All audiences
The creation of the Centre Pompidou's future Ile-de-France conservation and creation centre in Massy aims to develop a cultural and artistic programme for all based around the Centre Pompidou's collection. As part of its prefiguration activities launched in 2019, the Centre Pompidou builds projects throughout the Ile-de-France region.
Restauration du rideau de scène du ballet Parade
Exposition | Rencontres | Spectacles
Une série d'événements autour de la campagne de restauration du rideau de scène peint par Pablo Picasso pour le ballet Parade – œuvre de commande écrite par Jean Cocteau, sur une musique d’Erik Satie, avec des décors et costumes de Pablo Picasso et une chorégraphie signée Leonide Massine. Monté par Serge de Diaghilev pour les Ballets russes, ce célèbre ballet a été créé à Paris le 18 mai 1917 au Théâtre du Châtelet.
Née d’une collaboration entre différents artistes de disciplines diverses, Parade donne le thème de la saison 2022-2023 de ce programme de préfiguration : le collectif à l’œuvre.
Agenda :
24 – 31 août 2022
Exposition du rideau du ballet Parade à l’Opéra de Massy
24 août 2022, 18h
Histoire et analyse d’une œuvre : le rideau de Parade par Pablo Picasso, par Christian Briend
26 août 2022, 18h
Histoire d’une restauration, par Véronique Sorano
26 – 28 août 2022, 18h
Intervention de Kader Belarbi, danseur et chorégraphe
31 août 2022, 20h
Soirée avec l’Orchestre de Massy sous la direction de Constantin Rouits, « Picasso et les ballets russes »
1 day, 1 work
Conferences and workshops | Visual arts
"1 day, 1 work" allows people to discover, near where they live, one major and original work of modern and contemporary art. All the works are from the Centre Pompidou's collection, which is one of the largest in the world for 20th- and 21st-century art, and can be displayed in local theatres, events halls, sports centres, etc.
Free talks and workshops for children aged 3 and over and their parents allow audiences to understand the work and the artist presented.
Breaking point: Photo residency in the Orge Valley
Benoît Fougeirol
Artist residency | Photography
The photography project along the Orge Valley proposed by Benoît Fougeirol will address issues concerning the memory of the territory, changes to and transformations of the space and ways of inhabiting it.
Initiated between 2016 and 2019 as part of a seminar at the Paris-La Villette School of Architecture, the project will pursue the photographic research carried out on the landscape along the Orge valley to measure its complexity and understand its physical, cultural and mental dimensions.
To anchor the project in a philosophy of exchange and to accompany the research, local residents will be invited to share this experience of the territory through walks organised between Saint-Martin-de-Bréthencourt and Athis-Mons. The chosen routes will focus on the local area and provide an opportunity for exchange and the emergence of questions around the landscape crossed, history, ecology, experience and the story as a form of collective possession.
Programme:
January – June 2022
Vallée de l'Orge
Mobile baby station #3
Hexacolor, Julie Safirstein
Travelling workshop | 0-2 years
Hexacolor is a space for toddlers created by artist Julie Safirstein on the theme of colour.
A little light creeps into the room and a world of colours and shapes appears. Primary and secondary colours, superimpositions, halos and reflections: Julie Safirstein's device plunges youngsters and their parents into a colourful new world and invites them to explore. Look, but also look at oneself, see through, observe in front and behind, hide, enter, leave… Hexacolor is an immersive installation for young children, an invitation to discover the concepts of shape, colour, space and time.
Mobile baby station #2
Émilie Faïf
Travelling workshop | 0-2 years
Mobile baby station #2 is a space for toddlers created by artist Émilie Faïf on the theme of the human body.
The space invites participants to explore their own body in its visible and non-visible aspects: parts such as the mouth and eyes come face to face with the intestines and the brain. Each element of the body is presented in a large, disproportionately sized format, becoming a subject in itself. The different parts are transformed into footstools, tents or tubes and other graphic and physical elements made of felt and other materials offering a visual and sensory experience: an exploration of materials by touch.
Station bébé mobile #1
Stéphanie Marin
Atelier itinérant | 0–2 ans
La Station bébé mobile #1 est un espace pour les tout-petits imaginé par l’artiste Stéphanie Marin autour des notions de contact et de confort.
La question du confort est un atout essentiel au bien-être car il permet d’imposer un relationnel privilégié au duo parent-enfant. La station bébé mobile invite, par ses fauteuils et par le jeu, à la découverte de l’autre et des autres. Le corps de l’adulte épouse la forme de l’assise et s’enfonce dans le maillage élastique du revêtement. Sur les genoux ou contre le corps du parent, le bébé ressent le balancement, les sautillements, les jeux d’équilibre et le flottement.

Agenda :
30 mai – 13 juin 2022
Ludothèque Le Coffre à Jouets, Argenteuil
En coproduction avec mille formes, Clermont-Ferrand
La Fabrique mobile
Travelling workshop | 3-10 years
Create, invent, test, discuss, manufacture… these are the verbs that drive La Fabrique Mobile, a simple device to allow children aged 3-10 to take part in workshops designed by artists.
An electric van in the Centre Pompidou colours and fitted out by Bold Design houses a modular and functional workshop.
La Fabrique Mobile aims to meet with children where they live and to create the best possible conditions for them to explore their creativity and discover different modes of artistic production.
Programme:
14 March – 22 April 2022
Argenteuil
10 – 14 May 2022
Médiathèque, Vert-le-Grand
24 May – 18 June 2022
Médiathèque, Limours
Rythms, forms, colors
A workshop-installation around Mondrian
Travelling workshop | 3-10 years
The "Rythms, forms, colors" travelling workshop invites young people to discover abstraction through the work of one of its pioneers, Piet Mondrian.
From a fun and captivating thematic thread - the line, children are invited to look better their environment. Thanks to the workshop children can tranform it and discover pieces of art in relation to the same theme.

Sensitive spaces
A workshop on Tadao Ando designed by Émilie Queney
Travelling workshop | 3-10 years
The "Sensitive Spaces" travelling workshop invites young people to explore the concepts of space and construction.
The workshops focus on the founding principles of Japanese artist Tadao Ando’s architecture: concepts of solid and void, light and the relationship with space.
During the workshops, participants discover architectural concepts through gestures, simple construction techniques and an adapted vocabulary.
Programme:
8 March – 22 April 2022
Château du Val-Fleury, Gif-sur-Yvette

MuMo x Centre Pompidou
Travelling exhibition | Young audiences
In the new MuMo, a travelling museum van created with the support of Art Explora and entirely dedicated to the Centre Pompidou, the Centre Pompidou presents 25 works from its collection (paintings, drawings, photographs, films etc.) in an exhibition titled "The animals leave their reserve".
The aim of the mediation teams accompanying the touring van is to reach out to children and young people, build partnerships with schools, socio-cultural centres, social associations and medical-educational establishments.
Programme:
16 – 20 May 2022
Ville de Massy
21 May – 3 June 2022
Itinérance dans la Communauté d'agglomération de l'Étampois Sud-Essonne:
21 May 2022: Étampes
23 and 30 May 2022: Angerville
31 May – 1st June 2022: Bois-Herpin
2 – 3 June 2022: Mérobert
September 2022
Ville de Massy
To each their own point of view
A workshop on Henri Cartier-Bresson and photography
Travelling workshop | 3-10 years
The "To each their own point of view" workshop offers a range of activities to train the eye while having fun.
Focusing on a detail, changing scale or point of view, closing in on a subject “on tiptoe” - in the words of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson-, using light and shade... so many ways of savouring everyday items with your eyes and drawing in close to things.