New street art exhibition on the floating boathouse Fluctuart. After a collective installation by 72 urban artists gathered around a subway-map theme, the urban art center afloat shifts its focus and this time turns to felines. Entitled "Everyone’s looking for their cat", this free exhibition runs at Fluctuart from May 7 to August 23, 2026 and is sure to melt your heart, but not only. For the cat can be as gentle as it is wild. While it has, perhaps inadvertently, become a social-media darling, the cat has long established itself as a favorite companion of artists, embodying a certain independence and freedom.
For "Chacun cherche son chat", Fluctuart has invited around a dozen street artists to explore the many facets of the feline, a figure that has leapt through imagination and across eras. For the occasion, get ready to admire works by Ardif, Kesadi, Kraken, Madame, or Veks Van Hillik and Wenna. Each artist has claimed the cat and oriented us into their own artistic universe.
Among the highlights is an enormous anamorphic installation of a playful cat, a feline half-animal, half-machine signed Ardif, or the feline divinities carved by the Chinese-born artist Weena. With Kesadi, the cat becomes a narrative protagonist. The artist has fun weaving a story that follows the feline — who here embodies a human — through a mundane day, guided by a single obsession: to bring back a mouse.
In the work of Veks Van Hillik, the cat isn’t even visible. At first glance, that’s the point. Here, the street artist invites visitors to peer through a keyhole to catch a glimpse inside a box and, in so doing, experience Schrödinger’s cat for themselves by declaring the cat’s state.
On her side, Madame invites us to step behind the curtain and settle into a velvet-walled, intimate space, where we face a wall that seems to watch us. Through this striking installation titled "On ne soigne pas le mâle par le mal", Madame offers a meta-reflection on the human condition.
In the end, "Chacun cherche son chat" doesn’t showcase a huge number of works, and the exhibition can be browsed quickly. Yet we strongly encourage you to slow down and study these felines from multiple angles. The barge actually houses a "Cosy cat corner" where you can sit down and even leaf through books devoted... to cats, of course. To reach this little relaxation nook, simply follow the "Cat Walk" painted in kitten colors.
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Dates and Opening Time
From May 7, 2026 to August 23, 2026
Location
Fluctuart - Urban art center
Port du Gros Caillou, 75007 Paris
75007 Paris 7
Prices
Free
Official website
fluctuart.fr
