The Palais de Tokyo opens a new season on 21 October 2026 with 'Toutes les colonnes n'ont pas un cœur de pierre', a solo exhibition by Céleste Richard-Zimmermann, the laureate of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2026-2027. On view through 10 January 2027, the show gathers sculptures, bas-reliefs, paintings and a sound creation in a setting conceived as an abandoned stone quarry, where symbols of authority are overturned.

At the centre of the exhibition stands a large broken column, decapitated and hollow, around which the display is organised. The familiar form of official architecture becomes a point of departure for a reflection on how monumental forms are transformed: inspired by the history of revolutionary destructions as much as by the ways the symbols of struggle are recuperated, the artist treats the monument as a space where narratives are built, circulated, lost and reinvented.

Materials play tricks on the senses throughout the show. Stone, plaster, copper and polystyrene are confused, moulded and stripped back, with one material imitating another and apparently massive forms turning out to be hollow. Motifs borrowed from the vocabulary of official statuary are displaced and reinterpreted, while discreet marks — graffiti, traces of the studio, signs of alteration — reveal the peripheral histories inscribed in architectures of power.

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the CEAAC, the European centre for contemporary artistic action in Strasbourg, where it will be presented in 2027. The season begins with two free days on 20 and 21 October, followed by a public opening with DJ sets on 22 October. The artist's project imagines a shared world in ruins, in which the symbols of power crumble — an irreverent reflection on the present.