Paris will make room for a different football crowd during Fashion Week, with seven women artists set to bring the culture around the women’s game into a gallery in the city’s second arrondissement.
Four days of football culture in central Paris
The free “Belonging – Playing at Home” exhibition will run from Thursday 1 October until Sunday 4 October at Galerie Bachaumont. Supported by UEFA, the pop-up exhibition is intended to present women’s football beyond the stadium, through visual art, film and fashion.
Artistic director Fatima Rouina has assembled creators whose previous work has engaged directly with women’s football and the representation of female players. Her aim is to give greater visibility to a culture she believes is growing, but remains too often framed through male voices.
- Calixte Bernard
- Kloé Camier
- Lili Wurm
- Eole Wurm
- Mélina Levy
- Dünya Boukhers
- Emma Lazli-Bert
Football seen through paint, fabric and film
The exhibition will include photography, painting, video work and fashion pieces. Bernard’s comic-book-inspired paintings will be among the displays, while Boukhers will present her upcycling work, stitching together shirts from different teams to create new garments.
Rouina said art can provide a more accessible route into women’s football than asking newcomers to attend a match or step on to a pitch. The project is designed to show that the women’s game has an enduring culture of its own, expressed in several forms and deserving of pride.
A platform for women artists
All seven participants are women, a choice intended not only to centre their perspectives but also to encourage others to create work around football. Rouina said the number of women artists in the field is increasing, although finding creators closely connected to these subjects can still be difficult.
She argued that male artists rarely question whether they have the legitimacy to make art about football, while many women hesitate before taking that same step. By putting their work in a public Paris gallery, the exhibition hopes to widen those possibilities and underline a simple message: football belongs to everyone.
For visitors passing through the capital during the first days of October, “Belonging – Playing at Home” offers a chance to view women’s football from another angle — not merely as a competition, but as a living creative culture.
