Nest at Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 13 February – 15 September 2026
“For his first intervention at the Palais de Tokyo, Tadashi Kawamata presents two site-responsive, monumental works. In keeping with his interventions on public and private buildings since the 1980s, first in Japan and then worldwide, Kawamata claims both the exterior and interior spaces of the Palais de Tokyo, allowing his work to engage with the public sphere and the daily flow of the building.
“Nest at Palais de Tokyo” rests perched fifteen meters atop one of the columns of the large white colonnade outside the building. Alongside the tree hut, the nest is one of the recurring motifs in his “parasite-like” interventions, which integrate into the geometries of existing architecture or among the twisting branches of century-old trees.
These temporary constructions, solid in structure yet ephemeral in nature, draw attention to the notion of domestic space in its social and symbolic dimensions, which reflect the way we inhabit our environment.”
Alice Montanini
Documentation of the installation process
