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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.

Information and booking in the agenda

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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Ronan Bouroullec
Resonance

28 February — 23 September 2024

Level 4, room 33

Exceptional closure until Friday 22 March 2024


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

    Bridging appearance
    When fashion features in the Musée National d'Art Moderne's collection

    24 January – 22 April 2024

    Level 5

     

    After "Yves Saint Laurent in Museums" in 2022, the Centre Pompidou invites Laurence Benaïm to continue the dialogue between art and fashion by formulating a chromatic and conceptual conversation between designer profiles and works from the Musée National d’Art Moderne’s collection. 

    From Christian Dior to Iris van Herpen, from Azzedine Alaïa to Thebe Magugu, from Jean Paul Gaultier to Issey Miyake via Chanel and Charles de Vilmorin, the exhibition includes 17 models and traces the lines of correspondence, elective affinities, shared obsessions… between fashion and artists, both modern and contemporary.


    Centenary Jean Paul Riopelle

    15 December 2023 – 1er April 2024

    Level 5, room 36

     

    The Centre Pompidou is taking part in the international celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Canadian artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) with a monographic exhibition in the museum. Three key paintings: the monumental Chevreuse (1954), La Mi-été chez Georges (1973) and the triptych Mitchikanabikong (1975) have been restored for the occasion and is joined by a number of works from private collections. 


    Philippe Thomas

    23 November 2023 – 1st April 2024

    Level 4, rooms 21, 21bis and 22

     

    Philippe Thomas (1951-1995) was a key figure in the conceptualist movement of the 1980s and the early 1990s. Inspired by the artistic and literary avant-gardes, he used a variety of mediums in an in-depth appraisal of the "art system".


    Presence
    Works acquired as part of the 2022-2023 season of the Centre Pompidou Accélérations Endowment Fund

    15 November 2023 – 13 May 2024

    Level 4

     

    Find out more on the Centre Pompidou Accélérations Endowment Fund


    Tang Chang (1934-1990)
    Non-Forms

    20 October 2023 – 8 April 2024

    Level 4, room 20 and room 17

     

    A maverick self-taught poet and painter born into a Chinese family in Bangkok, Tang Chang (1934–1990) departs from the Thai art world’s models fashioned after Western modernism. Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms draws inspiration from the undifferentiated unity of multiplicities in Daoism and Chan Buddhism that are at the heart of his practice to feature for the first time in France never-before-shown key works and documents from the 1960s to the 1980s. Film excerpts and archival materials shed light on the contexts of creation and reception of this modern literati painter who resisted the establishment, both local and global. Beyond complicating the history of gestural abstraction and concrete poetry as well as the relationship between painting and writing which shaped Europe’s interest in art from Asia in the 20th century, Tang Chang’s œuvre recalibrates unidirectional narratives of the West as modern art’s very wellspring, and challenges Procrustean dichotomies, such as figuration versus abstraction, and image versus text.

     

    Detailed presentation


    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.


    Les Halles–Plateau Beaubourg, the Making of a Neighbourhood? 1973/2023

    20 September 2023 – 18 March 2024

    Level 4, room 34

     

    The 50th anniversary of the destruction of the Baltard pavilions is an opportunity to review a short but striking episode in the history of Paris: from a car park, emerged an arts centre with a futurist look – the Centre Pompidou as it stands today –; a covered market was destroyed and replaced by a complex with facilities and shops – Les Halles. Two distinctive centres with interconnecting destinies, which have shaped the neighbourhood
    Visitors are plunged into this history via an interactive, immersive mock-up. Architect Jean Zetlaoui walks us through the area, the essence of which is captured in photographs, drawings, architecture plans and documents produced by artists bearing witness to this project and/or those taking part in it. 


    New rooms on architecture

    From 12 July 2023

    Level 4

    Architecture firm Aires Mateus

    Level  4, room 27

    Architecture firm Barozzi-Veiga

    Level 4, room 29

    Christian Kerez

    Level 4, room 28


    Outsider Art
    Donated by Bruno Decharme

    Permanent display

    Level 5, walkway 9

     

    30 January – 17 September 2024

    Langage at work

    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.


    upcoming

    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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