Featured Events in Paris in December, 2024(December Updated)

“Stone Speakers” is an immersive experience. It invites the audience to enter a volcanic landscape of mineral sculptures, amid which can be heard the primordial conversations of the earth. Using recordings of volcanoes made in Colombia, Ethiopia, Iceland, Indonesia and Italy, Julian Charrière connects us with the bowels of the planet, seen not as an inert kingdom, but on the contrary as a living, vibrant place. Magma chambers, tides, and tectonic plates all in motion come together. The exhibition space, transformed into a symbolical crater, amplifies their rumbling, penetrating dialogues. It creates an architectural echo chamber exploring our relationship with other forms of life, using a live feed of data from global seismic monitoring stations that capture the sounds of rock and tectonic plates.

Jacques Prevert was known for his humor and imagination, but he also applied his imagination to the visual arts. More than 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, manuscripts, film clips, objects and archives take us into the artist’s astonishingly surreal world. Texture, collage, color, eccentric characters in real scenes: Jacques Prevert uses contrast to createnew The originalreality. These works are poetic and dreamy, reflecting a worldview full of magic and wonder, almost childlike. The exhibition at the Montmartre Museum is divided into four chapters and traces the artist's life, the diversity of his works, his intimacy relationship and creative space, and the way he transforms everyday life into art.

The exhibition focuses on Stephen Jones’s creative process, the inspirations behind his work and the role of Paris in his work. There are nearly 400 works in the exhibition, including more than 170 hats, as well as Jones’ archive (preparatory drawings, photographs, runway show excerpts, etc.) and approximately 40 silhouettes with clothes and hats. These 'looks' bear witness to Stephen Jones' enduring loyalty to some of the world's leading fashion houses, not least Christian Dior, with whom he worked for nearly 30 years. This key figure has become the most 'French' of British milliners, bringing a bold energy and boundless creativity to Parisian fashion.

After Caravaggio, the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera, who lived in Italy, established himself as one of the most fascinating interpreters of natural painting. An exceptional artist able to transcribe the almost tactile reality of individuals, flesh and objects, he interprets the dignity of everyday life and human tragedy with overwhelming acuity. Extremely radical, he favored raw realism, the violence of chiaroscuro and dramatic compositions. Unlike others, he used pictorial materials to reveal unprecedented roughness. His paintings, both brutal and poetic, offer an extremely personal interpretation of Caravaggio's revolution. The exhibition will also be an opportunity to present the artist's graphic work, including a large number of drawings and prints, which is rare among Caravaggio's major exponents. Recent discoveries have also added to his Roman corpus, including a group of paintings previously attributed to the Master of the Judgement of Solomon, shedding new light on the beginnings of his career. Ribera now establishes himself as one of the leading interpreters of Caravaggio's painting, one of the earliest and most radical.

Art : Concept presents Geert Goiris’ solo exhibition.

Art : Concept presents Geert Goiris’ solo exhibition.

Art : Concept presents Geert Goiris’ solo exhibition.

This exhibition, co-organized by the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown and the Louvre Museum, is the first major monograph devoted to an artist who is now largely forgotten, but who was nevertheless "one of the great authorities of his time" (Charles Blanc). Born in Guadeloupe to a freed slave mother of African origin and a royal officer father, he was trained in Rouen and then in Paris under the Ancien Régime and had a brilliant official career; director of the Académie de France in Rome (1807-1816), elected member of the Institute in 1818, he was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1819. He was also a major collector and advisor to Lucien Bonaparte. His production illustrates the journey of an artist confronted with the upheavals of his time and the succession of regimes from the Revolution to the July Monarchy. Most of his painted and drawn work has ancient history as its subject. He began in the triumph of Davidian neo-classicism and his perseverance in this path would cause his discredit at the end of the 1820s, while the young generation of romantic artists gradually established themselves. Ancient heroism inspired two immense canvases of nearly eight meters long preserved at the Louvre, Brutus condemning his sons to death, completed in Rome in 1811, and The Death of Virginia (1828). Lethière's most famous painting, singular in his work The Oath of the Ancestors (Port-au-Prince, Haitian National Pantheon Museum) manifesto against slavery and for the freedom of peoples, is honored in the itinerary. Most of the works will be presented in Paris for the first time since the 19th century and the new research, carried out both for the exhibition and the catalog, will allow a true rediscovery of this artist.

