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2016 PROGRAMME

CONTENTS

2016 CALENDAR page 3

L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART

Wifredo Lam page 5

Paul Klee page 6

René Magritte page 7

Cy Twombly page 8

CONTEMPORARY CREATION

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster page 9

Anselm Kiefer page 10

Gérard Fromanger page 11

Haegue Yang page 12

Jean-Luc Moulène page 13

MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXHIBITIONS

Beat Generation page 14

Un Art Pauvre Page 15(provisional title)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker page 16

Le Surréalisme en Égypte Page 17(provisional title)

THE DESIGN EVENT

Pierre Paulin page 18

AT THE MUSEUM

Cher(e)s Ami(e)s page 20 Homage to donors

Les expositions-dossiers page 21 presentation of the modern collection• Go-betweens• Politics• Focuses

PHOTOGRAPHY

The unbearable lightnessThe 1980s page 23

Carte blanche PMU page 23

Louis Stettner page 24

Brassaï (provisional title) page 24

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2015

New formula page 25 two presentations, in June and September 2016

PRESS CONTACTS page 26

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JANUARY – SUMMARY OF EXHIBITIONS IN PROGRESS

DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER, 1887-2058 UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2016

GALERIE SUD, LEVEL 1

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2014 JULIEN PRÉVIEUXUNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2016

ESPACE 315, LEVEL 1

WIFREDO LAMUNTIL 15 FEBRUARY 2016

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

VARDA/CUBAUNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2016

GALERIE DE PHOTOGRAPHIES, LEVEL -1

KAREL APPELUNTIL 11 JANUARY 2016

MUSEUM, GALERIE D’ART GRAPHIQUE,

LEVEL 4

CLAUDE RUTAULTD’OÙ JE VIENS OÙ J’EN SUIS OÙ JE VAISUNTIL 11 JANUARY 2016

GALERIE D’ART GRAPHIQUE, LEVEL 4

ANSELM KIEFERUNTIL 18 APRIL 2016

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

JANUARY – OPENINGS

THE MUSEUM’S DOSSIERS-EXHIBITION

PASSEURSSTARTING 14 JANUARY 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 5

FOCUS AT THE MUSEUMHOMAGE TO HUBERT DAMISCH13 JANUARY – 13 MARCH 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 5

FEBRUARY – OPENINGS

GÉRARD FROMANGER17 FEBRUARY - 16 MAY 2016

MUSEUM, GALERIE ART GRAPHIQUE,

LEVEL 4 LES ANNÉES 1980L’INSOUTENABLE LÉGÈRETÉ PHOTOGRAPH, FILM 24 FEBRUARY - 23 MAY 2016


ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER26 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2016


MARCH – OPENINGS

CHER(E)S AMI(E)S - HOMAGE TO DONORS OF CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS : PART 1 /GIFTS AND DONATIONSSTARTING 21 MARCH 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4

FOCUS AT THE MUSEUMHOMAGE TO VITTORIO GREGOTTI30 MARCH – 16 MAY 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 5

APRIL - OPENINGS

PAUL KLEEL'IRONIE À L'ŒUVRE6 APRIL - 1 AUGUST 2016

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

MAY – OPENINGS

PIERRE PAULIN11 MAY - 22 AUGUST 2016


JUNE - OPENINGS

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2015: THE NOMINEES 1ST JUNE - 15 AUGUST 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4

UN ART PAUVRE (PROVISIONAL TITLE)

8 JUNE - 29 AUGUST 2016


CHER(E)S AMI(E)S - HOMAGE TO DONORS OF THE CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS : PART 2 / WESTREICH WAGNER, UNE COLLECTIONSTARTING 10 JUNE 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4 LOUIS STETTNER. ICI AILLEURS15 JUNE - 12 SEPTEMBER 2016


BEAT GENERATION22 JUNE - 3 OCTOBER 2016

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

2016 CALENDAR

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SEPTEMBER - OPENINGS

VIDÉODANSE12 - 18 SEPTEMBER 2016

RENÉ MAGRITTELA TRAHISON DES IMAGES21 SEPTEMBER 2016 - 23 JANUARY 2017

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

LE SURRÉALISME EN ÉGYPTE (PROVISIONAL TITLE)

28 SEPTEMBER 2016 - 9 JANUARY 2017

MUSEUM, GALERIE D’ART GRAPHIQUE, LEVEL 4

THE MUSEUM’S DOSSIERS-EXHIBITION

POLITICSSEPTEMBER 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 5

OCTOBER - OPENINGS

CARTE BLANCHE PMU 28 SEPTEMBER - 17 OCTOBER 2016


PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2016LES NOMMÉSSTARTING 12 OCTOBER 2016

GALLERY 3, LEVEL 1

JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE19 OCTOBER 2016 - 20 FEBRUARY 2017


NOVEMBER - OPENINGS

BRASSAÏ (PROVISIONAL TITLE)

9 NOVEMBER 2016 - 30 JANUARY 2017


CY TWOMBLY30 NOVEMBER 2016 - 24 APRIL 2017

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

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WIFREDO LAMUNTIL 15 FEBRUARY 2016

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

Curator: Catherine David

The retrospective devoted by the Centre Pompidou

to the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam (1902 - 1982)

endeavours to re-situate his career within

an international history of art, in which he played

an essential part. Covering every period from

his early years in Cuba and the time he spent

in Spain from 1924-1938 (works from this time

have recently been rediscovered in Madrid)

to the dazzling series of engravings in the Sixties

and Seventies and his collaborations with the leading

writers of his time, this retrospective also sheds

new light on crucial works after his "return

to the homeland" (1942 - 1952).

