In October 2025, American curator Naomi Beckwith will present an ambitious and original project at the Palais de Tokyo, occupying the entire exhibition space and reviving the institution’s carte blanche format. Her project for this season examines the artistic and intellectual relations between France and the United States, showing how successive generations of American artists have appropriated theoretical, political and poetic ideas shaped in the French-speaking world, transforming them into artworks and ways of making art.
This season will feature a two-part programme: a solo retrospective exhibition by American sculptor Melvin Edwards—his first in France—and a major group show ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art and Francophone Thought, bringing together nearly 60 artists. Both speculative and generous, these exhibitions offer a fresh perspective on the historical and contemporary exchange of forms and ideas between France and the United States, reaffirming their exceptional creativity and relevance at a time when they are sometimes called into question.
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