Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: Key event information and art posters

Cultural Olympiad is an original project that explores the relationship between art and athletics, including the values they share of excellence, inclusion, cultural diversity and universalism.

Between now and September 2024, large gatherings featuring artistic works will take place across towns and cities in France to spur conversations about sport and culture.

Thousands of events and artistic performances covering a wide range of disciplines will be organised, allowing the public to realise the common values shared between sport and art, how art enlightens sport and how Olympic values can inspire artists.

“Cultural Olympiad is a programme that will allow the Host Country of the Games to connect sport and culture across its territories," said Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024. “Hundreds of projects across the whole of France have the label of Cultural Olympiad thanks to this beautiful and collaborative work. Together, we will make the 'Games Wide Open' and millions of will experience incredible emotions thanks to sport and culture.”

Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: Key dates

• 1 June: Great concert of Cultural Olympiad
• 1 June - 15 September 2023: Cultural Olympiad Summer
• 16-17 September 2023: European Heritage Days
• 21 September - 21 December 2023: Cultural Olympiad Autumn
• 1 April - 20 June 2024: Children and Youth Olympiad
• 21-23 June 2024: Amateurs Olympiad
• 8 May - 26 July 2024: Torch relay
• 26 July - 8 September 2024: Celebration of the Games

For more infomation, visit the Cultural Olympiad website: https://olympiade-culturelle.paris2024.org/

Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: Key figures

Cultural Olympiad is a project that relies on the coming together of people across all territories of France including many cultural figures in the sporting world.

• 1,604 projects listed for Cultural Olympiad
• 18 calls for projects and four competitions launched or supported by Cultural Olympiad
• 529 local authorities involved (via “Terre de Jeux 2024” and calls for projects)
• 150 collaborations with institutions with national and international influence

Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: Art Posters to be exhibited on 3 June on the banks of the Seine

On 1 June, Paris 2024 presented a series art posters related to the upcoming Olympic Games. For the first time in history, seven artists were invited to create a diptych composed of an Olympic poster and a Paralympic poster.

This is not the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Official poster, which will be unveiled at a later stage, but a special order focused on the subjects of inclusivity, parity, celebration and innovation, which are at the heart of Paris 2024’s ambition to leave behind a true artistic and cultural legacy.

At the 2023 edition of Nuit Blanche, which will be held in Paris on 3 June, the 14 art posters of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be exhibited on the banks of the Seine and will remain there for a month.

Five artists were selected following a contest that included a jury made up of representatives of the IOC, Paris 2024, the Ministry of Culture, the City of Paris, sports movements and artistic figures.

Additional posters were made to celebrate the centenary of the Olympic Games Paris 1924, the debut of breaking on the Olympic programme at Paris 2024 and the organisation of the first summer Paralympic Games to be held in Paris.

The art posters will begin touring France France in September 2023.

Artists selected to create the Paris 2024 art posters

• Adam Janes, US artist painter and sculptor based in Los Angeles
• Clotilde Jiménez, US multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico City
• Gilles Elie, French artist and painter
• Esla & Johanna, French photographers
• Pierre Seinturier, French draughtsman
• Fanny Michaëlis French draughtswoman and illustrator
• Stéphanie Lacombe, French photographer