JR’s inflatable cave across the pont neuf is now open in Paris

Kat Barandy | Designboom | 15th June 2026

The artist JR has created an installation artwork covering Paris’s Pont Neuf. This is not a duplicate of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapping but rather a printed fabric mountain range within which is a 120m inflated fabric tunnel. A soundscape, scented air and mobile-based “experiences” give the tunnel a cave-like environment meant to evoke both fears of darkness and feelings of shelter. Says JR “I designed [it] as an experience where fullness and emptiness exist in balance”. An interview is here.