Le Musée Imaginaire d’Oli

The Grand Palais presents Le Musée Imaginaire d’Oli, an exhibition conceived by artist and musician Oli (Bigflo & Oli), in partnership with Jérôme Sans. Room by room, pass through the inner states that give birth to a work: inspiration, doubt, the gaze of others, refuge and transmission. A journey among the worlds that shaped Oli.

Conceived as an initiatory narrative, a journey, the exhibition invites visitors to move through its rooms as so many inner states following one another, and lays bare the mechanisms at work in the creative process: the original shock of a vocation, the flash of inspiration, the vertigo of doubt, the confrontation with others’ gaze, the intimate refuge, and the act of passing on. From this perspective on a creator’s inner process, the exhibition weaves links from one world to another, from Oli’s Franco-Algerian and Argentinian origins to Paris, from street culture to that of museums, bringing together, without hierarchy, cultural universes that everything seems to set against one another.

Rooted in popular culture, shaped by the stage and by words, Oli has made dialogue between disciplines and between audiences a second nature. He thus takes up the concept of the imaginary museum formulated by André Malraux, whose death in 2026 marks fifty years: a museum conceived as the portrait of a singular mind, traversed by multiple cultures, heterogeneous temporalities and registers that art history has hierarchised for far too long. Thus freed from cultural, geographical and symbolic boundaries, Le Musée Imaginaire d’Oli blends icons from different territories, breaking free of traditional categories: contemporary art, urban cultures, underground scenes, sport, cinema, fashion or graffiti.

A choral work, Oli’s voice enters into dialogue within this exhibition with those of guest artists invited to inhabit its spaces, giving rise to several new creations.