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Always on the move, like the Centre Pompidou itself, the Museum regularly renews the hanging of its rooms and walls to exhibit, alongside the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, its new acquisitions, artists or works that have remained on the fringes of art history, to share new critical readings… to arouse and awaken new views. 

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Permanent collection

The collection

Modern collection: Level 5

Contemporary collection: Level 4

 

The Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of 20th and 21st century art history:

  • on level 5, the founding episodes of modern art from 1905 to 1965, including the avant-garde movements
  • on level 4, contemporary works produced from the 1960s onwards, including the most forward-looking pieces, as well as monumental and immersive installations.

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The selection of works presented in the museum is regularly renewed. 
Some rooms may be temporarily closed during these hanging periods. 
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.


Temporary presentations

Temporary presentations in the Museum are all accessible

with a "Collection" ticket or a "Exhibition + Collection" ticket.
 

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Comics in the Museum

as part of La BD à tous les étages ("Comics on Every Floor")

29 May – 4 November 2024

Level 5

 

In resonance with the permanent layout of the modern collection (1900-1960), six monographs dedicated to great comic book artists Edmond-François Calvo, Will Eisner, Hergé, George Herriman, Winsor McCay and Geo McManus are presented, highlighting iconic comic strips. In addition, productions of 15 contemporary comics are exhibited, tributes by an author to an artist they consider as a major source of inspiration, inspired by a quote taken from one of their boards or by a more secret link. 
As visitors discover these multiple resonances through this interplay of echoes, they are invited to take a fresh look at the Centre Pompidou’s masterpieces while developing a more in-depth perception of contemporary comics.


Fred Forest and Information Technology
Archives of Video and Digital Projects

24 January – 22 July 2024

Level 4, "Espace des collections film, vidéo, son et œuvres numériques"

 

Fred Forest, a pioneer of video and one of the very first artists in France to embrace it, has dedicated his career to exploring mass media technologies. A professor of information science and communication, with a PhD from the Sorbonne, he is one of the founders of the Collectif d’Art Sociologique (Sociological Art Collective) and the Esthétique de la communication (Aesthetics of communication). While developing his initial knowledge of networks working as an inspector of post and telecommunications, he used video as early as 1967, extending his practice also to press, radio, telematic networks, net art, virtual reality and NFTs.

With deliberately provocative actions conducted before a large audience, his work questions how these technologies transform our social and media environment. His participative experiments, such as the one presented in this exhibition La Banque du pied (The Foot Bank) (2023), overturn the relationship between media and spectators, urging the latter to see themselves not as passive receivers of information but as players of their own design. Fred Forest thus explores the artistic and emancipatory potential of communication technologies and the limits of the power relations they establish with individuals.

 

Based on many actions in France and internationally, this exhibition presents an ensemble of archives of this work which, since the 1960s, has systematically accompanied the evolution of new media.

    • Sit down and remove your shoe from your right foot.
    • Place your foot on a sheet of paper and draw the outline of its imprint.
    • Add your first name or your nickname, your country and town of origin in capitals. If you wish, you can also write the name of the person you believe to be the most important in the history of mankind inside the foot (it could be a writer, a singer or a soccer player), without extending outside the footprint.
      You can also do the same at home, using your favourite technique. Pen, watercolour, wash, paint, photography, digital practices, etc. All techniques are accepted.
    • Once your creation is finished, take a photo of it and send it:
    • Your photo will be in the exhibition from the 24 January 2024 and on the web at this address: https://flockler.embed.codes/j59zej

    Roland Moreno

    3 juin 2024 – 2 septembre 2024

    Niveau 4, salle 29

     

    Inventeur visionnaire inclassable, électronicien et bricoleur, Roland Moreno (1945-2012) a marqué l’histoire technique de la seconde moitié du 20e siècle par ses méthodes de création libres et transversales. Dès la fin des années 1960, il imagine des objets inutiles à partir de composants électroniques, qui s’apparentent à de véritables « machines poétiques ». Ludiques, voire absurdes, elles ouvrent une réflexion sur les notions de désordre, de hasard et d’entropie. Mais aussi bien c'est à lui que l'on doit l'invention de la carte à puce qui célèbre cette année ses cinquante ans. 

