Grand Palais · Champs-Élysées
Le Musée imaginaire d'Oli
The rapper Oli (Bigflo & Oli) stages his inner museum: about a hundred works and new installations, laid out as a coming-of-age journey with sound as the thread.
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Preview: written before the show opened
You go in through a cave. That's the entrance Oli, of the Toulouse rap duo Bigflo & Oli, has built for his imaginary museum, which drew over 112,000 people in Toulouse before coming here.
The idea is André Malraux's (he died 50 years ago this year): a museum as the portrait of one mind. Here that is about a hundred works over 1,300 m² and three levels of Galerie 7, mixing contemporary art with sport, cinema, fashion and graffiti. The rooms follow how a work gets made, from inspiration and doubt to the gaze of others, and a soundtrack of voices, archives and city noise carries you between them. Doubt gets a room of its own, in darkness, which is more space than most Paris flats can spare for anything.
Nobody has reviewed it yet. Booking opened on 26 October, and Sortir à Paris lists tickets at 22 euros. Enter by Square Jean Perrin. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:30, Fridays until 22:00.
Look for
The cave entrance
The route starts in an entrance built as a cave, before the rooms laid out as the stages of making a work.
The room of doubt
A chamber plunged into darkness, with the installation running across the floor and up the walls.
A real recording studio
Hidden along the route is a working recording studio, part of a show whose thread is a soundtrack of voices, archives and music.
The last room
The show ends by turning the gaze from Oli to you, inviting you to take part in the story yourself.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Teenagers
With kids
Sortir à Paris lists children's tickets at 10 euros for ages 5 to 12 and 13 euros for ages 12 to 18.
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Image credits
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- Monet, Painting TimeNational Gallery of Art / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Contemporary Counterpoint: Vija CelminsVija Celmins, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
- Stan Douglas: Parallax© Stan Douglas. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner
- Grand PalaisȘtefan Jurcă / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Musée de l'OrangerieHomonihilis / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jeu de PaumeGuilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0
- Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)xiquinhosilva from Cacau / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Musée Jacquemart-AndréChristophe Recoura, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0