Homepage Discover and visit Artworks Artworks Journey All journeys All journeys Unavoidables Takis Journey Grande Arche Journey Parvis Journey Agam Journey After Olympia Anthony Caro created this monumental work in 1985 following a trip to Greece. He was inspired by the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, whose triangular comp ... Read more Anamorphose This pâte de verre creation, 60 metres long and 2.50 metres wide, offers a masterful lesson in trompe l'oeil. Depending on the angle of view, the passer-by can decip ... Read more Araignée Rouge This imposing sculpture (stable in the words of its author, as opposed to mobile) in steel weighs 75 tons and is 15 meters high. It evokes a famous artwork by the sa ... Read more Banc public This park bench is a 2.5 times enlargement of the original. Integrated in the public space, it provokes an interaction between the object, the landscape and the spec ... Read more Bancs The artwork is located at the exit of the bus station, in an area called Mastaba. The Bancs were originally intended to be part of an architectural ensemble include ... Read more Bas-relief en cuivre When RATP asked Maurice Legendre to create a bas-relief to decorate the Grande Arche de La Défense RER station, he took the opposite tack to a long format. The artwo ... Read more Bassin Takis has imagined an aquatic surface, about 50 metres on each side, on which are placed 49 multicoloured lights of different heights (between 3.50 and 9 metres) tha ... Read more BC1 Visible at Cours Michelet where it was installed in 1988, this artwork is made from an assembly of solid iron rollers. The artwork's ossicle-like appearance, its lig ... Read more Boréale Inaugurated in 1970 for the Grande Arche La Défense RER station, Boréale is a large stainless steel bas-relief. The artwork is 3 metres high (in keeping with the dim ... Read more Cheminée végétalisée As soon as it was built in the 1970s, the utilitarian ventilation chimney in the basement of the Esplanade was frescoed. However, its concept ended up becoming anach ... Read more Cheminées These molybdenum stainless steel sculptures (stronger than stainless steel), cover the real chimneys of bakeries and laundries. They have the aesthetic function of & ... Read more Cube Sphere Gold Located near the Saint-Gobain Tower, Cyril Lancelin presents a decomposition of a simple volume, a cube. It is made of a regular assembly of reflecting metallic sphe ... Read more Dame Lune Dame Lune [Lady Moon] sketches her unusual silhouette in a monolithic block of Carrara marble. Her exclamation point-shaped attitude calls out to the passer-by, intr ... Read more Dans les traces de nos pères An exhibition at La Défense on Czech and Slovakian art gave the Epad the idea of calling on the talent of Jozef Jankovic. The result is a lyrical and contemporary ar ... Read more Doubles lignes indéterminées Representative of the artist's vision, this artwork, installed in 1988 in the Michelet district, offers undefined lines, variable according to the points of view and ... Read more Escalier Piotr Kowalski designed the staircase linking the Parvis to the Place du Dôme. It shows the unique talent of an architect with the soul of an artist. The large, gent ... Read more Fly Away Levalet's work is above all a work of drawing and installation. He stages his ink-drawn characters in public space, in a visual and semantic dialogue with the presen ... Read more Fontaine du dialogue The sculpture, which is almost 2 metres high, was commissioned for Vivaldi Square in December 1989. Made of lost-wax bronze with a gold leaf patina, it depicts two f ... Read more Fontaine monumentale Located in the centre of the Esplanade de La Défense, Agam's Fontaine monumentale [Monumental fountain] was designed as a spectacular, neighbourhood-scale artwork. I ... Read more Fragments du Mur de Berlin This piece of wall, acquired by the City of Courbevoie and the Epad, was part of the 250 segments of the Berlin Wall put up for auction. Covered with period tags and ... Read more Half Hare This imposing mural of 4 by 7 meters is entirely composed of recycled materials. Worn motorcycle helmet, plastic pipes, old tire or broken chair ... Bordalo II, used ... Read more Icare Also called "Colossus", this artwork combines ancient memory and contemporary treatment. Its proportions are ideal, but Icarus has been deliberately wounde ... Read more Ikaria This artwork combines ancient memory