“Rêver en Équilibre”

“Above all, art should be fun,” Alexander Calder once said. In the 20th century, Calder changed sculpture game with his enchanting mobiles that introduced a new sense of science and play into the medium. Now, half a century after his passing, his works are being honored in a forthcoming exhibition coming to Foundation Louis Vuitton.

From April 15 through August 16, 2026, the Parisian institution will become home to “Rêver en Équilibre” (“Dreaming in Balance”) with 300 works, spanning wire portraits, paintings, drawings, wood sculptures and jewelry alongside “mobiles” and “stabiles”—kinetic and static sculptures in Calder’s own words.

Tracing five decades of creation, highlights on view will include “Cirque Calder” (1931), the famed, live miniaturized circus performance that helped boost the Calder’s name within the overseas avant-garde scene. Elsewhere, selection from the “Constellation,” the series of hanging mobiles, titled by Marcel Duchamp, furthers into the artist’s kinetic practice.

Posted by: admin on January 8, 2026