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Multiple Artists

Musée du Louvre

Paris

Sep 24–Dec 14, 2026

Paris

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Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton are the 2024-2026 Hosts at the Louvre.

For two years, they inhabited the spaces – both physical and imaginary – of the Louvre. Each had a studio on the premises, where they created, conversed with museum personnel, and engaged with the public.

“As I explored art and its organisation in time and space at the Louvre, I realised that the gaze is also a construct that depends on the position from which the viewer experiences it, and that this position is a socio-political stake. It took me several visits and many years of reflection before a strong sense of reclaiming my own gaze led me to question my perception of the museum environment, of which the Louvre is the archetype. From this individual revelation to collective emancipation through culture, there is only a tiny space, one which both separates and connects individuals and society: that of collective individuation. If we accept that Art is also everything we do not see, revealing the blind spots in museum design is part of the future of museums. That is what I expect from the Louvre today – and not only from its treasures and masterpieces, but also from its architecture, its educational programmes and its relationship with its fundamentally diverse public – an effort to grapple with the complexities of our times and an inclusive approach rooted in living together while embracing our differences.” —Kader Attia

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Portrait of Kader Attia

Kader Attia (b. 1970, Seine Saint-Denis, Dugny, France; lives and works in Berlin Germany and Paris, France), grew up in Paris and in Algeria. Preceding his studies at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and at Escola Massana, Centre d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America.The experience with these different cultures, the histories of which over centuries have been characterized by rich trading traditions, colonialism and multi-ethnic societies, has fostered Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach of research. For many years, he has been exploring the perspective that societies have on their history, especially as regards experiences of deprivation and suppression, violence and loss, and how this affects the evolving of nations and individuals — each of them being connected to collective memory.

His socio-cultural research has led Kader Attia to the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. With the principle of Repair being a constant in nature — thus also in humanity —, any system, social institution or cultural tradition can be considered as an infinite process of Repair, which is closely linked to loss and wounds, to recuperation and re-appropriation. Repair reaches far beyond the subject and connects the individual to gender, philosophy, science, and architecture, and also involves it in evolutionary processes in nature, culture, myth and history.

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