Palais de Tokyo

The Palais de Tokyo is a long, low limestone building defined by two identical wings that frame an open-air courtyard facing the Seine. Originally built for the nineteen thirty-seven International Exposition, it served as a museum for modern art. During the nineteen nineties, artists famously squatted the abandoned structure, covering the walls in graffiti and turning the raw, unfinished concrete spaces into an unauthorized laboratory. Today, it remains an anti-museum, hosting rotating contemporary exhibitions that often replace art with shifting sensory environments.