Nike au Centre Pompidou
Screen
From 13 July to 11 August 2024
From 11 am
Temporarily transformed into a canvas, the facade of the Centre Pompidou is celebrating art, sport and culture by broadcasting videos and animations highlighting the values of sport, famous athletes, various sporting disciplines, as well as the masterpieces preserved in its Museum and its programme to be seen throughout the summer and into the fall.
This exceptional feature echoes the original project designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Called the "Live Centre of Information", it included screens to broadcast news from all over the world continuously across its façade.
Cycloïd Piazza
Monumental sculpture by Raphaël Zarka, in collaboration with Jean-Benoît Vétillard
Until 15 September 2024
11 am – 8 pm
Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou with the support of Nike, Cycloïd Piazza is like a "skate plaza", a skatepark that looks like a public square.
A living sculpture, freely accessible and "skateable" for both amateurs and professionals, also accompanied by a multitude of ledges, stairs, passageways and podiums, this sculpture allows everyone to question the links between art, sport and the scientific study of movement. For Raphaël Zarka, who has skateboarded since he was a child, "skateboarding has the particular ability to indelibly mark the way you apprehend shapes and spaces".
The exhibition
Organized by Nike
Art of Victory
L'art de la victoire
From 24 July to 11 August 2024
11 am – 9 pm
Gallery 4
The "Art of Victory" exhibition retraces the history of Nike’s most decorated innovation, Air, and its impact on the world of sport.
From the audacious idea of Franck Rudy, aerospace engineer and inventor, who brought Nike founder Phil Knight an Air shoe in 1977... to the A.I.R.: Athlete Imagined Revolution shoe prototypes.
The gallery will transport visitors into Nike’s vision for the future by showcasing of the endless possibilities of Air and the next frontier of innovation -bringing together the world’s best athletes, Nike innovators and the most cutting-edge technologies. The showcase not only speaks to each athlete’s ambitions, but also their dreams.
Book your tickets
for the exhibition
Free access
Tickets can also be collected on site, subject to availability.
They also give access to the "L'Enfance du design" (The Childhood of Design") exhibition in adjacent gallery 3.
Admission to all exhibitions and the Museum is free for under-26s from July 23 to August 11, 2024 inclusive.
How the story begins
Go ahead and take a risk. Be at least a little disruptive so people notice what you're doing. I think that's true for the building as well the Air Max 1. The technology is important, but it's the act of boldness and being disruptive that made everybody pay attention.
says Tinker Hatfield, who credits the Pompidou’s inside-out architecture as the inspiration for the visible Air cushioning technology he integrated into the Air Max 1.
Discover The secret history of the Nike Air Max, the sneaker inspired by the Centre Pompidou's architecture in our online Magazine.