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What can we expect from the Grand Palais Immersif’s new exhibition on club culture?
Titled Clubbing and conceived by artist and scenographer Pierre Giner, the new exhibition at the Grand Palais Immersif tells the history of club culture through music, avatars and iconic testimonies. From New York to Berlin, by way of São Paulo, this immersive journey into electro nightlife runs from May 13 to October 1, 2025.
by La rédaction.
Mextatico, Charles-Henri Bédué, Mexico, 2022. For the Clubbing exhibition at the Grand Palais Immersif.
Clubbing, the new exhibition at the Grand Palais Immersif
Is it an endless night that awaits us at the Grand Palais Immersif starting May 13? With Clubbing, the Parisian institution in the 12th arrondissement transforms its 1,200 square meters into a neo-futuristic dance floor where avatars, vintage sounds and unforgettable stories reignite the fever of the night. This immersive exhibition is conceived as a manifesto — one for a multifaceted, electrifying, and deeply political club culture.
Behind the project stands artist and scenographer Pierre Giner, supported by the graphic collective Trafik and the electronic media outlet Poptronics. Together, they orchestrate a vibrant mural of nightlife, where legendary figures of the dance floor — from the Hacienda to Berghain, from The Loft to Le Palace — intersect with the intimate stories of those who made the club a space for self-reinvention. From the outset, the tone is set: a luminous sign, a bouncer avatar, and a digital cloakroom of club-goers lead the way. This isn’t an exhibition you visit — you enter it as if in a trance.
Clubbing exhibition at the Grand Palais Immersif. Credit: Gilles Beaujard
A unique interactive experience
Thanks to an unprecedented interactive setup, visitors are invited to create their own digital double, dressed by Maroussia Debeck — founder of the Andrea Crews label — who revisits iconic styles from past party scenes: voguing, blitz kids, club kids, gabbers… A joyful, queer and eclectic parade where you can dance — virtually or not — to the historic mixes of FG. In the Dancefloor room, avatars sway to the beat, while the Club Stories space gives voice to legends of the movement: Étienne de Crécy, Dave Haslam, Valery B, Seb 69DB from Spiral Tribe, and Patrice Bardot from Tsugi magazine.
Clubbing doesn’t merely archive the party. It elevates it to the status of a language — a space of experimentation, resistance, and emancipation. “A total, ephemeral work,” as Pierre Giner himself describes it.
Clubbing, from May 13 to October 1, 2025, at the Grand Palais Immersif, 110 rue de Lyon, Paris 12.
