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Where to see Louise Bourgeois now

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art. She was also a prolific painter and printmaker who explored themes including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, death, and the unconscious.

San Francisco

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de Young Museum
A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift
15 August 2026 – 14 February 2027
Photographs, prints and drawings exclusively by women artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner and Yayoi Kusama, from a promised local gift.

Paris

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Centre Pompidou
Louise Bourgeois: Extreme tension
20 October 2026 – 21 February 2027
The BnF and Centre Pompidou combine their Louise Bourgeois holdings for the first time - some 200 drawings, prints and artist's books - in the artist's first Paris public-institution show since 2008. At the BnF Richelieu, Galerie Mansart.

Image credits

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Louise BourgeoisWikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift© Sandy Skoglund
Louise Bourgeois: Extreme tension© The Easton Foundation / Adagp, Paris Photo © Crédit photographique : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Jean-Claude Planchet/ Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

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