The Lille Metropolitan art museum (LaM) adapts its offer during renovation works

Several exhibitions in the metropolitan area

During the first half of 2025, la Condition Publique, another cultural metropolitan hotspot located in Roubaix will bring together a first exhibition with works from the museum's contemporary art collection and a second on emerging creations. These 2 exhibitions will be part of the upcoming Lille 3000 “Fiesta” event. Fiesta is the 7th thematic cultural program following Lille 2004 capital of Culture. It will take place from the 26th of April until the 9th of November 2025 in the whole City & Metropole of Lille and the wider cross-border region.

At the “Ferme d'en Haut” in Villeneuve d'Ascq, a children’s exhibition will be on show. This exhibition, designed for children between the ages of 6 and 11, will enable the Lille Metropolitan art museum to offer new ways of displaying and promoting its work.

In autumn 2025, a project co-designed with the University of Lille will give rise to an exhibition presented in the Culture area of the “Cité Scientifique” in Villeneuve d'Ascq. It will bring together works from the LaM collection and the university's heritage collections around the theme of transitions.

Reopening not to be missed in February 2026

Six cabarets will also punctuate the year 2025 and the beginning of 2026, as a prelude to the reopening of the museum, by offering festive evenings around different themes in several partner venues in the Euroregion (the Gymnase in Roubaix, the Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille, etc.). These evenings will feature performances, concerts, readings, dance, magic, video projections, etc., and moments of sharing.

The reopening of the museum will be celebrated with a major retrospective devoted to the artist Vassily Kandinsky, in February 2026. Organised in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and with the support of Lille Metropole, the exhibition will explore a little-known aspect of Vassily Kandinsky's work: the role of images. The exhibition will reconsider the importance of images (scientific and ethnographic photographs, press illustrations, etc.) in the work of one of the founders of abstraction.

Last but not least, LaM's masterpieces travel the world...

During its closure, a selection of masterpieces from the museum's collection will travel to Shanghai to the Bund One Art Museum from 27 September 2024 to 9 February 2025. This exceptional exhibition, conceived to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and the People's Republic of China and organised in collaboration with Manifesto Expo, will present a selection of 60 works from the modern art collection (Modigliani, Picasso, etc.).

From 5 April to 31 August 2025, the Aarhus Kunstmuseum (ARoS) in Denmark will host almost 150 works from the LaM collection, as well as around twenty books and archive items from the Dominique Bozo Library. Drawing also on the Dutilleul-Masurel collection, the exhibition will explore a number of aesthetic paths, providing an open reading of twentieth-century art history and reflecting the rise of self-taught and marginal forms of creation (art brut, spiritualist art, naive art, etc.).

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