The Musée Guimet has once again given carte blanche to a contemporary artist. Currently, it’s Korean artist Min Jung Yeon who has taken over the rotunda on the fourth floor with her immersive installation Tissage (Weave).

The exhibition explores the representation of the living in ceramics, from Renaissance to today. Several artworks by French sculptor Farida Le Suavé are on display : Organic forms of materialized flesh.

This exhibition of the French contemporary scene gives an overview of the possible links with Western Post-War abstraction, whether they are common filiations and sources of inspiration or, on the contrary, breaking points.

Bente Skjøttgaard’s contemporary sculptures are presented alongside sketches by painter Georges Maroniez (1865-1933) : the ensemble comes as an addition to the exhibition of the permanent collections entitled « Regarder les nuages : pour une histoire de l’art du paysage. Choix dans les collections du musée. » (‘Looking at clouds : For a history of landscape art. Picks from the museum’s collections’).

The exhibition questions our perception of human existence as a reality that can be understood rationally. The artworks explore disturbing experiences and emotions hidden behind the surface of things and conventions such as fear, uncertainty, irrationality, ambivalence and perplexity.

Helene Schmitz explore humanity’s impact on the environment. The exhibition features her series Thinking Like a Mountain (2018) and Kudzu Project (2013). Where the first series sheds light on the relation between ownership and exploitation of natural resources in Sweden and Iceland, the second shows how the change of environment transformed a decorative plant into an invasive species.