Performance: Caroline Polachek at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris

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Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie, together with Musée de l’Orangerie present a performance by Caroline Polachek in the iconic water lilies space by Claude Monet on the occasion of the collection exhibition of Museum Berggruen at the Musée de l’Orangerie and Art Basel Paris 2024.

Caroline Polachek (born 1985 in USA) performed on Friday evening, 18 October 2024, in the “Sixtine Chapel of Impressionism” (in the words of André Masson in 1952) that Claude Monet offered to the French State on the day that followed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as a symbol for peace. The Water Lilies were installed at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death. This performance initiates a dialog between the contemporary and the modern with the 20th Century Masters of Museum Berggruen and L’Orangerie collection and reaches out to new audiences between different media and art forms.

This performance by Caroline Polachek is a continuation of a series of accompanying performances on the occasion of the Berggruen collection tour. From 2 October 2024 to 27 January 2025, a selection of the Museum Berggruen collection is being showcased at the Musée de l'Orangerie in the exhibition Heinz Berggruen, a Dealer and his Collection Picasso – Klee – Matisse – Giacometti. In April “Sebastian” by Miles Greenberg was performed for a duration of 8 hours at the historic Palazzo Malipiero in Venice.

The Artist Caroline Polachek

Caroline Polachek is one of music’s most continually inventive pop auteurs, a shimmering ribbon of a voice that’s immediately recognizable, a self-releasing independent artist, a crate digger, and a lifelong head-phone listener who writes songs that literally fill stadiums. Trained as an opera singer, her vocal range spans three octaves with an ability to “flip” between two registers with control and power.