Palais de Tokyo Spring 2026 Season Explores Norms, Bodies, and Disability

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris presents its Spring 2026 season under the theme "Normes Corps," featuring five exhibitions that challenge ableism and celebrate vulnerability, fragility, and disability. The season includes a solo show by Turner Prize-winning artist Jesse Darling, titled "Les Ambassadeurs," which transforms industrial materials and discarded objects into hybrid relics. Cathy de Monchaux receives her first retrospective, "Studio, wounds and battles, desire is the reiteration of hope," spanning works from 1984 to the present. Benoît Piéron's "Vernis à ombres" draws from his hospital experience, creating hallucinatory waiting rooms and DIY-inspired installations. Pauline Curnier Jardin's "Virages Vierges" explores deviation and uncertainty through fragmented narratives blending fiction, ritual, and documentary. Finally, a posthumous exhibition honors Cheryl Marie Wade (1948–2013), known as the "Queen-Mother of Gnarly," showcasing her poetry, one-woman shows, and songs that emerged from the Berkeley disability arts scene of the late 1970s. All exhibitions run concurrently at the Palais de Tokyo in spring 2026.