Nuit des Musées returns on Saturday, May 18, 2024, and for the occasion, many museums are staying open for a free nocturne! Fashion and art aficionados already know where to turn to enjoy this exceptional evening: the Palais Galliera is ready to welcome us, for this 20th edition of Nuit des Musées.
With Paris set to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2024, the Palais Galliera, Paris fashion museum, presents the collections exhibition "La mode en mouvement #2".
With over 250 new works presented in this second exhibition, the museum's collections retrace the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day, and develop the transversal theme of the body in motion. There is also a focus on the seaside, revealing pieces rarely shown to the public.
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Paris Université Club will be offering a singular and innovative discipline at the crossroads of genres: Ping-Pong Poésie & Musique.
A pong player, Laurent Pinon, and an actor-pong player from the Troupe de l'Imaginaire, Fosco Perinti, will lead table tennis games, while a musician from the Concert de la loge, Lucien Alfonso, will improvise to the rhythm of the balls. During the session, the public will be invited to participate at regular intervals and test this format on the frontiers of art and sport.
This event is organized as part of the "Jeux Poétiques de Paris".
Throughout the evening, art history, fashion and architecture students from the École du Louvre will welcome visitors to the museum's garden and present, in a sensitive and unique way, a theme linked to the museum's history and the exhibition Fashion in Motion #2.
Art in motion in the gardens of the Palais Galliera for Nuit des Musées 2024
While Gabrielle Chanel revolutionized fashion to keep pace with our changing lifestyles and emancipate the body from the clothes that constrained it, she also accompanied the wind of modernity blowing through the artistic scene, its repertoires and the performing arts. In 1924, she freed the dancers of the Ballets Russes from the costumes that restricted them. For the first time, the public saw dancers in bathing suits, tennis shoes or golf suits, in the Train bleu directed by Cocteau.
Just as fashion has accompanied the evolution of our movements, it has also accompanied the modernity of musical repertoires, ballets and operas.
No ballet or opera without costume, no ballet or opera without music. It is this universal link between the arts that this show, imagined as an echo to the Fashion in Motion exhibition, is designed to highlight, illuminate and awaken all the senses of the audience.
For this multi-disciplinary artistic project inspired by La Mode en Mouvement#2, dedicated to the seaside, concert teachers and young talents from the Rachmaninoff Conservatory have devised a musical program celebrating two emblematic themes of the exhibition:
Scores devoted to body movements in music, performed by choreographers and dancers from the Conservatoire,
Scores evoking the aquatic element, its undulations, landscapes and metamorphoses, evocative of the essence of balneaire.
From 7 to 9 p.m., choreographers, dancers, pianists, violinists, guitarists and harpists in solo and duo performances will offer a total spectacle in the square of the Palais Galliera, as a preamble to the discovery of the exhibition in the Palais' exhibition rooms.
Music and dance performances by teachers and students from the Rachmaninoff Conservatory: piano recitals, piano four-hands, duets, trios with violin and cello, harp, classical guitar...Contemporary, modern and character dance. Program on request from May 1ᵉʳ at contact@rachmaninoff.fr.
Echoing the exhibition La mode en mouvement #2, students, teachers and professional artists from the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff (Paris 16) will accompany visitors from the Palais Galliera square as they enter the exhibition with an original choreographic program and an exceptional piano concert (more information at www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr).
It sounds like an exciting program, but the Palais Galliera is worth the detour, even without the artifice. Conceived by the Duchess of Galliera as a place to showcase her art collection to the general public, themansion was built in 1894. Unfortunately, due to a clerical error, the Duchesse de Galliera was unable to donate her collection to the city of Paris, preferring instead to donate it to the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.
The Renaissance-inspired building was then converted into a museum of industrial art, failing to receive the Duchess de Galliera's collections. It wasn't until 1977 that the Paris City Council restored the building's original identity: the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris was finally born.
Today, the City of Paris' collection comprises over 200,000 items, including clothing, accessories, photographs and graphic arts from the 18th century to the present day.
Intrigued by this program? There's only one thing left to do: visit the Palais Galliera on May 18!
Palais Galliera, the fashion museum for all haute couture lovers in Paris
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Dates and Opening Time
On May 18th, 2024
Location
Palais Galliera - Fashion Museum
10 Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
75116 Paris 16
Access
M°9 - Iéna
Prices
Free
Official website
www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr
Palais Galliera, the fashion museum for all haute couture lovers in Paris