Introducing a mixed style of painting combining

Western modernism with African and Caribbean

symbols, Lam mingled with all the avant-gardes of

his time, and grappled with the problems of the

world. His deeply politically-committed work,

exploring a wide variety of expressions and media

from painting and drawing to engraving and

ceramics, battled with the same issues as his friend,

Aimé Césaire: "painting the dramatic events

of his country, the cause and the spirit of the Black

people." He invented his own unique and original

language to "foster the dignity of life" and "hail

freedom". Featuring numerous rare documents,

letters, photographs, reviews and books (some seen

for the first time), which shed light on the context

of Lam's work, oeuvre and thinking, this retrospective

benefits from the exceptional loan of one of

his iconic works, La Jungla (1943), now in New York's

Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition will also

travel to the Tate Gallery in London and the Centro

de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

HISTORY OF ART

Wifredo Lam:

La jungla, 1943,

Museum of Modern Art,

New York, 2015.

Digital Image,

Museum of Modern Art,

New York /Scala, Florence

© Adagp, Paris 2015

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PAUL KLEE, L’IRONIE À L’ŒUVRE6 APRIL - 1 AUGUST 2016

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

Curator: Angela Lampe

Exhibition dedicated to Pierre Boulez.

The Centre Pompidou takes audiences on a new journey through the work of one of the 20th century's most iconic artists, and a singular figure in modernity: Paul Klee. This thematic retrospective brings together around 250 works from leading international collections and the Zentrum Paul Klee. It takes a fresh look at the artist's work, taking as themes his "romantic irony" and the associated ideas of satire and parody. This approach elucidates Klee's relationship with his peers and the artistic movements of his times. A concept resulting from the first, German Romanticism, "Romantic irony" refers to the process of artistic creation. Klee's works should be seen as play on the self-representation of art.

The exhibition is divided into seven thematic sections which shed light on each stage in Paul Klee's artistic development: "Satire and caricature" (the early years); "Cubism"; "Mechanical theatre" (in line with Dada and Surrealism); "Constructivism" (the Dessau Bauhaus years); "Backward glances" (the Thirties); "Picasso" (Klee's reception after the 1932 Picasso retrospective in Zurich) and "The crisis years (between Nazi policies, war and illness). Alongside some major works which are rarely loaned, such as the large formats of the Thirties and above all the legendary Angelus Novus (never before exhibited in France), sculptures, collections of drawings and little-known works like the reverse glass painting of his early years will be presented.

Paul Klee:

Insula dulcamara, 1938

Oil and colour mixed with glue

on paper mounted on hessian

88 x 176 cm

Berne, Zentrum Paul Klee

© Public domain

HISTORY OF ART

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RENÉ MAGRITTE LA TRAHISON DES IMAGES21 SEPTEMBER 2016 - 23 JANUARY 2017

GALERIE 2, LEVEL 6

Curator: Didier Ottinger

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a thematic

exhibition to the work of the Belgian artist

René Magritte. This completely new exhibition

reinterprets the entire work of the artist in the

light of five "figures" to which Magritte made

constant reference in his work: fire, shadows,

curtains, words and the fragmented body.

Through an approach based on these themes,

the exhibition reveals the artist's thinking

on questions of resemblance and realism, and

highlights his works dealing with the deceptive

representations of the world.

The exhibition brings together Magritte's paintings

with antique images, illustrating mythological

narratives of the invention and definition of painting.

René Magritte:

Le double secret, 1927

© Centre Pompidou, mnam-cci /

Dist. RMN-GP,

Photo : G. Meguerditchian


HISTORY OF ART

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CY TWOMBLY30 NOVEMBER 2016 - 24 APRIL 2017

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

Curator: Jonas Storsve

The Centre Pompidou is staging a major retrospective

of the work of the American artist Cy Twombly.

This exhibition – of unprecedented scope in Europe

– looks back over his entire career through

a broad selection of works, from his first pieces

in the early Fifties influenced by the so-called

"primitive" arts, graffiti and writing, to his last

chromatically exuberant paintings, by way of

his highly physical paintings from the early Sixties

and his response to the minimal and conceptual

art of the Seventies.

Unanimously acclaimed as one of the great

painters of the second half of the 20th century,

Twombly, who divided his life between Italy and

America from the end of the Fifties, "syncretised"

the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism

with the origins of Western classical painting.

The exhibition particularly emphasises the importance

Twombly gave to cycles and series, in which he

reinvented great history painting in his own way.

The first major retrospective staged since

the artist's death in 2011, the exhibition is also

an occasion to highlight the artist's special

relationship with Paris, the Centre Pompidou

having devoted a major retrospective to the artist

in 1988.

Cy Twombly:

Blooming, 2001 - 2008

Courtesy of the Fondazione

Nicola Del Roscio Archives

Photo: Studio Silvano, Gaeta

© Cy Twombly Foundation

HISTORY OF ART

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DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER 1887-2058UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2016


Curator: Emma Lavigne

The Centre Pompidou is devoting an exhibition

that is both retrospective and forward-looking

to the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,

which sets around thirty works in relation with

each other in a maze of rooms, environments

and passages, taking over several areas in the

building. "Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,

1887-2058" lays out an open timeline in the space,

which goes from 1887 to 2058, and broadens

the limits of the retrospective by combining

several centuries and climates. The exhibition

starts in the late 19th century, moves through

the experience of the 20th and immerses viewers

in landscapes and interiors that are tropical, arid,

biographical or dystopian in turn.

