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Hommage à Boltanski
Past: October 12, 2021 → April 13, 2022
An itinerary between the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre Museum and the Centre Pompidou, with the Opéra Comique “The more we work, the more we disappear and the more we become our work. I believe that artists wish to become their work (…)” — Christian Boltanski To celebrate his work and commemorate Christian Boltan…
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
La Nuit européenne des musées, 2019 — 15e édition
Past: Saturday, May 18, 2019
La 15e édition de la Nuit européenne des musées s’apprête à faire vibrer Paris. Une déambulation nocturne à travers les collections et expositions muséales, où de nombreuses animations se joignent à la fête : concerts, performances, projections, spectacles, visites thématiques… Tous les arts sont conviés, toutes les formes d’expression.
Event
Urban art, dance, drawing...
Multiple venues
Archives
Jean Cotelle 1646-1708 — Des jardins et des dieux
Past: June 12 → September 16, 2018
From June to September 2018, an exhibition dedicated to Jean Cotelle the Younger will be on display at the Grand Trianon. The exhibition will feature some 120 works, paintings, drawings, engravings, miniatures and sculptures from public and private collections.
Painting
Château de Versailles
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Les Visiteurs de Versailles — 1682 — 1789
Past: October 24, 2017 → February 25, 2018
The Visitors to Versailles 1682-1789 exhibition is jointly produced by the Palace of Versailles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will be on display in Versailles from the 24th of October 2017 to the 25th of February 2018 and will later be held in New York from 9 April.
Painting, sculpture
Château de Versailles
Archives
Voyage d’hiver — Art contemporain à Versailles
Past: October 21, 2017 → January 7, 2018
Pour sa dixième exposition d’art contemporain, c’est à un « Voyage d’hiver » qu’il nous invite, parcours inédit en extérieur, dans les bosquets, dont le commissariat est confié au Palais de Tokyo. Avec des œuvres produites pour l’occasion, le château de Versailles invite dix artistes à s’emparer des bosquets.
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
Château de Versailles
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Un tsar en France — Pierre Le Grand à la cour de louis XV
Past: May 28 → September 24, 2017
Consacrée au séjour de Pierre Le Grand à Paris, dans ses alentours et en particulier au château de Versailles, en mai et juin 1717, l’exposition commémorera le tricentenaire de la visite du tsar en France.
Architecture, painting, sculpture
Château de Versailles
Archives
Fêtes et divertissements à la Cour
Past: November 29, 2016 → March 26, 2017
From 29 November 2016 to 26 March 2017, the Palace of Versailles presents an exhibition showing the infinite variety and ingenuity of entertainment provided at Court, making Versailles a venue for ever more monumental, extraordinary and fantastical parties and shows.
Jewellery, print, painting...
Château de Versailles
Archives
Olafur Eliasson
Past: June 7 → October 30, 2016
Olafur Eliasson is the Palace of Versailles’ guest artist for the summer of 2016. His work investigates perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self.
Installation
Château de Versailles
Archives
Anish Kapoor — Versailles
Past: June 9 → November 1, 2015
Anish Kapoor is Versailles 2015 guest. Kapoor’s sculptures will stand in the perspectives of Le Nôtre, the groves and the fountains, in the Gardens of Château de Versailles. With this major contemporary art exhibition, Anish Kapoor fully reflects all aspects of history.
Sculpture
Château de Versailles
Archives
Lee Ufan
Past: June 17 → November 2, 2014
In the castle and above all the gardens, the intense and silent sculptural forms of artist Lee Ufan are placed at the foot of l’Escalier Gabriel, in the majestic perspective designed by Le Nôtre as well as amongst the alley ways and mysterious groves, completing and modifying for a time the place’s atmosphere.
Installation, sculpture
Château de Versailles
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La Chine à Versailles — Art et diplomatie au XVIIIème siècle
Past: May 27 → October 26, 2014
The “La Chine à Versailles” exhibition retraces the history of the political and artistic exchanges between China and France in the 18th century on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1964.
Ceramic, drawing, painting
Château de Versailles
Archives
Penone Versailles
Past: June 11 → October 31, 2013
Le Château de Versailles accueille l’artiste italien Giuseppe Penone pour une grande exposition d’art contemporain présentée principalement dans les jardins à la française ainsi que dans le Château.
Installation
Château de Versailles
Archives
Trésor du Saint-Sépulcre — Présents des cours royales européennes à Jérusalem
Past: April 16 → July 14, 2013
The exhibition presents 250 unknown masterpieces from one of the last treasures of the Occident. Sent to the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem by the principal European rulers, some of these extraordinay works of art are revealed for the first time to the public in the Hall of Crusades of the Palace of Versailles whose paintings have recently been restored.
Mixed media
Château de Versailles
Archives
Joana Vasconcelos — Versailles
Past: June 19 → September 30, 2012
From 19 June to 30 September 2012, the Palace of Versailles presents the exhibition Joana Vasconcelos Versailles in the State Apartments and the gardens.
Installation
Château de Versailles
Archives
Murakami Versailles
Past: September 14 → December 12, 2010
Murakami is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. The combination of his fame with that of the
Château of Versailles will show the degree to which, despite the centuries that separate them, the masters
of the past are able to enter into dialogue with those of the present, and vice versa.
Sculpture
Château de Versailles
78 Yvelines
78 Yvelines
Opening hours
Every day except Monday, 9 AM – 6:30 PM
The garden is open every days from 8am to 8.30pm
Admission fee
Full rate €13,50 — Concessions €10.00
Concession fee after 3pm
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