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.
From 1979 to the present, she has produced numerous slideshows from thousands of photographs she has taken of her everyday life, her close circle, their intimacy, and family events. Her narratives, drawn from her own experience, explore themes such as childhood, gender, violence and drug addiction. Raw and intimate, the stories she reveals stand as universal tales of love and loss.
At the Grand Palais, the exhibition is installed in buildings designed by the architect Hala Wardé. Each building is designed in response to the specific piece it houses; together, they constitute a village. This village extends to the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, where the installation conceived for this space in 2004 as part of the Festival d’Automne, Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, is presented.
Nan Goldin (born in Washington D.C. in 1953) is recognized as a major artist who has revolutionized contemporary photography and visual culture of our time.
The exhibition is organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in collaboration with the GrandPalaisRmn, Paris, the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.
Curators
Curator: Fredrik Liew – Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Chief Curator at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Associate curator: Barbara Kroher – Head of Exhibition Programming at the GrandPalaisRmn
Scenography: Hala Wardé, HW architecture
The exhibition design is supported by Kvadrat and Sahco.
Nan Goldin : This Will Not End Well
March 18 – June 21, 2026
https://www.grandpalais.fr/en/
