Exhibitions, Collection Marlene Dumas: Painting in the Flesh She has never painted to soothe. Born in South Africa in 1953 and based in the Netherlands since the 1970s, Marlene Dumas has built a body of work in which faces and bodi… 05 Jan 2026
Backstage Architectural Secrets ► The ‘Piazza’ of the Centre Pompidou (Episode 1/15) A vast, Italianate square, the Piazza slopes gently down to the foot of the Beaubourg building. Conceived by architects Renzo Piano and… 02 Sep 2025
Backstage Because Beaubourg: Backstage at the Centre Pompidou's Last Hurrah It had never happened before: on the 24th and 25th October, the Centre Pompidou marked the closure of its iconic building with a grand-scale celebrati… 27 Oct 2025
Backstage The Centre Pompidou and the birth of Daft Punk: the untold details of … On the night of November 10, 1992, the top floor of the Centre Pompidou was transformed into a vast, pulsing dance floor. The Armistice house party br… 05 May 2023
Collection, Backstage Tracking the Ghost Paintings of Fédor Löwenstein, Lost to Nazi Looting EXCLUSIVE ► For decades, three paintings created in 1939 by Fédor Löwenstein and looted by the Nazi regime were wrongfully held in the national collec… 16 Sep 2025
Exhibitions, Backstage Pontus Hulten, an anarchist at the museum First director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne from 1973 to 1981, Pontus Hulten was a close friend of the artist couple Niki de Saint Phalle and J… 06 Jun 2025
Backstage From Pompidou to "Beaubourg": the secret history of Renzo Piano's and … Now iconic, the building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers was nevertheless very nearly never built. Called "Live Centre of Information", the… 13 Apr 2023
Exhibitions, Backstage In conversation : Wolfgang Tillmans and Renzo Piano EXCLUSIVE ► In June 2024, Wolfgang Tillmans sat down with Renzo Piano—not just to photograph the legendary Italian architect, but to engage in a dialo… 04 Jul 2025
Exhibitions Wolfgang Tillmans: “Culture is always the first thing autocrats seek t… EXCLUSIVE ► German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has been invited by the Centre Pompidou to stage its final exhibition before closing for renovation works.… 06 May 2025
Collection, Backstage The Secret History of Dominique and John de Menil, Legendary Patrons o… Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock… As discerning collectors, Dominique and John de Menil gifted the Centre Pompidou some of its greatest masterp… 14 Feb 2025
Cinema Jonás Trueba, le cinéma en bande organisée Chez le cinéaste espagnol, le collectif est au cœur même du processus créatif. Accompagné depuis ses… 05 Jan 2026
Exhibitions, Collection Marlene Dumas: Painting in the Flesh She has never painted to soothe. Born in South Africa in 1953 and based in the Netherlands since the… 05 Jan 2026
Cinema Chez Jonás Trueba, un cinéma familier Artisan discret mais prolifique du cinéma contemporain espagnol, Jonás Trueba (né en 1981) a signé h… 02 Jan 2026
Collection Focus on… « Big Electric Chair » by Andy Warhol With Big Electric Chair, Pop Art master Andy Warhol moves away from celebrities and consumer goods t… 11 Dec 2025
Cinema “On Violence in America”: Mirrors of a Nation in Cinema With On Violence in America, the Centre Pompidou offers a fresh reading of Violent America, the 1971… 11 Dec 2025
Exhibitions, Collection Dans la discothèque de Vassily Kandinsky Vers 1926, Vassily Kandinsky offre à son épouse Nina un gramophone. Ensemble, ils constituent alors … 08 Dec 2025
Exhibitions Frank Gehry : « La clarté, la pureté du premier geste est difficile à … Le nom de Frank Gehry (1929-2025) incarne à lui seul l’image de l’architecture contemporaine. Mondia… 06 Dec 2025
Architectural Secrets ► The Centre Pompidou’s metallic 'exoskeleton'… (Episode 4/15) If the Centre Pompidou were an animal, it would be a crab—bold and unconventional. Li… 01 Dec 2025
Exhibitions, Collection Focus on... “Self Portrait” by David Hockney In this 2001 charcoal self-portrait, David Hockney appears without his signature glasses — they’re p… 20 Nov 2025
Backstage Christophe Hay, « chef paysan » À Blois, le chef Christophe Hay cultive bien plus qu’une table étoilée : chef paysan et solidaire, i… 19 Nov 2025
Research Yves Gevaert : une bi(bli)ographie Acteur majeur de la scène artistique bruxelloise et internationale, Yves Gevaert organise dès le mil… 18 Nov 2025
Exhibitions, Collection « Dessins sans limite », A Laboratory of Possibilities A universal gesture, drawing transcends cultures and eras. From preparatory studies to contemporary … 17 Nov 2025
Exhibitions, Collection Focus on... "Men in the Cities" by Robert Longo Caught somewhere between dance and collapse, the sharp-suited figures of Robert Longo’s Men in the C… 12 Nov 2025
Backstage Le Centre Pompidou &… François Halard A leading figure in contemporary photography, François Halard (born in 1961) established himself as … 11 Nov 2025
Cinema Derek Jarman, l'impur et la grâce Peintre, cinéaste, écrivain, militant des droits homosexuels, pionnier de la culture queer, jardinie… 05 Nov 2025
Backstage Claude Mollard, père fondateur de « Beaubourg » : « À l'époque, il y a… En 1971, il avait à peine 30 ans. Le Centre Pompidou n'existait pas encore, mais Claude Mollard et q… 04 Nov 2025
Cinema, Backstage Pour Josza Anjembe, le cinéma comme mode de survie Réalisatrice et scénariste, Josza Anjembe signe une œuvre singulière entre documentaire et fiction, … 03 Nov 2025
Exhibitions, Collection Passez au « Salon de musique » de Vassily Kandinsky Présenté en 1931 au Forum d'architecture de Berlin, le Salon de musique synthétise les recherches fo… 03 Nov 2025
Backstage Architectural Secrets ► The “Caterpillar” of the Centre Pompidou (Episode 3/15) Stretching like a giant transparent tube along the façade, the escalator affectionate… 03 Nov 2025
Backstage Because Beaubourg: Backstage at the Centre Pompidou's Last Hurrah It had never happened before: on the 24th and 25th October, the Centre Pompidou marked the closure o… 27 Oct 2025