Events to see

Seven venues, seven exhibitions: Laurent Le Bon, President of the Centre Pompidou, looks back at his curatorial practice through a selection of exhibitions - from Dada to Dioramas to Vides. A retrospective and Masterpieces?   This event is organized jointly by École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais and Beaux-arts de Paris, in conjunction with ...

2pm | Inclusive gesture workshop On registration The Corps et graphies workshop by Clément Justin Hannin is an invitation to broaden one's bodily listening by connecting to one's own sensorium as well as to the other members of the group. Dance is seen as a privileged means of apprehending the world around us and “making body” politically.  ...

2pm | Raye ! writing workshop  By Princesse Diakumpuna & Lou Rappeneau On registration During this second session, the stained, erased and annotated documents will be scanned and the resulting texts typed. This scanning will enable the collective design of a fanzine: the layout will be discussed with all∙tes around the work table. The fin...

Warming Up The artist Wolfgang Tillmans discusses the work process he undertook for the major exhibition he is preparing at the Centre Pompidou for June 2025, Rien ne nous préparait y - Tout nous préparait y, for which he is transforming 6,000 m² of space into a curatorial experiment. He establishes a dialogue between his work and the space o...

2pm | Writing workshop  By Jeyni Ba and Kenza Agbo On registration In this writing workshop, Jeyni Ba and Kenza Agbo invite to build community around the book Non noyées by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.  “To love is to recognize a community, to be held by others, to fall together and to find a breath in the breathing of others.  We invite you as Afr...

7pm | Guided tour Duration : 1h15  Two guided tours are offered, one with Giulia Longo, and the other with Melanie Bouteloup, co-curators of the exhibition Chère Melpomène (no registration required, subject to capacity). 8pm and 10pm | Performance  « L’air porte en lui des histoires »  For the night of museums, a sound creation imagined for...

For an evening devoted to the artist Frank Bowling, curator Julia Marchand and exhibition storyteller Chris Cyrille wanted to bring several voices into dialogue with his poetic work: that of artist and saxophonist Dimitri Milbrun and poet and pawolèz Simone Lagrand.    It is from a decentered art history, of the Black Atlantic, that he and s...

2 to 4pm | WorkshopMatières en errances / matières en questions On registration  Emma Bigé and Mabeuko Oberty invite you to dive into Karen Barad's universe, through naps, readings and movement practices. This will be an opportunity to discover some of the intricacies of the cosmology developed by Barad, within which theories as complex and c...

Echoing the Paris Noir exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, this meeting highlights the critical and decolonial pedagogies that have redefined pan-African artistic practices and influenced contemporary art education.   A discussion moderated by Eva Barois de Caevel, featuring Euridice Zaituna Kala and Pascale Marthine Tayou, will explore the t...

From 2 to 4pm | Writing workshop With artist Eden Tinto Collins 6:30pm | Round Table  Muser, magiser With Cédric Fauq, Aryle Nsengiyumva, Chloé Pretesacque, Eden Tinto Collins & Yue Yu, created by Mélanie Bouteloup and Kenza Agbo. In a world where everything seems to collapse, how to imagine new forms of resistance and transformation?  ...