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 Musée Carnavalet an exhibition traces the life and work of Madame de Sévigné through letters, portraits and objects, revealing seventeenth-century Paris through the eyes of one of its sharpest observers.
Laura Pausini’s Paris concert in November 2027 reflects a career shaped by continuity rather than rupture. Her songs remain living material, able to endure and evolve over time. A direct relationship with listeners, far from the logic of the one-off event.
After its debut at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition Fragile Beauty arrives in Paris at the Jeu de Paume with more than three hundred photographs from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish.
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.
