Programme: Thu - Sat 12 pm - 8 pm I Sun 12 pm - 7 pm
Location: Grand Palais
Adresse: 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.
More than 270 works trace sixty years of Gerhard Richter’s career in a major solo exhibition. The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris devotes its entire venue to the German artist.
The Musée d’Orsay presents a major exhibition on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, focusing on the theme of love in his work from 1860 to 1880. Through around sixty artworks, the show reveals a modern, luminous vision of emotional bonds in 19th-century Paris.
The Musée du Luxembourg presents a major retrospective of Pierre Soulages’ works on paper, a Master of abstraction. The exhibition features 130 pieces created between 1946 and the early 2000s, many never shown before. An opportunity to discover the artist’s more intimate and experimental side, where light meets black.
The Louvre unveils Africa Rising II, a monumental sculpture by Barbara Chase-Riboud now on view in the Jardin des Tuileries. Originally conceived for New York, the work is reborn as a powerful symbol of memory and redemption. A winged figure in bronze and fiber greets visitors in one of Paris's most iconic settings.
