Exhibitions

Surrealism

4 September 2024 – 13 January 2025

 Temporary exhibition 

 Gallery 1, level 6

Retracing over 40 years of exceptional creative effervescence, from 1924 to 1969, "Surrealism" marks the anniversary of this movement, which was born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto.
The exhibition is organised both chronologically and thematically, structured into 14 sections that evoke literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade, etc.) and the poetic principles that structured its imagery (the artist as a medium, dreams, the philosopher’s stone, the forest, etc.).

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Apophenia, interruptions
Artists and artificial intelligence at work 

25 September 2024 – 6 January 2025

 Temporay exhibition in the Museum 
 Galerie d'art graphique, level 4

Six installations that examine the connections between artistic creation and artificial intelligence (AI). Six commissions or recent productions that take as a starting point the creative processes promoted by these new technologies, as well as their ways and means – these “apophenia” or “erroneous connections” in shape recognition – and the human intelligence mobilised in their creation. 

Antoine d'Agata. Méthode

23 septembre 2024 – 1^er janvier 2025

 Résidence d'artiste 

 Musée, niveau 4, salle 21bis

Sur l’invitation du Centre Pompidou, le photographe Antoine d’Agata (né en 1961 à Marseille, France) investit une des salles du Musée pour en faire son atelier durant 100 jours. Un temps pour jeter un regard nouveau sur son œuvre produit depuis 1991, à partir de ses propres archives, et en tirer une sorte de conclusion sous la forme de 256 cahiers, un par série, exposés au fur et à mesure qu'ils seront produits. 

Le public est invité à découvrir le processus de travail de l’artiste tout au long de cette période. 

En écho dans l'agenda :

Rencontres les jeudis 3 octobre, 7 novembre, 5, 12 et 19 décembre 2024 à 19h
avec Yannick Haenel, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Tania Bohórquez, Laurence Vialle, Jean-Baptiste del Amo, Jonathan Littell.

Comics, 1964 – 2024

as part of La BD à tous les étages ("Comics on Every Floor")

29 May – 4 November 2024

 Temporary exhibition 

 Gallery 2, level 6

Prominent figues from European comics, Asian manga, and American comics are featured, ofering a spectacular journey through the history of the medium — from the graphic exuberance of the underground to the most abstract contemporary styles and digital creations.
The exhibition creates unexpected connections between the authors, focusing on major works around themes such as dreams (Killofer), humour
(André Franquin, Gotlib, Claire Bretécher, Catherine Meurisse), futuristic visions (Osamu Tezuka, Philippe Druillet, Moebius), personal storytelling (Edmond Baudoin, Alison Bechdel, Ulli Lust), and narratives  of memory (Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi). 

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Comics in the Museum

as part of La BD à tous les étages ("Comics on Every Floor")

29 May – 4 November 2024

 Temporary exhibition in the museum 

Level 5

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.

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Corto Maltese. A romanesque life

as part of La BD à tous les étages ("Comics on Every Floor")

29 May – 4 November 2024

 Free exhibition 

Public library, level 2

Created by Hugo Pratt in 1967, Corto Maltese is one of the most iconic characters in comic books. The narrative of his journey, rich in intrigue and twists, is also sprinkled with literary references and quotes, from Rimbaud to Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London, through Hermann Hesse and Gabriele D’Annunzio. Supported by a selection of original documents (photographs, notes, storyboards, sketches, studies, panels, and watercolors), the exhibition explores the literary dimension of the Corto Maltese albums, where reality blends with fiction

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Barbara Crane

11 September 2024 – 6 January 2025

 Free temporary exhibition 

 Galerie de photographies, level –1

Bringing together over 200 works, this exhibition looks back at the first 25 years of the career of American photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019).
Her body of work is remarkable for the synthesis it produces between the American tradition of straight photography and a more experimental sensibility inherited from the European avant-gardes, characteristic of the teachings of the Chicago school. This is demonstrated in her approach to the city – mainly Chicago – and its anonymous inhabitants, which she based on concepts of sequence and series, accidents and discipline, and explored tirelessly through a range of photographic techniques that she pushed to their perfectionist limits. 

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As part of the Lithuanian Season in France:

Contemporary art in Lithuania from 1960 to the present. A major donation

Kazys Varnelis. Lithuanian Op Classicist

14 September 2024 – 6 January 2025

 Temporary exhibitions in the Museum 
 Galerie du Musée, level 4

Organised in partnership with the MO Museum in Vilnius, this group exhibition presents a diverse set of paintings, drawings, installations and video art by artists over several generations, whose works are of great significance in light of the history of their nation, Lithuania. All recent acquisitions by the Museum, these works testify to practices that have gone largely unseen in art history in Western Europe due to forced isolation or repression during the Soviet occupation, as well as more recent works that already enjoy international recognition. 

Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
The nominees

2 October 2024 – 6 January 2025

 Temporary exhibition 

 Gallery 4, level 1

Established in 2000 to showcase the vibrancy of the French art scene, the Marcel Duchamp Prize rewards and promotes the most representative artists of their generation internationally. 
For its 24^th edition, four artists have been recognised: Abdelkader Benchamma, Gaëlle Choisne, Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain, Noémie Goudal.

Chosen by an international jury, the name of the winner of the 2024 edition will be revealed on Monday, October 14. 

Chaosmose

Jean-Jacques Lebel endowment fund – Musée National d'Art Moderne 

16 October 2024 – 3 February 2025

 Temporary exhibition in the Museum 
 Galerie Ouest, level 4

This exhibition is dedicated to advocates of all forms of art-action, disruptive artists who have revolutionised the social and cultural field since the 20^th century.

The result of an original collaboration, it features some 120 works and objects from a wide range of periods and locations, from two entities: the Jean-Jacques Lebel endowment fund and the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Itself a challenge to generally accepted categories, the exhibition invites us to imagine of other perspectives and versions of art history. 

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目 China, a new generation of artists

9 October 2024 – 3 February 2025

 Temporary exhibition 
 Galerie 3, level 1

Underpinned by the Chinese character 目 (mù), which means "eye", this multidisciplinary group exhibition is dedicated to the young contemporary art scene in China.
It features 21 artists born between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, whose recent works testify to the transformations that have profoundly changed China’s relationship with itself and the rest of the world, using a wide range of practices including video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography and new media. 

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