Exhibitions
© Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved (Adagp). Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Adam Rzepka/Dist. Rmn-Gp
Brancusi
27 March – 1st July 2024
Temporary exhibition
Gallery 1, level 6
As a tribute to the father of modern sculpture, Constantin Brancusi (born in 1876 in Romania, living in Paris from 1904 through to his death in 1957), this large-scale exhibition comprises some 400 works: over 120 sculptures, as well as photographs, drawings, films and archives. At the heart of the exhibition, visitors can admire a reconstitution of the artist’s studio, which he designed during his lifetime as a place in which to live, create and contemplate his works.
© droits réservés. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
The Childhood of Design
A Century of Furniture for Children
25 April – 12 August 2024
Temporary exhibition
Gallery 3, level 1
Far from being a miniaturisation of furniture items for adults, furniture for children quickly acquired a real autonomy and developed its own specific character. The greatest of designers have taken an interest in designing objects for children throughout the 20th century. Today, designers like matali crasset derive another approach to design from the world of childhood, based on hybrid "situation-objects" that feed into changing scenarios.
Presenting a hundred-odd works conserved by the Musée national d’art moderne, the exhibition explores the revival of design chronologically, through the prism of these "small objects", leading to new typologies of delightful aesthetic objects and amusing learning tools that pave the way to creativity.
© Adagp, Paris, 2023. Photo : Vincent Di Rosa
Hervé Di Rosa
The World-Crosser
28 February – 26 August 2024
Temporary exhibition in the museum
Galerie d'art graphique, level 4
As the heir to a story ranging from the Dada movement through to punk rock, taking in Jean Dubuffet and CoBrA, French artist Hervé Di Rosa (born in 1959 in Sète) has consistently questioned the legitimacy of artistic hierarchy and the absolutism of "fine art". An essential figure in 1980s Figuration libre, he was also an avid collector. Part of his collection of Modest Arts is exhibited in the permanent collection at the International Museum of Modest Arts (Miam) established in 2000 in Sète by Hervé Di Rosa and Bernard Belluc.
The exhibition features around 30 works providing an eloquent overview of the artist’s career, thanks especially to the artist’s significant donation in 2013 and the loaning of several recent works.
Photo © François Molnár, archives Vera Molnár. Courtesy of Galerie Oniris, Rennes
Vera Molnár
Speak to the Eye
28 February – 26 August 2024
Temporary exhibition in the Museum
Galerie du Musée, level 4
Digital art pioneer Vera Molnár was born in Budapest in 1924 and resided in Paris from 1947 until her death on 7 December 2023 at the age of 99.
Her incredibly creative, prodigious career is on display here, starting with her first drawings in 1946 through to a 2023 installation created specifically for this exhibition, and featuring an extensive body of works (paintings, drawings, photographs and wall installations) as well as selected extracts from her Diaries. These are conserved in state collections, mostly at the Musée national d’art moderne, thanks to the artist’s generosity.
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Service de la documentation photographique du Mnam/Dist. Rmn-Gp
Bernard Réquichot
"I never started to paint"
3 April – 2 September 2024
Temporary exhibition in the museum
Galerie ouest, level 4
Despite a meteoric career (less than ten years), Bernard Réquichot (1929-1961) was a major protagonist of the 1950s Paris art scene. Marked by "Surrealism's second wind", his production around 1955 is in line with the gestural and textural abstraction that occupied a preeminent place at the time.
This chronological retrospective features over 60 works: mainly paintings, his famous Reliquaries, and some impressive collage (his "chosen papers") and drawings demonstrating strong visual impact.
© Foundation THE ESTATE OF HANNAH VILLIGER
Hannah Villiger
3 April – 22 July 2024
Free temporary exhibition
Galerie de photographies, level –1
As a graduate in sculpture from the Lucerne University of Applied Arts in 1974, Hannah Villiger (1951 -1997) then embraced photography as her preferred medium in the 1980s. Using a 35-mm camera, then a Polaroid, she showed fragments of her body, in various states. Enlarged and presented as dynamic blocks, her photographs reveal intrinsic corporeal properties, as an anonymised material, shaped by mechanical recording.
Illustration © Fanny Michaëlis
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Comics on every floor
29 May – 4 November 2024
As an exceptional celebration of the ninth art, the "Comics on every floor" event explores the sheer breadth of diversity of this form of artistic expression, displayed in all areas of the Centre Pompidou and catering to all ages.
Comics, 1964-2024
Temporary exhibition
Gallery 2, level 6
A fresh dialogue among the three main strongholds of expression in the world of comic books: European creation, Asian mangas and American comics, starting in 1960s counterculture, through to the latest digital output. The exhibition presents 12 different themes summoning the imagination of comics (history, science fiction etc.), the emotions they trigger (fear, dreams, laughter etc.), and the diverse artistic techniques used (black and white, self-expression, geometry etc.).
Comics in the Museum
Temporary exhibition in the museum
Level 5
As a counterpoint to the permanent modern collection (1900-1960), six rooms have been devoted to the comic strip greats: Edmond-François Calvo, Will Eisner, Hergé, George Herriman, Winsor McCay and George McManus. At the same time, 15 contemporary authors go up against masterpieces, in the form of tribute, quotation or pastiche, Philippe Dupuy and Matisse, David B. and Breton, Anna Sommer and Picabia, Catherine Meurisse and Rothko, etc.
Corto Maltese. A novelistic life
Free exhibition
Public library, level 2
Created by Hugo Pratt in 1967, Corto Maltese has become a truly emblematic figure in the world of comic strips. The story of his peregrinations, with intrigue and plot twists galore, is also scattered with references and literary quotes. These are in fact the special focus of this exhibition featuring original documents (photographs, notes, storyboard, sketches, studies, plates and watercolours).
"Tenir tête". Exhibition-workshop by Marion Fayolle
Young audience exhibition
Galerie des enfants, level 1
For young audiences, author and illustrator Marion Fayolle transforms the Galerie des enfants into an immersive installation around the subject of a nomad encampment. Each of the "tent-heads" of her "Tenir tête" exhibition-workshop imagined in resonance with her graphical work provides shelter for moments of sharing, discovery and astonishment.
Lagon Magazine: Le chemin de terre
Free exhibition
Level –1
The Lagon Magazine, a veritable laboratory dedicated since 2014 to emerging authors, occupies the spaces on level -1 with the exhibition "Lagon Magazine. Le chemin de terre". It presents the pages of an ideal review consisting of print-outs, original plates, wall paintings and serigraphs.
![Dora Maar (Henriette Théodora Markovitch, dite), Sans titre [Main-coquillage] 1934](/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/e/9/csm_thumb_large_c1378f005c.jpg)
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Jacques Faujour/Dist. Rmn-Gp
Surréalisme
4 septembre 2024 – 13 janvier 2025
Exposition temporaire
Galerie 1, niveau 6
Retraçant plus de quarante années d'une exceptionnelle effervescence créative, de 1924 à 1969, l'exposition « Surréalisme » célèbre l'anniversaire du mouvement né en 1924 avec la publication du Manifeste fondateur d'André Breton.
À la fois chronologique et thématique, le parcours est rythmé par 14 chapitres évoquant les figures littéraires ayant inspiré le mouvement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade…) et les principes poétiques qui structurent son imaginaire (l'artiste-médium, le rêve, la pierre philosophale, la forêt…)
