Euphoria: inflatable art that’s beyond you (literally)
A giant art bubble has just invaded Paris. And it’s not just an image: the entire nave of the Grand Palais will inflate, light up and vibrate under the effect of Euphoria, the Balloon Museum’s exhibition-show, on view from June 6 to September 7, 2025. What’s behind this visually stunning project? A complete rewriting of our relationship with contemporary art – between inflated lightness and much deeper reflection than we might think.
The triumphant return of inflatable art to Paris
Barely three years after the success of Pop Air at La Villette, Lux Entertainment is back with a bang. This time, the Italian company behind formats such as Christmas World and Color Hotel takes over the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais. Euphoria features over 5,000 m² of monumental, interactive and immersive installations.
It’s not just an exhibition, it’s a sensory journey where visitors don’t just look at the art: they walk through it, touch it, make it vibrate. This approach literally transforms the viewer into a co-creator of the experience.
When artists let the air do the talking
Martin Creed: air as raw material
With Work No. 3883Martin Creed fills a glass house with pastel-blue balloons. The invisible air becomes palpable. Visitors float in a half-reality between minimal poetry and heartfelt absurdity.
Ryan Gander: spheres for thinking
In a monochrome room, giant balls covered with improbable questions. Ryan Gander creates an intellectual playground: the audience cogitates, has fun, asks questions.
Hyperstudio and poetry in motion
Italian collective Hyperstudio has created four major works, including 10 Agosto, an aerial tribute to the Italian night of shooting stars. We sway under a shower of lights, lulled by celestial music. The scenography is anything but naive, blending technology and collective myth.
A gallery of dizzying experiences
Each work prompts us to reconsider our place in space. Notable examples include : Pulse Topology by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, where light bulbs beat to the rhythm of visitors “hearts. A.A. Murakami” s New Spring, a mechanical tree that exhales bubbles of mist, a metaphor for the ephemeral. Crazy Love for Polygons by Cyril Lancelin, transforming geometry into a dreamlike labyrinth.
Euphoria: art for big kids
Echoing the aeronautical past of the Grand Palais(first air show in 1909), Euphoria reinvents inflatables. This artistic language, born of Pop Art and children’s games, becomes a tool of transmission, memory and collective emotion.
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