David Zwirner is pleased to announce two exhibitions of paintings by On Kawara (1932–2014), which will be on view concurrently at the gallery’s Paris and London locations. The presentations are organized in collaboration with the One Million Years Foundation, established by the artist during his lifetime to ensure the legacy of his work and fluid approach to his practice. These exhibitions are the gallery’s first presentations of Kawara’s work since his death in 2014 and offer a rare opportunity to view two significant bodies of paintings by the artist. The presentation in Paris will feature four rarely seen early paintings made by Kawara in Tokyo in 1955 and 1956. For the young artist, an active and vocal participant in the city’s avant-garde art community, painting provided an avenue for thinking through the palpable collective trauma that loomed over his native country in the postwar years. Kawara quickly distinguished himself from his peers; rather than depicting atrocities that remained fresh in the minds of Japanese citizens, the artist chose to evoke their psychological resonances, marshaling form and content in service of one another to channel the elusive feelings of unease, anger, and disillusionment. These enigmatic and highly accomplished works, which count among the earliest known instances of an artist working on shaped canvases, simultaneously seem to collapse and expand space, drastically unmooring the viewer’s understanding of perspective and testifying to the experience of a particular time and place. Kawara’s first exhibition with David Zwirner took place in 1999. During his lifetime, the gallery mounted five solo presentations of the artist’s work, with subsequent shows taking place in 2001, 2004, 2009, and 2012. Learn more about the upcoming presentation in London.

Galerie Mitterrand | Temple presents a new exhibition by artist couple Anne and Patrick Poirier. Entitled 56e Campagne de Fouilles, 1968/2024, this fourth exhibition at the gallery is an unprecedented exploration of their work, in which Anne and Patrick Poirier are the archaeologists. “They exhume and present works from diverse periods and expressions, dating back to the 1970s when they reintroduced the concepts of ruins and memory into contemporary art.”

A Night Out with Lariba in Paris, Kwaku Yaro’s second solo exhibition at SEPTIEME Paris, is a variation on his first solo show presented in Cotonou in February 2023. This exhibition proposed an imaginary evening, where Lariba and his friends met in the working-class neighborhood of Labadi, in Ghana, after his return to Accra following his studies abroad. In this Parisian iteration, Kwaku Yaro continues his exploration of community and memory, while deepening the themes of hybridization and multiple identity.

White Cube is pleased to present works by Takis. A leading figure in the kinetic and sound art movements, Greek artist Panayiotis Vassilakis (1925–2019), known as Takis, incorporated invisible forces as a fourth dimension in his sculpture, painting and sound works. Frequently employing electromechanical devices salvaged from military surplus stores, the artist explored new technologies in his practice, taking art into domains previously relegated to experimental physics.

Perrotin presents Ribbon Sharp, Chiffon Thomas’s first solo exhibition in Europe and with the gallery. The Brooklyn-based artist brings an interdisciplinary approach to art incorporating sculpture, collage and drawing. The show features a dozen new sculptures and an immersive installation, examining the fusion of anatomical forms with architectural structures. His multifaceted practice—often composed of reclaimed wood, concrete, bronze and stained glass—explores the self as split, fractured, and transforming.

Living with painting, and through it. For Nikki Maloof, art is a way to organize time, to inhabit it and to occupy spaces—a house, a garden, a studio. When the public and private spheres are interwoven with persistent tension and anxiety, painting allows her to capture the very essence of things and beings in order to acknowledge human distress.

Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s new paintings continue to explore a subtle reflection on human presence and the authenticity of the gaze. The exhibition Model Resting is organized around portraits and still lifes, with the word Model emphasizing a direct relationship with the person present and the word Resting introducing the question of inactivity.

For his exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Thomas Hirschhorn presents a new body of works Art-History-Plaques, a continuation of his works inspired by the aesthetics of Instagram posts referring here to Art History and its legacy.

Living with painting, and through it. For Nikki Maloof, art is a way to organize time, to inhabit it and to occupy spaces—a house, a garden, a studio. When the public and private spheres are interwoven with persistent tension and anxiety, painting allows her to capture the very essence of things and beings in order to acknowledge human distress.

Jean-Philippe Delhomme’s new paintings continue to explore a subtle reflection on human presence and the authenticity of the gaze. The exhibition Model Resting is organized around portraits and still lifes, with the word Model emphasizing a direct relationship with the person present and the word Resting introducing the question of inactivity.

