FOREVER: The Free Exhibition Curated by Maurizio Cattelan at Galeries Lafayette

FOR ETERNITY, outside the walls of the exhibition Sunday Without End, brings contemporary art from the Centre Pompidou-Metz into the heart of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann. Conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Chiara Parisi, this innovative route features sculptures, photographs, and sound installations spread across the dome, the staircases, and the terrace, turning the flagship department store into a vibrant, living gallery. From March 10 to April 27, 2026, visitors are invited to explore freely a collection of significant works by Gloria Friedmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Christodoulos Panayiotou, and Lawrence Weiner.

A department store, a museum, and this delightfully modern idea that art can emerge where you least expect it. When foot traffic crosses paths with artworks, when gazes slow amidst the hustle and bustle, something special happens… From March 10 to April 27, 2026, contemporary art takes center stage at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann with POUR TOUJOURS, an unusual journey through artworks curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Chiara Parisi, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz. This outside-the-museum project is part of the exhibition Une Fin de dimanche infinie. Maurizio Cattelan et la collection du Centre Pompidou, showcased in Metz for the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s 15th anniversary.

Under the iconic dome of Boulevard Haussmann, Mammalia by Gloria Friedmann transforms architecture into a living solar system. Animal sculptures in clay—deer, bear, wolf, turtle, donkey, peacock, and a giant heron mid-flight—orbit around a dome conceived as a primordial source, a deep memory of life and a gathering point for a constellation both fragile and powerful.

In the mural shopfront windows, the photographs of Birgit Jürgenssen line a non-chronological path from the 1970s to the 1990s. A key figure in Viennese feminist avant-garde, the artist playfully reinterprets traditional female roles, using her own body to challenge gender stereotypes with irony.

Between the domes, the sound installation JUDY GARLAND: A BIOGRAPHY (2009) by Christodoulos Panayiotou overlays early and late performances of Over the Rainbow. Her voice becomes an archive, an incantatory chant, and a speculative biography—creating a temporal-spatial shift where personal memory and collective stories intertwine.

On the panoramic terrace, LAWRENCE WEINER’s AU MÊME MOMENT AT THE SAME MOMENT presents a bilingual statement where language acts like sculpture, questioning simultaneity, perception, and the experience of time.

Free exhibition, POUR TOUJOURS is complemented by a program of guided visits on weekdays and weekends—an opportunity to rediscover a place you thought you knew inside out. To kick off this artistic journey, Maurizio Cattelan will be at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 10 a.m. for a book signing of Dimanche sans fin and Beware of yourself.

A project where art flows, surprises, and endures.

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