Just outside Paris, a free exhibition takes up residence in France’s largest cemetery.

The idea may surprise: an exhibition of works, installations, and performances set in the heart of a cemetery. The Poush residency intends to push into a place of memory on the outskirts of the capital by the end of May. And it’s in the largest cemetery in France (and the fourth largest in Europe) that this artistic appointment awaits us.

From May 30 to November 15, 2026, the Pantin municipal cemetery, in Seine-Saint-Denis, hosts "Demeure", a contemporary art exhibition bringing together the works of about twenty artists: Arnaud Adami, Ece Bal, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, Bianca Bondi, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Garance Butler Oliva, Gaëlle Choisne, Didier Fiúza Faustino, Max Fouchy, Laurent Grasso, Morteza Khosravi, Tilhenn Klapper, Thibault Lucas, Saeedeh Mirshekar, Valentine Prissette, Luca Resta, Julien Salaud, Eric Stephany, Maya-Inès Touam, and Andy Warhol.

L'The exhibition is free and visitors can discover these works via an art trail of roughly one kilometer through the avenues. A stroll that should bring us to the crossroads between funerary art and contemporary art.

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This isn’t the first time an exhibition has taken place in a cemetery in France, nor in the Paris region. In the Val-de-Marne, the neighboring department, BRIKX staged an exhibition at Valenton in 2017. Each year, during the Spring of Cemeteries, some venues also host temporary exhibitions.