Exhibitions
In 2025, Centre Pompidou began a major transformation !
Its iconic building in the heart of Paris is temporarily closed to the public for major renovation work.
Thanks to the Constellation program, Centre Pompidou is more vibrant than ever and closer to you, expanding its exhibitions, film retrospectives, performances, talks, festivals and activities for young audiences into hundreds of partner venues across France and around the world, from 2025 until its reopening in 2030.
Discover all the exhibitions designed with our partners:
- In Paris, notably at the Grand Palais — with two exhibitions per year — or at the MAM, the Panthéon, the BNF…;
- In regions across France, including Auxerre, Lille, Metz or Toulon…;
- Internationally, in Centre Pompidou’s historic locations — Málaga, Shanghai, Seoul… — as well as in other prestigious museums and art centers.
Pour ne rater aucune exposition
Paris / Grand Paris
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld
Cezanne et nous
23 September 2026 – 17 January 2027
Dedicated to one of the undisputed founding figures of Western modern art and to his enduring artistic legacy, "Cezanne et nous" (Cezanne and Us) invites visitors to view the work of Paul Cezanne (1839–1906) through the many and evolving perspectives it has inspired, from the very end of the nineteenth century to the present day. The exhibition brings together 70 works by the master who sought to "paint the truth", shown alongside works by some 80 artists, from Paul Gauguin to Wolfgang Tillmans. It traces Cezanne’s impact across successive generations, from pioneers of the avant-garde—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Piet Mondrian—to contemporary artists, spanning post-war abstraction in Europe and the United States through to postmodernism.
The exhibition tells a dual story: that of Cezanne’s profound and lasting influence, and that of the artists who, often against the prevailing currents of their time, claimed him as their own and made him, in Picasso’s words, "notre père à tous" (the father of us all).
| An exhibition GrandPalaisRmn x Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie x Centre Pompidou
Vies minuscules
24 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
At the heart of the Panthéon, a monument dedicated to the great men and women of the French nation, "Vies minuscules"* explores the ways in which art welcomes lives relegated to the margins of grand history, bears witness to their minute, intimate or infamous place, and raises memorials to them that are, by turns, imposing or fragile.
*The title is borrowed from Pierre Michon’s book Vies minuscules, published by Éditions Gallimard in 1984.
La Bataille des couleurs
13 February – 13 December 2026
Located at the foot of Centre Pompidou construction site, Maison Pompidou serves as a permanent hub for information and resources on Centre’s history, architecture, and forthcoming transformation.
Its first temporary exhibition, "La Bataille des couleurs" (The Battle of Colours), revisits the building’s chromatic history from 1971 to 1977. Before becoming iconic, its visual identity was the subject of intense debate and controversy, retraced here through firsthand accounts, drawings, photographs, previously unpublished documents, and interior design objects (such as tables, lighting fixtures, buckets, cables, etc.).
© Paris Musées / Guillaume Blot
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026
2 October 2026 – 7 February 2027
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 16th
Created in 2000 to highlight the dynamism of the French art scene, the Marcel Duchamp Prize aims to honor the most representative artists of their generation and promote the diversity of artistic practices emerging in France today on the international stage.
The artists nominated for the 2026 edition are Joël Andrianomearisoa (born in 1977), David Brognon (born in 1978) and Stéphanie Rollin (born in 1980), Laura Henno (born in 1976), Josèfa Ntjam (born in 1992).
The winner will be announced on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
| An exhibition by MAM Paris x ADIAF x Centre Pompidou
© The Easton Foundation/Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Jean-Claude Planchet/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
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Louise Bourgeois. Extrême tension
Drawings and prints
20 October 2026 – 21 February 2027
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richelieu Library, Paris 2th
A major figure in contemporary art, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) constructed her body of work on the margins of the major movements that marked the 20th century – surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism and so on, and developed a profoundly personal language.
For the first time, this exhibition brings together two complementary holdings, notably formed through generous donations made by the artist during her lifetime, first to the BNF and later to the Centre Pompidou. Arranged chronologically, it highlights the major themes that run through her work and sheds light on the interdependence of drawing and printmaking in her practice, as well as on their close relationship with sculpture and writing.
| An exhibition BNF x Centre Pompidou
© Adagp, Paris 2026
Coming soon
Révéler (Reveal)
Photography Collection of the Centre Pompidou
As part of Paris Photo 2026
12 – 15 November 2026
Drawing on the Centre Pompidou’s photography collection, this display brings together around one hundred works by some thirty historical and contemporary artists, including a significant number of recent acquisitions.
Conceived for the Bicentenaire de la photographie (Bicentenary of Photography), it offers a cross-cutting perspective on the history of the medium through three themes: the many devices and processes artists invent to "make the image"; our relationship to reality and the fantasy of possessing it "infinitely", made possible by the principle of reproducibility on which photography is based; and the construction of "identities" and the political issues raised by portraiture and self-portraiture.