The collection of parallel realities and staged

areas, where the genres of landscape, portrait

and period rooms coexist, becomes a fictional

abode with numerous entrances constructed

to experiment with the sensations of outside and

inside, absence and presence, identity and fiction,

the present moment and the exploration of time.

Sometimes stages, sometimes games areas,

sometimes introspective narratives, the rooms, films

and apparitions of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

draw on a living memory of film, literature and

the open structures of architecture and music

as ways of exploring the limits and possibilities

of the artistic realm.

Like an opera or musical, the exhibition makes

all sorts of cinematic, literary and scientific

presences appear, creating a heterogeneous,

multiple world teeming with sensations, narratives

and quotations.

The exhibition constitutes the identification of

the artist, the work as well as that of the viewer.

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster:

Sans Titre (mm), 2015


photo: Giasco Bertoli

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ANSELM KIEFER16 DECEMBER 2015 - 18 APRIL 2016

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

Curator: Jean-Michel Bouhours

The Centre Pompidou is staging a completely new

overview of Anselm Kiefer's work. This retrospective,

the first in France for thirty years, invites visitors

to explore ten or so thematic rooms retracing

the German artist's entire career from the late

Sixties to the present day.

Laid out in an area of 2,000 m², the exhibition

consists of nearly 150 works, including around

60 paintings chosen from among his masterpieces,

an installation, a series of display cases and works

on paper, together with his first books.

Organised as a series of thematic rooms corresponding

to specific spaces / times, the exhibition brings

together an exceptional collection of the most iconic

paintings that stud Kiefer's career. Works such as

Resurrexit (1973), Quaternität (1973), Varus (1976),

Margarete (1981), Sulamith (1983) and Für Paul

Celan: Aschenblume (2006) were "pivotal" paintings

addressing various issues: the question of German

history, the reactivation of memory, the dialectic

of destruction and creation, and grief for Jewish

culture. In the early Nineties, Kiefer's visual work

opened out to other systems of thought, such

as the kabbala and alchemy, which enriched and

oriented the artist's fundamental questions.

For this project, the artist produced a series

of forty-odd "display cases" during 2015 on the themes

of alchemy and the kabbala, for which he drew

on a "reserve of possibles": an arsenal of objects

awaiting redemption.

Kiefer's work invites visitors, with singular visual

and plastic intensity, to discover a variety of poetic,

literary and philosophical worlds, from the poetry

of Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann and Jean Genet

to Heidegger's philosophy, treatises on alchemy,

the sciences, esotericism and the Hebraic thought

of the Talmud and the kabbala.

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Anselm Kiefer, 2014,

© Anselm Kiefer,

photo: © Charles Duprat


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GÉRARD FROMANGER17 FEBRUARY – 16 MAY 2016

GALERIES DU MUSÉE, LEVEL 4

Curator: Michel Gauthier

No sooner is Fromanger's name uttered than it

unleashes a whole string of associations: May 68,

red silhouettes, street scenes, Prévert, Godard,

Deleuze, Foucault, photorealism, Narrative

Figuration, painting and politics.

While these associations are enough to recompose

the setting and recreate the atmosphere in which

Fromanger's work gained broad recognition

during the Seventies, they would not be sufficient

to define the approach that established its

permanence despite the many mutations his work

underwent throughout a half-century: a style of

painting open to the world, and at the same time

fully conscious of itself.

With fifty-odd works dating from 1964 to 2015,

some of which are little known, the exhibition,

in a non-chronological sequence, endeavours

to shed light on the various expressions of

the dualism central to Fromanger's art: a passion

for the pictorial and concern for the world.

Gérard Fromanger:

En Chine, à Hu-Xian

de la série « Le désir est par-

tout », août 1974

Centre Pompidou, mnam-cci/

Dist. RMN-GP, P. Migeat

© Gérard Fromanger

bought from the artist in 1975.

Attributed to the musée national

d'art moderne/centre de création

industrielle, on 2 June 1977.

The inscription in Chinese

in the painting means

"to serve the people".


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HAEGUE YANG6 JULY 2016

FORUM

Curator: Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov

To celebrate France-Korea Year, the artist Haegue

Yang is creating a new installation for the Forum

of the Centre Pompidou. Born in Seoul in 1971,

working between Korea and Germany,

Haegue Yang diverts materials and objects from

their primary function. For example, venetian

blinds and fans are integrated into abstract

constructions, designed as sensitive environments

imbued with modernist references. Haegue Yang

is considered one of the key protagonists of today’s

contemporary art scene.

Haegue Yang, Sol LeWitt:

Upside Down – Structure with

Three Towers, Expanded 23

Times, Split in Three, 2015,

presented at the 13th Biennale

de Lyon from 10 September 2015

to 3 January 2016.


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JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE19 OCTOBER 2016 - 20 FEBRUARY 2017


Curator: Sophie Duplaix

The Centre Pompidou is devoting its first monograph

exhibition to the work of Jean-Luc Moulène.

Invited several times by the Centre Pompidou

to take part in group exhibitions, and often shown

at the Museum, the artist presents a manifesto

of his work for this exhibition, not as a retrospective

of works, but as a retrospective of protocols.

