Featured Events in Paris in July, 2025 (May Updated)

Paul Poiret, the legendary French designer who led the revolution, opened the prototype of modern fashion in the 20th century with his mysterious design elements that advocated oriental aesthetics, and once created the amazing "Oriental style clothing". As a fantasy master in the fashion industry and an aesthetic dictator who is regarded as the "King of Fashion", Paul is also the first designer to establish a perfume company. His talent extends to interior design and he has become the ancestor of the fusion of fashion and lifestyle. In 2025, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris will launch a special exhibition to commemorate the figure of this legendary master who ignited the fashion revolution with the flowing clothing silhouette and colorful colors. The exhibition content will focus on Paul Poiret's fashion design, decorative art, and perfumery, and then go deep into topics such as party style and food taste, recreating the dreamlike fashion scene in the early 20th century and remembering the master together.

Discover the fascinating world of pastel art at the "Atelier d'initiation au pastel - Portrait: Ary Scheffer et les romantiques" event in Paris. This event will take place at the Mairie du Neuf on July 17, 2025. Immerse yourself in the techniques and styles of the renowned artist Ary Scheffer and the Romantic movement. The venue is located at 6 Rue Drouot, 75009 Paris, offering a unique opportunity to explore the art form. Admission to this event is free, making it accessible to all art enthusiasts and beginners alike. Don't miss this chance to learn and be inspired by the beauty of pastel portraits in a historic setting.

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

“Chaosmos” is an invitation to 12 artists to tell us about the cosmos and invent new ways of inhabiting the Earth. Welcome to Chaosmos, a world that deconstructs, in order to better reconstruct, in time and space, the place in the universe that we attribute to ourselves and the way in which we inhabit the world, the traces that we leave there, the links that we establish there. From this precariously balanced zone emerge the works of twelve contemporary artists, from several countries around the world: South Africa, Belgium, Canada, Spain, France, Guyana, Japan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia. They evoke the relationship between our conception of the cosmos and our attitude towards the preservation of life on Earth.

Through an exceptional collection of nearly 230 works, "L'art est dans la rue" explores the spectacular rise of the illustrated poster in Paris during the second half of the 19th century. Organized in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the exhibition is the first of its kind on this scale. In fact, no major event in Paris has ever been devoted to this social phenomenon, bringing together so many outstanding works by the "Masters of the Poster". Bonnard, Chéret, Grasset, Mucha, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec... Conceived as an immersion into the visual universe of the 19th century city, the exhibition traces the golden age of the artistic poster, analyzing the social and cultural changes that favored its development, in dialogue with a unique collection of posters, paintings, photographs, costumes, sculptures and decorative objects that evoke the exuberant world of the street at the turn of the century.

Thanks to the cooperation of many important institutions, the exhibition "Tous Léger!" is on display at the Luxembourg Museum. The exhibition is curated based on the museum's existing collection, and the works of modern art pioneer Fernand Léger (1881-1955) are in dialogue with the works of European and American avant-garde artists from the 1960s to the present. The title of the exhibition has multiple meanings: on the one hand, it directly refers to Fernand Léger's name Léger, emphasizing his central position in the exhibition, while also implying the approachability and integration of art advocated by Léger and his new realism movement into daily life, suggesting a "light (Léger)" and unpretentious attitude.

The exhibition "Lucas Arruda. Qu’importe le paysage" at the Musée d’Orsay is the first monographic exhibition at a French museum to be devoted to this emblematic figure on Brazil’s contemporary art scene. A true master of pictorial gesture, he has developed his work around light, consistently depicting landscapes and taking a rigorous approach that leads him from figuration to abstraction.

FOR HER SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE FONDATION AS PART OF THE OPEN SPACE PROGRAMME, TABITA REZAIRE PRESENTS THE FILM "DES/ASTRES" (2024), THE LAST PART OF A TRILOGY DEVOTED TO THE TIES THAT HUMANITY FORGES WITH THE COSMOS.

From 9 April to 31 August 2025, the Musée Marmottan Monet presents the exhibition ‘Eugène Boudin, the father of Impressionism : a private collection’. Collector Yann Guyonwarc’h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist’s career is represented, from his first paintings in Le Havre to his final trip to Venice; from private sketches to paintings for the Salon (including one of the two largest beach scenes ever painted by Boudin). The works in this prestigious collection are matched with the holdings of the Musée Marmottan Monet, to highlight the dialogue between Boudin and his main pupil, Claude Monet. Thanks to the participation of the Durand-Ruel archives, the relationship between the two artists and their main dealer is also explored.

