Museum
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.
Discover here the news of the Museum's rooms.
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.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Christian Bahier, Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Comics in the Museum
as part of La BD à tous les étages ("Comics on Every Floor")
29 May – 4 November 2024
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.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Audrey Laurans/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert
Un engagement radical
25 juin – 31 septembre 2024
Niveau 4, salles 12, 13, 14
Passionnés, visionnaires, Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert ouvrent leur première galerie d'art à Paris en 1975. Dotés de convictions esthétiques radicales, ils exposent, collectionnent et apportent leur soutien à divers artistes de la scène française et internationale, en particulier italienne, allemande et anglaise, pendant près de trente ans. Et s'ils ferment leur galerie en 2004, c'est pour poursuivre leur aventure à la découverte d’autres civilisations et à la collection d’objets ethnographiques extra-occidentaux. Leurs dons généreux faits au Musée entre 1991 et 2023 permettent de retracer l’histoire et le succès de leur galerie.
© Photo : Centre pompidou, Mnam-Cci, Janeth Rodriguez Garcia
Simone Boisecq and Karl-Jean Longuet
25 June – October 2024
Sculptors Simone Boisecq (1922-2012) et Karl-Jean Longuet (1904-1981) worked side by side for more than three decades.
This exhibition puts their work back into dialogue, through a collection of sculptures and drawings held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Droits réservés
Jean-Michel Othoniel
Le Petit théâtre de Peau d'Âne, 2005
18 juin – 30 septembre 2024
Fasciné par l’écrivain voyageur Pierre Loti (1850-1923), Jean-Michel Othoniel (né en 1964 à Saint-Étienne) découvre en 2002 des marionnettes bricolées par le jeune Loti à partir de matériaux rudimentaires et destinées à un petit théâtre inspiré du conte Peau d'âne de Charles Perrault. Séduit par son imagination débordante, Othoniel décide de redonner vie à ces figurines dans l’espace de son propre travail. Réduisant ses œuvres monumentales à l’échelle des personnages de Loti, il compose une scénographie qui joue avec la lumière et la transparence, le verre, les voilages… et rejoue les ambigüités, travestissements, rêveries propres au conte comme à la vie et l’œuvre de Loti.
© Droits réservés. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci, Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Roland Moreno
3 June 2024 – 2 September 2024
Visionary inventor, electronic engineer and DIY enthusiast Roland Moreno (1945-2012) defied categorisation and marked the history of technology in the second half of the 20th century with his free, multidisciplinary methods of creation. From the late 1960s on, he designed useless objects using electronic components which resembled veritable "poetic machines". His playful, even absurd creations developed reflection around the idea of disorder, chance and entropy. His "first useful invention" was a microchip card or "smart card", which today is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
© Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci, Audrey Laurans
Ilya et Emilia Kabakov
From 22 May 2024
A tribute to the soviet conceptual artist, Ilya Kabakov (1933-2023) who died a year ago, this exhibition presents a selection of works from his collections, including a previously unseen installation, Two Times (2020).
© Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Audrey Laurans
Hommage à Andrea Branzi
Le règne des vivants
14 mai 2024 – 14 octobre 2024
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.
© Photo : Centre pompidou, Mnam-Cci, Janeth Rodriguez Garcia
Roberta González
2 April – 9 March 2025
The daughter of Spanish sculptor Julio González (1876-1942), Roberta González (1909-1976) was born in Paris into an artistic family. Exhibited by gallerists Jeanne Bucher and Colette Allendy, she was nominated by the Hallmark Award in 1949, which allowed her to exhibit in the USA and Latin America.
From the 1960s, she dedicated much of her time to promoting her father's work, of which she donated more than 200 pieces to the Musée National d'Art Moderne.
Lisbonne, CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Sonia et Robert Delaunay. Correspondances
3 avril – 9 septembre 2024
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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© Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Audrey Laurans
Outsider Art. Donated by Bruno Decharme
Langage at work
30 January – 17 September 2024
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.
Collection Fred Forest © Adagp, Paris, 2024 © DR
Fred Forest and Information Technology
Archives of Video and Digital Projects
24 January – 14 October 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:
- on the online form;
- or by email to labanquedupied@centrepompidou.fr. In this case, you will be asked to accept a consent clause before publication.
- Your photo will be in the exhibition from the 24 January 2024 and on the web at this address: https://flockler.embed.codes/j59zej
© Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Audrey Laurans
Idols
Dialogue between ancient and modern
18 October 2023 – 10 March 2025
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.
© Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci, Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia
Donated by Florence and Daniel Guerlain
From 21 June 2023
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.
