To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Grimaldi Forum is honoring the exhibitions that have marked its history. The current health situation in the country means that travel is impossible, but that is not a problem. The forum’s organization has published their 20 years of imagination in the service of unique events online as episodes.
A key venue in the Monegasque landscape, the Grimaldi Forum has had the immense privilege of hosting the largest international exhibitions with countless different themes. To relive or discover them, simply use this link which will redirect you to the Grimaldi Forum platform. https://www.grimaldiforum.com/fr/index/20-ans-d#.X2RvvZMzZ-0 At its inauguration on July 20, 2000, the goal of the Grimaldi Forum was to mark a change in dimension in business tourism and cultural entertainment policy. Just over 20 years later, the director of cultural events at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Catherine Alestchenkoff, spoke about the site’s evolution.
“Today, the key word is creation, and we truly have two extraordinary assets here. On one hand, we do not have collections, we are not a museum. We have the opportunity to define a cultural policy as we wish, without being fixed on a specific guideline. […] The great fortune after 20 years of creation in all possible subjects, in both modern and contemporary art, is that the Grimaldi Forum has truly forged its own identity.”
The works come on loan from the world’s largest museums such as the Guggenheim in New York and the Louvre Museum. But it doesn’t stop there, as the Monegasque expertise in innovation and creation has been exported worldwide. With all these actions, the Grimaldi Forum contributes to the cultural influence of the Principality abroad. For more details, check the list of different episodes below:
- Episode 1: AIR-AIR (July 21 – August 27, 2000)
- Episode 2: China, The Century of the First Emperor (July 18 – August 31, 2001)
- Episode 3: Circus Days (July 18 – September 8, 2002)
- Episode 4: Super Warhol (July 16 – August 31, 2003)
- Episode 5: Imperial Saint Petersburg, from Peter the Great to Catherine II (July 17 – September 12, 2004)
- Episode 6: Arts of Africa, From Traditional Arts to the Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi (July 16 – September 4, 2005)
- Episode 7: NEW YORK NEW YORK, Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video (July 14 – September 10, 2006)
- Episode 8: THE GRACE KELLY YEARS, PRINCESS OF MONACO (July 12 – September 23, 2007)
- Episode 9: QUEENS OF EGYPT, FROM HETEPHERES TO CLEOPATRA (July 12 – September 10, 2008)
- Episode 10: MOSCOW, THE SPLENDOR OF THE ROMANOVS (2009)
- Episode 11: KYOTO-TOKYO, from Samurai to Manga
- Episode 12: SPLENDOR AND GRANDEUR OF EUROPEAN COURTS (July 11 – September 11, 2011)
- Episode 13: EXTRA LARGE, MONUMENTAL WORKS FROM THE POMPIDOU CENTER COLLECTION (July 13 – September 9, 2012)
- Episode 14: MONACO CELEBRATES PICASSO (July 12 – September 15, 2013)
- Episode 15: ARTLOVERS, STORIES OF ART IN THE PINAULT COLLECTION (July 12 – September 7, 2014)
- Episode 16: FROM CHAGALL TO MALEVICH (July 17 – 0 September 2015)
- Episode 17: FRANCIS BACON (July 2 – September 4, 2016)
- Episode 18: THE FORBIDDEN CITY (July 14 – September 10, 2017)
- Episode 19: THE GOLD OF THE PHARAOHS (August 29 – September 9, 2018)
- Episode 20: DALÍ, A STORY OF PAINTING (July 6 – September 8, 2019)