With a series of completely new works, he creates

a circuit that reconstructs the richness and

complexity of his abstract and physical universe.

Moulène seeks to "objectify" the world through

a variety of practices, forms and subjects,

and by exploring operations such as disjunction,

intersection, laterality, cutting and contingency,

involving the tension between body and object.

He questions shared space and the form taken

by this space, working on its interaction with

the individual space.

Moulène is also continuing his meticulous research

on materials, and repeating his collaborations with

industrial design.

This exhibition is a poetic act in which Jean-Luc

Moulène brings together art, science and technology.

Jean-Luc Moulène:

Trichrome 2, Marseille, 2015

Courtesy of the artist

and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

© Jean-Luc Moulène /

© ADAGP, Paris 2015

Photo: Florian Kleinefenn


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BEAT GENERATION 22 JUNE - 3 OCTOBER 2016

GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6

Curators: Philippe-Alain Michaud /

Jean-Jacques Lebel

The "Beat Generation" was a movement based

on literature and art which arose in the USA

during the Fifties, at the initiative of William

Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac,

who met at Columbia University in New York

in 1944. The movement then moved to the West

Coast and gravitated around Lawrence Ferlinghetti's

bookshop in San Francisco, City Lights Books

and briefly around the Six Gallery, the setting,

on 7 October 1955, for Ginsberg's famous reading

of his poem "Howl", which led to a spectacular

trial for obscenity, and brought a paradoxical

celebrity to the Beat poets. Between 1958 and 1963,

Paris became one of the crucial centres for

the Beat Generation. William Burroughs,

Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky,

Brion Gysin, and many others stayed regularly

at the Beat Hotel, at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, the Mecca

of Bohemian life after the war and a laboratory

for visual and sound experiments.

This was where Brion Gysin, William Burroughs

and Antony Balch developed the "cut-up"

technique, Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch,

and Brion Gysin invented his "Dreamachine".

The "Beat Generation"exhibition, devised and

presented at the Centre Pompidou, is the first major

retrospective on this theme in Europe. In a completely

new approach, it puts the accent on this often

forgotten Parisian period of a movement that

profoundly marked contemporary creation.

With a geographical circuit, this exhibition takes

up Beat nomadism, from New York to San Francisco,

Mexico, Tangier and Paris. It is an occasion to

show how the Beat movement involved – perhaps

for the first time in history – writers' and artists'

systematic use of analogue technology

(tape recorders, records, radio, telephone, photo

and film cameras); to compare the work of film

directors (Christopher MacLaine, Bruce Baillie,

Stan Brakhage, and Stan Vanderbeek) to that

of photographers (Allen Ginsberg and William

Burroughs in collaboration with Robert Frank,

Charles Brittin, John Cohen, Harold Chapman,

and so on), and to show the extensions of the Beat

culture into the California art scene (Wallace Berman,

Bruce Conner, George Herms, Wally Hedrick,

Jay DeFeo, and many more).

John Cohen:

Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie,

Gregory Corso, 1959

© L. Parker Stephenson

Photographs, NYC

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UN ART PAUVRE (PROVISIONAL TITLE)8 JUNE - 29 AUGUST 2016


Curatorship coordinated by Frédéric Paul,

with the collaboration of Marie-Ange Brayer,

Jonathan Pouthier, Didier Schulmann

(Bibliothèque Kandinsky), Franck Madlener

and Marine Nicodeau (Ircam)

With this completely new multidisciplinary event

based on its huge collections, the Centre Pompidou

examines the different artistic practices revolving

around the notion of "poor" was crystallised,

starting in the Sixties: in the visual arts, of course,

with Arte Povera, but also in music, architecture,

theatre and experimental film.

In 1967, various manifestoes heralded the birth of

Arte Povera. The article written by Germano Celant

instantly established the movement at the crossroads

of several disciplines, making simultaneous

reference to the visual arts, cinema and theatre

– particularly the "poor theatre" conceived

by Jerzy Grotowski.

From the outset, Arte Povera was thus central

to numerous artistic practices characterised

by the simplicity of the creative gesture and

the emphasis on simple materials. The materials

used by the artists of Arte Povera were often

natural or recovered. This form of recycling arose

less from a creed than from the attention given

to traces, reliefs and the most basic manifestations

of life. While Arte Povera proclaimed a return

to archaic gestures, Grotowski advocated for

a theatre "stripped of everything that was not of

itself," without sets, lighting effects, make up,

costumes or music. Music, precisely, then began

to experiment with the rarefaction of sound,

reflecting the force of the questioning common

to all artistic disciplines.

Developed in collaboration with different departments

of the Centre Pompidou, among other the IRCAM,

the event draws on the collections of the musée

national d'art moderne, home to one of the world's

largest collections of Arte Povera. The exhibition

reveals all its richness and diversity through

the iconic works of numerous figures in the movement,

including Giovanni Anselmo, Gilberto Zorio,

Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro,

Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz,

Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone and

Michelangelo Pistoletto, together with numerous

creators who had much in common with it,

like Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sottsass and Michele de

Lucchi. Arte Povera's presence in the Centre Pompidou

collection has been further increased by the exceptional

donation to the Bibliothèque Kandinsky of the

archives of Ida Gianelli, who directed the Castello

di Rivoli in Turin from 1991 to 2008 and before that,

the Saman Gallery in Genoa.

