A major Paris art institution will host a significant Los Angeles collection next year. “The Broad in Paris” (April 21–August 30, 2027), at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, will be the largest display of works from the Broad collection ever mounted outside its home city, with some 164 works making the transatlantic voyage. The show will happen while the Broad is closed for renovation; it will reopen in 2028 with 70 percent more gallery space.
“The Broad in Paris” will feature a star-studded roster of international contemporary figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Sayre Gomez, Lauren Halsey, Keith Haring, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol.
Opened in 2015 and founded by billionaire Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, the Broad collection is housed in a distinctive building by Diller Scofidio and Renfro, the first architecture firm to win a MacArthur Fellowship. Vuitton opened the year before in an equally notable structure by Frank Gehry, the 1989 winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.
The Broad exhibition follows other shows devoted to major institutions and collectors, such as “Icons of Modern Art: Shchukin” (2016–17), “Being Modern: MoMA in Paris” (2017), and “The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism” (2019).
“We are two quite young institutions, both over a decade old, and we share a common purpose to present a deeper understanding of 20th- and 21st-century art,” said Broad founding director and president Joanne Heyeler in press materials. For her part, Suzanne Pagé, the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s artistic director, praised the Broad’s “clear and committed choices,” saying this show not only builds upon her institution’s past shows of artists such as Basquiat and Warhol but also offers “an opportunity to discover new artists from the Californian art scene.”
Heyeler and Pagé curated the show along with Broad curator and publications manager Ed Schad and Vuitton chief curator Olivier Michelon. A publication will illustrate every work in the show and include new commentary and essays.