The Broad and Fondation Louis Vuitton will bring 164 works from the Los Angeles museum’s collection to Paris next spring in the most extensive presentation of the Broad collection ever staged outside Los Angeles.
Running from 21st April to 30th August 2027, The Broad Collection – Los Angeles in Paris will take over Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Frank Gehry-designed building with a sweeping selection of postwar and contemporary art.
The exhibition comes as The Broad continues work on its Los Angeles expansion, due to open in 2028, and offers a chance to see the collection on an unusually large scale outside its home city.
Built by Eli and Edythe Broad, the collection is particularly strong in American postwar and contemporary art, with deep holdings of artists whose work responded directly to the cultural and political conditions of their time. That approach continues as The Broad adds younger generations to the collection.
The Paris exhibition will move across art scenes from New York to Los Angeles, from Pop Art through to more recent practices.
Major names include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, Roy Lichtenstein, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol, alongside Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and William Kentridge.
Recent acquisitions reflecting the contemporary Los Angeles art scene will also feature, including works by Sayre Gomez, Lauren Halsey, Patrick Martinez and Laura Owens.
Other artists in the exhibition include John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, John Baldessari, Jack Goldstein, Mark Grotjahn, Toba Khedoori, Sherrie Levine and Glenn Ligon.
The presentation continues Fondation Louis Vuitton’s long-running programme of exhibitions built around major collections and collectors, following projects devoted to Shchukin, Morozov, MoMA, the Courtauld and, currently, Gustave Fayet.
Suzanne Pagé, Artistic Director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, said:
“The collection’s clear and committed choices, both in its selection of artists, represented in depth, and of works that promote social values of inclusivity and tolerance. I would like to thank The Broad for this collaboration, which allows us to further the presentation in France of American artists previously shown at our institution, including Pop Art artists in Being Modern: MoMA in Paris (2018), as well as in the various exhibitions devoted notably to Basquiat, Warhol and Kelly. It also offers an opportunity to discover new artists from the Californian art scene through the lens of The Broad’s choices”.
Joanne Heyler, Founding Director and President of The Broad, said:
“It is a particular honor to collaborate with Fondation Louis Vuitton on The Broad Collection – Los Angeles in Paris, the largest selection from the Broad collection ever shown outside of Los Angeles. We are two quite young institutions, both over a decade old, and we share a common purpose to present a deeper understanding of 20th- and 21st-century art. As we build an expansion that will welcome even more visitors to The Broad in L.A. in 2028, this extensive exhibition in Paris allows us to share the founding vision of Eli and Edythe Broad to reach as wide an audience as possible, and highlights their dedication to artists as vital to understanding complexity in our world.”
The exhibition is co-organised by The Broad and Fondation Louis Vuitton and is curated by Joanne Heyler and Suzanne Pagé, with Ed Schad and Olivier Michelon.
The timing also neatly connects Paris and Los Angeles. The Broad’s Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed expansion is set to add 70% more gallery space when it opens in 2028, ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.
The Broad Collection – Los Angeles in Paris
21st April–30th August 2027,
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, reproducing every work on view alongside new commentary and previously unpublished essays.
