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

In the Spring of 2025, Fondation is inviting David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building for an exhibition that will be exceptional in its scale and its originality. The exhibition, which will be held from 9 April to 1 September 2025, will bring together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation. There will be works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings…) and immersive video installations.

A relatively little-known fact: Chinese art can be found at the Louvre. The Department of Decorative Arts holds more than 600 Chinese works, most of which come from the collections of Adolphe Thiers and Adèle de Rothschild and from the royal collections. Among them, some veritable treasures are to be found. A number of these were highlighted by recent research among the collection of Adolphe Thiers, who was a journalist, historian, and a major political figure in the 19th century (as deputy, minister, president of the council and, ultimately, president of the French Republic). The exhibition aims to reveal these exceptional works to the general public, putting them in the historical, diplomatic and cultural context of their creation and their acquisition by Thiers for his collection. It explores Thiers’s little-known passion for China. The exhibition will present over 170 works dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries: scrolls, album pages, engravings, prints, porcelains, jades, lacquers, and precious objets d’art in ivory, bronze, or wood inlaid with gems and mother-of-pearl. The first part of the exhibition will present Adolphe Thiers, his particular vision of art, his collecting practices and his passion for the Renaissance. The second part, the heart of the exhibition, will present the full collection of Chinese art. Thiers, in view of publishing a work on Chinese art, concurrently collected books, documents and objets d’art related to the subject. The exhibition highlights the major themes of his collection: ancient and contemporary history, images of China (landscapes, architecture and dress), some staples of Chinese culture (language, literature and the literati), the ‘Three Teachings’ (Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism), Chinese porcelain (of which he was an expert of renown), and, finally, imperial art. The collection holds a number of masterpieces in this last area, including an exceptional scroll, the Qingming shanghe tu created for the Qianlong emperor.

At the invitation of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961) has created a site-specific work in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé. Since his intervention at the Venice Biennale in 2007, Kuitca has developed a new language, echoing the architecture, which the artist calls ‘cubistoid painting’, in which a set of intersecting lines, like so many folds in the plane, is deployed directly on the walls, forming a new pictorial space.

In the Spring of 2025, Fondation is inviting David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building for an exhibition that will be exceptional in its scale and its originality. The exhibition, which will be held from 9 April to 1 September 2025, will bring together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation. There will be works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings…) and immersive video installations.

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.

The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents the first retrospective in France devoted to German artist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962). Co-founder of the Munich Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) circle, Gabriele Münter is one of the most prominent female artists of German Expressionism. In a male-dominated art world, she created an extremely personal and diverse body of work spanning six decades. While her name is often associated with that of Kandinsky, who was her companion during her years in Munich (1903-1914), Gabriele Münter never ceased to reinvent herself, displaying a striking modernity, mastering a wide range of techniques and leaving behind a prolific body of work. Following the highly acclaimed retrospectives devoted to Sonia Delaunay in 2014-2015, Paula Modersohn-Becker in 2016 and Anna-Eva Bergman in 2023, the MAM is continuing its policy of presenting major female figures of modern art whose artistic careers are closely linked to the capital. The museum invites you to discover this pioneer of modern art, who began her career in Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants.

This exhibition deliberately makes such blurriness a key that opens another interpretation of a whole area of modern and contemporary visual creation. Initially defined as “loss of distinctness”, blurriness has shown itself to be the favourite means of expression in a world where instability reigns and visibility is clouded. It was on the ruins left by the Second Word War that this out-of-focus aesthetic took root and began to deploy its inevitably political dimension. The Cartesian principle of discernment, which had prevailed in art for so long, now appeared altogether inoperative. With the erosion of visible certainties and in the face of the range of possibilities available to them as a result, artists came up with new approaches, shaping their works out of the transitory, disorder, movement, incompleteness and doubt… Taking note of a fundamental shift in the world order, they opted for the indeterminate, the indistinct and allusion. This distancing from naturalistic clarity went hand-in-hand with a quest for polysemy, expressed by a permeability of mediums and more importance being assigned to the beholder’s interpretation. Instrument of sublimation as much as manifestation of a latent truth, blurriness became both symptom and remedy of a world in search of meaning.

