Exhibitions of the moment in Lille

From 6 December 2024

Discover Van Gogh as you’ve never seen him before! Immerse yourself in the world of the master of Impressionism through a spectacular 1,000 m² video mapping display, where his works come to life before your very eyes. Add to this a virtual reality experience that transports you to the heart of Van Gogh’s most famous masterpieces, from ‘The Starry Night’ to ‘Van Gogh’s Room in Arles’.

There’s also a workshop where you can paint in Van Gogh’s style and project your work onto the walls. It’s an immersive adventure that’s sure to delight young and old alike!

From 1st March to 1st June 2025

• Rodin /Bourdelle. Corps à corps

The Bourdelle / Rodin exhibition at La Piscine in Roubaix explores the relationship between these two giants of modern sculpture. Through 170 works, it reveals their mutual influences, their differences and their impact on twentieth-century art. A captivating dialogue between admiration and emancipation.

• Elsa Sahal: Pool Dance

Discover the bold art of Elsa Sahal, a sculptor trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and heir to a rich ceramic tradition. After studying with Georges Jeanclos and Erik Dietman, she developed a body of work focusing on the body and its metamorphoses, combining humour and freedom of expression.

From 13 February to 30 March 2025

• The Camille Claudel Museum at La Piscine

Until March 2025, La Piscine in Roubaix will be hosting a remarkable collection of sculptures by Camille Claudel, on loan from the Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine. Major works such as Femme accroupie (Crouching Woman) and Aurore (Dawn), alongside rarer studies, offer a fresh look at her work in variations, by comparing different versions from the collections of the two museums.

From 1 March to 8 June 2025

• Sens dessus dessous

To mark the exhibition of intimate, organic forms by ceramist Elsa Sahal, La Piscine’s Fashion booths are being filled with objects from the museum’s collection, illustrating the words of 18th-century French writer Louis Antoine Caraccioli: ‘there is often more art in the undressed than in the finery’.

From 10 July 2024 to 22 September 2025

To coincide with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Maison natale Charles de Gaulle is presenting an exhibition on the impact of sport during the presidency of General de Gaulle. Entitled Vas-y champion! Sport in the de Gaulle years (1958-1969), this retrospective explores how sport became a national passion in France during this period.

After the Rome Olympics in 1960, where France returned with almost no medals, de Gaulle launched an ambitious policy to promote sport. The exhibition traces this development through the major technical, political and societal advances of the period, with a focus on the Tour de France, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Paris-Roubaix race, and the feminisation and media coverage of sport.

From October 5, 2024 to August 31, 2025

Plunge 40,000 years back in time with the “Arts and Prehistory” exhibition, revealing the creative genius of our ancestors and the deep ties they maintained with nature. Prehistoric masterpieces from all over the world, from the caves of Lascaux to the cliffs of Huashan, bear witness to the universal magnetism of this ancestral art. With over 90 reproductions of the oldest pieces discovered and an immersive digital experience, embark on a fascinating journey to the heart of humanity’s earliest artistic expressions. These millennia-old works, engraved, sculpted or painted, continue to inspire admiration and questioning, inviting us to explore the origins of human creativity.

From 26 April to 9 November 2025

Immerse yourself in modern and contemporary art with the Pom Pom Pidou exhibition at Tripostal! Discover the Centre Pompidou’s masterpieces and the fascinating evolution of artistic creation from the 20th century to the present day. In each room, relive the effervescence of the avant-garde (Delaunay, Kupka, Duchamp), then the rise of the New Realists, the Fluxus movement and Pop Art, before plunging into today’s digital art, from algorithmic pieces to NFT.

From 26 April to 9 November 2025

As part of Fiesta, the 7ᵉ edition of lille3000, the Hospice Comtesse museum presents The Distorted Party from 26 April to 9 November 2025. This exhibition revisits celebration and conviviality in the face of contemporary challenges. Between celebration and reflection, chaos and beauty, it explores the contrasts of a changing world: climate change, social inequalities, political instability and human fragility.

The former hospital, originally medieval, becomes a striking backdrop where the peaceful architecture dialogues with a modern scenography and vibrant, sometimes disturbing works. A unique immersion in the heart of a multi-faceted festival.