The Grand Palais unveils a dizzying program for its reopening

After three years of complete renovation, the Grand Palais re-unveiled to the public its dazzling glass roof and its fabulous 1900 architecture starting this summer during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, then this fall during the Art Basel Paris and Paris Photo fairs. A taste of its grand reopening on June 6, 2025which will be accompanied by the inauguration of galleries previously closed to the public. To celebrate this long-awaited event, the establishment has just announced a stunning program which begins this winter !

Without waiting for the reopening of all of its exhibition spaces scheduled for June 2025, the Grand Palais will get its programming off to a flying start December 11, 2024 (and until March 19, 2025) with the most important exhibition ever devoted to Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born in 1972)! Designed with the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, this 1,200 m² course will notably include seven monumental installations and will retrace more than 20 years of the career of this artist known for her dreamlike works made of stretched woolen threads, often red, which wrap boats, keys and other symbolic objects.

On June 6, 2025, the Grand Palais will inaugurate his great collaboration with the Pompidou Centerwhich will be closed for work, with a historical exhibition. Presented until January 4, 2026, the latter will be dedicated to the legendary couple formed by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. This vast tour, which will bring together major works (machines, “Tirs”, colorful “Nanas”, etc.) as well as rare documents, will also focus on the role of the Swedish art historian and first director of Beaubourg. Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), who orchestrated the creation, among other things, of the joyful Stravinsky fountain.

300 masterpieces from Bruno Decarme's art brut collection

Two other exciting co-productions with the Center Pompidou are looming: a journey of 300 masterpieces and rare nuggets of outsider art dated from the 17th century^e century to the present day, from the collection of Bruno Decharme, given to Beaubourg in 2021 (from June 6 to September 21, 2025), and another more than 250 drawings from the Center Pompidou collections dated from 1900 to today, signed by the biggest names like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky (from the end of November 2025 to April 4, 2026).

Dolce & Gabbana, Claire Tabouret, Eva Jospin…

Several exhibitions unrelated to Beaubourg have also been announced, including a major thematic tour dedicated to the fashion and luxury house. Dolce & Gabbana (from January 10 to March 31, 2025), the presentation of 16 tapestries woven at the Beauvais factory and in private workshops in Aubusson from boxes of four Danish contemporary artists (from June 6 to July 30, 2025), as well as two exhibition-invitations (from December 2025 to March 2026) dedicated to artists Claire Tabouret and Eva Jospin.

Also renovated and equipped with new spaces, the Palace of Discoverya scientific museum (managed by Universcience and not by the operator GrandPalaisRmn in charge of the rest of the building) installed in the west wing of the Grand Palais, will reopen its doors on June 6, 2025 with a exhibition dedicated to artificial intelligence (a fundamentally current theme which will be explored in all its “duality”), as well as a big party organized June 7, 8 and 9 and a whole program of events. The overall renovation of the Grand Palais, which will be definitively completed in October 2025, also provides the opening of a central axis connecting the Palais de la Découverte and its planetarium to the nave.

Installations, shows and tightrope walkers for the Grand Summer Palace

The GrandPalaisRmn establishment is also launching a summer season entitled “Grand Summer Palace”which will extend each year from June 6 to August 31 and will take the form of numerous activities – exhibitions, theater, dance, DJ evenings, performances, coffee, etc. – offered in the nave. Next summer, the public will discover a 4,000 m² exhibition (distributed between nave and galleries) on the world of inflatables, or even one installation monumentale by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, made of colored cotton, bark and fragrant spices. All inaugurated by a dizzying spectacle (June 6, 7 and 8) by the choreographer Rachid Ouramdanewhich will have around twenty acrobats and tightrope walkers fluttering under the glass roof, including the famous Nathan Paulin.

An exhibition on transparency at the Palais des enfants

Finally, the Grand Palais will reveal many new features intended for children. A place for families, called “Seine Room”will present a new installation every year from June 2025 dedicated to young audiences (the first being signed by Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage), while the Children's Palace will be revealed with a magical exhibition on the theme of transparency (from June 6, 2025 to August 29, 2027) which will combine works of art, interactive devices and tactile experiences.

Waiting for, the “Grand Palace of Mirrors” (the largest indoor ice rink in the world, hosted from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with DJ sets and light shows) will be back under the glass roof from December 14 (and until January 8, 2025). Enough to start the festivities this winter!