Exhibition guide
A key figure in international contemporary art, Annette Messager is visiting the Museum of Hunting and Nature for the first time.
Visit details
- Dates: From Tuesday April 14, 2026 to Sunday September 20, 2026: Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Venue: Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, 62, rue des Archives, Paris
- Price: De 0 à 13,50 euros.
- Audience: Tout public.
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
A bestiary of human passions More than 80 works are displayed in around fifteen rooms, along a thematic route ( love transports , capture and captivity , blood of beasts , domesticated wildness, etc.) where major installations, emblematic works and new pieces interact with the collections of the museum. A new angle: animality as a key to reading For the first time, the work of Annette Messager is approached in the light of animality. Although a constant figure in his work since the 1970s, the animal figure had never been the subject of such exploration. The animal world becomes a mirror of human passions and impulses: they resemble us, parody us, reveal us. An international journey Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2016, Annette Messager has been the subject of major exhibitions in the largest international institutions: the MoMA in New York, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. This exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is part of this worldwide recognition, offering the artist one of the most unique settings there is.
Exhibition produced with the assistance of Annette Messager, the Galerie Marian Goodman Paris, de Sèvres – National Manufacture and Museum
Exhibition curator: Colin Lemoine