Featured Events in Paris in December 2024 (May Updated)

Six installations (Éric Baudelaire, Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon, Auriea Harvey, Ho Rui An, Interspecifics, Agnieszka Kurant) to explore the fruitful links between artistic creation and artificial intelligence. Reflection on collective memory as catalogued in national archives, experimental investigation on the end of great narratives, future projection of unrealized works of art, intimate experiences, or backwashes of colonial history… If generative AI promises to transform artistic research and offer new tools for creation, it also has a profound impact on the way we are now led to look at works of art.

Jeu de Paume pays tribute to Belgian filmmaker, artist and writer Chantal Akerman (Brussels 1950 – Paris 2015) with an exceptional exhibition, conceived by the Bozar-Centre for Fine Arts, The Chantal Akerman Foundation and Royal Film Archive of Belgium.

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.

This exhibition is the finale of a global tour of the collections of the Berggruen Museum and the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin in Germany. It displays works by 20th-century masters collected by German businessman and collector Heinz Berggruen, presenting his relationship with artists and the network of the post-war Paris art market.

From the early 2010s, the vocabulary of Amélie Bertrand has been made up of motifs - almost signs - that everyone can easily understand: brick walls, fences, chains, swimming pool tiles, taken from answers given online to questions in the form of keywords. She then combined them into “credible spaces” forming strange landscapes, which provoked in the viewer a feeling of mirage often leading to discomfort, exploring the possibilities and contradictions of these artificial images. At the center of this universe, nymphs become shapes, or perhaps the contrary, and the geometric form becomes a water lily, a symbol of proven effectiveness, definitively checked and almost exhausted by the vast series by Claude Monet and the immersive decor of Musée de l’Orangerie.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's work lies at the intersection between fiction cinema, experimental film, and an artistic exploration that integrates space, images and sounds in new situations.

The fall 2024 exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his preference for the male figure and male portraiture, and seeks to examine the artist's profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history's changing perspective on 19th-century masculinity. The exhibition features approximately 70 works, including Caillebotte's most important figure paintings, as well as pastels, drawings, photographs, and documents.

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.

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.

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.

The collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, one of the three largest art museums in the Netherlands, will soon be exhibited in France, presenting 120 classical Italian paintings at the Custodia Foundation. The exhibits were created in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, and are from talented painters of the Italian Renaissance, such as Pisanello, Léonard de Vinci, Raphaël, Michel-Ange, Véronèse, Corrège, etc. A group of Renaissance paintings that were recently confirmed to belong to painters such as Pontormo, Federico Zuccaro, Aurelio Lomi, Pellegrino Tibaldi, etc., which were jointly studied by the two museums, will also be on display at the same time.

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris presents Dream Time, Daniel Boyd's first solo exhibition in France, which includes a series of new paintings and an intervention in dialogue with the gallery's architecture. With his unique pictorial language, Daniel Boyd seeks to de-locate our visual perception from a single entry to one of multiplicity by directing our gaze toward narratives obscured by empire and oppressive cultural framework. Taking as his subject landscapes, historical representations and portraits linked to his own personal history, heretofore invisible, as well as iconic figures rarely depicted in the visual arts, Daniel Boyd continues to transmit and transpose his cultural and artistic traditions while expanding our collective imagination.

Adrian Sutton presents “Curiosa Continua”, an exhibition of textile works and drawings by Serbian artist Emilija Radojicic, the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.

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.

Recognized as one of the leading voices of his generation,Rashid Johnson’s new works in this exhibition at ourParis gallery, which span painting, sculpture and film, demonstrate the artist’s longstanding interest in the concepts of interiority and self-reflection. The exhibition marks the gallery debut of two new bodies of painting, the closely-related Soul Paintings and God Paintings, both series that Johnson has developed over the past year. Alongside and evolving out of the works on canvas are two new series of bronze sculptures, their roughly-modeled surfaces bearing witness to the artist’s hand in a way that has dominated his sculptural practice in recent years. Also on display is the artist’s latest film, ‘Sanguine,’ exploring relationships of attention and care among three generations of the artist's family: his father, himself and his son. Continuing to expand his distinctive visual lexicon, this exhibition exemplifies the artist’s interest in animism, the belief in which all things, including inanimate objects, have souls. Through the concept of animism, the artist connects to a reality beyond the physical, building an expansive vision of the universe in which all objects, including the paintings and sculptures on view, are imbued with spiritual life.

