Furthering the Institut du Monde Arabe's founding mission to publicise and support the creation of contemporary art, the exhibition charted the diversity of creativity across 25 years.

Following the legacy of more than 100 exhibitions during the first 25 years of existence, Institut du Monde Arabe celebrated the pinnacle of contemporary creativity. The exhibition proposes to present the principal directions recently borrowed by Arab artists and their sources of inspiration in an art whose characteristics have come little by little to take a lead. A panorama is elaborated with the most exhaustive trends possible and research which, for 25 years, are of interest to the contemporary Arab creation, no matter which media is used: painting, sculpture, photography, media installation.