An artistic interaction on an unparalleled scale, Monumenta invites an internationally renowned artist each year to transform the Nave of the Grand Palais with a new, site specific work filling the 13,500 m², 35 metre-high space.

This year marks the fifth edition of the event. Daniel Buren, one of France’s most internationally renowned and honoured artists, has been selected for the challenge. Monumenta 2012 will be on show between 10 May and 21 June. 

The first four editions of Monumenta were hugely successful, dedicated to German artist Anselm Kiefer in 2007, American sculptor Richard Serra in 2008, French artist Christian Boltanski in 2010 and Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, whose work in 2011 attracted over 270,000 visitors in 6 and a half weeks.

Daniel Buren has chosen the title Excentrique, travail in situ for Monumenta 2012.

Organised by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, Monumenta is co-produced by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) and the Etablissement public de la Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (Rmn-GP).

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Image credit: Monumenta 2012, Daniel Buren in the Nave of the Grand Palais. Photo Farida Bréchemier – all rights reserved Monumenta 2012, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.