The exhibitions in Lille and the surrounding area

Even today, the landscape of the Weppes is marked by the presence of many traces of the Great War. Concrete shelters bear witness to the war of position in the area. Come and discover the story of how they were built, how they functioned and how they evolved during the conflict.

From 26 April 2025 to 30 June 2026, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille is inviting Felice Varini, internationally renowned for his installations with striking geometric forms. Created specially by the artist at the heart of the museum, 3 monumental works will transform the perception of several spaces, including the emblematic atrium.

“My works invite the viewer to enter into the painting”.

Felice Varini has been delighting audiences since the late 1970s with his monumental installations that engage in dialogue with the surrounding architecture. Each of his works comes to life from a specific vantage point, where the geometric shapes seem to magically come together in a perfect composition. But the experience doesn’t stop there: as you move around, you’ll discover a multitude of perspectives and interpretations, like so many facets of a transformed space.

Until 14 June 2026

Co-organised with the Centre Pompidou – Paris, this exhibition explores 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 fed 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 visitors to rediscover the importance of images in the work of one of the founders of abstraction.

from 7 March to 12 July

This retrospective exhibition at theIMA– Tourcoing pays tribute to a major figure in modern Egyptian art: the artist Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985), whose prolific output over fifty-two years of creative work helped redefine the trajectories of art in the Arab, African and Mediterranean worlds in a post-colonial context.

Bringing together an exceptional collection of works and archives preserved by the artist’s family, the exhibition retraces the different stages of his life and work.

Paintings, drawings, lithographs and personal documents are brought together to reconstruct the portrait of this singular artist, and to trace the echoes of an entire era through his career.

3 October 2025 to 5 April 2026

This groundbreaking exhibition explores the creative output ofEugèneLeroy, a major artist from Northern France born in 1910, during the last twenty years of his life. Through more than 80 paintings and drawings, it exalts the freedom and creative profusion of this final period, and his research into light and the nude, “far removed from trends and fashions”, as he put it.

from 11 October 2025 to 30 August 2026

“Vaisseau Terre” takes a positive and poetic look at the Earth. Designed by the Cité de l’Espace, the exhibition takes a fresh look at our blue planet. It invites visitors to be astronauts, explorers, space archaeologists and visionaries all in one.

From 20 September 2025 to 17 April 2026

The Château de Flers Museum in Villeneuve d’Ascq invites you to a sumptuous banquet between past and present!

In a superb castle of Flemish architecture, a table has been laid in the style of 17th-century banquets… but that’s not all!
With contemporary objects linked to the art of the table, sound and scent installations, the exhibition plunges you into the heart of a festive moment, between past and present.

As part of Fiesta, the 7th edition of lille3000