A major cultural success in the Principality, Colours! welcomed 76,500 visitors in under two months, making it one of the three most attended exhibitions ever staged at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.
Produced in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the show offered a multisensory journey through 20th-century art, inviting audiences to experience colour not only visually, but emotionally and sensorially.
Building on that momentum, the Beijing Minsheng Art Museum has chosen the exhibition as one of its flagship shows for 2026, entrusting the Grimaldi Forum Monaco with the complete redesign and production of the exhibition. This includes a reimagined layout, original scenography and tailored logistics, drawing on the Forum’s 25 years of expertise in cultural engineering.
The curatorial team brings together Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director of the National Museum of Modern Art and curator of the original Monaco exhibition, alongside Dr Luo Yi as Chinese co-curator, with the support of Catherine Alestchenkoff, Director of Cultural Events at the Grimaldi Forum.
The scenography has been designed by William Chatelain, Head of Spatial Design at the Grimaldi Forum, who has shaped many of the venue’s major exhibitions since 2015.
In Beijing, the exhibition will feature 70 masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou’s collections, complemented by 17 works by contemporary Chinese artists, creating a dialogue between Western modern art and Chinese creative expression.
Integrated into the museum’s wider programme aimed at deepening public engagement with art, the show marks a further step in its openness to international contemporary works.
Already active in Asia, notably with the exhibition “Princes and Princesses of Monaco, a European Dynasty” at Beijing’s Forbidden City in 2018, the Grimaldi Forum continues to expand its international reach. With Colours!, Monaco and Beijing meet once again around a shared idea: colour as a universal language, capable of bridging cultures and sensibilities across continents.