Sortir du bois — Alberto Giacometti and Olivia Rosenthal at the Institut Giacometti, Paris, 11 November 2026 – 21 February 2027

The Institut Giacometti in Paris shows Sortir du bois (Coming Out of the Woods), an exhibition that puts Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture alongside the work of the writer Olivia Rosenthal, from 11 November 2026 to 21 February 2027. On the opening day entry is free for everyone, without booking.

After a run of exhibitions on Giacometti’s friendships with the writers of his own time, the Institut has invited a living author for the first time. Rosenthal took scale as her subject, from the minuscule to the monumental: some fifty sculptures stand together on one wide platform built in the middle of the building. She also wrote an original text for the exhibition catalogue, which comes to life inside the rooms through a collaboration with the composer and video artist Eryck Abecassis.

Rosenthal is a novelist, playwright and performer, and has written about fifteen books that mix documentary and fiction, among them Une femme sur le fil (2025), Éloge des bâtards (2019) and Un singe à ma fenêtre (2022), which came out of her residency at the Villa Kujoyama.

The building belongs to the story. The Institut occupies 350 square metres at 5 rue Victor-Schœlcher, in the Montparnasse quarter where Giacometti lived and worked for his whole career. It is the former studio of the artist and interior designer Paul Follot, a listed private mansion in the Art Deco style whose decoration has been kept and restored; Pierre-Antoine Gatier directed the rehabilitation and Pascal Grasso the architecture. Giacometti’s own studio has been reconstructed inside, with his furniture, his personal objects and the walls he painted.

The Institut opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 6 pm, last entry at 5.20 pm, and closes on Monday and between one exhibition and the next. Admission is 9 euros, 3 euros reduced, free under 18. Métro lines 4 and 6 stop at Raspail and Denfert-Rochereau. Opening times, tickets and visiting arrangements are on the organiser’s page linked below.