The Musée national Picasso-Paris collection is the fruit of an extraordinary history, made possible by the dation procedure - today it is the largest public collection of works by Picasso, the "Picassos of Picasso". Coming from the artist's studios, this collection gives us a better grasp of the aesthetic explorations of a Picasso who was by turns disconcerting, plural, contradictory, reflexive, gestural and conceptual, an aesthete and a committed activist, a tinkerer and a poet. Is he symbolist, cubist, classical, surrealist or simply figurative and political?

From January 30, 2025,throughJanuary 4, 2026, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech invites you to experienceYves Saint Laurent: The Hamish Bowles Collection, fifty-three odes to elegance, brought to life through an outstanding loan that will enthral visitors.

When the mirror ball reflects thousands of stars, the Philharmonie de Paris is brewing a cross-century cultural carnival! This art palace famous for classical music is going to put on a gorgeous battle robe for disco music. Starting from Valentine's Day 2025, the six-month-long "Disco, I'm coming out" special exhibition will take you stepping on colorful notes and return to the golden age of freedom and rebellion. Here, every pair of dancing shoes hides a story, and every melody is a declaration of cultural revolution.

Housed in the classic rotunda structure of the Paris Stock Exchange, the Pinault Museum presents Corps et âmes, a selection of about a hundred works from the Pinault Collection, exploring the representation of the body in contemporary art as a response to the huge panorama of paintings that surround the building's glass dome. The exhibition explores the meaning of the body in contemporary thought through works by about forty artists from the Pinault Collection. Freed from all constraints of mimesis, the body - whether photographed, sculpted, painted, photographed or drawn - constantly reinvents itself, thus giving art an essential organic quality that allows it to feel the pulse of the body and the soul, like an umbilical cord.

The Jacquemart-Andre Museum hosts a retrospective of the works of Italian female painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1656), looking back on her fearless life and creative career and exploring her position in the history of 17th century painting.

A pioneer of Neo-Impressionism and a pillar of anarchist and libertarian circles, Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) marked his era with a profound artistic and political commitment. A painter of urban and rural landscapes and the human condition, he captured the social and industrial transformations of his time with a unique sensitivity. The first Parisian retrospective since 1983 dedicated to this major Neo-Impressionist painter, the exhibition is held just steps from where Luce resided from 1887 to 1900, on Rue Cortot. Rooted in the history of Montmartre and the contradictions of his time, the painter's work is highlighted in this exhibition, which aims to reaffirm his importance and introduce his often overlooked oeuvre to the general public. Besides the humanist character that made the man's heart beat and distinguished his entire oeuvre, landscape was the other dominant theme that animated his painting throughout his life. Luce captures light and color, revealing the beauty of urban and rural landscapes with a persistent social sensitivity. For the exhibition "Maximilien Luce, the Instinct for Landscape," the Musée de Montmartre has chosen to present his work through the prism of landscape, taking visitors on a retrospective journey between the two essential centers of his life: Paris and Rolleboise. Visitors are invited to follow the artist's wanderings from Montmartre, where he lived from 1887 to 1900, through the bustle of the Parisian streets, and through his travels from Saint-Tropez to the Pays-Noir of Charleroi, via the Netherlands, Normandy, and London.

Gaza is home to a wealth of archaeological sites from all periods that are now in peril. The IMA is therefore offering an exceptional collection in more ways than one, made up of highly valuable pieces that the vagaries of history have saved from disaster and which reveal the depth of its history, a priceless treasure whose complexity is reflected in this exhibition. Since 2007, the Geneva Museum of Art and History (MAH) has become the museum-refuge for an archaeological collection of nearly 529 works belonging to the Palestinian National Authority and which have never been able to return to Gaza: these amphorae, statuettes, funerary steles, oil lamps, figurines, mosaics, etc., dating from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman era, form a collection that has become a reference in light of the recent destruction.

The Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris presents the first retrospective in France devoted to the German artist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962). Co-founder of the Munich circle of the Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter), Gabriele Münter is one of the most eminent female artists of German Expressionism. In an artistic world dominated by men, she was able to create an extremely personal and diverse body of work that spans six decades.

The exhibition "Agnès Varda's Paris, Here and There" explores the work of Agnès Varda (1928-2019) from a unique perspective. It showcases the artist's still little-known photographic oeuvre and reveals the pivotal role of the courtyard-studio on Rue Daguerre (Paris 14th arrondissement), a space where she lived and created from 1951 to 2019. More generally, it demonstrates the importance of Paris in a free and abundant oeuvre that never takes easy paths and wonderfully creates a dialogue between documentary and fiction.

