The Musée des Beaux Arts Jules Cheret is celebrating the centenary of the exhibition dedicated to Maurice Denis (1870-1943), held in Nice in 1925. The sparkling blues and pinks of the winter light that flood the painter’s azure works mirror the achievement of an artist who came to draw new life from the shores of the Mediterranean in the inter-war years.
📍 Musée des Beaux Arts Jules Chéret in Nice
📆 Until 08 March 2026
For over fifty years, Michael Kenna has explored the world with a rare sensitivity, capturing the imprint of time, the memory of places and the silent poetry of landscapes. His small-format black-and-white images have been widely published. The Constellation exhibition, at the Musée de la Photo in Nice, brings together 124 silver prints that convey a poetic and contemplative aesthetic, imbued with great formal rigour.
📍Muséede la Photographie Charles Nègre in Nice
📆 Until 25 January 2026
For its second major exhibition following major restoration and restructuring work, La Malmaison in Cannes welcomes the contemporary sculptures of Jean-Michel Othoniel. A tribute to the contemplative power of glass, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s exhibition explores the interplay of light, material and scale. Inspired by nature, the artist has created a series of sculptures
which, in a movement between mathematical precision and poetic delicacy, captivate the eye and the mind.
📍 La Malmaison in Cannes
📆 Until 04 January 2026
The Musée Matisse Nice and the Baltimore Museum of Art are co-organising an exhibition devoted to Henri Matisse’s Stations of the Cross for the Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence. Matisse conceived his chapel as a total work of art, a whole from which nothing can be apprehended separately. Three sets of drawings form the core of this exhibition: those in the Musée Matisse Nice,
those from the collection of the Chapelle du Rosaire and those from private collections, to which are added numerous archive items documenting the evolution of the project from the first sketches to its final realisation.
📍 Musée Matisse in Nice
📆 Until 19 January 2026
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The ” Parallel Worlds ” exhibition brings together works from the collections of the Musée international d’art naïf Anatole Jakovsky and MAMAC, the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice. It reveals different artistic paths of the 20th century, questioning classifications and breaking down borders and labels. This encounter between different works reveals that the porosity and influence of genres and practices nourish most artistic approaches.
📍 Musée International d’Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky à Nice
📆 Until 31 March 2026
The New National Museum of Monaco, in collaboration with the YVES SAINT LAURENT Marrakech Museum, which initiated the exhibition in 2024, is devoting an exhibition to cacti from a dual botanical and artistic angle. Few plant families have been the subject of so many artistic transpositions. The exhibition offers a broad overview, bringing together works as different as an Eisenstein film, a Gufram coat rack and an iPad drawing by David Hockney! Over 200 works have been brought together for the occasion. The exhibition continues in the gardens of Villa Sauber, transformed for the occasion into a spectacular cactus garden thanks to the help of the Jardin Exotique de Monaco.
📍 New National Museum of Monaco – Villa Paloma and Villa Sauber in Monaco
📆 Until 11 January 2026
Born Fatma Haddad in Bordj el-Kiffan in 1931, Baya occupies a singular place in the history of twentieth-century art in the Mediterranean and remains one of the major figures on the Algerian art scene in the second half of the century. In 1947, Aimé Maeght discovered his work in Algiers and decided to present it in his Paris gallery. The exhibition, accompanied by a text by André Breton, revealed to the public a young self-taught artist. Thanks to Maeght, Baya moved to Vallauris, where she worked in ceramics alongside Pablo Picasso. A singular figure in Mediterranean art, Baya left her mark on the second half of the twentieth century with a universe that was both poetic and flamboyant. Her work deploys a profusion of plant forms, intense colours and magnified female characters, in a joyous celebration of life and the imaginary.
📍 Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence
📆 Until 24 April 2026
