Bernard Plossu, "Mexique [Le Voyage mexicain]", 1966 © Bernard Plossu

Beat Generation

Closing soon

 Exhibition • 22 June 2016 03 October 2016

A new retrospective on the literary and artistic movement born in the late Forties. At the crossroads of the disciplines, the Centre Pompidou vibrates to the rhythm of the Beat Generation!

© Centre Pompidou © Rémi Villaggi, 2010

The politics of art

Opening

 Museum • 29 September 2016 06 March 2017

Covering Surrealism to the Situationist International, a new series of exhibition-dossiers can now be found in the museum circuit, looking back at the way artists responded to the "problem" of politics.

© Adagp, Paris 2016 © Photothèque R. Magritte / BI, Adagp, Paris, 2016

Magritte

The treachery of images

Exhibition • 21 September 2016 23 January 2017

The exhibition puts forward a new interpretation of one of modern art's magisterial figures through around a hundred paintings, drawings and archive documents.

The Wooster Group, Early Shaker Spirituals, © Paula Court

The Wooster Group

Early Shaker Spirituals

 Theater • 28 September 2016 30 September 2016

A performance inspired by hymns, marches and testimonies from the "Shakers".  A performance that celebrates the community and the joy of being together.

Chen Chieh-Jen

Cinema and video • 29 September 2016

Chen Chieh-jen, a major figure in the Taiwan art scene, presents two films dealing with the consequences of globalisation and the suffering caused by social injustice.  
Cher(e)s ami(e)s, Au musée, Collections contemporaines, à partir du 23 mars 2016

José Davila : Make your own Sushine, 2013 - Coll. Centre Pompidou, musée national d’art moderne - Don de la Société des amis du musée national d’art moderne, 2014 / Courtesy : the artist and OMR gallery / crédit photographique : © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GP

Cher(e)s ami(e)s

At the museum

 Contemporary Collections • 23 March 2016 27 March 2017

A new interpretation of present-day art through works that have joined the collection in the last five years through the generosity of the Centre Pompidou's patrons and donors – our "Dear Friends" !

Jonathan Monk and Gabriele de Santis

Cinema • 29 September 2016

Jonathan Monk talks to the young Italian artist Gabriele de Santis who shares his passion for Arte Povera – to the point of making artists in this artistic movement the dream team of a football club…

© Anna Malagrida / Carte blanche PMU

Anna Malagrida

winner of the 2016 Carte Blanche PMU

 Exhibition • 28 September 2016 17 October 2016

An invitation to Anna Malagrida, winner of the 2016 Carte Blanche PMU: films, photographs and texts inspired by the metropolis, where millions of human destinies cross paths…

Mircea Cantor

The invisible part of the infinite

 Exhibition • 28 September 2016 06 March 2017

The Atelier Brâncuși welcomes the artist Mircea Cantor, with completely new work bordering on social anthropology, based on the exploitation of the figure and work of the celebrated Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși.