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In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is beginning a major transformation !

 

In preparation for the renovation of its iconic building, the Centre Pompidou’s performance and conference halls were the first spaces to close. However, programming will continue throughout the renovation period thanks to the Constellation program, through which the Centre Pompidou extends its spirit across France and around the world, from 2025 until its reopening in 2030.

 

This autumn, join us at other Parisian institutions for new highlights featuring major intellectual figures such as Felwine Sarr, Gilles Deleuze, and more. Regular series of talks and events—Le Mensuel, Extra!, Effractions, Profession: Reporter—will also continue.

Guest of the year

Felwine Sarr

Intellectual-in-residence at the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne

Evening School: "A Common Life"

Autumn 2025

 Lectures | Workshops 

Théâtre de la Ville, Paris 4th arrondissement

MC93, Bobigny

mk2 Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou, Paris 13th arrondissement

 

Since 2017, the Centre Pompidou has invited a leading intellectual each year to accompany its discursive programme and to develop an original line of thought. After historian Philippe Artières, queer philosopher Paul B. Preciado, eco-philosopher Vinciane Despret, and American philosopher Judith Butler, the invitation this year—extended jointly by the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne in Paris—has been accepted by Senegalese thinker and economist Felwine Sarr (born 1972 in Niodor).

 

His "Evening School" begins with a central question: In an age of deepening global divisions and fractures, how can we imagine the possibility of a shared life on a planetary scale?
The programme unfolds in three thematic sequences, each featuring a multidisciplinary lecture with Felwine Sarr and major voices in contemporary thought and creative practice, along with parallel “sensitivity workshops” involving other artists and approaches.

 

| A programme Festival d'Automne x Centre Pompidou


Program :

19 October 2025

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris 4th

Cosmopolitics of Hospitality

with Judith Butler, moderated by Debarati Sanyal


2 November 2025

MC93, Bobigny

Community of the Dead and the Living

with Faustin Linyekula, Alice Diop and Dorcy Rugamba, moderated by Francesca Corona and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville


14 December 2025

mk2 Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou, Paris 13th

Confronting the Planetary Crisis of Mutuality

with Alain Gomis, Nadia Yala Kisukidi and Sammy Baloji


Born in 1972 in Niodior, Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese economist, academic, writer, and musician.

 

Initially a professor of economics in Senegal and now a professor of African philosophy at Duke University (USA), Felwine Sarr explores contemporary global transformations through a perspective shaped by the experiences, knowledge systems, and questions arising from the African continent and the Global South.

 

Alongside his academic work, Sarr cultivates a deeply personal creative practice, expressed through narrative writing, theatre, and music—he has performed over 500 concerts and released three albums, both solo and with his band Dolé.

 

He is also actively involved in collective initiatives aimed at fostering a new generation of intellectuals and researchers across the African continent. Notable among these is the founding, alongside Achille Mbembe, of the Ateliers de la pensée in Dakar, which since 2016 has become a key platform for critical thought and exchange. He also co-founded the publishing house Jimsaan with Nafissatou Dia and Boubacar Boris Diop, which notably co-published La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men) by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt.

 

Attuned to the pressing issues of our time, Felwine Sarr co-authored a landmark 2018 report with Bénédicte Savoy on the restitution of African heritage. In 2025, he is leading the 11th session of RAW Académie in Dakar, an experimental programme dedicated to research into artistic and curatorial practices and thought.


Highlights

The Deleuze Inventory

8 – 9 November 2025

 Talks | Screenings | Performances | Workshops | Listening Sessions 

mk2 Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou, Paris 13th arrondissement

 

Marking the centenary of the French philosopher’s birth, The Deleuze Inventory revisits key themes from his work that resonate strongly with today’s world—from the role of machines to the rhythms of desire, from emancipatory becomings-woman to the orchestration of fear by neofascist movements.

Over two days, a rich programme of talks, screenings, readings, performances, workshops, and listening sessions brings together Deleuze readers and major creative voices from across disciplines, both French and international.

 

In parallel, a scholarly symposium dedicated to his book L’Image-temps (Cinema 2: The Time-Image), marking its 40th anniversary, will be held at Université Paris 8 starting 5 November 2025.


Regular appointments

Nouveau

Le pari de l'œuvre

 Arts 

 1 rencontre par mois

Ircam, Paris

 

L’acte de créer se présente comme un pari : sur la mémoire, l’avenir, la réception d’un geste qui, une fois accompli, échappe à son auteur ou autrice. Quel que soit le domaine, une œuvre pose la question de sa propre nécessité et de son inscription dans le monde. Pourquoi alors certaines œuvres du passé ont-elles toujours un écho si fort aujourd’hui ? 

Ce nouveau cycle de rencontres propose tous les mois à un·e invité·e de partager son rapport singulier à une œuvre.

 

Premiers rendez-vous:

  • 18 septembre 2025
    Le pari de l’œuvre de Georges Perec
  • 9 octobre 2025
    Le pari de l'œuvre de Jean Tinguely : Le Cyclop
  • 6 novembre 2025
    Le pari de la suspension, avec Chloé Moglia et Jean-Christophe Bailly

Programme détaillé dans l'agenda


Cycle: The Museum to come

 Museology | Cultural policies 

Starting March 2025

 

A new series of reflections on the evolution of cultural institutions, at a time when they are undergoing profound transformation in response to new audiences, social approaches, ecological challenges, emerging technologies and social media, and active reinterpretations of art history.
Grounded in case studies, each session serves as a forum for observing and articulating current changes, while confronting diverse institutional models around a specific theme.

 

In partnership with The Art Newspaper

  • 4 March 2025
    The MET and the Centre Pompidou: Transatlantic architectures
  • 19 June 2025
    MoMA – Yesterday, today and tomorrow. A conversation with Glenn Lowry
  • 21 September 2025
    Wolfgang Tillmans in conversation with Mark Wigley, architectural theorist and historian

 

Full programme in the agenda

  Previous sessions available for replay


Cycle: Profession: Reporter

 Journalism 

 One session per month

 

What does the job of a field journalist truly entail? What are its challenges, its risks, and its evolution in today’s world shaped by social, political, and environmental upheavals?
In collaboration with the Albert Londres Prize—which annually honours the best French-speaking investigative reporters—this series gives the floor to professionals of information, text, and image.

 

  • 13 November 2025
    Palmarès 2025 du Prix Albert-Londres
    La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris 3rd
     arrondissement

More infos on the Bpi website


Cycle Le monde sur un fil

 Philosophie | Actualités 

 Entrée libre

Bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris

 

L’ordre international ne tient parfois qu’à un fil ; souvent, c’est l’idée même d’un monde commun qui semble en péril, sous l’effet de défis nouveaux, qu’ils soient économiques et sociaux, écologiques ou technologiques. Menés en partenariat avec la revue Esprit, les débats de ce cycle cherchent à identifier les événements qui marquent certaines de ces évolutions planétaires, et tentent de mieux comprendre le monde qui vient.

 

Programme détaillé dans l'agenda