Between nature and culture, art and natural science, the Nuage exhibition traces a journey through the magical labyrinth of a museum that is at one with the river that runs alongside it.

Great or small, lofty or physical, intimate or remote, impertinent or serious, 120 works (including sculptures, videos, drawings, paintings, photographs, installations, performances, objects and sound waves) and three small, natural “jewels” make up follow a meandering, weightless dream that touches again and again on China.

57 artists – from Dieter Appelt, Jean Arp, Brassaï, Richard Deacon, Man Ray, Anselm Kiefer, Piero Manzoni, Michael Sailstorfer, Jacqueline Salmon… to Andy Warhol – have taken their inspiration from the culture of the Cloud, and to strikingly different effect. Some of them have worked specially on the nooks and crannies of the building, raiding the teeming cupboard of life in the process.

Their chosen ingredients include peanuts, microgrooves, beetles, inner tubes, cotton wool, pillows, blackboards, lead, coat-hangers, push chairs, coffee cups and telephones (to name but a few!)