Courtesy, Maurizio Cattelan’s Archive. Courtesy Perrotin. Photo: Zeno Zotti
Dimanche sans fin
Maurizio Cattelan & the Centre Pompidou collection
8 May 2025 – 2 February 2027
To mark its 15th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is transforming all of its galleries to host hundreds of works from the Musée National d’Art Moderne collection. These include rarely seen pieces—sometimes thought untransportable—such as André Breton’s studio wall or Marcel Duchamp’s chess table.
The exhibition explores the theme of Sunday in its social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. Curated collectively under the guidance of artist Maurizio Cattelan, the exhibition unfolds as a poetic journey through 27 sections, each conceived as an alphabetical entry of thoughts, verses, slogans… touching on themes such as the division between leisure and work, private and public space, spirituality and light, or art’s power to imagine alternative worlds and evoke melancholic reflection.
© Droits réservés. Ayants droit Vasarely, ADAGP, 2026
Projet pour une révolution
Vasarely and Architecture
16 June – 1st November 2026
Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
Conceived to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Vasarely Foundation, inaugurated in 1976, "Projet pour une révolution" (Project for a Revolution) not only revisits the construction of this emblematic building of Op art, whose founding figure was Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), but also reflects on the place and function of architecture throughout his œuvre.
From the first architectural integrations in Caracas in 1954, envisioned as the ideal mode of presentation for his visual creations, to the unrealised project of the Cité polychrome du bonheur (Polychrome City of Happiness), Vasarely moved beyond the synthesis of the arts championed by the Espace group, which he joined in the 1950s, towards a broader reflection on the nature of the artwork itself, as well as on the conditions of its production, dissemination, and conservation within a profoundly social dimension.
© Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS / Adagp, Paris. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
La mer est ton miroir
20 June – 1st November 2026
Extending the 3rd edition of the Les Grands Récits festival, held from June 5 to 7 in Auxerre, 2026, the Centre Pompidou invites visitors to immerse themselves in the imaginary world of the sea in the 20th and 21st centuries. Taking its title from a line in Charles Baudelaire’s poem L'Homme et la Mer (Man and the Sea), "La mer est ton miroir" (The sea is your mirror) invites a poetic reflection on nature as much as on our own existence.
From Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) to Hicham Berrada (born 1986), some twenty works – paintings, videos, installations, design… – are nestled within the heart of the monastic architecture, echoing its own collections, whilst the chapter house hosts a site-specific work created especially for the occasion by the visual artist Nicolas Floc’h (born in 1970).
© Marcel Wanders. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Suivez le fil !
Design & textile
27 June – 31 October 2026
Drawing on around one hundred works by some forty artists from the national design collections, "Suivez le fil!" ("Follow the Thread!") explores the distinctive role of textiles in the history of design. Bridging craft and technology, ancestral gestures and contemporary utopias, the exhibition reflects the aesthetic and technical transformations of the 20th century, while also nurturing the most radical contemporary experiments.
From pioneering figures of the modern avant-garde such as Sonia Delaunay and Eileen Gray to contemporary designers including Pauline Esparon and Jeanne Goutelle, among others, the exhibition highlights the essential contribution of women designers to the evolution of design.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo :Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Musée sentimental
(Sentimental Museum)
André Breton, Daniel Spoerri, Joseph Cornell, Annette Messager, Marcel Duchamp, Ben…
11 September 2026 – 14 March 2027
"Musée sentimental" explores a fundamental theme in the history of art and museums: the practice of collecting, or the attachment that objects—even the most trivial ones—can inspire through the power of memory or the emotions they evoke. Whether in the form of assemblages, accumulations, installations, cabinets of curiosities, display cases or boxes… artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have incorporated this as a creative process.
The exhibition presents some sixty such works drawn from the combined holdings of three collections – the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon and Centre Pompidou. Placing them in dialogue allows us to compare their different approaches: from the wall of André Breton’s (1922–66) studio to Étienne-Martin’s (1963–85) Mur du Temps, reconstructed for the first time; from Joseph Cornell’s small "theatres of memory" (1950s) to the "centre of total art" that Ben’s Magasin (1958–73) represents; from Henri Ughetto’s mannequins (1970s) to the Weird Family sculpted by Sylvie Selig (2015–2026)…
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Jean-Claude Planchet - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
Max Ernst. De Natura
As part of the 4th edition of Ar(t)chipel Festival
3 October 2026 – 28 February 2027
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Through some thirty paintings from the Centre Pompidou collection, the Ar(t)chipel Festival marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Surrealist painter Max Ernst (1891-1976), who settled in the Touraine region in 1955.