The exhibition will also be extended in various

ways within the Centre Pompidou: through

the programme of the 2016 edition of IRCAM's

annual event ManiFeste, as well as on the various

floors of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, where

numerous works will interact with the contemporary

echoes of these different "poor" techniques.


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ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER WORK / TRAVAIL / ARBEID26 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2016


Curator: Serge Laurent

What happens if a choreography is presented like

an exhibition? This simple question is the starting

point for Work / Travail / Arbeid by dancer and

choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

The implications of such an experience shape

the conventional way of thinking, constructing

and experiencing both contemporary dance

and the exhibition. To answer the question,

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker drew on her Vortex

Temporum, a ballet written to the eponymous

score of French composer Gérard Grisey

and created in 2013. She has reinvented

this choreography to fit with the radically different

temporal, spatial and conceptual conditions

of a museum.

The dancers of the Rosas company and the musicians

of the Ictus ensemble who perform Work / Travail /

Arbeid do not only import a ballet into the Galerie

Sud of the Centre Pompidou. They reinterpret

dance in the form of a nine-day exhibition,

accessible as such to the public, a long way

from any experience of this kind in the theatre.

The initial length of the ballet is drawn out into

ten-hour cycles, with each hour featuring a new part

of the choreography and a new combination

of dancers and musicians in the exhibition area.

This project transforms the material and context

that have long characterised dance, and give

a completely new form to the rigorous choreographic

language of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

The presentation of Work / Travail / Arbeid in Paris is

the result of a collaboration between the Opéra de

Paris, the Centre Pompidou and the Rosas

company. It is supported by BNP Paribas Fortis

and the BNP Paribas Fortis foundation.

Photo: Anne Van Aerschot


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LE SURRÉALISME EN ÉGYPTE :LE GROUPE ART ET LIBERTÉ (1938 - 1948) (PROVISIONAL TITLE)28 SEPTEMBER 2016 - 9 JANUARY 2017

GALERIE DU MUSÉE, LEVEL 4

General curator: Catherine David

co-curators: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath

Surréalisme en Égypte is the first presentation

by a museum of the "Art et Liberté" group created

in 1938, a collective of intellectuals and artists

linked with International Surrealism. The group,

as brief (1938 - 1948) as it was famous, was founded

in Cairo by the Surrealist writer Georges Henein

and the artists Ramses Younan, Fouad Kamel

and Kamel El-Telmissany.

Announced by the publication of the manifesto

entitled "Vive L‘Art Dégénéré" circulated in Cairo

on 22 December 1938, news of the group's creation

was rapidly relayed throughout the world

in February 1939 by Clé, the monthly bulletin

of the F.I.A.R.I., and by Henri Calet in La Nouvelle

Revue Française and Roland Penrose in the April

issue of the London Bulletin of Surrealism.

Through this manifesto, the collective declared its

solidarity with European artists and intellectuals

struggling against Fascist and Nazi regimes.

The exhibition sheds light on the critical use

of Surrealism as a tool for radical change

and a way of creating a contemporary visual

language. The "Art et Liberté" group thus found

a new expression in the revolutionary approach

of Surrealism, enabling it to challenge an antiquated

academicism supported by a Conservative

middle-class. Through its criticism of artistic and

political models in Egypt, the "Art et Liberté"

group had a considerable influence on a younger

generation of artists who were the frontrunners

of Egyptian modernity. Together, the works and

documents in the exhibition reveal the contribution

of the "Art et Liberté" group, whose political

commitment was strongly in tune with

the contemporary period. This exhibition will help

to study and reassess these art scenes, too-long

relegated to the side-lines of the traditional

canons of art history.


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THE DESIGN EVENT

PIERRE PAULIN 11 MAY - 22 AUGUST 2016


Curator: Cloé Pitiot

Designer, interior architect and creator Pierre Paulin

sculpted space, laid it out and landscaped it.

His environments, furniture and industrial objects,

whether simple or spectacular, were always

intended to serve the body, providing it with

comfort and reassurance. With more than

70 pieces of furniture and 50-odd designs,

this first exhibition devoted by the Centre Pompidou

to Pierre Paulin provides a journey through

the entire corpus of the designer and 40 years

of creation from the angle of his dialogue

with history and the body. The deliberately

educational exhibition is dotted with strips

of wallpaper, the support for documents, press

articles, review covers and exhibition catalogues.

In dialogue with historyVisitors will set out on a chronological visit

to discover his most iconic designs, which include

chairs, desks, lamps and industrial objects.

Previously unseen drawings, films and documentation

will shed light on the designer's numerous, eclectic

projects.

In the spring of 2015, the designer's family

donated to the Centre Pompidou an exceptional

collection of archives, documents and drawings

dedicated to the work of the designer. An iconic

figure of post-war creation, Pierre Paulin marked

forty years of the history of contemporary

international design with his singular, prolific works.

Pierre Paulin's works entered the collections

of New York 's MoMA at the end of the sixties.

In 1971, he was chosen by Claude and Georges

Pompidou to redesign the private apartments of

the Palais de l’Elysée. In 1984, François Mitterrand

also called on Pierre Paulin for the interior

architecture and design of the presidential office

at the Elysée.

Pierre paulin:

Siège 577, 1967

© Centre Pompidou, mnam-cci /

Dist. RMN-GP, Photo : B. Prévost

© SAIF

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THE DESIGN EVENT

The exhibition presents outstanding pieces from

Pierre Paulin's production that are now icons

of design, including the Anneau, Mushroom,

Ribbon, Butterfly and Tulip chairs. It also devotes

considerable space to unpublished and

self-published projects, like the Tapis-siège,

the Déclive, the Herman Miller project, the Tente

and rare pieces from the Fifties, together with

a number of prototypes.

