Panthéon
Paris
Every day
1 April to 30 September: 10 am – 6.30 pm
1 October to 31 March: 10 am – 6 pm
Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris
As part of the Constellation programme, which will unfold throughout the renovation of the Beaubourg building, the Centre des monuments nationaux and Centre Pompidou are joining forces to bring heritage and contemporary creation into dialogue, renewing perspectives through unexpected encounters. From 2026 to 2028, six events across six sites in the CMN network will help make heritage a living space, revealing monuments rooted in today’s society and attuned to the questions that shape it.
© Adagp, Paris, 2026. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Vies minuscules
24 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
At the heart of the Panthéon, a monument dedicated to the great men and women of the French nation, "Vies minuscules"* explores the ways in which art welcomes lives relegated to the margins of grand history, bears witness to their minute, intimate or infamous place, and raises memorials to them that are, by turns, imposing or fragile.
*The title is borrowed from Pierre Michon’s book Vies minuscules, published by Éditions Gallimard in 1984.
An exhibition
Conceived as a journey through the entire nave of the Panthéon, the exhibition brings together some thirty artists and spans more than a century of creation, from František Kupka (1871–1957) to Jumana Manna (born 1987), alongside Christian Boltanski, Mathieu Pernot, Teo Hernández and Clarisse Hahn.
Across all media — painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation and more — the works are drawn primarily from Centre Pompidou collection. Two commissions, created specifically to enter into dialogue with the monument’s architecture, are by Sara Favriau and Adéla Soucková.
Performances
In the evenings, artists including La Nòvia, Bouchra Ouizguen, Sébastien Khéroufi, Adrianna Wallis and Alain Gomis will bring life, voice and body to other existences ordinarily consigned to oblivion, through literature and music, dance and theatre, performance, and cinema.
The Centre des monuments nationaux is a public institution under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture. Founded in 1914 as the Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et préhistoriques, it became the CMN in 2000. It preserves, manages and opens to visitors more than one hundred monuments, spanning from Prehistory to the 20th century, around twenty of which are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