The exhibition "De natura" invites visitors to explore Max Ernst’s universe as a mental landscape, in which the vegetal, the mineral and the imaginary echo one another without hierarchy, within a poetic continuum. Forests, gardens, and organic or mineral formations appear less as motifs than as processes, as states of transformation in which the external world becomes closely intertwined with the workings of the imagination. At the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, this dialogue takes on a distinctive dimension: from the Loire to the realm of dreams, the real landscape extends into an inner landscape, and the sensory experience of nature becomes fiction.
| A programme by Région Centre–Val de Loire x Centre Pompidou
Coming soon
Calder au cœur de la France
As part of the 4th edition of Ar(t)chipel Festival
From 15 October 2026
15 venues across Centre–Val de Loire
Deeply attached to France throughout his life, American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) settled in the village of Saché in 1954, where he built his studio overlooking the Indre Valley. Finding there a place for unfettered experimentation, he created many of his Stabiles, monumental sculptures made of riveted sheet metal.
To celebrate the centenary of his arrival in the Loire Valley and the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the Ar(t)chipel Festival presents a major exhibition spanning the entire region and some fifteen cultural venues, historic monuments, museums and art centres. The resulting itinerary offers a comprehensive view of the many facets of Calder’s work, from sculpture to drawing, from the decorative arts to monumental works.
| A programme by Région Centre–Val de Loire x Centre Pompidou
Reinventing Landscape
Highlights of the Centre Pompidou collection
28 April 2025 – 18 October 2026
Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai
"Reinventing Landscape" is the fourth semi-permanent exhibition of the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum project since its launch in 2019.
It turns the spotlight on landscape art and its profound transformations in the 20th and 21th centuries through nine exhibition sections.
Don des Amis du Centre Pompidou, Groupe d'Acquisition pour l'Art Contemporain, 2022
© Caroline Achaintre. Photo : Rob Harris. Coutesy de l’artiste et Art : Concept, Paris
To Open Eyes
Artists' Gaze
3 July 2025 – 31 January 2027
The new semi-permanent exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Málaga focusses on the way in which artists invite us to decentre our gaze and thus transform our relationship with art, society and the world. "To Open Eyes" is an undirected exhibition that proposes a broad and non-exhaustive panorama of the major movements and disruptions that marked the history of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, right up until recent works reflecting certain contemporary issues.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/André Morin/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Contemporary Drawings
Florence and Daniel Guerlain's Donation and Gifts to MNAM
25 July – 1er November 2026
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
Echoing the major exhibition devoted by the Latvian National Museum of Art to the development of Latvian graphic arts since the eighteenth century, Contemporary Drawings: Florence and Daniel Guerlain Donation and Gifts to the Musée National d’Art Moderne offers a decidedly international perspective. The exhibition brings together artists internationally well-known such as Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, Giuseppe Penone, Marlene Dumas, and French artists, such as Henri Cueco, Dove Allouche, Anne-Marie Schneider – most of whom have never been exhi¬bited in Latvia.
Bringing together nearly one hundred works on paper by more than forty artists, the exhibition highlights the diversity of approaches, techniques and formats that characterize contemporary drawing. At the same time, it reflects the richness of the ensemble formed by the successive gifts made to the Musée National d’Art Moderne since 2006 by the French collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain.
© Archigram. Photo: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Méguerditchian/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Computer Worlds
24 September 2026 – 14 February 2027
Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai
Created entirely from Centre Pompidou's collection, through nearly 180 works and documents, "Computer Worlds" retraces the history of digital creation from the 1950s to the present day, the never-ending history of connections between art and technology, from the emergence of cybernetics to recent developments around artificial intelligence and NFTs. Combining new media, design and architecture, it showcases pioneering works by the founders of digital art along with the most cutting-edge contemporary creations.
© droits réservés. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Lumina: The Art of Color and Light
26 September 2026 – 14 February 2027
Lucien Arkas Art Center, Izmir
Bringing together 83 works from Centre Pompidou’s collection, "Lumina" explores how modern and contemporary artists have engaged with colour. More specifically, it examines how colour can create an impression of light and movement through various optical effects. From the Fauves to Op Art, via photographic experiments and the Colour Field movement, right through to contemporary works, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the active role of vision.
Domaine public. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Chez Matisse
Masterpieces of Centre Pompidou
3 October 2026 – 14 February 2027
Drawing on a selection of major works from the Centre Pompidou collection, "Chez Matisse" (At Home with Matisse) retraces the career of Henri Matisse (1868–1954), one of the defining figures of modern art and a truly multidisciplinary artist, from his first self-portrait in 1900 to his final paintings and cut-outs. At the same time, the exhibition explores his lasting influence on artists of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and across both real and imagined spheres of artistic creation.
© droits réservés. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM/Dist. GrandPalaisRm
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A truly immense journey
28 November 2026 – 10 January 2028
Kanal–Centre Pompidou, Brussels
An exploration of the forces and constant change that propel people, ideas and artistic practices from the early 1900s to the present. More than 350 major works, predominantly from Centre Pompidou and Kanal collections, but also from other Belgian public and private collections invite visitors to drift between places, cultures and artistic movements, encountering modern art icons alongside contemporary international and Brussels-based artists.
This major exhibition is taking place alongside around ten other exhibitions to mark the opening of this new venue dedicated to art, architecture and the performing arts, as well as the first chapter of a programme co-designed by the Centre Pompidou and Kanal over the next five years.
