Chagall and me ! 50 years of the Marc Chagall national Museum

Anniversary exhibition
Chagall and Me! 50 years of the Chagall Museum

In 2023, we will celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the creation of the Marc Chagall national Museum with joy and colour. Inaugurated by the artist on his birthday, July 7, 1973, the museum, or rather the house that Chagall wanted to house the cycle of the Biblical Message, still carries a powerful universal message today:
"From my earliest youth I have been captivated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me, and still seems to me, that it is the greatest source of poetry of all time. […] The world is for me like a great desert in which my soul wanders like a torch, I made these paintings in unison with this distant dream. I wanted to leave them in this House so that people could try to find a certain peace, a certain spirituality, a religiosity, a meaning of life." ¹ 

To celebrate this generous gift, made 50 years ago, the exhibition Chagall and Me! invites contemporary personalities (artists, writers, dancers, musicians, etc.) to share their contemporary reading of these paintings. This Chagall and Me! exhibition will reveal many surprises and will be accompanied by a rich programme that will culminate on the weekend of 7 July 2023, the anniversary of Marc Chagall and the museum !

An exhibition in three parts

Part 1: from 28 January to 30 April 2023 
The guest artists are :

• Asier Edeso, dancer and choreographer. For more information
• Makiko Furuichi, visual artist. For more information
• Mimosa Koike, dancer and choreographer. For more information
• Stéphane Lambert, writer. For more information

Part 2: from 13 May to 4 September 2023
The guest artists are :

Jean-Claude Ellena, perfumer. For more information 
ilia Osokin, musician and composeur. For more information 
Keong-A Song, visual artist. For more information 

And with a special Anniversary Weekend on 7, 8 and 9 July 2023

Part 3: from 16 September to 8 January 2024
The list of future participants will be communicated later. 

¹ Marc Chagall, speech at the opening of the Marc Chagall national Museum, 1973.

View of the Biblical Message room, with paintings by Marc Chagall (from left to right): Noah and the Rainbow (1961-1966), Moses Receiving the Tables of the Law (1960-1966) and The Creation of Man (1958). Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall © Photo: Nice, musées nationaux du XX^e siècle des Alpes-Maritimes / Gilles Ehrentrant © ADAGP, Paris, 2023. 

Exhibition poster, figure from Marc Chagall's La Danse (1950, oil on canvas, 238 x 176 cm). Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de Création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, on deposit at the Musée national Marc Chagall. Photo © RMN-GP / Gérard Blot © ADAGP, Paris, 2023. Graphic design: © Caroline Pauchant, 2023.