Featured Events in Paris in December, 2024 (February Updated)

After four years of renovation, the Grand Palais in Paris is about to reopen. The first exhibition is a large-scale touring exhibition of Japanese contemporary female artist Chiharu Shiota, "Chiharu Shiota: Trembling Soul". This exhibition is curated by the Mori Art Museum in Japan and is the largest solo exhibition of Chiharu Shiota in France so far. In the 1,200 square meters of exhibition space, visitors will enjoy 7 giant installations, as well as several sculptures, photos, sketches, performance art videos and stage performance drawings, etc., to understand the artist's more than 20 years of artistic career.

The Louvre’s Department of Near Eastern Antiquities is hosting ten major works from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art is currently closed for renovation. The Louvre and The Met have created a unique dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the Louvre’s permanent galleries. These ‘special guest’ artworks from The Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre’s collection. In some cases, a pair of objects has been reunited for the first time, while in others, pieces complement each other by virtue of specific historical features of their respective collections. Representing Central Asia, Syria, Iran and Mesopotamia, this dialogue between collections is (re)introducing visitors to these extraordinary, age-old works of art and the stories they tell.

Stephane Jaspert paints mainstream images on old paving rocks picked from the streets of Paris (pavé de Paris) in his tiny studio at Montmartre.

From September 20, 2024 through May 4, 2025, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris presents The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent.Designed by curators Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine, the exhibition follows an opening exhibition on view at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech from March 2, 2024 through January 5, 2025. For the first time, the two museums have joined forces to mount a joint exhibition devoted to a major theme in the designer's work.

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.

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 exhibition proposes a dialogue between the Jean-Jacques Lebel endowment fund and the collection of the Centre Pompidou. More than 120 works, from different sources, lead us into an unruly crossing of passions from the 20th century to the present day, from struggles and revolts. The exhibition that puts on a plan of equality anonymous objects and major works reveals other stories of art and gaze.

Guillaume Bottazzi a réalisé un tableau fruité en face du parc Montsouris. Il est visible de l’extérieur, au 34-36 avenue Reille, à Paris dans le 14ème arrondissement. Ce tableau apporte l’art ou on ne l’attend pas forcément et accompagne le quotidien des habitants. Cette huile sur toile de lin mesure 0,90m de haut par 1,80m de large. Elle a été conçue pour habiller l’entrée d’un bâtiment et dialogue avec les éléments qui l’entourent. L’artiste a déjà créé plus de 65 œuvres dans des espaces publics, comme un polyptique de 100m² à Paris La Défense, à Hong-Kong ou au Japon où il est l'auteur de la plus grande peinture du Pays, commandée par le Musée International d'Art Miyanomori. Ses œuvres font partie de collections muséales, notamment en Asie et aux Etats-Unis.

Guillaume Bottazzi a réalisé un tableau fruité en face du parc Montsouris. Il est visible de l’extérieur, au 34-36 avenue Reille, à Paris dans le 14ème arrondissement. Ce tableau apporte l’art ou on ne l’attend pas forcément et accompagne le quotidien des habitants.Cette huile sur toile de lin mesure 0,90m de haut par 1,80m de large. Elle a été conçue pour habiller l’entrée d’un bâtiment et dialogue avec les éléments qui l’entourent. L’artiste a déjà créé plus de 65 œuvres dans des espaces publics, comme un polyptique de 100m² à Paris La Défense, à Hong-Kong ou au Japon où il est l'auteur de la plus grande peinture du Pays, commandée par le Musée International d'Art Miyanomori. Ses œuvres font partie de collections muséales, notamment en Asie et aux Etats-Unis. Site internet de Guillaume Bottazzi : https://www.guillaume.bottazzi.org

