The Continuities exhibition presents a selection of paintings, sculptures and graphics created in the middle and second half of the 20th century, in the period from 1933 to 2001, and which represent a representative overview of the artistic achievements of several generations of artists who lived and created in France.

The collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Skopje number a total of 5291 works of art, of which 300 are by over 150 artists from France. According to the notes of the first director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Boris Petkovski, after the catastrophic earthquake that destroyed the city in 1963, the French writer and critic Jean Cassou was among the first to react. Through written correspondence, he encouraged a significant number of artists to donate their works to Skopje. Petkovski's study stay in Paris in 1964/65 enabled him to have direct contact with artists, which resulted in a large collection of gifts, which was subsequently expanded.

The French collection was first promoted through an exhibition of donated works in 1966. It has been displayed several more times throughout the museum's history, and works by French artists have had a key place in all versions of the museum's permanent exhibition.

The history of this collection was rounded off by Sylvain Lecombe in 2015 with the publication of a publication that examines it from multiple aspects, supplementing it with revaluation and new insights, with the conclusion that the international collection marks the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje as the only such institution in Europe.

It can be said that the majority of the artist-donors are bearers of a creative continuity throughout the entire 20th century, as an impulse towards maintaining and continuing the primacy of Paris as one of the most important centers of art. Attracting the attention of artists from different parts of Europe and the world, artists such as Pablo Picasso, Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely, Wifredo Lam, Hisao Domoto, Zhao Wu Qi and many others lived and worked in Paris during that period, hence the French collection at the MSU-Skopje possesses this characteristic international spirit that marks the art of the 20th century.

The Continuities exhibition presents works by Hisao Domoto, Fernand Leger, Pierre Soulage, Zao Wu Qi, Edouard Pignon, Andre Masson, Hans Hartung, Victor Vasarely, Asadour, Anna-Eva Bergman, Wilfredo Lam, Zora Stack, Bram Van Velde, Juan Rabascal, Samuel Bury, Bernard Biffe, Barbara Kwasniewska, Zoran Music, Marta Pan, Etienne Dragons, Sophie Lecomte.

The exhibition marks 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and North Macedonia, as well as 60 years since the Skopje earthquake.

The curators of the exhibition are: Vladimir Jancevski, Iva Dimovski and Blagoja Varošanec.