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After the end: Cartographies for Another Time
January 25–September 1
Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan and Pompidou Collection
May 8, 2025–February 2, 2027
Copistes
June 14, 2025–February 2, 2026
In exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre
Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace
November 1, 2025–April 6, 2026
Dear Reader,
I’m delighted to share our roster of upcoming exhibitions and events at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
In May, we will open Endless Sunday. Maurizio Cattelan and the Centre Pompidou Collection (May 8, 2025-February 2, 2027), an exhibition celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and our rich collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, which will undertake a building metamorphosis over the next few years. Through a dizzying deep dive into art history, this show explores the notion of an endless Sunday, a never-ending Sunday, the promise of absolute freedom, or a vertiginous time loop? The exhibit will fill the museum- the Forum, the Grande Nef, Gallery 1, and even the gallery rooftops- with 350 works from every department of the Centre Pompidou collection. Masterpieces, rarely exhibited works, and unexpected pieces enter into dialogue with nearly 40 works by Maurizio Cattelan, co-curator and guest artist. Texts by Cattelan and the inmates of the Giudecca women’s prison in Venice guide the visitors throughout the space with poetic, personal and political reflections. A group of inmates from the Metz penitentiary have been trained as guides and will give tours. The exhibition catalogue, designed by Irma Boom, extends Endless Sunday with an encyclopedic visual visit of the show through Cattelan’s unique perspective on one of the world’s largest collections of modern and contemporary art.
On this occasion, in the Paper Tube Studio we are honored to host Marina Abramović’s Counting the Rice, a participative experience in which a meditative gesture calls for concentration and precision.
In the Capsule, The Being, an installation by Marco Perego will interact with visitors and constantly evolve.
In a celebratory weekend of events from May 9 to May 11, the legendary Vinii Revlon will return to lead his famous voguing balls, Kiddy Smile will play a DJ set, and performances by artists such as La Ribot and Senga Nengudi will take place in the exhibition space.
On view until September 1, 2025, After the end: Cartographies for Another Time, a show with works by 40 international artists curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, challenges Western narratives rooted in colonialism and imagines alternative worlds beyond our time.
In an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Copistes (June 14, 2025-February 2, 2026)—an exhibition I am curating with Donatien Grau—pays homage to the century-old tradition of copying the work of masters. For this show, we invited 100 contemporary artists to choose a piece from the Louvre and copy it in whatever form they’d like. The catalogue, designed by M/M (Paris), acts as a guide to the Louvre through the artists’ words.
In addition to inviting artists for site-specific, experimental shows, we will present exhibits that reconsider historical artists in a new light. A major retrospective devoted to Louise Nevelson will be the first of this scope in Europe. Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N's Palace (November 1, 2025-April 6, 2026), curated by Anne Horvath, will reactivate the sculptor’s famous monochrome environments–the first installations, before the term even existed–while exploring the influence of the performing arts on her practice.
Along with our exhibitions, we will present events for audiences of all ages- workshops, performances, art history lectures, and concerts. Old friends like choreographer Boris Charmatz will return. His open-air workshop (June 21st-22nd), CERCLES, will explore the shape of the circle in dance.
We are thrilled that the re-landscaping of our garden by visionary landscape architect, Gilles Clément, is thriving.
We also wrapped an exciting first year of an experimental school, a learning space without walls or a roof, for middle schoolers led by Maurizio Cattelan, president of the 2023-2024 school year.
Finally, I am proud that our new chef, Charles Coulombeau, was just awarded a Michelin star for his restaurant at the museum.
We have much to look forward to, and we hope you will come to look, think, eat and act with us.