The pieces, presented on "stands", also pay tribute

to the designer's collaborations with his editors,

including Meuble TV, Thonet, Disderot, Artifort,

Mobilier International and Mobilier National.

The exhibition also features some more industrial

pieces designed for ADSA, the agency Pierre Paulin

founded with his wife Maia Paulin and Marc Lebailly

in 1975.

In dialogue with the body The exhibition encourages visitors to establish

a dialogue between the body and comfort.

Paulin's work was constantly driven by the ideas

of comfort and a new lifestyle (at floor level,

for example), and the visit invites viewers to sit down

in the designer's seats. Re-editions are available

to the public of the Mushroom, Ribbon, Tulip,

Butterfly, F444 and Amphis chairs. The exhibition

presents a new reconstruction of the living room

of La Calmette, the villa he designed in the Cévennes

during the Nineties, where the public can see

a thick diwan (carpet) running along a wall,

flipping sides on the floor, and providing a setting

for four Tongue chairs.

Three previously unreleased films shed new light

on the work of Pierre Paulin: a 12-minute biography

revealing new images, a film about the link between

Pierre Paulin, Georges Pompidou and the Centre

Pompidou, and a series of 12 three-minute films

devoted to his iconic chairs.

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CHER(E)S AMI(E)S NEW PRESENTATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS GIFTS AND DONATIONSSTARTING 16 MARCH 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4

Curators: Christine Macel

and Frédéric Migayrou with Loïc Le Gall

The Centre Pompidou is planning a new

presentation of the contemporary collections

occupying a large part of the fourth floor.

This provides an interpretation of today's art

through works that have entered the collection

over the past five years, thanks to the generosity

of the Centre Pompidou's patrons and donors:

the Société des amis du musée national d'art

moderne, the Centre Pompidou Foundation,

donors and private foundations, companies, artists

and galleries.

This new presentation is structured around

various themes and artists, including Farah Atassi,

Ariella Azoulay, Karla Black, Isabelle Cornaro,

Olafur Eliasson, Adrian Ghenie, Wade Guyton,

Susan Hefuna, Junya Ishigami, François Morellet,

Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Christodoulos

Panayiotou, Anri Sala, Haim Steinbach, UN Studio,

Kara Walker, Ding Yi, Marcel Wanders, Xu Zhen

and Akram Zaatari. It illustrates the diversity of

the works recently added to the collections, and

the increasingly open attitude towards international

scenes fostered by the Centre Pompidou.

WESTREICH WAGNER, UNE COLLECTIONSTARTING 9 JUNE 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4

Curatorship: Christine Macel,

curator at the musée national d’art moderne

Elisabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney

Museum of American Art

The second part of the new presentation of

the contemporary collections will consist of the first

showing of the Thea Westreich-Wagner and

Ethan Wagner collection, spread out over 1,200 m²

on the fourth floor, with 150 pieces.

This pays tribute to the exceptional group of works

assembled since the Eighties by the husband and

wife collectors from New York. 800 of these works

are now promised to the Centre Pompidou Foundation

and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

This impressive collection is largely devoted to figures

now established in the history of art of the late

20th century (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Martin Barré and

Philippe Parreno) and to artists whose names

have been more recently established (Claire Fontaine,

Josephine Pryde and Danh Vo.) The hang puts

the accent on the European part of this promised

gift, which contains the works of around 35 artists.

Major themes are evoked throughout a chronological

circuit: the exhaustion of the subject in painting,

reinvented modernism and the question of genre.

The exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American

Art, oriented more towards American art, will open

on 18 November 2015 in New York

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2016 features two presentations in honour of donors from varied backgrounds who, through their generosity and passion, enable the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne to remain firmly in touch with the present. The first, opening in March, provides a huge overview of recent contemporary donations made to the Centre Pompidou. The second, opening in June, pays homage to the New York Westreich-Wagner husband and wife couple and their recently-promised donation of 300 works to the Centre Pompidou Foundation.

These two exceptional presentations go hand-in-hand with major interior renovation work. In 2016, a new forward-looking area will be opened in the heart of the museum, devoted to the visual creation of today.

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DOSSIER-EXHIBITION PRESENTATIONOF THE MODERN COLLECTIONS MUSEUM, LEVEL 5

Curatorship: members of the musée national d'art

moderne

GO-BETWEENS STARTING 14 JANUARY 2016Exhibition dossiers are dotted around the circuit

of the modern collections. Designed as study and

research areas entrusted to the museum's erudite

teams, they are renewed twice a year, and

incorporate works of art and the Bibliothèque

Kandinsky's documents and archives.

On 13 January 2016, a new sequence will be devoted

to these "Passeurs" whose commitment and efforts

promoted the viewing and reading of modern

works. Critics, art historians, thinkers of the time

and enlightened art lovers, these figures made

a decisive contribution to the history of art of

the 20th century.

After putting the spotlight on Georges Duthuit,

Guillaume Apollinaire and Michel Ragon,

the musée national d'art moderne will now be

concentrating on the critical world of new

"go-betweens", including the Steins, Wilhelm

Uhde, Oswald de Andrade, Robert Lebel,

Sigfried and Carola Giedion and Alain Jouffroy.