En 2024, pour la 8e édition des prix AWARE, deux prix seront attribués : le prix Nouveau Regard, récompensant une artiste en milieu decarrière et le prix d’honneur, attribué à une artiste justifiant de plus de 40 ans decarrière. À nouveau cette année, quatre rapporteur·euse·s – professionnel·le·sengagé·e·s du monde de la culture – présélectionneront chacun·e un duo d’artistes, nommées respectivement au prix Nouveau Regard et au prix d’honneur, et présenteront et défendront leur travail devant un jury composé de sept figures majeures du monde de la culture. Les quatre rapporteur·euse·spour l’édition 2024 sont Simona Dvorák, Antoine Idier, Noelia Portela et Olivier Zeitoun. Simona Dvorák Simona Dvorák est curatrice et historienne de l’art basée à Paris. Elle s’intéresseà des pratiques performatives, sonores, radiophoniques et vidéo, en mettanten valeur un travail collectif à long terme. En tant que curatrice au sein de l’Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, elle étudie la manière dont nous pouvons créer des espaces communs et solidaires dans la sphère culturelle. Son travail souligne l’importance des « processus d’exposition » qui anticipent les futurs possibles : antisexistes, antiracistes, inclusifs. Plus récemment, elle a été boursière du programme Art et éducation à la documenta fifteen à Kasselet a collaboré sur la conception du programme public Walking with Water, imaginé en relation avec le pavillon serbe de la 59e Biennale de Venise. Elle a été également chargée de programmation au Centre Pompidou à Paris ouelle a notamment travaillé sur le programme Cultures d’avenir. Actuellement, Dvorák est curatrice invitée, avec Tadeo Kohan, pour le programme « actes delangage » à la Maison populaire de Montreuil. Parallèlement, elle développe un projet de recherche sur la politique des archives au Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, en collaboration avec Merv Espina. Antoine Idier Antoine Idier est maître de conférences en science politique à Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, où il coordonne les enseignements « Art & culture » et dirige le Master Politiques de création. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages, dont Les Vies de GuyHocquenghem. Politique, sexualité, culture(Fayard, 2017), Archives des mouvements LGBT+ (Textuel, 2018), Pureté etimpureté de l’art. Michel Journiac et le Sida (Sombres torrents, 2020) ou encore Résistances Queer. Une histoire des cultures LGBTQI+(avec Pochep, Delcourt/La Découverte, 2023). Il a édité des écrits de Guy Hocquenghem (Un journal de rêve, Verticales, 2017) et de yann beauvais (Agir le cinéma, Presses du réel, 2021). En 2022-2023, il a été commissaire de l’exposition Dans les marges. Trente ans du fonds Michel Chomarat à la bibliothèque de Lyon. Pour un projet en cours d’écriture, il a également reçu une bourse de recherche de la fondation Robert Rauschenberg. Noelia Portela Noelia Portela est commissaire d’exposition indépendante et coordinatrice de projets culturels basée à Paris. Noelia Portela est diplômée de l’école d’Architecture et de Design de l’université Victoria de Wellington en Nouvelle-Zélande. En 2017, elle fonde Persona Curada, un projet curatorial itinérant et expérimental à but non lucratif qui vise à promouvoir l’art contemporain latino-américain, mis en perspective avec la scène artistique française. Avec Persona Curada, elle organise des expositions, des projections, des performances et des débats en collaboration avec des institutions et des espaces d’art contemporain. Ses textes ont été publiés dans des revues comme Artishock Magazine (Chile), Relieve Contemporaneo (Argentina) et Obra Latinoamericana (Suisse). Olivier Zeitoun Olivier Zeitoun est attaché de conservation au département Design et Prospective industrielle du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, à Paris. Diplômé en philosophie, histoire de l’art et en sciences sociales, il est l’auteur de nombreux articles et essais sur les enjeux liés aux champs du numérique et du vivant, dans l’art et le design. Il a été co-commissaire des expositions « La Fabrique du Vivant » (Centre Pompidou, 2019), « Réseaux-Mondes » (Centre Pompidou, 2022), « Mimésis, un design vivant » (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022), avec Marie-Ange Brayer, et a co-dirigé les catalogues les accompagnant. Il poursuit ses activités de commissariat, d’enseignement, de recherche et de publications en tant que commissaire et critique indépendant. Il ouvrira prochainement au Huidenclub, à Rotterdam, avec Léo Orta, l’exposition « Design Sediments ».

Stephane Jaspert paints mainstream images on old paving rocks picked from the streets of Paris (pavé de Paris) in his tiny studio at Montmartre.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What is intimacy and what are its limits? To whom can we confide our innermost thoughts, to whom do we want to show ourselves and our world? Over the centuries, intimacy has evolved in social revolutions. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs tells this fascinating story and invites us to look through the keyhole (literally) to discover intimacy through the ages. This major exhibition will be on view in the nave and side galleries of the museum from October 15, 2024 to March 30, 2025. It will bring together 470 pieces of decorative arts, paintings, everyday objects, photographs and historical artifacts. We will take a journey from the 18th century to the present day to discover the secrets and hidden lives of others. Intimacy can take many forms. The Museum of Decorative Arts explores 12 different themes, each revealing a facet of our times.

The French Revolution is a well-known event, but 1793-1794 is also an important year in our history. The Cannavaro Museum will host an exhibition from October 16, 2024 to February 16, 2025 that explores the history of this year. In the second year of the Republican calendar, the period from September 1793 to September 1794 was the year of revolution, the so-called Reign of Terror, a time of breaking with the past to create the new. Renowned worldwide, the Cannavaro's French Revolution Collection presents this contrasting legacy through 250 works, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, historical and memory objects, wallpapers, posters, furniture, etc. During this period, the capital was the birthplace of dreams and utopias, but also of collective fear and violence, a veritable fermentation of art, sensitivity and thought in times of crisis, works that reflect the life of Parisians at the time.

