Exhibition: Grandeur Nature II, the Spirit of the Forest
Following the success of the exhibition "Grandeur Nature. 18 artists in the garden" exhibition in 2023, Grandeur Nature became a biennial event. The Château de Fontainebleau will stage its second edition from May to September 2025.
Château de Fontainebleau
Place du Général de Gaulle
77300 Fontainebleau
Place du Général de Gaulle
77300 Fontainebleau
The new contemporary art trail will invoke "the spirit of the forest".
Conceived as a voyage of discovery as visitors stroll along, this new edition will this time be spread over the 130-hectare Domaine national du château de Fontainebleau.
The exhibition will take visitors on a tour of the château's historic gardens and grounds, and will open onto forest vistas beyond the estate gates, highlighting the inseparable link between this great royal residence and its forest and urban surroundings. The tour has the renewed support of the Sommer Foundation, which co-organized Grandeur Nature I.
We're delighted that the Office National des Forêts and the City of Fontainebleau have accepted our offer to take part in this project, which aims to help people discover or rediscover the natural and landscape heritage of the UNESCO World Heritage château.
More than 40 works by contemporary artists, from the Horseshoe Staircase and the Baptistery Gate to the small Mont Chauvet, will poetically adorn the gardens, park and surrounding area, questioning walkers about the workings of an ecosystem that seems eternal but is fragile and altered by climate change.
Giant sculptures by Wang Keping in the Grand Parterre, the Sentinelle by Françoise Petrovitch, original installations by Philippe Ramette and mythological creatures by Marina Le Gall, Kim Dacres, Max Coulon and Jean-Marie Appriou, among others, will all pay homage to nature, summoning up the spirit of the forest for a fruitful and unprecedented dialogue.
Conceived as a voyage of discovery as visitors stroll along, this new edition will this time be spread over the 130-hectare Domaine national du château de Fontainebleau.
The exhibition will take visitors on a tour of the château's historic gardens and grounds, and will open onto forest vistas beyond the estate gates, highlighting the inseparable link between this great royal residence and its forest and urban surroundings. The tour has the renewed support of the Sommer Foundation, which co-organized Grandeur Nature I.
We're delighted that the Office National des Forêts and the City of Fontainebleau have accepted our offer to take part in this project, which aims to help people discover or rediscover the natural and landscape heritage of the UNESCO World Heritage château.
More than 40 works by contemporary artists, from the Horseshoe Staircase and the Baptistery Gate to the small Mont Chauvet, will poetically adorn the gardens, park and surrounding area, questioning walkers about the workings of an ecosystem that seems eternal but is fragile and altered by climate change.
Giant sculptures by Wang Keping in the Grand Parterre, the Sentinelle by Françoise Petrovitch, original installations by Philippe Ramette and mythological creatures by Marina Le Gall, Kim Dacres, Max Coulon and Jean-Marie Appriou, among others, will all pay homage to nature, summoning up the spirit of the forest for a fruitful and unprecedented dialogue.
Tarifs
Free entry.
Prestations, conforts et services
- Langues parlées :
- French
Périodes d'ouverture
From 25/05 to 21/09/2025, daily between 9 am and 7 pm.