The classes given by Vassily Kandinsky at

the Bauhaus will be the subject of a special focus.

Scientific coordination: Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov

assisted by Julie Champion and Mathilde Bartier

LES STEIN

Devised by Cécile Debray

WILHELM UHDE

Devised by Angela Lampe

ANDRÉ BRETON

Devised by Jean-Michel Bouhours and Camille

Morando

ROBERT LEBEL

Devised by Bernard Blistène and Julie Champion

SIGFRIED ET CAROLA GIEDION

Devised by Aurélien Lemonier

ALAIN JOUFFROY

Devised by Didier Schulmann

OSWALD DE ANDRADE

Devised by Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov

COURS DE KANDINSKY AU BAUHAUS

Devised by Christian Briend

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE

Devised by Julie Champion and Mica Gherghescu

FRANCIS PONGE

Devised by Julie Champion and Anne Lemonnier

BERNARD GHEERBRANT

Devised by Stéphanie Rivoire

REYNER BANHAM

Devised by Aurélien Lemonier

POLITICS SEPTEMBER 2016A new sequence of dossier-exhibition will explore

the way artists have supported political ideology

through their respective practices. Various case

studies based on the collections will be suggested

as food for thought: Rodchenko's Workers Club,

agit-prop, Italian architecture during Fascism,

the political commitment of André Breton,

socialist realism in France and the Situationist

International.

Scientific coordination: Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov

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FOCUSESA NEW SPACE IN THE MUSEUM

Located at the meeting point of the modern and contemporary collections, a room of 120 m² features tributes to artists and the people who helped them, inviting viewers to appreciate the place they occupy in the museum's past and present history. Renewed every two months or so, this room puts the spotlight on works recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou.

After Barnett Newman in May, and Gil J. Wolman

in July, the Musée National d'Art Moderne will be

celebrating:

CHEN ZHEN

21 OCTOBER 2015 - 4 JANUARY 2016

"I am seeking a language through which I can

dialogue with the source of the universe and

the inner heart of human beings." This is

the approach adopted by Chen Zhen, whose

artistic career has developed since his arrival

in Paris in 1986 into a profoundly humanist dialogue

between cultures. The Centre Pompidou pays tribute

to him by exhibiting Beyond the Vulnerability (1999),

a work that recently entered its collection, created

with children in Salvador da Bahia.

Devised by Odile Rousseau.

HUBERT DAMISCH

14 JANUARY 2016 - 13 MARCH 2016

Through his writing and his teaching at the École

des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,

Hubert Damisch has played a crucial role in redefining

the scope of art history since the Seventies

by integrating it into the structuralist movement.

According to Damisch, the art of the past cannot

be seen independently from that of the present.

The scope of his analysis, emancipated from

any chronological framework (an emancipation

that he even uses as a method principle),

thus extends without a break from the Renaissance

to the modern and contemporary period.

He believes that works develop models of

intelligibility through their own means.

His analyses, without ever losing their historical

or discursive rigour, cover painting, drawing,

architecture, photography and film, and open out

to the now closely related fields of philosophy,

science theory, linguistics and psychoanalysis.

Devised by Olivier Cinqualbre and Philippe-Alain

Michaud assisted by Julie Champion.

VITTORIO GREGOTTI

30 MARCH 2016 - 16 MAY 2016

Vittorio Gregotti was a key figure in Italian architecture

of the second half of the 20th century, simultaneously

a famous teacher, the director of major professional

reviews, and an outstanding architect. His career

was launched in 1964 with the residential blocks

of the Via Montegani in Milan, and the same year,

he co-directed the 13th Milan Triennial with

Umberto Eco. Three of his designs, the University

of Palermo science department (1969 - 78),

the campus of University of Calabria in Cosenza

(1973 - 79) and the social housing project in Cefalu

(1976 - 79), are representative of his approach,

which fostered the large-scale together with

the relationship between territorial morphology

and the language of the site. One of his last

projects was his design for the Grand Théâtre

de Provence in Aix-en-Provence (2003 - 07).

Devised by Olivier Cinqualbre.

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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS THE 1980SPHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS24 FEBRUARY - 23 MAY 2016

GALERIE DE PHOTOGRAPHIES, FORUM-1

Curator: Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska

The exhibition of photographs and films presented

by the Centre Pompidou looks back at the Eighties

through sixty-odd works by over twenty artists.

Heterogeneous, elusive, painful, fantastical,

still too close, as light-hearted as they were serious,

these years, considered the climax of post-modernism,

are highly contrasted and paradoxical.

The exhibition takes a new look at the decade,

and adopts the standpoint of focusing on films

and photographs in the Centre Pompidou collection.

For the most part, the works exhibited express

criticism of Western culture and society, according

to various strategies. With some, it is a brutal,

ironic document; with others a realistic or

imaginary staging, a pastiche, or the use of sets

and artifices. For the first time, the exhibition

brings together the works of Bazil Bustamante,

David Buckland, Agnès Bonnot, Clegg and Guttman,

Paul de Nooijer, Tom Drahos, Jean-Paul Goude,

Hergo, Karen Knorr, Elizabeth Lennard, Robert

Mapplethorpe, Joachim Mogarra, Patrick Nagatani,

Alice Odilon, Présence Panchounette, Florence

Paradeis, Martin Parr, Pierre et Gilles, Sandy

Skoglund, Unglee, Boyd Webb and Mark Wilcox.