Since 2019, the museum has invited a contemporary artist to come and dialogue with its collection. For the ninth edition of these “Unexpected Dialogues.”, it has chosen to invite Françoise Pétrovitch. A major artist on the French and international art scene. In this “Unexpected Dialogue”, presented from April 9 to September 14, 2025, she has chosen another woman artist, Berthe Morisot, with whom she shares the themes of portraiture, childhood, adolescence and intimacy. Here, the parallel between Morisot’s Roses trémières and Pétrovitch’s Soleils highlights another bridge between the two painters: the very embodied, interior relationship with nature.

While Khmer art is known around the world for its stone monuments, recent excavations have provided dramatic breakthroughs regarding our knowledge about its significant bronze statues.

Schipper Gallery is pleased to announce Martin Boyce’s exhibition “Walk with Me” at Galerie Natalie Seroussi. The exhibition will be held concurrently with the artist’s solo exhibition “Unhome” at Schipper Gallery. The title “Walk with Me” is taken from David Lynch’s 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, an iconic film known for its mysterious atmosphere and refusal to be interpreted in a single way. Like Lynch’s work, Martin Boyce’s work incorporates ambiguity and uncertainty, inviting the viewer into a dramatic, disorienting, and emotionally dense dialogue. This also echoes the creative attitude of the Surrealist artists, many of whom are carefully selected by Boyce from the Natalie Seroussi Gallery collection to be presented together with his works.

This exhibition opens like a wound: gaping, silent, irreversible. The figures it summons are neither allegorical nor documentary. They emerge from a void, in the midst of a loss of meaning, as if humanity, caught in a final spasm, were dancing its own extinction. Inspired by the "epidemic dance" that occurred in Strasbourg in 1518, Hang Lu does not cite: he transposes. He transforms this delirious episode into a pictorial gesture, where trance becomes a formal language.

Conceptual artist, photographer, and filmmaker Peter Downsbrough, whose spare, communicative works blended architecture and typography to engage and fundamentally alter space, died on August 10 in Brussels, where he had lived since 1989. He was eighty-three. His death was announced by Boston’s Krakow Witkin Gallery, which represented him. “Downsbrough’s works are markers that define the intersections between the conditions and experience of their construction and perception,” wrote curator Ann Goldstein in Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965–1975. “Rather than describing a situation, they concretize, fragment, and intervene in the process and conditions of representation. They do not delineate a place but the conditions of place.”

Orchestre Hélios Violon et Direction : Glen Rouxel Les quatre saisons d’Antonio Vivaldi est un ensemble de quatre concerti pour violon, composé en 1723. Il s’agit sans doute de la composition la plus connue de Vivaldi et de l’œuvre musicale la plus jouée dans le monde. Il d’agit d’un concerto pour violon où un violon joue accompagné d’un orchestre de chambre. Le contenu de chaque concerto est varié et évoque chacune des saisons auquel il se rapporte. A titre d’exemple, l’hiver est ponctué de notes en pizzicato sur les cordes hautes, faisant penser à une pluie glaciale, alors que l’été évoque un orage dans le mouvement final, préparé par le tonnerre qui gronde à plusieurs reprises dans le mouvement. Les concerti des quatre saisons furent d’abord publiés en 1725 comme une partie d’un ensemble de 12 concerti, L’opus N°8 sous le thème de « la confrontation entre l’harmonie et l’invention » (il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione). Les quatre premiers concerti étaient nommés les quatre saisons, lesquels portaient le nom de la saison en question. Dynamique et éclectique, l’orchestre Hélios s’est imposé depuis sa création en 2014. Son directeur artistique, Paul Savalle, favorise l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes musiciens par la pratique d’orchestre. Ainsi, de jeunes diplômés se mêlent aux musiciens d’orchestre, aux chefs et aux solistes expérimentés, dans des conditions de travail optimales. De la musique baroque à la musique contemporaine, les programmes sont variés. Quant au répertoire, il est à la fois symphonique et choral, l’orchestre s’associant aux chœurs départementaux et régionaux. Grâce à la collaboration de différents chefs, les musiciens abordent un répertoire très riche en élargissant leur palette d’interprétation. Ils sont tous issus des grands conservatoires français, certains appartenant à un orchestre national. Du quatuor à cordes à l’orchestre symphonique, en passant par l’ensemble de cuivres, l’orchestre élargit toujours son audience en modulant sa composition. La formation « cordes » se produit dans des endroits pittoresques qui ne sauraient accueillir un orchestre symphonique, ce qui permet au public de découvrir un patrimoine architectural très riche. En somme, grâce à sa formation à géométrie variable, l’orchestre Hélios aborde le répertoire le plus large avec une curiosité passionnée. Information Source: orchestre Hélios - Classique à tout prix | eventbrite

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Immerse yourself in the heart of the French capital's bustling creativity during the Paris Arts Festival Summer 2024!It’s a vibrant celebration of theatre, dance, circus, music, performances and installations taking over Paris’s iconic locations and unusual corners. True to its original mission, the event strives to democratize access to arts and culture, providing everyone with the opportunity to marvel and flourish in a festive and friendly environment.