iMusée national Picasso-ParisLe Marais
Guillermo Kuitca, Chapelle
A site-specific installation by Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé, where his "cubistoid" intersecting lines are painted directly onto the walls to form a new pictorial space.
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Years ago Kuitca painted airport luggage carousels, and he uses one to explain this room. Art is the carousel, artworks are the bags, artists the passengers, and Picasso, he says, is just another passenger at the belt.
You walk into the Hôtel Salé's former chapel and find its walls painted directly with crossing lines that fold the space like a creased map, dense in some patches and nearly empty in others. Kuitca calls the style "cubistoid" and has worked in it since the 2007 Venice Biennale. Buenos Aires Connect's reviewer wrote that the eye is meant to wander it like a maze, not read it in a line. It's the one chapel in the Marais whose explanation is about lost luggage.
This is a single room, not a full exhibition, so make it a stop on your way through the collection. It comes with the museum ticket (€16, €12 reduced, free on the first Sunday of the month) and stays until 31 December 2027.
Look for
The walls as a map
Look at the whole chapel at once: the lines cross like folds in a plan, crowding some zones and leaving others almost bare.
Cubist triangles, minus the bodies
Look for the sharp triangular shapes, Cubism's geometry turned on the room itself rather than on figures or objects.
The layers up close
Step near a wall to see the stacked colours that build volume, which one visitor told Buenos Aires Connect felt like time spilling down.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Out-Of-Town Guests
Skip if
You want Picasso himself: this is one room painted by a living Argentine artist.
With kids
The museum's €12 reduced rate doubles as a family rate for one or two adults accompanying a child.
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- Guillermo Kuitca, ChapelleCourtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Fragments of Paris: Jacques Villeglé and Urban Art© Fonds de dotation Villeglé, Adagp, Paris, 2026. Photo DR
- New Paris, from 1977 to the Present TimesChristo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation / Photo: André Grossmann
- Martine Franck: Images, Press and Feminist StrugglesCourtesy of Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Musée national Picasso-ParisFrançois de Dijon, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée Cognacq-JayCVB / Wikimedia Commons
- Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de ParisMiguel Hermoso Cuesta, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonVVVCFFrance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- mahJ - Musée d'art et d'histoire du JudaïsmeMusée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0