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FRANCE / Giverny / Musée des impressionnismes Giverny: Andrea Branzi, the Realm of the Living
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until Sunday November 02 2025

Musée des impressionnismes Giverny
99 Rue Claude Monet
27620 Giverny
France

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In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, curated by Marie-Ange Brayer, the museum is presenting a group of works by Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzi, who died in 2023. Fascinated by the figure of Monet, Branzi saw in him a fellow architect who, through his garden, had constructed his own nature. Through a compelling ensemble of furniture, drawings, and models, the exhibition explores Branzi’s reflections on the future of humanity and our relationship with the living world. At its centre is Bamboo Interior Wood, a monumental installation made of painted bamboo, recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou in 2024.

This exhibition is part of the Constellation programme, which brings the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne to audiences throughout France during the Centre Pompidou’s closure for renovation. Pompidou.

The museum’s summer exhibition invites visitors to rediscover key works from its permanent collection through the lens of the garden—a theme at the heart of Giverny’s identity. Visitors can immerse themselves in masterpieces such as Claude Monet’s Nymphéas avec rameaux de saule (1916–1919), Gustave Caillebotte’s Parterre de margeurites (c. 1893), and Pierre Bonnard’s La Seine à Vernon (1915).

Giverny takes pride of place in this selection, with works by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (Lupins et pavots, n.d.), Theodore Butler (Portail au cerisier en fleurs, Giverny, 1912), and Mary Colman Wheeler (Thé au jardin, 1910 ), as well as contemporary works by Jacques Monory (Technicolor n°1. Monet est mort, 1977) and Terri Weifenbach (Giverny, une année au jardin, 2021).

The exhibition also unveils the latest additions to the collection: Johan Barthold Jongkind’s L’Escaut près d’Anvers, soleil couchant (1866), acquired thanks to a public subscription in 2023, Scène dans le parc (before 1915), a pastel by Philippe Smit, La Berge (2024), a monumental canvas by Maude Maris, and a group of photographs by academician Jean Gaumy, devoted to Monet’s garden (2018-2020).

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