Louise Nevelson Exhibition. Mrs. N's Palace

An icon with an inimitable style, Louise Nevelson is today recognized as one of the major sculptors of the 20th century. A pioneer of installation art, her art is generally evoked in the light of Cubism, Constructivism, the ready-made or the collage practices of the Dada and Surrealist movements, but her sources of inspiration are much broader. Fifty years after her last monograph in France, this exhibition invites us to immerse ourselves in her multiple atmospheres, in the hope of fulfilling her wish to present her sculptures as part of a total space, an experience to be lived with all the senses, and not as individual entities.

Louise Nevelson, Tropical Garden II [Tropical Garden 2], 1957 © ADAGP, Paris 2025 © Centre Pompidou-Metz / Photo: Jacqueline Trichard / 2018