La Tempête: Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau Reimagines the Arc de Triomphe
by Ivica Mamedy
From 9 September to 4 October 2026, French artist Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau will take over one of France’s most iconic monuments with La Tempête, a monumental exhibition created especially for the Arc de Triomphe. While the monument is familiar to millions of visitors, few know that it was actually left unfinished. Its architect, Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin, originally imagined a crowning element at the top of the Arc, but this part of his design was never realised. For almost two centuries, a symbolic void has remained above the monument, open to the Paris sky. It is precisely from this absence that La Tempête begins.
Invited by the Centre des monuments nationaux to create a project within the Arc de Triomphe, Pradier-Jeauneau chose not to fill this void, but to inhabit it through something much more intimate: a childhood memory. This personal recollection enters into conversation with a monument dedicated to the memory of the French armies, creating an unexpected encounter between individual experience and collective history. At the heart of the exhibition is a simple but powerful question: how can something so small change something so big? La Tempête explores this idea as a passage, a moment when familiar landmarks begin to shift, forms transform and our way of looking at the world changes.
The exhibition unfolds throughout the Arc de Triomphe as visitors make their way upwards through the monument. Moving from turmoil to calm and from shadow to light, the experience is designed as a gradual and sensitive journey. Rather than simply placing artworks inside the architecture, Pradier-Jeauneau allows them to interact with it, extending its lines, revealing overlooked details and awakening new interpretations of a place we may think we already know. Inspired by art history, symbols and collective memory, La Tempête encourages visitors to rediscover the Arc not only as a historic landmark, but as a living and emotional space.
The project is also a celebration of exceptional craftsmanship and the people who keep traditional skills alive today. Pradier-Jeauneau has collaborated with a number of renowned workshops, artisans and manufacturers, including Manufacture Prelle, Manufacture Pinton, Duvelleroy, Pierre Frey, Atelier Pictet, Fonderie Marcheret and Atelier Maleville, among others. Their involvement transforms La Tempête into something larger than a solo exhibition: it becomes a collective work where contemporary art meets centuries-old savoir-faire. Together, these artists and craftspeople show how heritage can be preserved not by keeping it frozen in time, but by allowing it to evolve, inspire and become part of new creative stories.
An artist, artistic director and curator, Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau has built a multidisciplinary practice shaped by experiences ranging from cinema and antiques to galleries and collecting. His work explores the connections between heritage, memory and contemporary creation, often through immersive installations that invite audiences to experience historic spaces differently. Following projects including work at the Hôtel de la Marine, La Tempête marks his most ambitious project to date and a significant moment in his career. By bringing a deeply personal memory into dialogue with the monumental scale and history of the Arc de Triomphe, Pradier-Jeauneau invites us to consider absence, transmission and the way we collectively inhabit places of memory, and, above all, to look again at a monument we thought we already knew.
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