"There hasn't been a dull moment in the Parisian art world in 2025. It has been a year of museum blockbusters and historical rediscoveries, of jaw-dropping exhibitions at private foundations and impressive shows by younger voices across the city's nonprofit spaces. The landscape of how we experience contemporary art is also shifting: This past September, the Centre Pompidou closed its iconic Beaubourg building for a long-term renovation after a season of memorable exhibitions, while the Fondation Cartier left Boulevard Raspail for a sprawling new site"
"Walking into Énormément Bizarre was like stepping into the delirious mind of a brilliant hoarder. Artist Wim Delvoye uttered the titular words - "extremely bizarre" - when he encountered the astonishing universe Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) began assembling in his Parisian apartment starting in the 1960s. In this exhibition, nearly 400 works - sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, vernacular objects and religious artifacts - capture the non-hierarchical, chaotic atmosphere of Chatelus's apartment."
Paris hosted a vibrant and shifting contemporary-art ecosystem in 2025, with museum blockbusters, historical rediscoveries, private-foundation exhibitions, and notable nonprofit shows. The Centre Pompidou closed its Beaubourg building for long-term renovation in September, while the Fondation Cartier relocated from Boulevard Raspail to a larger site near the Louvre. Énormément Bizarre presented Jean Chatelus's obsessive, non-hierarchical collection of nearly 400 objects—sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, vernacular items, and religious artifacts—creating a dense cartography of ruins, the macabre, and apocalypse that unsettles conventional taste. Paris Noir gathered 150 artists from the Caribbean, Africa, and the Americas, emphasizing Black intellectual and artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance.
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