100 ans de Cahiers d’Art et LUMA Arles - LUMA Spring 2026

📍 LUMA Foundation, Arles

▪️ iDzia Installation: the light, the video

A Century of Art and Ideas

Presented at the LUMA Foundation, in the Galerie des Archives Vivantes, from May 2026 to March 2027, the exhibition 100 ans de Cahiers d’Art et LUMA Arles (100 Years of Cahiers d'Art and LUMA Arles) celebrates the centennial of the magazine Cahiers d'Art. Through archival materials, original publications, and an audiovisual installation, the Arles-based institution invites the public to explore decades of editorial and artistic history.

Cahiers d'Art: A Magazine That Has Become a Leading Authority on Modern Art

Founded in Paris in 1926 by Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art is at once a magazine, a publishing house, and a gallery. A one-of-a-kind venture, it quickly established itself as a leading authority thanks to its layout and the richness of its illustrations.

The magazine’s success enabled its founder to undertake the Catalogue Raisonné de Picasso, while the Cahiers d’Art premises became a gallery showcasing works by Mondrian, Miró, Kandinsky, Ernst, and Giacometti. The magazine ceased publication in 1960, but its influence on the dissemination of the European avant-garde remains considerable.

An Exhibition Blending Archives and Contemporary Art

100 Ans de Cahiers d’Art et LUMA Arles is part of LUMA Arles’s “Archives Vivantes” (Living Archives) program, which invites visitors to rediscover archives as living testimonies to the ideas that have shaped art history. The president of the contemporary art center explains:

As a result, the exhibition features REMNA, a new film by the music video directing duo QASAR, which draws on elements from the Cahiers d’Art archives and connects them to a more current, contemporary approach. The installation thus offers an opportunity to appreciate how much a 20th-century editorial archive can, a century later, continue to fuel today’s artistic reflection.