#hello_monaco weekend: what to do on August 5th and August 6th
Monaco is getting ready to start its weekend, lots of music and art is waiting for you. And if you have no clue what to do then you can use our suggestions.
Start your weekend on Friday evening with the Monte-Carlo Summer Festival 2023 and The Lebanese-British-American singer-songwriter, the phenomenon known simply as MIKA, as he is set to bring his eccentric outfits and acclaimed music back to the Sporting this summer, more exactly on Friday 4 August 2023, at 8 pm.
You can start your weekend with taking a walk in Port Hercule, that welcomes you again this summer for a fun adventure. Every year during the summer months, the town’s Animation Department organizes events at Port Hercule from Friday 14 July to Sunday 20 August 2023.
Carousel, “Crazy Kart” Karting from 3 years old and two basketball courts (1 court for adults, an inflatable court for children) will welcome the public, as well as shaded and planted areas installed for passers-by. In addition, a reminder of the summer exhibition “Monet in Full Light” will be set up in partnership with the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Sales chalets and gourmet stands bearing the “Monaco Historic Sites” label will be open to the public in the evening.
Continue your day with this major exhibition, Monet en pleine lumière (Monet in full light) from Saturday 8 July to Sunday 3 September 2023 in the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, part of celebrations to mark the 140th anniversary of Claude Monet’s first visit to Monaco and the Riviera, where the great impressionist, already halfway through his long life, would discover the landscapes and light that were to be the turning point of his work and career. Around a section devoted to the paintings he produced during his stays on the Riviera, featuring twenty-one loaned pieces displayed for the first time close to the very places they were painted, the exhibition looks at the master’s work, from his early days in Le Havre to his final paintings in Giverny, from the perspective of his constant quest to capture light.
You can finish Saturday with a fireworks evening, offered by the Marie de Monaco on Saturday 5 August 2023, at 10 pm, in Port Hercule de Monaco.
Symphonic concert by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra will be given in the Cour d’Honneur at the Prince’s Palace on Sunday 6 August 2023, at 9.30 pm. The orchestra wil be conducted by Jaap van Zweden, with David Fray on piano. Music to be performed will include pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART and Ludwig van BEETHOVEN.
Recently a new exhibition “Rainier III, The Builder Prince – An ambition for Monaco” opened as part of the Prince Rainier III centenary celebrations. It will welcome visitors from till Sunday 31 December 2023 in Salle d’Exposition du Quai Antoine Ier.
There are many interesting exhibitions opened in Monaco to mark the centenary of the birth of Prince Rainier III: exhibition “Prince Rainier III, above all a sailor”, “The Prince and his animals”, Path of the Prince Rainier III sculptures, exhibition “The Prince at home”.
Discover a different side of Prince Albert I from Monday 20 March to Sunday 31 December 2023, from 9 am to 6 pm, in Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique! Meet the prehistorian prince, the scientist and explorer, and trace the history of his archaeological expeditions. From the Grimaldi caves to Spain, from the founding of the Monaco Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology to the Paris Institute of Human Paleontology, visitors will follow the incredible journey and archaeological ideas of a fascinating, and fascinated Prince.
Rodrigo’s wife, 2011
Huile sur lin
137,5 x 122,6 cm
Collection privée
© 2023 George Condo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco invites you to see its new exhibition “George Condo – Humanoids” open from Friday 31 March to Sunday 1 October 2023, in Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Paloma.
For George Condo, “the Humanoid is not a science fiction monster, but a depiction that uses traditional methods to bring a person’s inner emotions to the surface”. Over the course of eight sections, the exhibition traces the continuity of a profuse body of work that ranges from “space beings” to Who’s Who, from Guido Reni to Bugs Bunny. Featuring specially produced paintings, the exhibition offers a glimpse of the artist’s process of invention – as crazy as it is erudite – of humanoids.
Of course there are other interesting events taking place in Monaco. If you want to learn more about them visit our Calendar.
So have fun and enjoy your weekend!