and contemporary treatment. Its proportions are ideal, but Ikaria has been deliberately decapitated and nailed to the ground by ... Read more Jardin Aromatique Inside the Dome of the Westfield Les Quatre Temps shopping centre, installed for the inauguration of this extension, there is an aromatic garden consisting of 180 pa ... Read more La Connaissance This sculpture depicts two blades that are joined at their ends by the figuration of two hands. The artwork consists of two cast iron plates 5.50 metres high and wei ... Read more La Danse This moulded white concrete structure, created in 1983, depicts four figures reproduced on each of the planters used to delimit the "lower" square below th ... Read more La Défense de Paris This patriotic statue, which replaced the statue of Napoleon I, removed from its base in 1848, was first erected on 12 October 1883 at the La Défense roundabout in f ... Read more La Défonce Produced as part of a public commission from the Ministry of Culture, this artwork is astonishing in its brutality, summed up humorously in its title in the form of ... Read more La Fontaine à boire This frog-shaped drinking fountain is located on the Esplanade du Général de Gaulle. A small frog, placed in the mouth of the big one, spits water. The granite bench ... Read more La Fontaine des Corolles "Take advantage of the opportunity you are given to express something," is how Louis Leygue described poetry. This principle applied to art allowed him to ... Read more La place des Degrés Created between 1987 and 1989, La place des Degrés offers an artistic vision developed in a public space. This mineral space is made up of 3 terraces staggered over ... Read more La Ronde des manches à air For this artwork, the artist has chosen to follow the contour of the crater, a real passageway for users of the La Défense site, to draw a 30.56 m circle just above ... Read more La Terre This bronze sculpture with a 9-metre wingspan was created for the benefit of Ikerbukuro Square in Tokyo in 1972. La Terre will be duplicated, to be installed at La D ... Read more La voiture sur le lampadaire The least we can say is that the name of this artwork is representative of reality! The lamppost car is a white Peugeot 406 overturned on its roof and perched on top ... Read more Le Carrefour aux 50 piliers In the space leading to urban transport, Daniel Buren has "dressed" the existing fifty posts to their full height, with 26.1 cm square-based dibond caisson ... Read more Le Grand Toscano At the foot of the Areva Tower, set on a granite pavement, stands since 1983 the bronze bust of a truncated giant, which is reminiscent of the statues bequeathed to ... Read more Le Monstre Raymond Moretti began his artistic work in the studios of the Victorine in Nice. He gradually creates an incredible sculpture-architecture that is both protean and e ... Read more Le Moretti Moretti's vivid imagination was able to express itself freely, transforming a 32-metre air vent into an unusual, colourful artwork. Using 672 fibreglass tubes from 2 ... Read more Le Pouce Le Pouce is a fragment of reality, a symbol of practice and manual work. Caesar plays on the rupture of scale, giving this anatomical fragment the dimensions of a mo ... Read more Le sculpteur de nuages With its theme, its inimitable style and the dazzling strength of the colours, this fresco perfectly symbolises the artist's fantastic world. It was created in 1969, ... Read more Le Somnambule Seeming to take flight towards the heavens, the slender silhouette of the sleepwalker defies the laws of balance, perched on a sphere, itself resting on the edge of ... Read more Les hommes de la cité The eight sculptures in polychrome patinated bronze refer to the anonymous crowds of passers-by who can recognise themselves in a frozen eternity. The space below ca ... Read more Les points de mire Based on the principle of pixel-by-pixel relief, this bas-relief in moulded white concrete plays with the multiple transcriptions of the full and the empty, of what ... Read more Les quatre Têtes Four faces as four landmarks. Les quatre Têtes carved are located for one in front of the entrance of the arch's triangle, and for the 3 others, in each building tha ... Read more Les Trois Arbres This ceramic mosaic is distinguished by its size, which is in line with the dimensions of the ventilation chimney for which it is intended. It is 28.50 metres high a ... Read more Lieux du corps This