Exhibition co-produced by the GrandPalaisRmn and the Palais de la découverte (Universcience).

Curators:

Sophie Radix - Co-commissaire et programmatrice expositions, GrandPalaisRmn

Floriane Perot - Co-commissaire et muséographe, Palais de la découverte (Universcience)

Scenography : Studio Bloomer

In the bright light of his final years, Matisse invented a new language: that of cut-out forms and pure color. More than 300 paintings, drawings, books and cut-out gouaches retrace, between 1941 and 1954, the journey of a free artist in perpetual motion.

The exhibition Matisse. 1941-1954 sheds light on the final years of Henri Matisse's career, between 1941 and 1954, through more than 300 works - paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles and stained glass - from the Centre Pompidou collection and major international loans. It reveals the multidisciplinary scope of his practice during this period, while bringing together an exceptional group of cut-out gouaches.

Conceived as a journey through the painter's universe, the exhibition recreates the vibrant atmosphere of his ever-changing studio. An invitation to discover Matisse's flourishing "garden," room after room.

Coproduction between Centre Pompidou and GrandPalaisRmn

With the participation of the Musée Matisse Nice

Curator 

Claudine Grammont - Head of the Graphic Art Department, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou

Scenography: Julie Boidin

Icon of contemporary photography, Nan Goldin is exhibited as a filmmaker. The Grand Palais presents the first retrospective in France devoted to her videos and slideshows, which the artist describes as "films made up of stills". An intimate journey through her life, her friendships, her loves, and her struggles.

After travelling to Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Milan, the exhibition now arrives in Paris, at the Grand Palais and the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, offering a unique immersion into Nan Goldin's intimate, moving, and profoundly human world.

The exhibition is organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in collaboration with the GrandPalaisRmn, Paris, the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.

Her work upended the chronology of modern art. For the first time in France, discover the visionary world of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), a pioneer of abstraction long kept in the shadows. From her large-scale compositions to her secret avant-garde works, her art blends color, form, and symbolism with captivating audacity.

The Grand Palais and the Centre Pompidou present her major work: the Paintings for the Temple (1906-1915), including the monumental series The Ten Largest. The exhibition also highlights the multiple sources of her inspiration - esotericism, folk art, scientific culture - and examines the long-overlooked role of women in the history of modern art. 

This first monographic exhibition in France also reveals an extraordinary story. Hilma af Klint had chosen to keep her abstract works hidden, having them sealed for twenty years after her death. It was not until 1986, with the exhibition The Spiritual in Art in Los Angeles, that her work was finally revealed to the public. 

A rare opportunity to discover an artist who, ahead of her time, transcends the boundaries between art, science, and spirituality.

Coproduction between Centre Pompidou and GrandPalaisRmn

Curators

Pascal Rousseau, Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Scenography : Pascal Rodriguez, Architect-scenographer, Centre Pompidou

Do you believe what you see? After captivating millions of visitors in Tokyo, Miami, and Milan, an exhibition dedicated to Leandro Erlich arrives for the first time in France at the Grand Palais. From one work to another, perspectives shift, architectures are disrupted, and reality transforms before your eyes.

Known for his spectacular installations in public spaces, Leandro Erlich explores the mechanisms of perception. At the intersection of installation, sculpture, and architecture, his immersive works - conceived at a human scale - take the form of dispositifs activated by the viewer's presence. By moving through and observing, each visitor becomes part of the experience. 

The artist draws on techniques borrowed from illusionism and trompe-l'œil: mirrors, appearances, shifts in scale, and perspective effects. Using elements from everyday life, he creates situations that unsettle reference points and transform our relationship to space. 

Conceived in collaboration with curator Fabrice Bousteau, the exhibition unfolds as a progressive journey composed of fourteen monumental and iconic installations: levitating boats, weightless clouds, modernist architectures transformed into infinite labyrinths, as well as a Haussmann-style building tipped onto its side that visitors can climb. 

Several installations, specially conceived for this retrospective, play with the inversion of perspective. What is perceived from the outside is transformed once inside. Viewpoints shift, and points of reference become unstable. Punctuated with artistic, literary, and architectural references, the exhibition also traces the artist's trajectory and questions the way we perceive reality. 

Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn in coproduction with Arthemisia

Curator Fabrice Bousteau