In 2025, these long-awaited exhibitions

Dive into the fascinating Angkoradmirer Cleopatradiscover the Brazilian artists throughout France, make the party in Lillesee blur at the Orangerie, dance to music disco at the Philharmonieplay with the machines Jean Tinguely and the Nanas by Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais, contemplate the horizons of the greatest painters… Vast program!

Difficult to choose? Don't panic! Beaux Arts has selected for you the 30 exhibitions the most promising of the year, from the Louvre to Lilles, via Metz and Nantes.

Hockney in all his forms at the Louis Vuitton foundation

HAS 87 ansDavid Hockney continues to create and multiplies exhibitions, particularly in France where he has taken up residence. Normandy of his heart will also be the culmination of the vast panorama offered to him by the Louis Vuitton foundation. The emphasis is placed on its last twenty-five years. But fans of the sixties will not be left out, thanks to the few pop icons gathered together as a preamble including, of course, A Bigger Splash. We will also follow the Briton on his journeys, from the Grand Canyon to his native Yorkshire, where he exhausts the landscape genre with his constantly renewed inventiveness. Still lifes, flowers, portraits, digital works… the scope of his creation is dizzying. At the end of the journey, the artist gives some keys, digressing around the history of the arts, from painting to opera. EL

The uncompromising audacity of Suzanne Valadon at the Center Pompidou

“It’s true that I was mad. I didn't want to make beautiful drawings to be framed, no. But just good drawings to suspend a moment of life, in movement, a whole intensity. » Painter of modernity with an uncompromising line, pugnacious and audacious self-taught, Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) established herself on the Parisian artistic scene with her naked people screaming for truth, women with brazenly free postures and male bodies offered as so many objects of desire. Long neglected by the history of modern art, it has come back in force in an exhibition tribute started in Metzcontinued in Nantes and Barcelona, ​​before a final bouquet at the Center Pompidou, in Paris, in a course enriched with new loans and unpublished archives. DB

Cimabue the maestro au Louvre

The Italian Cenni di Pepo, known as Cimabue (around 1240–1302), was the conduit between the painting of the Middle Ages – in all its rigidity and its Byzantine gold backgrounds – and the beginnings of greater attention to reality, to bodies and to the world. Surprisingly, the grand master of the Trecento had never been the subject of an exhibition at the Louvre. The museum seized the opportunity to restoration of its great Majesty but also the acquisition of the small panel of the Derision of Christ, rediscovered in 2019 in the kitchen of a Picardy house and classified as a National Treasure, to repair this injustice. So here is Cimabue in majesty, replaced in the context of a Tuscany then in full turmoil pictorial, until the blossoming of the genius of one of his disciples, the young Giotto, who definitively shifted painting into another dimension. SF

Artemisia Gentileschi beyond the drama at the Jacquemart-André museum

And tragic and romantic destiny which eclipsed his genius. Long relegated to the shadow of her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-around 1656) was nevertheless one of the rare women of 18th century Italy^e century to know glory during his lifetime and to live from his art. Too often reduced to rape suffered in her adolescence and in the trial that followed, Artemisia deserves to be looked at for her art, masterfully reinterpreting Caravaggio's lesson of darkness. The Jacquemart-André museum stages power and modernity of his work. Bathroom

Beloved witch in Pont-Aven

Graphic arts, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, music, dance and literature explore the witch's polysemyonce demonized, today a figure of resistance to patriarchy. SF

Fantastic Mr. Wes Anderson at the Cinémathèque

There was the Family Tenenbaum (2001) and its gallery of melancholic charactersthe finds innovative techniques of stop motion used for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), the crazy adventures of Gustave H around a painting stolen during the interwar period in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2013)… Each Wes Anderson film immerses spectators in a strange, offbeat, immediately identifiable world. The filmmaker benefits from a first exhibition at the Cinematheque. Designed as a dizzying dive into the behind the scenes of his filmographyshe reveals her sources of inspiration, her manufacturing secrets, the nods and homage to other creators and the meticulous craftsmanship of each staging. DB