# Contrepoint contemporain: Vija Celmins

Part of the museum's "contemporary counterpoint" series, this exhibition shows Vija Celmins's drawings, paintings, prints and wood engravings from 1971 to 2000. Her subjects are oceans, deserts, night skies and snow. The works hang in the pronaos and contemporary room, in dialogue with Monet's Water Lilies.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view September 30, 2026 – February 15, 2027
- Where: Musée de l'Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde (côté Seine), 75001 Paris, Concorde / Tuileries
- Artists: Vija Celmins
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- Event's own page: https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/vija-celmins
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/contrepoint-contemporain-vija-celmins

## From the organiser

Works made between 1971 and 2000 by Vija Celmins – drawings, paintings, prints and wood engravings of oceans, deserts, night skies and snow – shown in the pronaos and contemporary room in dialogue with Monet's Water Lilies, as part of the museum's 'contemporary counterpoint' series.

## Also on Wednesday 30 September

- **Until Jan 17, 2027** · [PENN & FASHION](https://artweekguide.com/events/penn-fashion) — Museum at MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Le Marais, paying tribute to Irving Penn's fashion photography. It draws on his more than sixty years of work with Vogue and looks at how his pared-down style and command of composition shaped later generations of photographers.
- **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [« Je passe ma vie à peindre »: a Claude Monet route in the Impressionist gallery](https://artweekguide.com/events/je-passe-ma-vie-a-peindre-a-claude-monet-route-in-the-impressionist-gallery) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay – Impressionist gallery (rooms 29–35), Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A display in the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist gallery, marking the centenary of Monet's death. It brings together five recently studied or restored paintings and letters, showing the deliberate working process behind his apparent spontaneity. Prepared with the C2RMF and restorer Bénédicte Trémolières.
- **Until Oct 31** · [Günther Uecker: Verletztes Feld](https://artweekguide.com/events/gunther-uecker-verletztes-feld) — Show at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, Le Marais. A presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac's Marais gallery, as part of Paris Art Week 2026, centred on Günther Uecker's 1981 nail painting *Verletztes Feld* (Wounded Field), the earliest known work he split open with an axe. It is shown with 22 painted photographs, made with Swiss photographer Rolf Schröter, documenting its making.
- **Until Apr 4, 2027** · [Look! 40 ans de mode au musée](https://artweekguide.com/events/look-40-ans-de-mode-au-musee) — Museum at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition marking forty years of the fashion museum within the Arts Décoratifs. It presents 40 silhouettes from the museum's collections, staged in the central nave alongside sketches, patterns and embroidery.