work, made of polyester resin, has been visible in Place de la Coupole since 1983. With its organic forms, it refers to the imaginary, drawing its sources, in p ... Read more M (Incrustations) Sylvie Sandjian worked with the architects Paul Chemetov and Huidobro on the development of the long pier stretching for almost 400 metres, starting from the back of ... Read more Mémorial du retour des cendres de Napoléon The La Défense site now keeps the memory of Napoleon. Indeed, it is there, on the Place du Port, that the Emperor's ashes were solemnly unloaded on 15 December 1840. ... Read more Modo n°52 Located in the Boieldieu district, the work Modo n°52 adorns the Q-Park parking kiosk. The bright colors and geometric shapes are characteristic of the artist Eltono ... Read more Mosaïque The architect Henri La Fonta, who designed the Les Miroirs building, had already thought of arranging the central space in a design spirit, using cylindrical volumes ... Read more Mur Végétal A mosaic of plants, herbs and flowers making up a huge natural tapestry, this plant wall changes colours according to the seasons. Installed in 2006 on a façade of t ... Read more Nymphéas This monumental sculpture that adorns the two fountains is made of stainless steel, Philolaos' favourite material. It shows the shape of a flower in a basin, a moder ... Read more Oiseau mécanique An emblematic sculpture in the artist's artwork, the Oiseau mécanique, with its surprising aspects, seems to have come straight out of his imagination. Its stainless ... Read more Ophélie This bas-relief, installed at La Défense in 1987, was designed as early as 1951. As its name suggests, the artwork is clearly inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's famous poe ... Read more Personnages fantastiques This strange duo of half-fantastic, half-familiar characters in bright colours (blue, yellow and red) marks, from its twelve metres high, the entrance to Westfield L ... Read more Point Growth Since October 2007, this sculpture has been installed at the foot of the Opus 12 tower after being exhibited on the Parvis de La Défense. Offered to the developer by ... Read more Rythmes For this interchange hall at the Grande Arche La Défense RER station, the artist designed, as early as 1970, two aluminium reliefs of 40 sq.m. each located above exi ... Read more Scratching the surface Located in the Arche Gardens, a stone's throw from the Ieseg, the artwork Vhils created for Paris La Défense is part of his emblematic project entitled Scratching th ... Read more Signaux In response to a wish expressed by the architect of the Grande Arche, J.O. von Spreckelsen, Takis designed 17 light signals. The height of these light elements, inst ... Read more Slat Slat, sheet metal in English, is made up of five steel plates of 25 tons each, which can be erected up to 12 metres high. From the outside, the sculpture consists of ... Read more Slinky Under the artistic direction of Quai 36, the French artist Sébastien Preschoux has created Slinky, two works located in the Jardins de l'Arche, under the pedestrian ... Read more Soundwalk : Paris La Défense Soundwalk Collective offers visitors a 30-minute sound walk in the heart of La Défense, the la ... Read more Stèle hommage à Emmanuel Pouvreau President of the Syndicat des Constructeurs Français de Machines-outils, Emmanuel Pouvreau (1900-1962) had the idea of creating a building that would serve as a show ... Read more Traits d’union A wall of light in an underground den. The artistic audacity of this idea is obvious to passers-by at the Grande Arche de La Défense RER station. They discover a ran ... Read more Utsurohi Utsurohi means in Japanese a moving, floating state. This artwork consists of 25 luminous steel pillars of 30 cm in diameter, covered with crystallized glass and lin ... Read more Vive le vent How can certain essential urban functions be diverted into artistic media? In 1986, Michel Deverne gave a brilliant demonstration of this by decorating the ventilati ... Read more Volutes en gerbes Designed to be used as a covering for a technical sheath, this glass paste mosaic is developed on a polyhedron. The design takes shape from panel to panel until the ... Read more Whale Street Emblematic of its artistic approach, OakOak hijacks the geometry of a ventilation shaft in Paris La Défense to transform it into a whale. Underlining both the import ... 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