Featured Events in Paris in November, 2024 (May Updated)

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.

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.

On 9 October 2024, the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection will host a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera. Between legacies and influences, the exhibition comprises more than 250 historic and contemporary works, as well as pieces that have taken their inspiration from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s. This exhibition explains both the Italian birth and the international emanation of this movement through works by the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio. Situated within the unique architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition has been conceived as a landscape that one traverses and which becomes the terrain in which the infinite poetics of Arte Povera are rooted. Envisioned by the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognised specialist of this artistic movement, the exhibition « Arte Povera » features some fifty historic, emblematic works from the Pinault Collection which have been placed in relation to pieces from other prestigious public and private collections.

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.

On 9 October 2024, the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection will host a major exhibition devoted to Arte Povera. Between legacies and influences, the exhibition comprises more than 250 historic and contemporary works, as well as pieces that have taken their inspiration from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s. This exhibition explains both the Italian birth and the international emanation of this movement through works by the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio. Situated within the unique architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition has been conceived as a landscape that one traverses and which becomes the terrain in which the infinite poetics of Arte Povera are rooted. Envisioned by the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognised specialist of this artistic movement, the exhibition « Arte Povera » features some fifty historic, emblematic works from the Pinault Collection which have been placed in relation to pieces from other prestigious public and private collections.

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.

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 is an opportunity to get to know this Italian artistic movement through the collection of works by thirteen of its main protagonists. Arte Povera is an Italian artistic movement that emerged on the international stage in the 1960s. From October 9, 2024 to January 27, 2025, this magnificent monument in the heart of Paris will host a major exhibition that traces the birth of this artistic movement in Italy and its international impact. Artists closely associated with this movement include Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Ioannis Kounellis, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Plini and Gilberto Zorio. These artists, mainly from Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Milan and Rome, have truly changed the language of contemporary art by expanding the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography.

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 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.

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.

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.

Gagosian is pleased to announce Maison Ancart, an exhibition of new paintings by Harold Ancart, opening on October 14, 2024, at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The paintings in Maison Ancart are conceived in conversation with the spirit of radical freedom and innovation put forth by pioneering abstractionists, from the Post-Impressionists and the School of Paris to postwar American artists, among others. The trees, meadows, ponds, mountains, and other features operate as archetypal forms that Ancart revisits throughout this body of work. According to the artist, these subjects serve as an “alibi” for painting, providing a platform through which he can experiment with paint. Ancart develops his paintings with the medium of oil stick, using saturated colors and boldly defined forms to picture imagined places abstracted from landscape motifs. He emphasizes the primacy of his artmaking process, defining his subjects to alternately anchor the compositions and disrupt their stability. The viewpoints established are from below or straight on, emphasizing their scale and the artist’s negotiation of surface and depth, abstraction and representation. Made with attention to the boundaries between forms and their contours, the paintings are unified by Ancart’s articulation of horizons through juxtapositions of color, offering through lines across the canvases.

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.

GALLERIA CONTINUA presents in its exhibition space in Paris, in the heart of the Marais, a new solo exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto, titled Nouvelle perspective (New perspective).

The great Scandinavian troublemakers of contemporary art, Elmgreen & Dragset are invited to place their poetic sculptures in dialogue with the iconic Nave of Sculptures of the Musée d’Orsay. Their exhibitions are always situated at the crossroads of performance, space and sculpture. The presentation they have created specifically for the Musée d’Orsay will shake up the gaze of visitors, invited to dive into a museum turned upside down.

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?’

The exhibition The Solo Globe, which will run from October 16, 2024 to January 26, 2025, looks back at the history, great heroes, explorations and special features of the Vendée Globe The Vendée Globe, held every four years since 1989, is a truly special event in world sailing. Dozens of competitors (33 in 2020) sail solo around the world in a monohull. No stops are allowed, nor any assistance: a long and arduous journey awaits the sailors. Many incredible stories, both glories and tragedies, have taken place during this epic journey. For this exhibition, the Oceanographic Museum has brought together nearly 300 special pieces and objects to tell and explain the story of this race, its pioneers and its challenges. Exhibits include sailing paraphernalia, models, clothing, artwork, books and archival documents, as well as audio-visual programmes and never-before-seen interviews with racers.

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.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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.

The exhibition The Solo Globe, which will run from October 16, 2024 to January 26, 2025, looks back at the history, great heroes, explorations and special features of the Vendée Globe The Vendée Globe, held every four years since 1989, is a truly special event in world sailing. Dozens of competitors (33 in 2020) sail solo around the world in a monohull. No stops are allowed, nor any assistance: a long and arduous journey awaits the sailors. Many incredible stories, both glories and tragedies, have taken place during this epic journey. For this exhibition, the Oceanographic Museum has brought together nearly 300 special pieces and objects to tell and explain the story of this race, its pioneers and its challenges. Exhibits include sailing paraphernalia, models, clothing, artwork, books and archival documents, as well as audio-visual programmes and never-before-seen interviews with racers.

“Stone Speakers” is an immersive experience. It invites the audience to enter a volcanic landscape of mineral sculptures, amid which can be heard the primordial conversations of the earth. Using recordings of volcanoes made in Colombia, Ethiopia, Iceland, Indonesia and Italy, Julian Charrière connects us with the bowels of the planet, seen not as an inert kingdom, but on the contrary as a living, vibrant place. Magma chambers, tides, and tectonic plates all in motion come together. The exhibition space, transformed into a symbolical crater, amplifies their rumbling, penetrating dialogues. It creates an architectural echo chamber exploring our relationship with other forms of life, using a live feed of data from global seismic monitoring stations that capture the sounds of rock and tectonic plates.

“Stone Speakers” is an immersive experience. It invites the audience to enter a volcanic landscape of mineral sculptures, amid which can be heard the primordial conversations of the earth. Using recordings of volcanoes made in Colombia, Ethiopia, Iceland, Indonesia and Italy, Julian Charrière connects us with the bowels of the planet, seen not as an inert kingdom, but on the contrary as a living, vibrant place. Magma chambers, tides, and tectonic plates all in motion come together. The exhibition space, transformed into a symbolical crater, amplifies their rumbling, penetrating dialogues. It creates an architectural echo chamber exploring our relationship with other forms of life, using a live feed of data from global seismic monitoring stations that capture the sounds of rock and tectonic plates.

Omar Ba is returning to Paris after a six-year absence with a brand-new project. Leading light of the French art book world Diane de Selliers invited Omar Ba to illustrate the famous Fulani narrative, Kaïdara, as collected and transcribed by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ.

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