Grand Palais
Paris
Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Late opening on Fridays until 10 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
17 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Entrance: Square Jean Perrin
After four years of renovation, the Grand Palais—one of Paris’s most iconic monuments—began reopening progressively with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024. It now hosts exhibitions and events as part of a vibrant and festive program led by GrandPalaisRmn.
As a central partner in Centre Pompidou’s Constellation, the Grand Palais presents four major exhibitions each year in its main galleries, co-produced with Centre Pompidou. Its nave, auditoriums, and other spaces are home to performances and large-scale events, while the Salon Seine features dedicated spaces for young audiences and educational programming designed by Centre Pompidou.
"Matisse. 1941 – 1954" highlights the final years of the artist’s creative life. At nearly 80 years old, Henri Matisse reinvented his practice through the medium of cut-out gouache, which emerged as an autonomous and powerful visual language. Its simplicity allowed him to reach a universal form of expression and fully embrace the decorative dimension of his art.
Paintings, drawings, illustrated books, textiles, stained glass… All reflect this vibrant new impulse. Never before had Matisse been so prolific in his use of diverse techniques and materials. This is demonstrated by the approximately 230 works brought together here, ranging from intimate pieces to monumental ensembles, drawn from both public and private collections.
First exhibition in France devoted to the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), only recently recognized as a major figure of artistic modernity and of the beginnings of abstraction—on a par with her male counterparts Kandinsky, Kupka, Malevich, and Mondrian.
Alongside a conventional figurative practice, Hilma af Klint developed a body of work shaped by spiritualism and science, in which spirals, circles, and radiating forms convey the invisible forces governing the world and a search for cosmic harmony. Long kept secret, initially at the artist’s own request, this work was not presented to the public until 1986, in the group exhibition The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
This event not only highlights the many sources that informed her work—esotericism, folklore and popular art, and scientific culture—but also questions the way art history long overlooked women artists and their contribution to the founding movements of modern art.
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Located in the heart of Paris, the Grand Palais is a remarkable monument built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
With its monumental architecture, vast interior volumes, and rich history, the Grand Palais is a uniquely significant cultural and heritage site in Paris. Since its opening at the turn of the 20th century, it has echoed the great artistic, scientific, and societal movements of its time.
For over a century, the Grand Palais has hosted major exhibitions, cultural events, international fairs, and large-scale public gatherings. Its nave—spanning 13,500 square meters under the largest glass roof in Europe—has become a defining symbol of the Parisian landscape.
GrandPalaisRmn oversees the programming of the Grand Palais. Since the 1960s, it has produced both monographic and thematic art exhibitions, and welcomed major cultural, sporting, and culinary events into the Nave. It is also responsible for safeguarding the monument’s architectural heritage.
The Grand Palais’s major exhibitions span all artistic disciplines and eras, and resonate with the events held in the Nave, where culture takes many forms: contemporary art, fashion, science, photography, ecology, gastronomy, and sport.
The Palais de la Découverte, a center for science education managed by Universcience, is also housed within the Grand Palais—further reinforcing its role as a place of knowledge and public engagement.
The renovation of the Nave and surrounding galleries will be completed following the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, marking a new chapter in the monument’s history. The Grand Palais will fully reopen in June 2025 with a new season of must-see exhibitions in the heart of Paris.