Fools are everywhere. But are the fools of today the same as the fools of yesteryear? This fall, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an unprecedented exhibition to the myriad figures of the fool, which permeated the pictorial landscape of the 13th to the 16thcenturies. Over the course of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the fool came to occupy every available artistic space, insinuating himself into illuminated manuscripts, printed books and engravings, tapestries, paintings, sculptures, and all manner of objects both precious and mundane. His fascinating, perplexing and subversive figure loomed large in the turmoil of an era not so different from our own. The exhibition examines the omnipresence of fools in Western art and culture at the end of the Middle Ages, and attempts to parse the meaning of these figures, who would seem to play a key role in the advent of modernity. The fool may make us laugh, with his abundance of frivolous antics, but he also harbours a wealth of hidden facets of an erotic, scatological, tragic or violent nature. Capable of the best and of the worst, the fool entertains, warns or denounces; he turns societal values on their head and may even overthrow the established order. Within the newly renovated Hall Napoléon, this exhibition, which brings together over 300works from 90French, European and American institutions, brings us on a one-of-a-kind journey through Northern European art (English, Flemish, Germanic, and above all French), illuminating the profane aspects of the Middle Ages and revealing a fascinating era of surprising complexity. The exhibition explores the disappearance of the figure of the fool with the Enlightenment and the triumph of reason, and its resurgence at the end of the 18thcentury and all throughout the 19th. The fool then became a figure with which artists identified, wondering: ‘What if I were the fool?’

Repeating patterns, bright colors, cultural symbols, codes from comic books or video games: for more than 60 years, the Pop Art movement has been known, admired and imitated around the world. The Fondation Louis Vuitton takes us back to the origins of Pop Art with a sensational new exhibition. From October 16, 2024 to March 3, 2025, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will present "Forever Pop, Tom Wesselmann and...", an exhibition that presents one of the most important art movements since the 1960s. The Fondation Louis Vuitton brings together 150 paintings, installations and other works, including many works by Tom Wesselmann, the artist regarded as one of the founders of Pop Art. He is joined by the unforgettable Andy Warhol, as well as Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Derek Adams, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Lauren Halsey, Marjorie Strider, Marisol, Kurt Schwitters... All the richness of Pop Art is represented. The exhibition even expands its scope, presenting 70 works by international artists from different decades and movements. From Dadaism to today's art world, the Louis Vuitton Foundation has chosen Pop Art to explore it from its earliest artistic roots to its lasting influence today. The exhibition also pays tribute to the famous American painter Tom Wesselmann. Tom Wesselmann, heir to a line of abstract artists, was drawn to the visual modernity of the 1950s and created a world of his own by combining classical practices with new genres. The exhibition includes his most famous installations and series, as well as works by artists inspired by him.

As part of its restoration project, the Louvre Museum wants to shed light on Watteau's painting "Le Pierrot, dit le Gilles". An emblematic work of the painter, this painting was not discovered until it was too late. Discover all the secrets of this figure and the influence he had on different fields of art from the 18th century to the present day. For this reason, the Louvre Museum will be organizing an exhibition around this painting of Pierrot, entitled "The Renaissance of Watteau", from October 16, 2024 to February 3, 2025. Watteau's painting is of course the centre of the exhibition, but it is not the only masterpiece in the collection. The exhibition also features several works by Watteau and his contemporaries, as well as paintings, photographs and drawings from more recent times. The Louvre Museum exhibits a total of 65 works, including seven paintings by Watteau. Piero was born on the comedy stage. Like Harlequin, Piero is a recurring character in comedy. Watteau was fascinated by this world of theater from an early age and drew inspiration from live performances to paint several scenes and portraits. However, it is unknown when the painter created Piero. The origin of this painting remains a mystery to this day, adding to the legendary nature of this fascinating work.

This exhibition will bring together more than 70 works of trompe l'oeil from public institutions and private collections, spanning the 16th to the 21st century, and reviewing the development of the European trompe l'oeil art tradition. The exhibition will discuss some lesser-known aspects of trompe l'oeil art, such as its decorative use, its political influence in revolutionary history, and the interpretation of trompe l'oeil by modern and contemporary artists.

Jacques Prevert was known for his humor and imagination, but he also applied his imagination to the visual arts. More than 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, manuscripts, film clips, objects and archives take us into the artist’s astonishingly surreal world. Texture, collage, color, eccentric characters in real scenes: Jacques Prevert uses contrast to createnew The originalreality. These works are poetic and dreamy, reflecting a worldview full of magic and wonder, almost childlike. The exhibition at the Montmartre Museum is divided into four chapters and traces the artist's life, the diversity of his works, his intimacy relationship and creative space, and the way he transforms everyday life into art.

