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Vija Celmins
30 Sep 2026 — 15 Feb 2027 at Musée de l'Orangerie
· Paris
Vija Celmins is a major figure in contemporary art, known for her extraordinarily detailed and meditative works. Working across drawing, painting, and printmaking, Celmins creates images of natural phenomena—ocean waves, night skies, desert floors, and spider webs—rendered with obsessive precision. Her practice challenges conventional notions of representation and time, inviting viewers into a contemplative encounter with the material world.
About the artist
Vija Celmins
1938
Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New…
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Musée de l'Orangerie
· Paris
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, and also…
