Musée d’Orsay: An exceptional evening pairing Renoir with the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

On one side, Renoir and his bursts of light. On the other, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and its landscapes that look like living paintings. On Thursday, June 25, 2026, the Orsay Museum stages their meeting for an immersive evening where painting, video games, and music converse in a captivating game of reflections. Ticket sales open Tuesday, June 9, 2026.

The Musée d’Orsay shifts its palette. For one evening, the placards share the spotlight with pixels, and Renoir crosses paths with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. On Thursday, June 25, 2026, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., the institution is dedicating an exceptional Orsay live! to the phenomenon signed by Sandfall Interactive, as part of the exhibition Renoir and Love: the Happy Modernity. Exhibitions, an original hanging, a meet-the-creators session and a mini-concert: this time, Impressionism gets a game controller.

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The convergence is anything but accidental. Built on the Belle Époque, 19th-century painting and sculpture, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 shares with Orsay far more than a simple aesthetic. On one side, the masters who redefined light. On the other, a game that makes it a fully fledged visual language. Between the two, common ground where brushstrokes respond to artistic directions and where digital landscapes feel lifted straight from a painting.

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Reservations open on June 9 at 11:00 AM. Doors open at 6:50 PM for conference attendees, then at 7:30 PM for all visitors.

Orsay Live Schedule:

From 7:00 PM to 8:45 PM: exhibitions and a special display

Renoir is presented in large format with Renoir and Love: The Happy Modernity and Renoir the Draftsman. In contrast, an unprecedented exhibition hang dedicated to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 arrives, blurring the boundaries between the museum and the video-game universe, June 23–28, 2026. In the nave and on level 0, the game’s images enter the permanent collection. A framing that proves pixels can blend into the landscape.

From 7:15 PM to 8:00 PM: meet the developers

Off to the town hall's banquet hall for a deep dive behind the scenes of the adventure. Guillaume Broche (creative director), Nicholas Maxson-Francombe (art director) and Paul Perrin revisit how the game's universe was crafted, its Belle Époque roots, and the inspirations drawn from Orsay's imaginary world. It’s a chance to see how some works shift settings to better fuel contemporary creation. Limited by available seats.

From 8:45 PM to 9:15 PM: a mini-concert in the nave

With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · A Painted Symphony, the soundtrack steps off the screen to take over the nave. Lorien Testard, Alice Duport-Percier and Orane Donnadieu make the voices, guitar and piano resonate beneath the grand skylight. After digital tableaux and landscapes, it’s time for the score: at Orsay, even the notes find a frame.

With this Orsay Live! · Renoir in the Light and Shadow, the museum offers much more than a mere crossover. It threads a line between painting, video games and music. A night when Renoir shifts perspective, when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lays bare its references, and when we discover that a joyful modernity can also be played with a gamepad.

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