Exhibition “Calder. Rêver en Équilibre” at Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Fondation Louis Vuitton marks two major milestones in 2026: the centenary of Alexander Calder’s arrival in France in 1926, and fifty years since his passing, with a sweeping retrospective dedicated to the visionary artist.

Image: Alexander Calder, La Grande vitesse, 1969 – © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York / ADAGP, Paris

“Calder. Rêver en Équilibre” traces half a century of creation, from the late 1920s, when his Cirque Calder performances captivated the Parisian avant-garde, to the monumental sculptures that reshaped public art in the 1960s and 70s. Within Frank Gehry’s iconic architecture, Calder’s mobiles float and shift, transforming the exhibition into a poetic, choreographed interplay of form and movement.

Among the most significant exhibitions ever devoted to Alexander Calder, “Calder. Rêver en Équilibre” has been realized in close collaboration with the Calder Foundation, its principal lender. Additional loans from leading international institutions and prominent private collections bring together nearly 300 works. Visitors encounter Calder’s celebrated stabiles and mobiles, terms he coined to distinguish static and kinetic abstraction, alongside wire portraits, carved wooden figures, paintings, drawings, and even jewelry conceived as miniature sculptures. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters in a chronological journey, the exhibition highlights the artist’s defining themes: movement above all, but also light, reflection, humble materials, sound, ephemerality, gravity, performance, and the dynamic tension between positive and negative space.

Now on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton through August 16, 2026

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