Perrotin presents Ribbon Sharp, Chiffon Thomas’s first solo exhibition in Europe and with the gallery. The Brooklyn-based artist brings an interdisciplinary approach to art incorporating sculpture, collage and drawing. The show features a dozen new sculptures and an immersive installation, examining the fusion of anatomical forms with architectural structures. His multifaceted practice—often composed of reclaimed wood, concrete, bronze and stained glass—explores the self as split, fractured, and transforming.

For his exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Thomas Hirschhorn presents a new body of works Art-History-Plaques, a continuation of his works inspired by the aesthetics of Instagram posts referring here to Art History and its legacy.

Living with painting, and through it. For Nikki Maloof, art is a way to organize time, to inhabit it and to occupy spaces—a house, a garden, a studio. When the public and private spheres are interwoven with persistent tension and anxiety, painting allows her to capture the very essence of things and beings in order to acknowledge human distress.

The Jean-Jacques Henner Museum in Paris is hosting a group exhibition of 19th-century female artists, showcasing works by female artists from Jean-Jacques Henner's "Ladies' Workshop". The exhibition features 80 paintings, sketches, letters and photographs, looking back on the careers of 17 female artists including Louise Abbéma, Madeleine Smith, Juana Romani, Ottilie Roederstein, Dorothy Tennant, and showcasing the artistic training, female friendship and creative ability of female artists in the late 19th century.

Perrotin Paris introduces Focus, a new initiative dedicated to special projects and thematic presentations. Located in the gallery at 2bis avenue Matignon, Focus offers an intimate setting for artists to explore short, experimental, or deeply personal narratives. Audiences can engage with curated projects that highlight a unique aspect of an artist's practice beyond larger exhibitions. The inaugural Focus exhibition is a poetic series by Lionel Estève entitled Un Hiver à Athènes (A Winter in Athens). Using delicate embroidery on pieces of white silk, the artist documents his wanderings through Athens, capturing fleeting impressions of the city's landscapes, textures, and rhythms.

Perrotin Paris introduces Focus, a new initiative dedicated to special projects and thematic presentations. Located in the gallery at 2bis avenue Matignon, Focus offers an intimate setting for artists to explore short, experimental, or deeply personal narratives. Audiences can engage with curated projects that highlight a unique aspect of an artist's practice beyond larger exhibitions. The inaugural Focus exhibition is a poetic series by Lionel Estève entitled Un Hiver à Athènes (A Winter in Athens). Using delicate embroidery on pieces of white silk, the artist documents his wanderings through Athens, capturing fleeting impressions of the city's landscapes, textures, and rhythms.

Artists: Rina Banerjee - Chang Ya Chin - Johan Creten - Bernard Frize - Nick Goss - Gérard Schneider - Pierre Soulages - Xavier Veilhan

The Tree Tales exhibition is a fairy tale of trees. Profoundly in love with wood, the Danish designer and Master-cabinet maker Laura Bergsøe has devoted her life to revealing the personality and “soul” of the trees that she sources all over the world for her dream-like tables, shelves, lamps and wall reliefs. Bergsøe works with the uniqueness of each piece of wood – its veins and knots, twists and turns - which she enhances through precious metals and materials, such as liquid silver, bronze and raw diamonds, delicately inserted into the wood. Rich with imaginative details, such as butterfly joints, bronze and silver ornaments or mammoth tooths, Bergsøe turns the inside of the tree into a wonderland of sprouts and flowers, butterflies, silver lakes and diamond drops.

The Tree Tales exhibition is a fairy tale of trees. Profoundly in love with wood, the Danish designer and Master-cabinet maker Laura Bergsøe has devoted her life to revealing the personality and “soul” of the trees that she sources all over the world for her dream-like tables, shelves, lamps and wall reliefs. Bergsøe works with the uniqueness of each piece of wood – its veins and knots, twists and turns - which she enhances through precious metals and materials, such as liquid silver, bronze and raw diamonds, delicately inserted into the wood. Rich with imaginative details, such as butterfly joints, bronze and silver ornaments or mammoth tooths, Bergsøe turns the inside of the tree into a wonderland of sprouts and flowers, butterflies, silver lakes and diamond drops.

In the second half of the Season, the MEP Studio presents the first solo exhibition in France by the Argentine filmmaker María Silvia Esteve, whose immersive installation CORTEX deals with our relationship with memory and the subconscious.