Schedule: Tue 11 am - 9 pm | Wed - Sun 11 am - 7 pm | Mon closed
Location: Jeu de Paume
Address: 1 Place de la Concorde
The Jeu de Paume presents an exhibition exploring the relationship between image and feeling through over a century of photography. The exhibition investigates how a seemingly superficial medium can instead narrate interiority, the emotional moment, and the gesture that betray the presence of an emotion. Through a thematic, rather than chronological, itinerary, the exhibition brings together art, documentary, and scientific photographs, alongside anonymous shots and archival materials. The sections address how emotion manifests itself in the face, the body, or movement, and how photographic technique - from exposure time to digital post-production - can amplify or dissolve the perception of feeling. The exhibition invites us to interpret photography as a language capable of making the invisible visible, of capturing what escapes: a tremor, a hesitation, a moment of intensity. The broad time span, from the 19th century to contemporary research, illustrates the variety of approaches with which artists and scholars have sought to understand the changing nature of emotions. On the occasion of the bicentenary of photography, Une histoire photographique des émotions offers a reflection on its most fragile and universal dimension: that which unites vision with human sensitivity, recalling that every image is, ultimately, an emotional trace of time.
At the Grand Palais in Paris, from March 24 to August 2, 2026, a major retrospective explores the final Matisse. More than two hundred works show how illness and immobility turned into creative energy. The cut-outs emerge as his silent revolution, redefining the relationship between color, form, and space.
At the Louvre, the Carracci drawings reveal the birth of the Galleria Farnese, a Baroque masterpiece. A journey into the 17th-century workshop, where drawing becomes the architecture of the imagination.
On December 16 and 17, 2025 Paris’s Accor Arena hosts Lamomali, a musical project created by Matthieu Chedid with Malian artists including Fatoumata Diawara and Balla Diabaté. Blending kora, pop and rock, the collective merges African tradition with contemporary sounds while paying tribute to Toumani Diabaté.
A major retrospective in Paris brings Philip Guston back into focus, the artist who left abstraction behind to confront the political and social traumas of the 1970s through irony and grotesque imagery. His satirical drawings and figurative paintings reveal the courage to turn painting into a tool of critique and resistance.
