Days are getting longer, plants are turning green and blooming… Spring is just around the corner, transforming the city’s atmosphere! Museums and other cultural venues are also budding! Whether it’s an exhibition of botanical drawings, flowers by Yves Saint Laurent or an immersive experience at the heart of Douanier-Rousseau‘s universe, we’ve selected the exhibitions of the moment that smell of spring!
Flowers by Yves Saint Laurent
Flowers in fashion! For its latest exhibition, the Yves Saint Laurent museum celebrates the great designer’s love of flowers! Discover how he drew inspiration from nature and art to create outfits with exuberant prints or delicate embroidery in precious fabrics! Highlights include the wedding dress worn by Laetitia Casta (spring-summer 1999) and the Watteau dress (spring-summer 1990).
📍 Location: Musée Yves Saint Laurent
5, avenue Marceau, 75116 Paris
📆 Date: until May 04, 2025
🎟️ Price: full price €10 / concessions and students €7
Paris Sauvage at Bercy Village
Wild animals in the Paris region? Come and meet the creatures that inhabit the region! Bercy Village invited wildlife photographer Nicolas Davy to share his passion for the animals that live among us, but are often hidden! With his camera, he has managed to capture foxes, squirrels and other owls in parks and gardens, in the woods or in the city. His photos, exhibited in Paris Sauvage, are surprising and offer a breath of fresh air and nature!
📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: January 16 to June 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission
Douanier-Rousseau at the Atelier des Lumières
What better way to welcome spring than by immersing yourself in a lush, mysterious, animal-filled setting? L’Atelier des Lumières dedicates its latest immersive exhibition to the painter Le Douanier-Rousseau. Enter the dreamlike, vegetal world of the naïve artist!
📍 Location: 38 Rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: until June 29, 2025
🎟️ Price: full price €18 / child price €11 / reduced price €16
Plant passion at the Parc Floral
Passionate about botanical art,herbariums or simply plants? Discover the watercolors and botanical drawings of Florence Gendre. This artist shares her fascination for the plant world with delicate, poetic works that invite observation and contemplation. Visit the Maison du Jardin Botanique in the Parc Floral de Paris throughout the spring to admire the work of a talented artist!
📍 Location: Maison du Jardin Botanique, Route de l’Artillerie, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: March 28 to June 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission
David Hockney at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
iPad painting printed on paper, mounted on 5 panels Exhibition Proof 2 364.09 x 521.4 cm (143.343 x 205.276 Inches) © David Hockney
To coincide with the spring season, we couldn’t have wished for a better event dedicated to the famous painter David Hockney. The Fondation Louis Vuitton is dedicating a major exhibition to him from early April. Among the 400 works on show, visitors can choose to take a dip in a bright-blue swimming pool, stroll through the verdant (and sometimes more autumnal) landscapes of Normandy, or contemplate “flower portraits” created by the artist using an iPad.
📍 Location: 8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris
📆 Date: from April 9 to August 31, 2025
Nature impressions at Forney Library
Nature and especially flowers (still them) are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists and creative people! The exhibition held at the Bibliothèque Forney is a fine demonstration of this. Nature Impressions is an exploration of the library’s holdings through the prism of the plant world. On display: sample albums of antique wallpaper, catalogs, posters, botanical books and postcards…
📍 Location: 1 rue du Figuier, 75004 Paris
📆 Date: March 21 to June 21, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission