Michel François and Nathanaëlle Herbelin in Cactus
6 July 2025—11 January 2026
Group exhibition at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber, Monaco
Simple forms, fractal figures, muted or vibrant colors, spiny, downy, shaggy or waxy shells, fleshy, velvety organs, extravagant architectures, cacti and succulent plants have been an object of fascination for centuries. The New National Museum of Monaco, in collaboration with the YVES SAINT LAURENT Museum in Marrakech, which initiated it in 2024, is dedicating an exhibition to them today from both a botanical and artistic perspective.
With Kaïs Aïouch & Chahine Fellahi, Ghada Amer, Ziad Antar, Aurel Bauh, Max Beckmann, Katinka Bock, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari, Philippe Chancel, Julian Charrière, Ali Cherri, Étienne Clerissi, Barbara Crane, Martin Creed, Léon Diguet, Robert Doisneau, Guido Drocco & Franco Mello with Paul Smith, Latifa Echakhch, Sergueï Eisenstein, Ger van Elk, Emeric Feher, Alain Fleischer, Henri Foucault, Jean-François Fourtou, Michel François, Francesca Gabbiani & Eddie Ruscha, Maurizio Galante & Tal Lancman, Flor Garduño, Chris Garofalo, Lina Ghotmeh, Domenico Gnoli, Julio González, Florence Henri, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, David Hockney, Larry Jordan, Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize, René Lalique, Romain Laprade, Fernand Léger, Jochen Lempert, Eli Lotar, Man Ray, Hilton McConnico, Mathurin Méheut, Cristina de Middel, Richard Laurence Misrach, Serge Mouille, Stéphane Passet, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bernard Plossu, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Ed Ruscha, Yann Sérandour, Shimabuku, Louis de Sigaldi, Philippe Starck, Simon Starling, Johannes Steidl, André Steiner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Henri Tracol, Oriol Vilanova, Yannick Vu, Ossip Zadkine, Ding Zhang, Willy Zielke…