In renovated buildings, the LaM will reopen on February 20, 2026, with a major retrospective devoted to Vassily Kandinsky, a major figure in twentieth-century art.
Co-organized with the Centre Pompidou - Paris, this exhibition will explore a little-known aspect of the artist's work: the role of images.
Photographs, scientific or press illustrations... far from being mere sources of inspiration, they nourished the artist's visual thinking and accompanied his quest for abstraction.
Through a unique collection of works and archives from Nina Kandinsky's bequest to the Centre Pompidou and exceptional loans from European public and private institutions, the exhibition invites us to rediscover the importance of images in the work of one of the founders of abstraction.
### Curator
**Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt**, Curator of Modern Art at LaM.
**Angela Lampe**, Curator of Modern Collections, Mnam/Cci.
**Hélène Trespeuch**, Professor and associate curator.


Major sponsor of the exhibition
_Vassily Kandinsky, Bild mit rotem Fleck (Painting with red stain), February 25, 1914, Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm. Donated by Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1976. Center Pompidou Collection. ©MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn._
Opening times
On 20 February 2026
- 11:00 at 18:00
On 14 June 2026