     


    À lire dans Le Magazine :

    Le fabuleux destin de Roland Moreno, l'inventeur de la carte à puce


    Ilya et Emilia Kabakov

    À partir du 22 mai 2024

    Niveau 4, salles 17 et 20

     

    Figure tutélaire de l’école conceptualiste soviétique, Ilya Kabakov (1933-2023) débute sa carrière artistique dans l’underground moscovite. Puisant dans l’absurdisme littéraire comme dans les rares échos du pop art en URSS, ses dessins, tableaux et albums révèlent, sous une apparente trivialité, une critique implicite de la société totalitaire. Dès le début des années 1980, il conçoit en duo avec Emilia – qui devient son épouse en 1992 – des installations et des œuvres pour l’espace public. S'inscrivant dans la lignée explicitement romantique de l’« œuvre d’art totale », et traversées par une attention profonde à la condition humaine, celles-ci le font aussitôt connaître à l’étranger. 

    Hommage à l'artiste disparu il y a un an, cet accrochage présente une sélection d'œuvres issues de ses collections, dont une installation inédite, Two Times (2020). 

     


    Hommage à l'artiste Ilya Kabakov

    Une table-ronde en présence de Emilia Kabakov, Bernard Blistène, Jean-Hubert Martin, Robert Storr et Vadim Zakharov

    22 mai, 19h-21h


    Hommage à Andrea Branzi
    Le règne des vivants

    14 mai 2024 – 14 octobre 2024

    Niveau 4, salles 27 et 28

     

    Architecte, designer, théoricien, Andrea Branzi (1938, Florence – 2023, Milan) est une figure majeure de l’histoire du design et de l’architecture. Un ensemble d’œuvres du créateur – notamment la série de maquettes Dolmen (2014) et une installation inédite Bamboo Interior Wood (2023) – est mis en lumière au sein de la collection. L’occasion de revenir sur la singularité de son travail.


    Roberta González

    2 avril – 9 mars 2025

    Niveau 5, salle 18

     

    Fille du sculpteur espagnol Julio González, Roberta González (1909-1976) naît à Paris dans un milieu artistique, grandit à Montparnasse, enclave catalane fréquentée par Pablo Picasso, se marie en 1939 avec le peintre abstrait Hans Hartung. Ses recherches plastiques dialoguent avec celles de son père ou de son mari. Ce n'est qu'après-guerre que son style s'affirme et qu'elle connaît ses premiers succès personnels, jusqu'à emporter en 1949 une mention au prix Hallmark qui lui permet d'exposer aux États-Unis et en Amérique latine.


    Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Sonia et Robert Delaunay. Correspondances

    3 avril – 9 septembre 2024

    Niveau 4, salle 34

     

    Conçue en partenariat avec la Fondation Calouste-Gulbenkian de Lisbonne, cette exposition explore les liens, tant amicaux qu’artistiques, que Robert et Sonia Delaunay ont entretenus avec le peintre portugais Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918). Après leur rencontre en 1911, les trois artistes se fréquentent régulièrement, d’abord à Paris puis au Portugal à partir de 1915. Articulé en deux volets se répondant symétriquement, le parcours présente les œuvres des trois artistes, de leurs débuts jusqu’à la fin de la Première guerre mondiale, en faisant apparaître à la fois leurs préoccupations communes et leurs disparités.

     

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    Ronan Bouroullec
    Resonance

    28 February — 23 September 2024

    Level 4, room 33


    Idols
    Dialogue between ancient and modern

    18 October 2023 – 10 March 2025

    Level 5, room 5

     

    Many 20th century artists – such as Alberto Giacometti, Brassaï, Jean Arp, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska ou Constantin Brancusi – were fascinated by archaic statuettes with their pure forms. In them they found a universal language that cornes down through the millennia, and a source of inspiration for their own works in a technical (direct carving) and aesthetic (whiteness, geometry, polished) perspective.

    This dialogue between modern art and Antiquity benefits from exceptional loans by the Louvre Museum.


    Outsider Art
    Donated by Bruno Decharme

    Langage at work

    30 January – 17 September 2024

    Level 4, room 5

     

    In 2021, Bruno Decharme donated an astonishing body of outsider art, including nearly a thousand works from his collection, to the Centre Pompidou. The museum regularly updates themed presentations on Levels 4 and 5 to gradually reveal this major collection to the public. 

     


    The concurrent new series of monthly meetings "AB/CP - Art Brut au Centre Pompidou" (Outsider Art at the Centre Pompidou) provides an opportunity to explore the full riches of this collection, with contributions by specialists and the presentation of films, readings and creations.


    Donated by Florence and Daniel Guerlain

    From 21 June 2023

    Level 4, room 7

     

    In 2012, collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain donated some 1,200 drawings to the Musée national d’art moderne. They have since continued to demonstrate great generosity, donating several works by the winners of the drawing award they initiated. The Centre Pompidou is exhibiting some 30 pieces that now enhance its Cabinet d'Art Graphique to the point of transforming its very physiognomy.

    To prepare or extend your museum visit