David Hockney at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Dennis Morris at the MEP, or even Nicola L. in Nantes and so many others… Are ready to impress us and fill our ears at the start of the year 2025 which promises to be rich in culture!
Wax at the Museum of Man
Wax, this fabric with vibrant patterns and colors, often perceived as “African”, has been growing in popularity in the West for more than a decade. A 430 m² exhibition explores its little-known history and highlights its diversity. Combining the perspectives of experts and artists, she reveals wax in all its richness through a journey at the Foyer Germaine Tillion and the Balcon des Sciences. Clothing, accessories or objects, wax stands out as a symbol of creativity and cultural mixing.
From February 5 to September 7, 2025
Museum of Man
17 Place du Trocadéro – 75016 Paris
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Degenerate Art at the Picasso Museum
From February 18 to May 25, 2025, the Musée national Picasso-Paris presents the exhibition ““Degenerate” art: The trial of modern art under Nazism”. The first in France, it analyzes the methodical attack of the Nazi regime against modern art and the central role of Pablo Picasso, an emblematic figure of artists described as “degenerate”. A unique historical and artistic dive.
From February 8 to May 25, 2025
National Picasso Museum
5 rue de Thorigny – 75003 Paris
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Georges Mathieu at the Paris Mint
More than 50 years after Georges Mathieu’s historic exhibition, Monnaie de Paris, in collaboration with the Center Pompidou, is organizing a new retrospective in its emblematic spaces. This exhibition highlights the artist’s pictorial work and his creations for the Mint, including the famous 10 franc coin, produced in nearly 700 million copies between 1974 and 1987. In March-April 1971, Mathieu, then at the height of his career, already presented his “Medals and Paintings”, merging “Lyrical Abstraction” and the codes of the traditional medal. Innovating with his “Matheotypy” and bold forms, he created a striking work celebrating Eighteen Moments of Western Consciousness.
From April 11 to September 7, 2025
Currency of Paris
11 quai de Conti – 75006 Paris
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Music + Life at the MEP
For the first time in France, the MEP is devoting a retrospective to Dennis Morris, exhibiting his emblematic works. Music + Life brings together a vast selection of photographs recounting his youth in London and his iconic portraits of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols. These photos, which have become symbols of pop culture, offer a unique insight into the world of the British artist.
From February 5 to May 18, 2025
European House of Photography
5/7 rue de Fourcy – 75004 Paris
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The 68th edition of Montrouge show
The 2024 show unveils 40 promising young artists selected from 2,400 applications from 10 countries, demonstrating an attractiveness up 20% compared to 2023. These emerging talents, from Belgium to Vietnam, were selected for the quality and diversity of their works, but also for their ability to reflect contemporary issues in society and art. A rigorous selection that highlights the global artistic excitement.
From February 7 to 23, 2025
The Montrouge salon
2 Place Emile Cresp – 92120 MONTROUGE
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Disco at the Philharmonie from Paris
Born in the United States in the 1970s, disco music is highlighted in an exhibition that explores its black roots and cultural heritage. Through audiovisual archives, photographs, costumes and instruments, the event highlights the political and festive role of disco, bringing together minorities and social classes on the dance floor in the same hedonistic momentum. Accompanied by a soundtrack mixed by Dimitri from Paris, the exhibition also highlights the unique aesthetic that it inspired in artists and designers.
From February 14 to August 17, 2025
Paris Philharmonic
221 Av. Jean Jaurès – 75019 Paris
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Electric Op at the Nantes Museum of Arts
The Nantes Museum of Arts and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (United States) are joining forces for a unique exhibition exploring the links between optical, video and computer art. Through a rich collection of modern and contemporary art, the event traces the historical, theoretical and formal connections between these artistic practices, from their emergence in the 1960s to today.
From April 4 to August 31, 2025
Nantes Museum of Arts
10, rue Georges-Clemenceau – 44000 Nantes
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Chelsea Girl at FRAC de Bretagne
Nicola L., a French artist often linked to Pop Art, New Realism and feminism, is the subject of a first major European retrospective. Known for blurring the boundaries between body, space, functionality and art, her protean work addresses varied themes such as cosmology, sexuality, or political activism. Long invisible, particularly after his departure for the United States, this exhibition brings together a representative corpus of his work at the Camden Art Center (London), the Frac Bretagne, the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the Museion in Bolzano.
