Do you believe what you see? After captivating millions of visitors in Tokyo, Miami, and Milan, an exhibition dedicated to Leandro Erlich arrives for the first time in France at the Grand Palais. From one work to another, perspectives shift, architectures are disrupted, and reality transforms before your eyes.

Known for his spectacular installations in public spaces, Leandro Erlich explores the mechanisms of perception. At the intersection of installation, sculpture, and architecture, his immersive works - conceived at a human scale - take the form of dispositifs activated by the viewer's presence. By moving through and observing, each visitor becomes part of the experience. 

The artist draws on techniques borrowed from illusionism and trompe-l'œil: mirrors, appearances, shifts in scale, and perspective effects. Using elements from everyday life, he creates situations that unsettle reference points and transform our relationship to space. 

Conceived in collaboration with curator Fabrice Bousteau, the exhibition unfolds as a progressive journey composed of fourteen monumental and iconic installations: levitating boats, weightless clouds, modernist architectures transformed into infinite labyrinths, as well as a Haussmann-style building tipped onto its side that visitors can climb. 

Several installations, specially conceived for this retrospective, play with the inversion of perspective. What is perceived from the outside is transformed once inside. Viewpoints shift, and points of reference become unstable. Punctuated with artistic, literary, and architectural references, the exhibition also traces the artist's trajectory and questions the way we perceive reality. 

Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn in coproduction with Arthemisia

Curator Fabrice Bousteau

In spring 2026, at the Grand Trianon, the exhibition "Gardens of the Enlightenment, 1750-1800" offers a unique insight into landscape gardens in the 18th century. The exhibition tour brings together almost 160 works, including paintings, drawings, furniture, architectural plans, and costumes, spectacularly presented to showcase the birth of an art of landscape freed from the rules of the French formal garden and celebrating irregularity, fantasy and a philosophical evocation of nature. With close reference to the gardens commissioned by Marie-Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, the exhibition offers a sensitive rereading of iconic sites which visitors can then discover for themselves, such as the Belvedere, the Temple of Love and the Queen's Hamlet.

Curator

Elisabeth Maisonnier, Chief heritage curator, National Museum of the Châteaux of Versailles and Trianon.

Partners

The exhibition is a special partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Two names, two monuments of art history: Michelangelo and Rodin. The Hand of God, The Dying Slave, The Kiss, The Gates of Hell... Three centuries apart, these works embody the same conviction: the human body as a place of expression for all the forces of the soul.

A unique exhibition presenting three centuries of French exploration, from yesterday to today, where science, power and the military come together in a major challenge to sovereignty.

Come to explore three centuries of scientific and military adventures, through time and space!

In 1763, France lost the Seven Years' War and, with it, its first colonial empire in America and Asia. Against a backdrop of international rivalries, with the English and Dutch dominating the seas, the French monarchy sought to reaffirm its superiority by supporting vast expeditions around the world.

From the 18th century to the present day, the exhibition Explorations: A Matter of State traces the great explorations that France commissioned, prepared and conducted to the far reaches of known territories. It recounts the impulses that gave rise to them, the ambitions that drove them, and the human, scientific and political challenges they faced, from the initial preparations to their accomplishments.

By opening up to contemporary explorations-from distant lands to the abyss, from space to digital universes-the exhibition highlights the ambitions and territorial strategies that still structure the balance of power between the major powers today.

The exhibition curators:

• Lieutenant Colonel Philippe Guyot, Head of the Artillery Department

• Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner, Head of the Photography Collection, Fine Arts and Heritage Department

• Lucile Paraponaris, Provenance Research Officer, Inventory, Dissemination and History of Collections Department

• Antoine Tromski, Collections Officer, Contemporary Department

• Assisted by Pamina Weité