Photo credits: Palais Princier de Monaco.
On Monday, July 7, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II inaugurated the exhibition “Couleurs !” at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, accompanied by Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Mr. Ben Sylvester Strautmann.
The exhibition, open to the public from July 8 through August 31, is organized in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and curated by Didier Ottinger, deputy director of the Musée national d’art moderne. It brings together over one hundred works by major 20th-century artists, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vassily Kandinsky, Sonia Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The focus of the show is the role of color in modern art. Rather than following a chronological path or a specific movement, the exhibition presents a cross-section of how artists across different schools and decades used color as a structural and expressive tool.
Photo credits: Palais Princier de Monaco.
Photo credits: Palais Princier de Monaco.
For Monaco, the exhibition underscores the Grimaldi Forum’s growing role as a regional center for major cultural programming. In recent years, the Forum has partnered with international institutions to bring large-scale exhibitions to the Principality. The collaboration with the Centre Pompidou represents one of the most significant to date, both in terms of institutional weight and the caliber of the works shown.
Cultural programming continues to play a defined role in Monaco’s public agenda. The exhibition reflects an ongoing policy of supporting international partnerships and making high-level art accessible during the peak tourist season.