"Dans le Flou" exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie

From April 30 to August 18, 2025, the Musée de l'Orangerie offers a singular reflection on the history of modern and contemporary art through an often underestimated notion: the blur.

Long interpreted through the prism of Claude Monet's illness, the late paintings of the Water Lilies now reveal a deliberate artistic gesture: that of an assumed, poetic, immersive blur, which opens the way to a new reading of the history of plastic creation, from 1945 to the present day.

From pictorial works to installations, photography and video, the exhibition explores blur as a language of uncertainty, an artistic response to the disorder of the world, where sharpness gives way to allusion, disorder and transience. Three major sections follow one another - at the frontiers of the visible, the erosion of certainties, praise for the indistinct - and culminate in a luminous epilogue: reenchanting the world.

Musée de l'Orangerie - Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde, Paris 1st

To get there from the Hôtel du Jeu de Paume, take the metro to Pont Marie (line 7), change at Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre (line 1) to Concorde. The museum is a 5-minute walk from the station.