Museum Exhibitions / Paris 2022 S2
The autumn gets its splendor gradually in the city and the art season intensifies. With the upcoming new art fair Paris+ by Art Basel will even more energize Parisian art scene, and particularly its market. Next month will show the changes. Meanwhile, note some great upcoming exhibitions in the capital of modern and contemporary art.
© Edvard Munch, Vampire (detail), 1895, oil on canvas, 91 x 109 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo / Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death
Musée d'Orsay
Until 22 January 2023

The iconic Scream is known to everybody, yet a deeper understanding of his work is not that common. This large-scale presentation, with a retrospective dimension, covers the entire career of Edvard Munch and presents about a hundred works, paintings, but also drawings, prints or even engraved blocks, reflecting the diversity of his practice.
© Oskar Kokoschka, Self-portrait (detail), 1917, oil on canvas, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. Photo Patrick Schwarz. Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / Adagp, Paris 2022
Oskar Kokoschka. Enfant terrible in Vienna
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Until 12 February 2023

The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents the first Paris retrospective devoted to Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980). Retracing Kokoschka's seven decades of image-making, the exhibition highlights the artist's originality as we accompany him through Europe's 20th century.
© Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (detail), 1872, 50 x 65 cm. Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet. Photo Studio Christian Baraja SLB.
Facing the Sun
Musée Marmottan Monet
Until 29 January 2023

The exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, referring to the legendary painting Impression, soleil levant by Claude Monet. The show assembles the greatest artists of modernity, from Albrecht Dürer to Alexander Calder, from Pierre-Paul Rubens to Sonia Delaunay, but also features William Turner, Joan Miró, and many others. Each honors the most illustrious sunrise ever known in art history.
© Joan Mitchell, Two Pianos (detail), 1980, oil on canvas, 279,4 × 360,7 cm. The Estate of Joan Mitchell. Photo Patrice Schmidt
Monet – Mitchell
Foundation Louis Vuitton
5 October 2022 - 27 February 2023

The exhibition "Monet - Mitchell" creates an unprecedented "dialogue" between the works of two exceptional artists, Claude Monet (1840-1926), with his Water Lilies, and Joan Mitchell (1925-1992). Both left their mark not only on their epoch, but also on subsequent generations of painters.
© Alice Neel, Marxist Girl, Irene Peslikis (detail), 1972, oil on canvas, 150 x 105 cm. Daryl and Steven Roth, The Estate of Alice Neel and Victoria Miro
Alice Neel. Un regard engage
Centre Pompidou
5 October 2022 - 16 January 2023

Alice Neel was a major figure of North American art who, throughout her life, forever painted the marginalized. Little known during her lifetime, this extraordinary painter is today celebrated for the great acuity with which she portrayed the different strata of American society.
© Sam Jinks Courtesy of the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen
Hyperréalisme. Ceci n'est pas un corps
Musée Maillol
Until 5 March 2023

The exhibition presents a series of sculptures that shake our vision of art. The hyperrealism makes a striking effect, by creating a false reality, a convincing illusion based on a simulation of reality. The show brings together more than 40 sculptures by leading international artists including: George Segal, Maurizio Cattelan, Berlinde De Bruyckere, John DeAndrea, among others.
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