Agnès Bonnot

(Untitled), 1982

40,2 x 26,4 cm

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Centre Pompidou / P.Migeat /

Dist. RMN-GP

© Agnès Bonnot / Agence Vu’

CARTE BLANCHE PMU 2016 28 SEPTEMBER-17 OCTOBER 2016

GALERIE DE PHOTOGRAPHIES, FORUM-1

For the last seven years, the PMU has been fostering contemporary photographic creation, giving a free

hand to photographers to cast their eye on the world of gaming – in principle entirely foreign to them.

The photographer selected is awarded a grant of €20,000 to carry out a new project, together with a book

published by Filigranes and, starting this year, an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou's Galerie de Photographies.

Thierry Fontaine, the Carte Blanche winner in 2015, exhibited his work in the Galerie de Photographies

at the Centre Pompidou between 7 and 19 October 2015.

At the opening of the 2016 season, a new Carte Blanche PMU will be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou.

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LOUIS STETTNERICI AILLEURS15 JUNE - 12 SEPTEMBER 2016


Curators: Clément Chéroux / Julie Jones

The exhibition devoted by the Centre Pompidou

to the work of Louis Stettner in all its stylistic

and historic breadth covers nearly eight decades

of creation.

It reveals the poetic Paris of the post-war years,

the busy New York of the Fifties, Sixties

and Seventies, the atmospheric quality of urban

ambiences and the actions of people at work,

which the photographer captured with incomparable

perception.

Born in 1922, Louis Stettner was one of the last

great American photographers of this still active

generation. He started as a photographer during

the Thirties, and travelled frequently back

and forth between France and the USA during

the post-war years. His work is marked by

this geographical ambivalence, oscillating

between American-style street photography

and French style humanist photography.

Wishing for the Centre Pompidou to become the venue

of reference for his work, Louis Stettner has made

it a donation of vintage prints.

BRASSAÏ (TITRE PROVISOIRE)9 NOVEMBER2016 - 30 JANUARY 2017


Curators: Clément Chéroux / Karolina Ziebinska-

Lewandowska

More information will be soon available.

Louis Stettner:

Aubervilliers, 1947

Centre Pompidou, mnam-cci /

Dist. RMN-GP,

G. Meguerditchian

© Louis Stettner

Brassaï (Halász Gyula, dit):

Statue du Maréchal Ney

dans le brouillard, 1932

Centre Pompidou collection,

musée national d’art moderne

Centre Pompidou, mnam-cci /

Dist. RMN-GP, J.C. Planchet

© Brassaï Estate - RMN

PHOTOGRAPHY

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MELIK OHANIANPRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 20151ST JUNE - 15 AUGUST 2016

MUSEUM, LEVEL 4

Curator : Christine Macel

THE 2016 NOMINEES12 OCTOBER 2016 - 30 JANUARY 2017

GALLERY 4, LEVEL 1

Curator : Alicia Knock

Created in 2000 by the ADIAF (Association for

the dissemination of French art) to put the spotlight

on artists of the French scene, the Prix Marcel

Duchamp celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2015.

Today, it is one of the most prestigious prizes f

or contemporary art in the world.

The Prix Marcel Duchamp has been awarded

since 2002 to a winner selected among four artists

born or resident in France, working in the field

of the visual and plastic arts: installations, video,

painting, photography and sculpture. From the outset,

it was organised in partnership with the Centre

Pompidou, which each year invites the winner

for a three-month solo exhibition in Espace 315.

Since 2005, all the artistic proposals in competition

have been exhibited at the FIAC (International

Contemporary Art Fair).

The Prix Marcel Duchamp plays a crucial role

in the national and international scene, where

it asserts the vitality and diversity of the French

arts and gives the floor to collectors.

In 2016, the ADIAF and the Centre Pompidou will

give fresh impetus to the Prix Marcel Duchamp

by changing its procedures. This new exhibition

formula reasserts and strengthens the Centre

Pompidou's commitment to artists and the ADIAF.

Starting from the 2016 edition, the nominees will now be invited to exhibit in a venue at the Centre Pompidou that is twice as big: 650 m², in a reconfigured area. This major change will give greater visibility to artists of the French contemporary scene. It will make it possible to exhibit the works of the four finalists, giving audiences an idea of their work before the jury make their decision. The announcement of the winner will also take place at the Centre Pompidou and will be immediately followed by the prize-giving ceremony.

2016, a year of transition, will be marked by two Prix Marcel Duchamp exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou:• The 2015 winner, Melik Ohanian, will exhibit in the summer of 2016 at the museum. • The proposals of the artists nominated for the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp will be jointly exhibited during the new season of 2016 in the new area, Gallery 4.

Thanks to this new format, the four artists

will enjoy three months of visibility at the Centre

Pompidou.

To date, the Prix Marcel Duchamp was amended

to fifteen winners among sixty artists considered

the most ground breaking of their generation:

Thomas Hirschhorn (2000)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002)

Mathieu Mercier (2003)

Carole Benzaken (2004)

Claude Closky (2005)

Philippe Mayaux (2006)

Tatiana Trouvé (2007)

Laurent Grasso (2008)

Saâdane Afif (2009)

Cyprien Gaillard (2010)

Mircea Cantor (2011)

Daniel Dewar et Grégory Gicquel (2012)

Latifa Echakhch (2013)

Julien Prévieux (2014)

Melik Ohanian (2015).

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP

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