Nicolas Daubanes.
A contemporary artist
Musée de l’Armée – Invalides
- From 8 November 2025 to 17 May 2026
- 129 rue de Grenelle & 2 place Vauban, 75007 Paris
- musee-armee.fr
The Musée de l’Armée welcomes visual artist Nicolas Daubanes, who has intervened throughout the permanent galleries devoted to the Third Republic—from the Paris Commune to the Second World War—with around thirty of his works.
His sculptures, drawings, and photographs enter into dialogue with the historical displays, offering a thoughtful and striking reflection on the close relationship between art and History.
His work connects his artistic language to the memory of these sites, focusing on four themes present in the museum: insurrection, memorial landscapes, confinement related to repression, and resistance.
Nicolas Daubanes
Bunker, the Escalette creeks, 2023.
Magnetised steel powder, incrustation of incandescent steel on glass.
© Nicolas Daubanes © Adagp, Paris 2025.
Views of the exhibition
© Nicolas Daubanes
Born in 1983 in Perpignan, Nicolas Daubanes explores the limits of existence and the human condition, conducting workshops in prisons and participating in artist residencies. His work is rooted in transmitting memory in historically significant locations. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Perpignan and was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2024–2025.
At the same time, he presents Ombre est lumière. Mémoire des lieux at the Panthéon from November 19, 2025, to March 8, 2026, as part of the project “Today, the Ten Key Sites of National Memory” organized by the ONACVG.
Curators
- Laëtitia Desserrières, Head of the Drawing Collection, Department of Fine Arts and Heritage
- Julien Voinot, Collection Manager, 19th-Century and Symbolic Arts Department
Northern Light. Scandinavian and Dutch Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay
Musée d'Orsay from 10 February to 10 May 2026 This wall display presents a selection of Scandinavian and Dutch drawings from the Musée d'Orsay, illustrating the artistic richness of Northern Europe and the diversity of 19th-century Northern European drawing.
A Total Art. Drawings from the Vienna Secession
Musée d’Orsay from January 27 to May 17, 2026 Organised around the recent acquisition of a drawing by Josef Hoffmann, this exhibition focuses on the Musée d'Orsay's collections devoted to drawings from the Vienna Secession.
From Manet to Kelly: The Art of the Print
INHA from 12 December 2025 to 14 June 2026 Exceptional exhibition of 178 19th- and 20th-century prints, from Manet to Ellsworth Kelly, showcasing the richness of the Jacques Doucet collection and the creativity of printmaking artists.
The Youth of Fine Arts. Rennes and its artists, 1794–1881
Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes from 29 November 2025 to 29 March 2026 This exhibition, which features numerous drawings, highlights a forgotten chapter in the artistic history of Rennes in the 19th century: the beginnings of the museum and the municipal school of fine arts.
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