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Florian Krewer: woven thin
The German painter's first solo show in France: sixteen monumental, expressionistic canvases installed within the museum's permanent collection display, including previously unseen works.
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You walk in on a crowd in silhouette raising its fists. house of hope (2026), the first canvas, sets pop-coloured flags against an acid-green ground, and it is Krewer's tribute to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show in February 2026. Anyone in Paris who watched that live was up at about 2am.
This is the German painter's first solo show in France: sixteen paintings and two works on paper, several never shown before, hung tightly inside the museum's permanent collection. Teenagers skate across a frozen landscape, Mexican musicians sing for the Day of the Dead, bears open their jaws. The Art Newspaper's critic kept asking whether a scene was "a fight or a dance? a riot or a party?", and credited the work with a singular power "in times darkened by wars".
The catch: another reviewer found a string of scenes with no narrative thread. Entry is free with the collection, Tuesday to Sunday, and Thursdays run until 21:30. It closes 4 January 2027.
Look for
house of hope (2026)
Look for pop-coloured flags on an acid-green ground above a silhouetted crowd raising its fists, painted after Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.
circuit maneuver (2025)
Bears with wide-open jaws and fearsome paws that the critic likens to Sendak's Wild Things; Krewer's grandfather kept a growling cement bear in his garden.
fire man (2024)
A trans performer in full command of a pole-dance pole.
in the echo (2026)
Animals, adults and children caught together in a spider's web, all with exaggerated expressions, painted for this show.
The making of reviving the bear
At the end of the route, two preparatory works hang beside the large 2022 oil, showing the sketches Krewer builds a canvas from.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want a story to follow: one reviewer found a string of scenes with no narrative thread.
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Image credits
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- Florian Krewer: woven thinCourtesy of Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
- The Chamber of Echoes: The Blue of EverythingPhoto credit : Charles Villa
- Céleste Richard-Zimmermann: Not All Columns Have a Heart of StoneCéleste Richard Zimmermann, Martyre décorum, 2021 - Work supported by the Pays de la Loire Region. Photo: Gregory Valton © Adagp, Paris, 2026
- You and Your GangCourtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Sam Basu
- Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)Lustucrucaca / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Palais de TokyoGuilhem Vellut via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de ParisJoe deSousa / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Musée national des arts asiatiques - GuimetLionel Allorge / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Musée du quai Branly - Jacques ChiracJean-Pierre Dalbera, CC BY 2.0