75 ans d’amitié, les artistes et le musée

Musée d'art Moderne de Céret

Vertigo

La Fondation Carmignac, île de Proquerolles

“Vertigo,” from the Latin vertere—to turn or transform—refers here to the blurred perception of a visual field in motion, whether found in nature or within a painting. Inspired by the sensations and experiences of Porquerolles, the exhibition explores the connections between natural phenomena and abstraction since the 1950s. Through immersive works, plays of light, vibrant colors, and optical effects, it invites visitors into a dizzying sensory experience, featuring artists such as Yves Klein, James Turrell, Jesús Rafael Soto, Francisco Sobrino, and Hans Hartung.

Curator
Matthieu Poirier, Art Historian and Exhibition Curator

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Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre

Musée Fabre, Montpellier

To celebrate its bicentenary, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier is presenting a major retrospective dedicated to Pierre Soulages, the first since the artist’s passing. The exhibition brings together around 120 works and explores Soulages’ artistic, theoretical, and emotional connections with the museum. It is structured into six non-chronological thematic chapters, creating dialogues between different periods of the artist’s work and his influences.

Curators
Michel Hilaire, Director and Chief Heritage Curator of the Musée Fabre, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Maud Marron-Wojewodzki, Heritage Curator, Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Musée Fabre, and newly appointed Director of the Musée Soulages in Rodez

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Couleurs ! Chefs-d’œuvre du Centre Pompidou

Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

Curators

Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director of the Musée national d’art moderne

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Tous Léger! Avec Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Keith Haring…

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris

(All Léger! With Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Keith Haring…) A partnership between two major collections from the Côte d’Azur brings together works by Fernand Léger and leading figures of Nouveau Réalisme, such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Arman, Yves Klein, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, and César. The exhibition also highlights the connections between the European and American art scenes, featuring artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring.

With around one hundred works on display, the exhibition explores themes such as the transformation of everyday objects, representations of the body and leisure, and the role of art in public space. The artists challenge the boundaries between art and daily life, turning ordinary elements into poetic creations.

Curatorship
Anne Dopffer, General Heritage Curator, Director of the National Museums of the 20th Century in the Alpes-Maritimes
Julie Guttierez, Chief Heritage Curator at the Musée National Fernand Léger
Rébecca François, Curator at the MAMAC (Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain of Nice)

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Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day

Musée de l'Orangerie

The Musée de l’Orangerie presents “Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day”. Starting from Monet’s Nymphéas, the exhibition explores the concept of blurriness, its development throughout the history of art, and offers it as a key to open to another interpretation of a whole area of modern and contemporary visual creation.

Initially defined as “loss of distinctness”, blurriness has shown itself to be the favourite mean of expression in a world where instability reigns and visibility is clouded. It was on the ruins left by the Second Word War that this out-of-focus aesthetic took root and began to deploy its inevitable political dimension.

Curatorship
Claire Bernardi, Director of the Musée de l’Orangerie
Emilia Philippot, Chief Curator, Deputy Director of Studies at the National Institute of Heritage
In collaboration with Juliette Degennes, Curator at the Musée de l’Orangerie

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Electric Op

Musée d'art de Nantes

With a rich collection of modern and contemporary art in which abstraction plays a central role, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (United States) are presenting a major new exhibition exploring the historical, theoretical, and formal connections between optical art and video and digital art, from the 1960s to the present day.

In the 1960s, Op art spread widely across the visual arts and popular culture, championed by artists such as Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam, and Jesús Rafael Soto. Placing the viewer’s experience at the heart of their approach, Op artists used optical effects to challenge and disrupt visual perception.

Catalogue
Bilingual English/French catalogue of the exhibition Electric Op: From Optical Art to Digital Art, presented at the Musée d’arts de Nantes from 4 April to 31 August 2025.

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Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

In the spring of 2025, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents “Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space”. Featuring approximately 70 works, the exhibition offers an exploration of the visual language of the Portuguese-born artist, who was later naturalised as a French citizen.

Through Vieira da Silva’s references to Portuguese decorative traditions, as well as Cubism and Futurism, the exhibition examines the connections in her painting between abstraction and figuration within real or imaginary spaces.

After Venice, the exhibition will travel to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in the fall of 2025.

Curator
Flavia Frigeri, Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Opening Hours
Every day except Tuesday, from 10 AM to 6 PM

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Georges Mathieu

Monnaie de Paris

In 2025, the Monnaie de Paris partners with the Centre Pompidou to present a retrospective of the artist Georges Mathieu, the inventor of lyrical abstraction and a prolific artist.

Both chronological and thematic, the exhibition traces Georges Mathieu’s career from the 1940s—when he contributed to the creation of an international abstract expressionism—through to the 1990s, with a strong emphasis on the Mathieu collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne.

Curation
Christian Briend, Chief Curator of Heritage and Head of Modern Collections at the Centre Pompidou
Éric De Chassey, Director General of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA)
Béatrice Coullaré, Head of Conservation and Collections at the Monnaie de Paris

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