist whose bold style has left its mark on contemporary art, receiving praise and admiration around the world. The Fondation Cartier will present an unprecedented retrospective of the Colombian artist from October 12, 2024 to March 16, 2025. In this eponymous exhibition, Olga de Amaral takes us into her unique world of textiles, where her giant creations break away from traditional artistic norms. These abstract works can be paintings, sculptures, installations, and more. They draw on elements from the worlds of architecture and textiles to create unique and fascinating works. Olga de Amaral experiments with different textiles (linen, cotton, horsehair, gesso, gold leaf or palladium) to combine threads and give life to monumental installations. She varies the color, technique and size of her works according to her desires and explorations. Visitors will find themselves drawn to these organic, shimmering pieces that are almost alive.

Olga de Amaral is an internationally renowned artist whose bold style has left its mark on contemporary art, receiving praise and admiration around the world. The Fondation Cartier will present an unprecedented retrospective of the Colombian artist from October 12, 2024 to March 16, 2025. In this eponymous exhibition, Olga de Amaral takes us into her unique world of textiles, where her giant creations break away from traditional artistic norms. These abstract works can be paintings, sculptures, installations, and more. They draw on elements from the worlds of architecture and textiles to create unique and fascinating works. Olga de Amaral experiments with different textiles (linen, cotton, horsehair, gesso, gold leaf or palladium) to combine threads and give life to monumental installations. She varies the color, technique and size of her works according to her desires and explorations. Visitors will find themselves drawn to these organic, shimmering pieces that are almost alive.

Gagosian is pleased to announce Maison Ancart, an exhibition of new paintings by Harold Ancart, opening on October 14, 2024, at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The paintings in Maison Ancart are conceived in conversation with the spirit of radical freedom and innovation put forth by pioneering abstractionists, from the Post-Impressionists and the School of Paris to postwar American artists, among others. The trees, meadows, ponds, mountains, and other features operate as archetypal forms that Ancart revisits throughout this body of work. According to the artist, these subjects serve as an “alibi” for painting, providing a platform through which he can experiment with paint. Ancart develops his paintings with the medium of oil stick, using saturated colors and boldly defined forms to picture imagined places abstracted from landscape motifs. He emphasizes the primacy of his artmaking process, defining his subjects to alternately anchor the compositions and disrupt their stability. The viewpoints established are from below or straight on, emphasizing their scale and the artist’s negotiation of surface and depth, abstraction and representation. Made with attention to the boundaries between forms and their contours, the paintings are unified by Ancart’s articulation of horizons through juxtapositions of color, offering through lines across the canvases.

Works by 17 Perrotin artists have entered the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne–Centre Georges Pompidou through a joint donation by the gallery and its artists. 23 exceptional artworks have been given by Perrotin and Jean-Marie Appriou, Genesis Belanger, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Johan Creten, Elmgreen & Dragset, Lionel Estève, Bernard Frize, Laurent Grasso, JR, Bharti Kher, Klara Kristalova, Takashi Murakami, Jean- Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi, Tavares Strachan, and Emma Webster to the Musée National d’Art Moderne–Centre Georges Pompidou.

GALLERIA CONTINUA presents in its exhibition space in Paris, in the heart of the Marais, a new solo exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto, titled Nouvelle perspective (New perspective).

The great Scandinavian troublemakers of contemporary art, Elmgreen & Dragset are invited to place their poetic sculptures in dialogue with the iconic Nave of Sculptures of the Musée d’Orsay. Their exhibitions are always situated at the crossroads of performance, space and sculpture. The presentation they have created specifically for the Musée d’Orsay will shake up the gaze of visitors, invited to dive into a museum turned upside down.

The exhibition The Solo Globe, which will run from October 16, 2024 to January 26, 2025, looks back at the history, great heroes, explorations and special features of the Vendée Globe The Vendée Globe, held every four years since 1989, is a truly special event in world sailing. Dozens of competitors (33 in 2020) sail solo around the world in a monohull. No stops are allowed, nor any assistance: a long and arduous journey awaits the sailors. Many incredible stories, both glories and tragedies, have taken place during this epic journey. For this exhibition, the Oceanographic Museum has brought together nearly 300 special pieces and objects to tell and explain the story of this race, its pioneers and its challenges. Exhibits include sailing paraphernalia, models, clothing, artwork, books and archival documents, as well as audio-visual programmes and never-before-seen interviews with racers.