Schedule: Thu - Sat 12 pm - 8 pm I Sun 12 pm - 7 pm
Location: Grand Palais
Address: 7 avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris
Art Brut works, often created on the fringes of society and discovered by chance or through people close to the artists, are today a fundamental part of art history. For 45 years, collector Bruno Decharme has been collecting these creations born outside the official art world. The exhibition Art Brut. In the Intimacy of a Collection at the Centre Pompidou presents over 300 works from his donation to the Musée National d’Art Moderne. Organized like a puzzle, the exhibition explores the variety of themes and perspectives of Art Brut, revealing the incredible creative force of the human spirit outside of convention.
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents the first major Paris retrospective dedicated to Brion Gysin, an unconventional figure of twentieth-century avant-garde culture, inventor of the cut-up and the Dreamachine, whose work moved between the Beat Generation and the international art scene.
Les Misérables returns to the Théâtre du Châtelet in a new production that reasserts the theatrical and political power of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. Blending social drama with choral song, the musical revisits themes of justice, redemption and human dignity. A collective narrative that continues to resonate today.
At the Palais Garnier, the Ballet of the Paris Opera presents Empreintes, an evening of new works by Morgann Runacre-Temple, Jessica Wright and Marcos Morau, bringing together dance, image and new technologies.
The retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg explores the visionary universe of Leonora Carrington, shaped by Surrealism, myth and esotericism. Paintings and drawings reveal a poetics grounded in transformation and ambiguity. A body of work that anticipates key themes of contemporary thought, from gender to the freedom of imagination.
