Zeus, the metal horse of the 2024 Olympic Games, exhibited at the Palace of Versailles

Exhibited at Versailles for a limited time, Zeus was one of the stars of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. “This living sculpture embodies a popular and accessible vision, intended to inspire all audiences,” reports the website of the Château de Versailles, which offers its visitors the chance to relive the magic of the Paris Games.

An exceptional place

The work, created by the Blam workshop, an architecture and design studio from Nantes, can be admired more closely in the sumptuous setting of the castle, where it is also possible to visit the “Horse in Majesty” exhibition dedicated to to horses and equestrian civilization in Europe, until November 3, 2024.

Host site of the 2024 Olympic Games for the equestrian events, which saw the French team win the team bronze medal, Versailles was an ideal place for the presentation of the metal horse hosted in its enclosure, Tuesday October 1, it hosted one of the highlights of the opening ceremony on the Seine: Zeus. The metal horse will be on display in the royal courtyard until November 24.

A fragment of the Olympics accessible to all

The design of Zeus was carried out in partnership with the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. First exhibited on the square in front of Paris City Hall from August 29 to September 8, before being revised by its creators at the Blam workshop, it now sits in Versailles.

In a press release, Sanofi, which had initially planned the exhibition of the horse at its headquarters in Paris, explained that it wanted to “allow as many people as possible to discover this emblematic figure of the opening ceremony” of the 2024 Olympics.