From January 31 to May 15, 2025
Frac of Brittany
19 avenue André Mussat – 35011 Rennes
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Field of vision at MUCEM
With Field of visionthe artist Mathilde Rosier transforms the facade of the Conservation and Resources Center (CCR) of the Mucem into a constellation of glass eyes. This installation, visible from the 2023 European Heritage Days, invites a dialogue between the exterior and the interior, between perspective and introspection. Inspired by agrarian rites and the seasons, Rosier evokes a vertical field where these seed-eyes symbolize the growth of knowledge and the awakening of the senses, echoing the mission of the CCR, shelter of the cultures and objects of the Mucem.
Until September 16, 2025
MUCEM
1 rue Clovis Hugues – 13003 Marseille
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Historians of the future at MOCO
Since 2019, the Lattara archaeological site, Henri Prades museum, in partnership with MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain hosts an artistic residency and a contemporary art exhibition every year. This approach invites artists to dialogue with the museum’s permanent collection, creating interactions between contemporary works and archaeological pieces. In his exhibition Historians of the futureLéo Fourdrinier offers an immersion where sculptures embody hybrid beings, merging humans and History. The installation transforms the museum into a space for reflection on memory, time and survival, projecting visitors into a future where History becomes an essential resource.
From January 25 to June 30, 2025
Lattara archaeological site – Henri Prades Museum in partnership with MOCO Montpellier
390 Route de Pérols – 34970 Lattes
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Move the stars at the Pompidou Center in Metz
This summer, the Center Pompidou-Metz is celebrating Katharina Grosse with Move the starsa major monographic exhibition. In the Great Nave, an immense painted drapery of 8,250 m² invades the space and extends to the Parvis in a whirlwind of colors. Installation The Bedroomreactivated in the Forum, explores the bed as a universal archetype, between intimacy and monumentality. Using the spray for over 30 years, the artist creates immersive paintings that integrate and challenge architecture, inspired by Renaissance frescoes and its search for three-dimensional visual storytelling.
Until February 25, 2025
Pompidou Center – Metz
1 Human Rights Square – 90490 Metz
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Tainted Love au Kommet
The exhibition Tainted Love by Bérénice Nouvel immerses visitors in a dreamlike universe where the tangible meets illusion. From the entrance, the misted windows decorated with hearts reveal a mysterious landscape, introducing works combining painting, sculpture and installation, where the painting seems to become palpable. Born in 1997 in Saint-Étienne, Bérénice Nouvel, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Nantes, explores in her work themes combining art history and visual illusions, as evidenced by her dissertation on the women painters of the Trompe- group. The Reality Eye in Lyon.
Until February 8, 2025
Came
14 rue Mortier – 69003 Lyon
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Rest air at CAPC Bordeaux
L’exposition collective Air de repos (Breathwork) transforms the museum into a temporary respiratory assistance machine, exploring breathing as an individual and collective issue. In a world marked by asphyxiation – pollution, systemic violence (“I Can’t Breathe”), viral threats – the exhibition questions the museum as a space of controlled air, distinct from the outside world. Designed around the idea of a “museum without images”, it favors installations, ready-mades and sound works, inviting us to rethink our breath and let the images rest, while emphasizing that even sculpture can breathe.
Until May 4, 2025
CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art – Bordeaux
7 rue Ferrère – 33063 Bordeaux
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Like sheep at the quay of knowledge
The exhibition Like sheep? explores the mechanics and mysteries of crowds, often perceived as disturbing or irrational. With humor and originality, she deconstructs the negative stereotypes associated with this phenomenon, inviting visitors to reflect on their habits and behaviors. For the first time, a cultural and scientific exhibition approaches the crowd from a contemporary angle, asking: are we really sheep?
From January 31 to November 2, 2025
The Quai des Savoirs
Allée Matilda – 31000 Toulouse
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Fondation Louis Vuitton – David Hockney
The Louis Vuitton Foundation is devoting a major exhibition to David Hockney, marking ten years of the institution at the Jardin d’Acclimatation. After major exhibitions in Paris – at the Center Pompidou in 2017 and at the Musée de l’Orangerie in 2021 with A YEAR IN NORMANDIE – the English painter returns to the spotlight. This retrospective is part of a prestigious series, after Andy Warhol, Basquiat and Rothko, and precedes a tribute to Gerhard Richter planned for fall 2025.
From April 9 to September 1 2025
Louis Vuitton Foundation
8 off. you Mahatma Gandhi – Paris
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