Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000

From the creation of the Présence Africaine review to that of Revue noire, “Black Paris” retraces the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1950s to 2000. The exhibition celebrates 150 artists of African descent, from Africa to the Americas, whose works have often never been displayed in France before.

“Black Paris” offers a vibrant immersion in a cosmopolitan Paris, a place of resistance  and creation that gave rise to a wide variety of practices, from a new awareness of identity  to the search for trans-cultural artistic languages. From international to Afro-Atlantic abstractions via surrealism and free figuration, this historical voyage reveals the importance of artists  of African descent in the redefinition of Modernisms and Post-modernisms.