The exhibition focuses on Stephen Jones’s creative process, the inspirations behind his work and the role of Paris in his work. There are nearly 400 works in the exhibition, including more than 170 hats, as well as Jones’ archive (preparatory drawings, photographs, runway show excerpts, etc.) and approximately 40 silhouettes with clothes and hats. These 'looks' bear witness to Stephen Jones' enduring loyalty to some of the world's leading fashion houses, not least Christian Dior, with whom he worked for nearly 30 years. This key figure has become the most 'French' of British milliners, bringing a bold energy and boundless creativity to Parisian fashion.

After Caravaggio, the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera, who lived in Italy, established himself as one of the most fascinating interpreters of natural painting. An exceptional artist able to transcribe the almost tactile reality of individuals, flesh and objects, he interprets the dignity of everyday life and human tragedy with overwhelming acuity. Extremely radical, he favored raw realism, the violence of chiaroscuro and dramatic compositions. Unlike others, he used pictorial materials to reveal unprecedented roughness. His paintings, both brutal and poetic, offer an extremely personal interpretation of Caravaggio's revolution. The exhibition will also be an opportunity to present the artist's graphic work, including a large number of drawings and prints, which is rare among Caravaggio's major exponents. Recent discoveries have also added to his Roman corpus, including a group of paintings previously attributed to the Master of the Judgement of Solomon, shedding new light on the beginnings of his career. Ribera now establishes himself as one of the leading interpreters of Caravaggio's painting, one of the earliest and most radical.

This exhibition, co-organized by the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown and the Louvre Museum, is the first major monograph devoted to an artist who is now largely forgotten, but who was nevertheless "one of the great authorities of his time" (Charles Blanc). Born in Guadeloupe to a freed slave mother of African origin and a royal officer father, he was trained in Rouen and then in Paris under the Ancien Régime and had a brilliant official career; director of the Académie de France in Rome (1807-1816), elected member of the Institute in 1818, he was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1819. He was also a major collector and advisor to Lucien Bonaparte. His production illustrates the journey of an artist confronted with the upheavals of his time and the succession of regimes from the Revolution to the July Monarchy. Most of his painted and drawn work has ancient history as its subject. He began in the triumph of Davidian neo-classicism and his perseverance in this path would cause his discredit at the end of the 1820s, while the young generation of romantic artists gradually established themselves. Ancient heroism inspired two immense canvases of nearly eight meters long preserved at the Louvre, Brutus condemning his sons to death, completed in Rome in 1811, and The Death of Virginia (1828). Lethière's most famous painting, singular in his work The Oath of the Ancestors (Port-au-Prince, Haitian National Pantheon Museum) manifesto against slavery and for the freedom of peoples, is honored in the itinerary. Most of the works will be presented in Paris for the first time since the 19th century and the new research, carried out both for the exhibition and the catalog, will allow a true rediscovery of this artist.

The Jean-Jacques Henner Museum in Paris is hosting a group exhibition of 19th-century female artists, showcasing works by female artists from Jean-Jacques Henner's "Ladies' Workshop". The exhibition features 80 paintings, sketches, letters and photographs, looking back on the careers of 17 female artists including Louise Abbéma, Madeleine Smith, Juana Romani, Ottilie Roederstein, Dorothy Tennant, and showcasing the artistic training, female friendship and creative ability of female artists in the late 19th century.

The Tree Tales exhibition is a fairy tale of trees. Profoundly in love with wood, the Danish designer and Master-cabinet maker Laura Bergsøe has devoted her life to revealing the personality and “soul” of the trees that she sources all over the world for her dream-like tables, shelves, lamps and wall reliefs. Bergsøe works with the uniqueness of each piece of wood – its veins and knots, twists and turns - which she enhances through precious metals and materials, such as liquid silver, bronze and raw diamonds, delicately inserted into the wood. Rich with imaginative details, such as butterfly joints, bronze and silver ornaments or mammoth tooths, Bergsøe turns the inside of the tree into a wonderland of sprouts and flowers, butterflies, silver lakes and diamond drops.

The Tree Tales exhibition is a fairy tale of trees. Profoundly in love with wood, the Danish designer and Master-cabinet maker Laura Bergsøe has devoted her life to revealing the personality and “soul” of the trees that she sources all over the world for her dream-like tables, shelves, lamps and wall reliefs. Bergsøe works with the uniqueness of each piece of wood – its veins and knots, twists and turns - which she enhances through precious metals and materials, such as liquid silver, bronze and raw diamonds, delicately inserted into the wood. Rich with imaginative details, such as butterfly joints, bronze and silver ornaments or mammoth tooths, Bergsøe turns the inside of the tree into a wonderland of sprouts and flowers, butterflies, silver lakes and diamond drops.