The exhibition Chagall Couture offers a contemporary reinterpretation of Marc Chagall’s work through textile design. It is the result of a two-year collaboration with students and teachers on the National Diploma in Art and Design programme at Lycée Les Coteaux in Cannes, which specialises in stage costume design.

To create the collection of 76 pieces across five projects, the students drew inspiration from a selection of Chagall’s works that reflect his distinctive use of colour and materials, as well as his command of artistic techniques. The exhibition is presented in two parts. The first, from 10 October 2026 to 18 January 2027, focuses on the prints for Dead Souls and the colours of The Biblical Message. The second, from 6 February to 23 May 2027, explores his illustrations for La Fontaine’s Fables and the central figures of The Biblical Message. Headpieces inspired by The Blue Rose will be on display throughout both parts of the exhibition.

Venue: Galerie des musées - Palais de l’Europe

In Menton, the Villa and Gardens of Les Colombières, designed by Ferdinand Bac, are closely connected to the poetic universe of Jean Cocteau, who was introduced to drawing by his friend. Drawing on the Séverin Wunderman collection from the Jean Cocteau Museum, the exhibition explores the central role of vegetation in the artist’s imagination. In Cocteau’s visual works as well as in his films, nature is never a mere backdrop: it becomes a strange, animated presence, revealing the mystery of the living world and the porous boundary between human beings and their environment.

This dreamlike dimension finds its fullest expression in Beauty and the Beast (1946), where the Beast’s domain is transformed into an enchanted garden inhabited by vegetal and organic forms in perpetual metamorphosis. In his drawings, Cocteau also populates nature with fantastical creatures and mythological figures, giving rise to a personal mythology that is poetic and sometimes tinged with humour. The exhibition unfolds across four thematic sections: floral and friendly correspondences, revisited myths, dreamlike bestiaries, and Southern gardens, where the Mediterranean becomes a figure of the living world.

The Belgian sculptor Arne Quinze invites Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos to join him in creating an extraordinary body of work, exploring the poetic, the surreal and the unexpected.

In the spirit of Jean Cocteau — whose legacy is deeply rooted in Villefranche-sur-Mer — the exhibition encourages visitors to rediscover surrealism and dreamlike thinking as essential lenses through which to reflect on the growing distance between contemporary culture and nature. A loss and a form of alienation that Quinze views as profoundly harmful.

Spreading throughout the Citadel, the exhibition unfolds through monumental outdoor installations alongside more intimate indoor environments. It offers Quinze and Vasconcelos a unique space for expression, allowing them to shape a singular and immersive narrative.

This exhibition retraces the deep, intense friendship between English painter Francis Bacon and American photographer Peter Beard over more than twenty years. It reveals a fruitful artistic dialogue in which the two men were both subjects and fertile sources of inspiration, constantly influencing one another, and explores their shared interests, especially in African wildlife.

Monstre Pente is a solo exhibition by artist Camille Llobet, presented at La Station as part of Automne de l’Image. This annual event at Le 109 brings together several festivals devoted to still and moving images, including the OVNi biennial, an international video art festival.

Through video and sound installations, Camille Llobet captures invisible effort, suspended movement and the body’s memory, from a musician’s gesture to the footsteps of a high-mountain guide. Monstre Pente will feature the artist’s most recent video works alongside her ongoing research.

A leading figure of international Surrealism, Victor Brauner (1903–1966) occupies a singular place in art history, and his remarkable work is yet to be fully discovered. For the first time, the exhibition presents an outstanding private collection that covers the artist’s entire production from the 1920s to the 1960s, embracing painting, drawing, and sculpture.

In contrast, ten non-Western objets d’art, collected by Victor Brauner and loaned by the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, are on display.

Venue: Villa Paloma, 56 boulevard du Jardin Exotique, Monaco

In February 1949, Alex Katz came across an exhibition at Pierre Matisse’s gallery in New York, which was dedicated to his father’s recent works. The paintings known as the “Intérieurs de Vence” (Interiors of Vence)—including Nature morte aux grenades (Still Life with Pomegranates) and Le silence habité des maisons (The Inhabited Silence of Houses)—along with the brush drawings and cut-outs, had a profound aesthetic impact on the young artist, who was then a student at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.

Alex Katz – a painter of everyday American life—has been studying the work of the French master ever since. Seventy-five years later, the idea for the exhibition arose following Katz’s encounter with the museum’s collections in 2024 and the fruitful dialogue that ensued. Designed in collaboration with the artist himself, “Henri Matisse – Alex Katz. The Silence of Painting” offers a new display of the museum’s collections, in which Alex Katz’s works resonate with those of Henri Matisse.