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.

A&R Fleury gallery is pleased to present “Vieira da Silva / Penalba. The Path to Consecration”, an exhibition curated by Victoria Giraudo.

Skarstedt presents Andy Warhol: Who is Who?, an exhibition that delves into the myriad influences art history had on Warhol’s oeuvre. This exhibition traces his art historical appropriations throughout the 1970s and 1980s, featuring seminal examples of works from series such as Heads (After Picasso), The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, After de Chirico, and The Scream (After Edvard Munch). By holistically examining Warhol’s dialogues with art history, Who is Who? offers new insight into Warhol’s interests: his relationship to icons, both religious and secular; his collapsing of the boundaries between high and low; his interest in mass reproduction; and his perceived place within this grand lineage. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication authored by Bernard Blistène.

Galerie Max Hetzler presents In the Altogether, Glenn Brown’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, and the second in the Paris space. Furthering the artist’s ongoing dialogue between antiquity and modernity, ingenuity and appropriation, the beautiful and the grotesque, Brown presents a new body of paintings of the human form, where dichotomous worlds collapse and collide.

Almine Rech Paris pressents its 12th exhibition with James Turrell, over 3 decades. A new light piece is on view from the artist's ongoing Glasses series, begun in 2004.

Mitterrand gallery presents its very first exhibition at 95 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, History is round like the Earth by Chilean artist Roberto Matta. The exhibition brings together some thirty works - paintings, sculptures and drawings - covering each decade from the 1930s to the 1990s. An original text by American art historian Terri Geis will also be published for the occasion.

In autumn 2024, the Musée Rodin will showcase a little-known piece from its collections: Auguste Rodin’s Study for Balzac's Dressing Gown. Drawing on a series of sculptures from the museum’s collections, 19th-century garments from the Palais Galliera and never-before-shown archives from the Institut de France, the exhibition titled In·visible Bodies conducts an investigation into Rodin’s search for a body for Balzac, centred on his singular piece, Dressing Gown. This enquiry is a prelude to an exploration into the bodies – be they real, idealised, static or obscured – in 19th-century monumental statuary, which continue to populate our contemporary world today.

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.

From October 15, 2024 to January 19, 2025, the Musée national Picasso-Paris presents a new temporary exhibition devoted to the American artist Jackson Pollock. First exhibition in France since 2008, it will focus on his early works, from 1934 to 1947. The exhibition "Jackson Pollock: The Early Years (1934-1947)" revisits the early career of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), marked by the influence of regionalism and Mexican muralists, right up to his first drippings in 1947. This body of work, rarely exhibited for its own sake, bears witness to the diverse sources that nourished the young artist's research, crossing the influence of native American arts with that of the European avant-gardes, among which Pablo Picasso figures prominently. Compared to the Spanish painter and the great names of European painting by the critics, Pollock was quickly established as a true monument of American painting, and in so doing, isolated from the more complex networks of exchanges of influences that nourished his work during his New York years. The exhibition aims to present in detail these years, which were the laboratory for his work, by restoring the artistic and intellectual context from which both were nourished. The exhibition focuses on several key moments in the young Pollock's artistic and intellectual development during these years of experimentation. By calling on key figures in his artistic career (Charles Pollock, William Baziotes, Lee Krasner, André Masson, Pablo Picasso, Janet Sobel...), the exhibition highlights the intensity and singularity of his work in its various dimensions (painting and working with materials, printmaking, sculpture).

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris presents envelopper la Terre, a solo exhibition of works by Giuseppe Penone in the space at 66 rue du Temple. This exhibition marks the debut of Avvolgere la terra (To enfold the earth), 2024, a new limited edition produced in collaboration with Marian Goodman Gallery. Following Journal, a limited edition by Bruce Nauman published by the gallery in 2022, this new editioned work revisits our history, echoing the activities of Multiples, Inc, a pioneering art publishing company founded by Marian Goodman in the 1960s. Avvolgere la terra, consisting of 17 sculptures in terracotta with ochre and yellow pigments, refers in name to a primordial gesture, underscoring the intricate relationship between nature and humanity. The edition will be displayed with a selection of works on paper with the same title dating from 2010 and 2015, as well as in dialogue with Pressione (Pressure), 1977 a rarely seen large-scale immersive charcoal wall drawing which has been specially reproduced for this occasion.

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.

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.

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.