For Matisse, a window is also a way of looking
H’ART Museum presents eighty works from the Centre Pompidou collection. Paintings, sculpture and prints follow a motif Matisse returned to: the window as both a boundary and a link between inside and outside.
A window lets light in while framing the view. In Chez Matisse, that motif also shapes the exhibition design. H’ART Museum brings together eighty works from the Centre Pompidou collection, ranging from paintings to sculpture and prints.
The exhibition opened on 3 October and runs through 14 February 2027. The museum calls it the third major Matisse retrospective ever held in the Netherlands. One key work is La Blouse roumaine (1940), which H’ART says rarely leaves the Paris museum.
The window also informs the spatial design by Tatyana van Walsum and the graphic design by Marline Bakker. Their design draws on this recurring motif. The exhibition thus links the way Matisse structured images with the visitor’s route through the galleries.
Alongside Matisse, works by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso and Sonia Delaunay are on view. The exhibition also includes prints of his well-known cut-outs. The selection comes from the Centre Pompidou collection, and the two institutions present the project together.
This is the Centre Pompidou’s third exhibition at H’ART, following presentations on Kandinsky and Brancusi. The Paris institution has been closed for renovation since 2025 and expects to reopen in 2030; the loans travel through its Constellation programme.
H’ART is open daily from 10:00 to 17:00, with adjusted hours on 25 December and 1 January. An adult ticket costs €29.50. Other groups have different rates or free admission, including visitors aged 17 and under.