From December 9, 2023, to April 21, 2024, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Breath of an Architect, an exhibition especially created for the institution by architect Bijoy Jain, founder of Studio Mumbai in India.

Written in the 11th century by a woman, the poet Murasaki Shikibu, “The Tale of Genji” has generated an extremely rich iconography over the past thousand years, influencing even contemporary mangaka.

Famous for the extreme refinement of its court art, imperial Japan of the Heian period (794-1185) notably gave birth to a major work of classical Japanese literature, the Tale of Genji. Written in the 11th century by a woman, the poet Murasaki Shikibu, it has generated an extremely rich iconograpy hover a thousand years, influencing even contemporary mangaka.

Created by the Indian artist at the invitation of the Guimet museum, the work is inspired by a real story: that of the extinction of the aka-bo language spoken by the Bo tribe on the Andaman archipelago (India ), also called “birdsong”.

Continuing anthropological and social photographic work initiated in 2016 in Cuba and which he will continue in 2024 in Israel, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac (born in 1983) traveled across Japan between December 2019 and August 2020 to produce the series Hakanai Sonzai (“ Hakanai Sonzai ”) .

The Ceramics and Fire Arts Course celebrates its 16th anniversary.

Through a spectacular installation in the rotunda on the 4th floor of the museum, the Korean artist Park Dong-Soo is invited to mark his return to the international artistic scene, after fifteen years spent in a hermitage in the region of Haemi (South Korea). South).

Designed as an original experience, an introspective journey between the body and the supernatural, Médecines d'Asie is the first major exhibition in France devoted to the three great Asian medical traditions: Indian, Chinese and Tibetan. Through a scenographic journey beyond borders and time, the exhibition transports the visitor to a universe where thousand-year-old medical practices and exceptional works of art meet, evoking meditation and shamanism, the balance of energies and the pharmacopoeia, massage and acupuncture, astrology and exorcism.

The Guimet Museum presents for the first time in France a unique set of prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) intended to adorn fans. Made between the 1830s and 1850s, they are among the rarest and most elaborate of the work of the artist, one of the last great image makers in Japan of the Edo period. These fan leaves reveal the graphic inventiveness and diversity of his work, from the famous sites of the city of Edo and the landscapes of Japanese provinces, to the subtle compositions of flowers and birds, passing by the female portraits, historical, literary scenes or parodic images.

Echoing the “SHRaza” exhibition at the Center Pompidou, the Guimet Museum explores the influence of Tibetan mandalas on the work of Indian artist Sayed Haider Raza (1922 – 2016), a major figure in modern art. Six paintings by Raza will be installed next to the mandalas from the Musée Guimet collections, thus highlighting the comparable symbolic principles that can be found in the artist's works.

The 16th contemporary carte blanche of the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet has been entrusted to the Chinese artist Wang Keping, who takes over the rotunda on the 4th floor and the Chinese permanent collections. 21 sculptures in wood or bronze establish a dialogue with the millennial works of the museum.

This exhibition takes visitors on a fascinating journey to the crossroads of civilisations, in the heart of central Asia, in Uzbekistan, where Samarkand and Bokhara are household names. But many other trading posts in the region brought to light works of art that are now listed as objects of world heritage.

Each year, the Yishu8 Maison des Arts in Beijing welcomes three French winners of the Yishu8 Contemporary Art Prize – France. This residency is an opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in Chinese culture and nourish their work with new influences. In the reciprocity of these exchanges, Yishu8 also created the Yishu8 Contemporary Art Prize – China and the Golden Phoenix Chinese Craft Prize. The Chinese winners are invited to stay at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris to discover French culture. The exhibition presented at the MNAAG celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Yishu8 Contemporary Art Prize, through a retrospective of young painters, sculptors, visual artists, videographers and photographers.