Grimaldi Forum Monaco Summer Exhibition

A colourful summer in store...

Curated by Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director of the French Musée National d'Art Moderne, this special exhibition will bring together over one hundred works of art. Visitors can admire paintings by grand masters including Sonia Delaunay, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, and Vassily Kandinsky...

The exhibition is laid out around seven themed areas each devoted to a particular colour, where the visual experienced is enhanced by audio creations from composer Roque Rivas and fragrances by Alexis Dadier from the celebrated perfume maker Fragonard. Marion Maelander has created special installations incorporating pieces by well-known designers: Ron Arad, Jean Prouvé, Ettore Sotsass, and Philippe Starck.

With scenography by William Chatelain, "Colours! Pompidou Centre Masterpieces" invites visitors to experience a multisensory immersion in the world of colour.

A parade of Masters...

In 2023, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco’s summer exhibition "Monet in Full Light” celebrated the 140th anniversary of Claude Monet’s visit to Monaco. It was followed in 2024 by the landmark exhibition "Turner, the Sublime Legacy", an extraordinary journey into the universe of one of the greatest European artists of the 19th century: Joseph Mallord William Turner.

^{Joseph Mallord William Turner Hurrah! For the Whaler Erebus! Another Fish! exhibited 1846 Oil paint on canvas
Photo: ©Tate}

Retrospective…

Since its inauguration on 20 July 2000 by Prince Rainier III and Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco (GFM) has hosted a major exhibition every summer devoted to an artistic movement, a particular subject of heritage or civilisation, or any theme that expresses the renewal of creation. 

                                           2000 "AIR-AIR"                                                                                                                2007 "The Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco Years"

The GFM works with the world’s leading cultural institutions, including museums, foundations, and galleries, who loan major artworks in recognition of the success of these grand exhibitions.
Thanks to the quality of its summer exhibitions, the Grimaldi Forum has established itself as an important cultural venue in its own right.

2008 "Queens of Egypt, from Hetepheres to Cleopatra"                                                                                             2013 "Monaco celebrates Picasso"

2017 "The Forbidden City in Monaco. Imperial Court Life in China"                                                                            2019 "Dali. A History of Painting"

2021 "Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective - Marvellous Reality"                                                                    2022 "Christian Louboutin, L'Exhibition(niste)"                     

2023 "Monet in Full Light"                                                                            2024 "Turner, the Sublime Legacy"

For more information and to buy tickets, visit the Grimaldi Forum Monaco website.