In 2025, the Centre Pompidou, a symbol of contemporary artistic creation in Paris, will close its doors to embark on an ambitious transformation. This renovation of the museum aims to breathe new life into the utopia that was the foundation of the place, while meeting the challenges of the 21st century: sustainability, accessibility and inclusion.
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A poignant exhibition at the Musée national Picasso-Paris
From 18 February to 25 May 2025, the Musée national Picasso-Paris presents ‘Degenerate’ art. The trial of modern art under Nazism’, an exceptional exhibition devoted to the violent campaign of artistic repression orchestrated by Hitler’s regime in the 1930s. A powerful, political and deeply moving museum event.
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Jean Dometti doesn’t paint to decorate walls. He paints to open up a passage, a space for dialogue between matter, memory and sensation. From 16 May to 15 June 2025, the Centre culturel Jacques Prévert in Mers-Les-Bains will be exhibiting 44 of the artist’s works based on a founding theme: the four elements. Earth, air, fire, water… so many forces that Dometti does not seek to represent, but to evoke, to make vibrate at the heart of the canvas.
Born in 1950, Jean Dometti grew up with the tremors of May ‘68. He began his creative career in the theatre, designing sets and costumes, before studying art and industrial design at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. There he rubbed shoulders with visual artists and designers, engravers and thinkers about visual space. Early on, he chose a challenging path: to make a living from art without depending on the market, and to teach in order to preserve the freedom to create.
His work is rooted in places – the Corsican mountains, cathedrals, ruined factories – but above all in their memory. Jean draws, engraves and paints what the place whispers to him. The material is a language and the artist is its translator. Wood, canvas, slate, hand-made paper… each medium carries a story that the artist reveals, expands, sometimes even carves out, as in his early engravings now on display at the Bibliothèque nationale.
The exhibition at Prévert is also the story of a turning point. In 2020, at the very beginning of Covid, Dometti was diagnosed with cancer. He spent six months in hospital, opening himself up to a new perception of life and a radical change in his painting. More light. More contradictions. More dynamism.
The elements saved me,» he confides. «I rediscovered the light.
We find this energy in his round canvases, a first in his career, where water rubs shoulders with fire, air swirls above the earth. He blends the organic and the abstract, the raw and the delicate, in a series that seems to float between the real world and the inner world.
An inhabited exhibition With 44 works, including 26 works on paper, mixed media and large format, the exhibition offers an immersion into a universe that is both intimate and universal. The scenography, conceived as a breath of fresh air, gives space to each work, allowing it to breathe, to question, to move the eye.
Dometti does not try to impose a discourse. He sets shapes, tensions and silences, leaving the viewer free to receive. A work,» he says, «is a triangle: the artist, the canvas, the gaze of the other.
With Dometti, nothing is set in stone. Art is movement, intuition and discovery. A constant dialogue between what has been experienced and what has yet to be invented. This exhibition is much more than an exhibition: it’s a poetic manifesto, an invitation to rethink our relationship with the elements, with places, with ourselves.
The Fondation Louis Vuitton, renowned for its commitment to contemporary art, presents from 9 April to 31 August 2025 an exceptional exhibition dedicated to David Hockney, an iconic figure in modern painting. This retrospective, simply entitled ‘David Hockney 25’, celebrates the artist’s seven-decade career by highlighting over 400 works that trace a rich and varied career, from his earliest beginnings to his most recent creations.
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The 2025 edition of ART CAPITAL, organised at the Grand Palais in Paris, once again confirms its status as a major event on the international art scene. ANKHART, under the artistic direction of Yaki Li, was one of the stand-out exhibitors this year, showcasing a selection of artists who embody the diversity and vitality of contemporary art.
Present at ART CAPITAL since 2018, ANKHART has established itself as a key player in the promotion of talent, whether emerging or already established. Thanks to its expert artistic direction, each year Yaki Li offers a rich programme rooted in an international and intercultural vision of artistic creation.
For this 2025 edition, ANKHART has presented powerful and singular works in several prestigious shows:
Salon des Artistes Français : works by MEN Xiumin, ZHANG Yun, DAKE WANG Qi, HE Qiwen and Yaki Li.
Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau : WEBER ZHANG and JIANG Wei captivated the public with their technical mastery and visual universe.
Salon des Indépendants : spotlight on WU Jintian, Mecrob by W.A.Y Studio, Lili TAO, and Yaki Li, selected for two shows this year.
Yaki Li’s artistic direction plays a central role in ANKHART’s approach. His vision is based on exploring new artistic territories, bringing cultures together and promoting bold forms of expression. Every year, this approach attracts a curious public, sensitive to contemporary creativity and the diversity of artistic languages.
ANKHART’s participation in ART CAPITAL is more than just an exhibition. It embodies a commitment to an open artistic dialogue that challenges conventions and invites us to rethink the place of art in our societies. Each work exhibited reflects on the world, offers a unique perspective, and bears witness to an ongoing quest for excellence and innovation.
On 24 March, Amiens paid tribute to Jules Verne on the 120th anniversary of his death with the inauguration of an impressive sculpture called “Le Nauti-poulpe”. Located near the Freyssinet Hall, this work of art has quickly become a major attraction for the city’s inhabitants and visitors alike.
Originally from Alsace, Amal Arezki has swapped legal texts for paintbrushes and recycled materials, building a surprising bridge between law, communication and the plastic arts. This transition is a perfect illustration of how passions can redefine career paths, leading to unexpected and rewarding careers.
Initially destined for a conventional career after studying law and communications, Amal Arezki was irresistibly drawn to art. Her passion for creative recycling led her to explore sculpture and pop art, radically transforming her career and her way of communicating with the world.
Amal is known for her vibrant works that transform everyday objects into pop art sculptures, often one metre high. From colourful sweets transformed into artistic pieces to reinvented luxury handbags, her creations are a joyful and questioning blend of our relationship with contemporary culture.
Amal’s artistic approach has quickly attracted attention, touching famous personalities such as singer Vitaa and footballer Karim.
Discover how Luc Mora, a former nuclear engineer in the Landes region of France, radically changed his life at the age of 55 to embrace his passion for painting. This inspiring story explores Luc’s fascinating transition, proving that the quest for self and personal fulfilment knows no age.
A bold career move
After two decades spent calculating and measuring in the specific field of nuclear engineering, Luc Mora decided to give free rein to his artistic expression by turning to watercolours and impressionism. This decision marked the beginning of a second life, guided by colours and emotions rather than numbers and formulas.
Self-taught and passionate
Luc has adopted a self-taught approach to art, letting himself be guided by his instinct and his consuming passion for colour. Every brushstroke reflects his desire to
Diom Diallo, a photographer based in Amiens, draws his inspiration from cinema and the visual arts, disciplines he studied in England and France. Influenced by Asian philosophies and the films of David Lynch, Diallo has chosen photography as his preferred medium for capturing the ephemeral essence of reality. His emblematic “Regards Croisés” series, produced exclusively in black and white, demonstrates his deep commitment to an artistic expression that simplifies in order to better reveal.
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For more than twenty years, painter Franck Duvauchelle has created an extraordinary body of work that focuses on light and matter, giving them a vibrant, poetic presence. Trained at the Institut Saint-Luc in Belgium, Duvauchelle has embraced figurative luminism, a style that sublimates the subtle interactions between light and texture.
What distinguishes Duvauchelle’s approach is his unique ability to manipulate light to bring the objects in his paintings to life, giving them an almost palpable density and texture. His artistic approach has evolved over time, demonstrating an inquisitive mind and an ever renewed freedom of expression. From monumental still lifes to seascapes and rural landscapes, he continues to capture the special light that bathes his subjects, revealing their intrinsic essence.
Duvauchelle’s works, mainly medium and large format, oscillate between the use of oil and acrylic, allowing him to experiment with different textures and play with material effects. Each of his canvases, often measuring around 80 x 60 cm, strikes an intriguing balance between precision of detail and atmospheric depth.
A visit to Rosa Bonheur’s house in Thomery, near Fontainebleau, last summer was a turning point for the artist
