The first run of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been carried out between 2010 and early 2013. It was then followed by a long shutdown period of about 18 month dedicated to increasing the colliding beam's energies and the luminosity, on the accelerator side, and straighten the detectors on the experiments side. Data taking will be resumed current 2015 for the LHC RUN2, first with proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV (about a factor 2 with respect to RUN1), followed by a Pb-Pb run at 5 TeV per nucleon-nucleon collision. A selection of results obtained with the ALICE detector during RUN1 will be presented, to illustrate what was learned during this first data taking period as well as what is foreseen for RUN2. Both soft probes (bulk properties, flow, etc.) and hard probes (photons, jets, heavy mesons) will be covered, with an emphasis on quarkonia (J/ψ, ψ(2S), Υ) for the hard probes.
