Fondation Louis Vuitton presents “David Hockney 25” retrospective exhibition, spanning seven decades of creations

This spring, the Fondation Louis Vuitton welcomes David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, for a major exhibition spanning all the building’s galleries. The exhibition runs from April 9 through August 31.  

Exceptional in its scale and originality, the exhibition brings together more than 400 of his works, dating from 1955 to 2025. In addition to a significant number of works from the artist’s studio and foundation, the exhibition includes paintings on loan from institutional and private collections around the world.  

The largest exhibition ever dedicated to Hockney highlights a selection from his emblematic series. David Hockney has been personally involved in every aspect of the exhibition. Together with his partner and studio manager Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, he has chosen to focus on the past 25 years while also including iconic early works, offering visitors rare insights into his creative universe, spanning seven decades. 

The artist’s signature California swimming pool theme appears in A Bigger Splash (1967), joined by celebrations of Yorkshire and Normandy landscapes, with Bigger Trees near Warter (2007), as well as the iPad series 220 for 2020. More recent works are also displayed, notably After Munch: Less is Known than People Think (2023), as he revisits the heritage of past masters.   

An immersive installation created in conjunction with 59 Studio shares David Hockney’s passion for opera with visitors, including a reinterpetation of his creations for Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (1975). 

“This exhibition reveals David Hockney’s incredible ability to continually reinvent his art, embracing tradition and modernity, painting and new technologies,” says Suzanne Pagé, Artistic Director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton and head curator of the exhibition.