World-renowned for its stone monuments, Khmer art also produced significant bronze statuary, knowledge of which has undergone spectacular advances thanks to recent excavations. The Guimet Museum is dedicating the exhibition Royal Bronzes of Angkor: An Art of the Divine to bronze. The highlight of this exhibition is the statue of the reclining Vishnu from the Western Mebon—an 11th-century sanctuary west of Angkor—discovered in 1936, which originally measured over five meters in length. This Cambodian national treasure will be exhibited for the first time with its long-separated fragments, after benefiting from a scientific analysis and restoration campaign in France in 2024, with the patronage of ALIPH (International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage). It will be accompanied by more than 200 works, including 126 exceptional loans from the National Museum of Cambodia, whose presence allows for a chronological journey of bronze art in Cambodia, from the 9th century to the present day, through a journey leading the visitor to the major sites of Khmer heritage.

To conclude the program within the building, which will close for five years of renovation, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (born in 1968, Germany) has been given carte blanche to take over the 6,000 m² of Level 2 of the Bibliothèque publique d’information (Bpi). He will explore both the library’s form—its architecture and layout—and its functions, such as the transmission of knowledge, accessibility, and resource sharing, through the lens of his aesthetic universe.Rooted in the counterculture spirit of the early 1990s, Tillmans' photographic work delves into the profound transformation of media and information platforms in our time. By proposing new ways of making, viewing, and confronting images—both with each other and across disciplines such as video, music, text, and performance—he invites us to embrace a renewed humanism.

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.

AC/DC Paris is set to electrify the City of Lights on August 9, 2025, at the iconic StadedeFrance. With a ticket price of 281 USD, this highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening of rock 'n' roll. Known for their high-energy performances and legendary hits, AC/DC will bring their signature sound to Paris, captivating fans with classics like "Back in Black" and "Highway to Hell." As one of the most influential bands in rock history, their Paris concert is expected to draw a massive crowd, eager to experience the raw power and charisma that AC/DC delivers on stage. The StadedeFrance, located in the heart of Paris, provides the perfect backdrop for this monumental event, ensuring an immersive and exhilarating experience for all attendees. Don't miss the chance to witness rock legends in action at AC/DC Paris, an event that promises to be a highlight of the summer.

AC/DC Paris is set to electrify the City of Light with an unforgettable performance at the iconic Stade de France on August 9, 2025, at 19:00. This highly anticipated event promises to be a monumental gathering for rock enthusiasts, featuring the legendary band's classic hits and high-voltage energy. With tickets priced at 135 USD, fans will experience a night of unparalleled rock 'n' roll in one of the world's most renowned venues. The Stade de France, located in Paris, France, offers a grand stage for AC/DC's powerful sound and dynamic stage presence. As anticipation builds, AC/DC Paris is poised to be a landmark event, drawing attendees from around the globe to witness a historic night of music and celebration.

Discover the world of drawing and watercolor painting at the "Atelier d'initiation au dessin et à l'aquarelle" event in Paris. Held at the Mairie du Neuf on 6 Rue Drouot, 75009 Paris, on August 28, 2025, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore these artistic techniques for free. Whether you are a beginner or looking to refine your skills, this event provides a supportive environment to unleash your creativity. Immerse yourself in a day of artistic discovery and take your first steps towards mastering drawing and watercolor painting.

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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Orchestre Hélios Violon Solo : Glen Rouxel Les 4 Saisons de Vivaldi « Été » et « Hiver », « 1er mvt » du Concerto pour violon E minor op 64 de Mendelssohn « Sarabande » de Haendel « Ave Maria » de Gounod « Rondo Capriccioso » de Saint-Saëns « Mélodie » de Tchaïkovski « Sicilienne » de Paradis « Mélodie » de Gluck Retrouvez la magie de la musique classique à travers ce concert réunissant les œuvres les plus célèbres du répertoire. 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, le répertoire est à la fois symphonique et choral, l’orchestre s’associant aux chœurs départementaux et régionaux. Grâce à la collaboration avec 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 les plus prestigieuses églises de Paris, ce qui permet au public de découvrir un patrimoine architectural très riche. Sa formation à géométrie variable permet à l’orchestre Hélios d’aborder un répertoire très large avec une curiosité passionnée. Information Source: orchestre Hélios - Classique à tout prix | eventbrite