It’s the big news of the year. To celebrate the full reopening in 2025, the Grand Palais is launching a brand new summer season: Grand Palais d’été. The lineup includes exhibitions, meetings, evenings, and even workshops, some of which are open to you for free (with or without reservation). The best part? Most of these events are part of the France-Brazil season, allowing those stuck in Paris all summer to travel a little! Here's a quick overview of the best activities you can enjoy this summer without spending a dime!
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Exhibitions
Horizons, Brazilian Paintings
As part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, the Grand Palais showcases 4 contemporary Brazilian artists in an exceptional setting. It's a unique dialogue between diverse artistic practices, all united by painting, exploring the universe of these artists, weaving together collective memory and intimate resonances. From architecture, spirituality, and contradiction to eroticism, identity, and nature, all aspects of Brazilian culture will be celebrated here in a comprehensive exhibition that invites reflection.
From June 6 to July 25, 2025
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Ernesto Neto, Our Drum Boat Earth
For 2 months, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto will transform the Nef of the Grand Palais into an immersive and sensory space. With Our Drum Boat Earth, a monumental installation made of crochet, bark, and spices, he invites us to wonder and share. Through his work, the artist builds a bridge between nature and traditions to highlight the continuity that exists between our bodies and the Earth we inhabit. An installation of endless poetry.
From June 6 to July 25, 2025
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Meetings and Workshops
Fun Palace, How to Live Together ?
Through art, design, and performance, the Fun Palace collective is taking over the Grand Palais to explore our ability to be happy in society. For 10 days, the institution will transform into a true living laboratory, offering us a series of events inviting us to experiment with new ways of being together. Each day, with its own theme, will explore humanity and collective happiness through performances and meetings combining philosophy, music, design, and even video games.
From June 6 to 15, 2025
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CIRCLES, XXL Choreographic Workshop by Boris Charmatz
It's a truly unique experience that Boris Charmatz offers us as part of the Grand Palais d'été. A workshop bringing together over 200 dancers, creating together and live a brand-new choreography.
e. An extraordinary event, blending collective energy and the emergence of individuality, to which you are invited to witness the warm-up, but also to experience the evolution of the artistic construction of the project. All while enjoying the sounds of the cheerful electro brass band German Meute.From July 17 to 19, 2025
Free access by reservation
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Evenings and performances
DJ set After Nef
To wrap up the unique CIRCLES workshop (which we just mentioned right above, for those who are not paying attention), the experimentation will conclude on Saturday night with.a huge evening at the heart of the institution. And let me tell you, after three days of watching others dance, you’ll only have one desire, to shimmy your own hips too. For this special occasion, the DJs Nymed and Deena Abdelwahed have been invited. And with such artists on the lineup, it promises to be a fiery evening on the dance floor.
July 19, 2025
Free access with reservation
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Grand Bal BrasilBrésil
With a sparkling and wild atmosphere that Brazil is famous for, in one of the most beautiful monuments in the French capital, does that sound tempting? Here’s what the Grand Palais is offering for one evening. Of course, dancing will be in the spotlight all night long, accompanied by typical Brazilian music.
The institution has also invited Gabriel Haddad Gomes Porto and Leonardo Bora, two well-known figures from the Rio Carnival, who will come to Paris accompanied by their dance troupes.July 5, 2025
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Brazilian Parade
The next day, a huge delegation bursting with color and rhythm will march down the most famous avenue in the world, as part of the Tropical Carnival 2025. Hundreds of Caribbean and Brazilian revelers will be there with their festive music, dances, and colorful costumes for a one-of-a-kind parade that promises an instant journey to South America. A dazzling procession that will surely bring a wave of warmth and a sense of adventure to the City of Light.
Champs-Élysées and Winston Churchill Avenue
July 6, 2025
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Grand Palais d&rSummer
7, Winston Churchill Avenue – 8th
Starting from June 6, 2025
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