Oli's Imaginary Museum: the immersive and sensory exhibition by the artist at the Grand Palais

Following his imaginary museum in Toulouse, Oli (from the duo Bigflo & Oli) arrives at the Grand Palais in Paris for an experience conceived as an initiatory journey, starting December 2, 2026. This exhibition invites visitors to move through a sequence of rooms, each a step in inner states, revealing the mechanics at work in the creative process: shock, doubt, inspiration, the gaze of others, the intimate, and transmission.

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For a young man, stepping into an exhibition is like stepping into the mind of an artist. Oli invites you to enter his world through this perspective, weaving connections from one realm to another—his Franco‑Algerian and Argentine roots in Paris, street culture, and the museum world—without any hierarchy. He lays bare his inner universe and imagination, his obsessions, his references, his doubts, and his flashes of insight, in a museum liberated from cultural, geographic, symbolic, and sociological boundaries.

A revival of the imaginary museum envisioned by André Malraux, as a tribute to the figure who has been gone for 50 years this year. A true throughline, sound guides the visitor from one room to the next, as if inside a single consciousness, between voices, archives, music, breaths, and the murmur of the city, in an inward journey that each person can identify with as they move through nearly 1,300 square meters across three levels, bringing together around a hundred works and several installations designed for the occasion.

Oli invites you to participate in this collective exhibition, from an entrance designed as a cave, through the room of inspiration, and on to the doubt-filled chamber plunged into darkness, across the floor and the walls, for a true immersion into the artist’s emotions. Works of art, music, cinema, fashion or graffiti make up this cabinet de curiosités where artists mingle in a chorale-style lineup, not to mention a studio d’enregistrement vivant!