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03/18/2026 - 06/21/2026
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Icon of contemporary photography, Nan Goldin is exhibited as a filmmaker. The Grand Palais presents the first retrospective in France devoted to her videos and slideshows, which the artist describes as “films made up of stills”. An intimate journey through her life, her friendships, her loves, and her struggles.
The exhibition brings together six major works covering fifty years of work: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981–2022), her magnum opus; The Other Side (1992–2021), a homage to her trans friends photographed between 1972 and 2010; Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (2004–2022), a testament to the trauma of families and the taboo of suicide; Memory Lost (2019–2021), a claustrophobic journey through drug withdrawal; Sirens (2019–2020), a trip into drug ecstasy; and Stendhal Syndrome (2024), a work based on six myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which explores the condition described by Stendhal as a collapse provoked by the overwhelming beauty of art.
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Icon of contemporary photography, Nan Goldin is exhibited as a filmmaker. The Grand Palais presents the first retrospective in France devoted to her videos and slideshows, which the artist describes as “films made up of stills”. An intimate journey through her life, her friendships, her loves, and her struggles.
The exhibition brings together six major works covering fifty years of work: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981–2022), her magnum opus; The Other Side (1992–2021), a homage to her trans friends photographed between 1972 and 2010; Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (2004–2022), a testament to the trauma of families and the taboo of suicide; Memory Lost (2019–2021), a claustrophobic journey through drug withdrawal; Sirens (2019–2020), a trip into drug ecstasy; and Stendhal Syndrome (2024), a work based on six myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which explores the condition described by Stendhal as a collapse provoked by the overwhelming beauty of art.