The Palace of Versailles has invited the artist Eva Jospin to exhibit her creation Chambre de soie (Silk Room) in the Palace’s Orangery from 18 June to 29 September 2024.
18 June 2024 to 29 September 2024 Eva Jospin - Versailles
practical information
The exhibition takes place in the Palace of Versailles Orangery from 18 June 2024 to 29 September 2024.
practical information
- The exhibition will run during the high season. Please consult the opening times of the gardens.
- The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00am to 06:30pm (last admission at 06:00pm).
- During the Night Fountains show, the Eva Jospin - Versailles exhibition is open to the public with a Night Fountains Show ticket.
- Access to the exhibition is via the Palace gardens. You must have an entrance ticket to access it.
- Book a “Passport” ticket, or a “Musical Gardens” ticket, or a “Fountains Show” ticket to access the Orangery (even if you are entitled to free entry).
Passport
This ticket gives access to the whole estate of Versailles.
32 €
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This ticket gives access to the whole estate of Versailles (Palace, Estate of Trianon and the Gardens). Book online and enter to the Palace in the half hour following the chosen time.
It includes :
- the Palace with timed entry;
- the estate of Trianon;
- the temporary exhibitions;
- the Gallery of Coaches (every weekend);
- the Royal Tennis Court;
- the Gardens (until 31 October, single admission during the Musical Gardens or Musical Fountains Show, ticket valid for one entry);
- the Park.
To make the most of the Estate of Versailles, the Gardens are open from 8am, the Estate of Trianon from 12pm, the Gallery of Coaches from 12.30pm.
The Musical Fountains Show and the Musical Gardens close at 5.30pm on 27, 29, 30 and 31 October.
The Fountains Night Show ticket
The Gardens come to life with fountains and lights during The Fountains Night Show, the evening culminating with a dazzling firework display.
32 €
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During the Fountains Night Show, the gardens of Louis XIV offer an astonishing visit with sound and visual effects as night falls. Pools and groves are orchestrated and sublimed, coming to life before the visitor's eyes with fountains and lights and culminating with a dazzling firework display.
- Every Saturday from June 8 to September 21, 2024, from 8:30 pm to 11:05 pm
- Friday June 28 for the 90th anniversary of the French Air Force (8:00-11:45 p.m.)
- Sunday, July 14 for the Bastille Day (8:30-11:10 p.m.)
- Thursday, August 15 for the Fire Night Fountains Show (8:30-11:05 p.m.)
- Saturday, September 21 for the Electro Night Fountains Show (8:30-11:45 pm)
This ticket only gives you access to the Gardens on the evening of the Fountains Night Show.
Musical Fountains Show ticket
Musical Fountains Show : an itinerant show during which the fountains are set to the rhythm of baroque music.
10,50 €
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In the Gardens, discover the pools, groves (open for the occasion) and their fountains put in water to the rhythm of the baroque music.
- Saturdays and Sundays from March 30 to October 27, 2024
- Tuesdays from May 7 to June 25, 2024
- Friday March 29, Easter Monday April 1, Wednesday May 8 and Thursday May 9, Whit Monday May 20, and Thursday August 15, 2024
The Musical Fountains Show ticket includes only the admission to the Musical Fountains Show in the Gardens during the day.
Caution, the musical and water displays timetable differs from opening hours of the groves. Find out all details in advance on this page.
Ticket valid for one entry into the Gardens, through the Honour Courtyard of the Palace or the gates of Little Venice, the Menagerie, Neptune or the Dragon. Please note that a second entry is possible, but only through a different gate than the one used for the first entry.
Itinerary to get to the Eva Jospin - Versailles exhibition from Place d'Armes
© EPV
the exhibition
From 18 June to 29 September 2024, discover the artist Eva Jospin and her work Chambre de soie (Silk Room) at the Eva Jospin–Versailles exhibition in the Palace’s Orangery. At 107 metres long and covering over 350 m2 in total, the embroidered Chambre de soie invites visitors to stroll past and take in its monumental scale.
Epic embroidery
The more of 350 m2 of embroidered landscapes in Chambre de soie were inspired by the Room of the Embroidery at the Palazzo Colonna in Rome and Virginia Woolf’s novel A Room of One’s Own. The work was produced by the craftsmen and women of the Chanakya studio and Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai, under Eva Jospin’s direction. The artist was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director at Dior, to present her creation during the fashion house’s Autumn-Winter 2021-2022 haute couture show.
Uniquely in tune with the Palace of Versailles Orangery
For this work, Eva Jospin took inspiration from her favourite themes: nature, strolling and architectural follies. In the Orangery, Chambre de soie will be exhibited linearly, inviting visitors to stroll past it.
© Camille Guitton
Eva Jospin is to add a new embroidered panel to the work especially for this exhibition. This panel will be inspired by the groves in the Versailles gardens – in particular, the mythical Labyrinth Grove and Enceladus Grove.
eva jospin
Eva Jospin was born in 1975 and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She has spent fifteen years composing forested and architectural landscapes, working in different media. Winner of the Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2015 and artist-in-residence at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2017, she has had numerous major exhibitions in Europe and America, as well as in France, where her exhibition Palazzo is currently running at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Eva Jospin has been represented since May 2023 by the Galleria Continua.
patronage
This exhibition has been made possible thanks to the patronage of Parfums Christian Dior.
