Khaled Takreti, born in Beirut in 1964, is a Syrian artist renowned for his innovative approach to portraiture. Originally trained as an architect at the University of Damascus, he began exhibiting his artwork in the mid-1990s. Takreti's paintings often blend personal narratives with explorations of modern social themes, characterized by a Pop aesthetic that has influenced a subsequent generation of contemporary Arab painters. His large-scale compositions delve into the psychology of his subjects, merging portraiture with a refined sense of design. Since relocating to Paris in 2004, Takreti has exhibited internationally, with works housed in institutions such as the Syrian National Museum, the Jordanian National Gallery of Fine Arts, and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha.
11 - 28 June 2025
Paris , France
Like all of Takreti’s series, Snapshots takes us on a rich journey filled with stories and surprising characters. Each work is a narrative that we are invited to decipher. In a style reminiscent of Pop Art, using flat areas of color enhanced by collages with shimmering patterns, Takreti paints animated compositions where a touch of shadow or melancholy sometimes emerges. In images that resemble photographic snapshots, we move from intimate interior scenes to public spaces, from playful seaside moments to unspoken secrets. Takreti tells personal or anonymous stories he has observed, often staging himself with irony and humor. The artist explores his favorite themes—family, love, identity, and sexuality—and invites us to empathetically share the everyday lives of his protagonists, in their moments of joy, challenge, or vulnerability.
02 - 25 July 2025
Paris , France
Like all of Takreti’s series, Snapshots takes us on a rich journey filled with stories and surprising characters. Each work is a narrative that we are invited to decipher. In a style reminiscent of Pop Art, using flat areas of color enhanced by collages with shimmering patterns, Takreti paints animated compositions where a touch of shadow or melancholy sometimes emerges. In images that resemble photographic snapshots, we move from intimate interior scenes to public spaces, from playful seaside moments to unspoken secrets. Takreti tells personal or anonymous stories he has observed, often staging himself with irony and humor. The artist explores his favorite themes—family, love, identity, and sexuality—and invites us to empathetically share the everyday lives of his protagonists, in their moments of joy, challenge, or vulnerability.
01 - 26 October 2026
Paris , France
Wind Witnesses brings together fourteen modern and contemporary artists around a universal and deeply poetic subject: the bird. A symbol of freedom, movement and spirituality, but also of exile, fragility and resistance, the bird transcends cultures and art history, inviting us to reflect on our relationship with the world and the natural environment. Featuring works by Dia Al-Azzawi, Abdallah Benanteur, Fares Cachoux, Chaouki Choukini, Akram Al Halabi, Manabu Kochi, Randa Maddah, Laila Muraywid, Yasmina Nysten, Irving Petlin, Azza Abo Rebieh, Khaled Takreti, Reem Yassouf and Ossip Zadkine, the exhibition explores the many meanings of this elusive figure, at the intersection of poetry, memory, and contemporary political and ecological concerns. Between flight and belonging, freedom and vulnerability, Wind Witnesses offers a poetic journey in which the bird becomes a reflection of the human condition and our enduring longing for elsewhere.
Right Bank, Bilal Hamdad, 2021
Credit © EPPPD, collection of the National Museum of the History of Immigration
Each Life is a Story revisits twenty years of acquisitions from the museum’s collection and its three main holdings—history, testimonies and society, and contemporary art—to offer a new narrative through the lens of invisibility, which is, in many ways, linked to immigration.
Making visible a reality shaped by invisibility is the primary mission of the National Museum of the History of Immigration: to “change perceptions,” to make the history of immigration in France known and recognized, and to contribute to the acknowledgment of those who have also helped build France. How can we give bodies and faces to the anonymous, those relegated to the margins, tolerated in invisibility, yet contested when they become visible? How can we put into perspective and highlight the collective history and individual journeys?
These are some of the key questions at the heart of the Museum’s collections, which are revisited in this new exhibition. Two hundred artworks, archival documents, photographs, videos, paintings, objects, and migration stories from the three holdings enter into dialogue to unearth this part of our history and to transmit the memory and voices of the witnesses of these contemporary odysseys.
June 2025
October 2026
Fragments d'un exil en couleurs
