Exhibition

AM CB

Name: AM CB - Annette Messager and Christian Boltanski
Start: 2025-11-21
End: 2026-04-06

Annette Messager and Christian Boltanski

21 Nov 2025 - 6 Apr 2026

Centre Pompidou Málaga, Málaga

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Annette Messager et Christian Boltanski au vernissage de l'exposition Richard Serra au Centre Pompidou en 1983 - Photo © André Morain

Annette Messager and Christian Boltanski are two major French artists who have been recognised on the international scene since the 1970s. As partners in their personal lives, they decided early on to separate their careers in order to succeed independently of each other. The exhibition aims to re-establish the dialogue between their works, revealing affinities that have rarely been analysed due to the lack of confrontation between them over the years.

Annette Messager et Christian Boltanski au vernissage de l'exposition Richard Serra au Centre Pompidou en 1983 - Photo © André Morain

Multiple works are presented, created over three decades (between 1968 and 2020) and mainly from the Centre Pompidou collection, reflecting their common interests, methods and languages, while evoking very different perceptions.
From the artists’ books, a place for the strangest inventories, to displays designed to collect fictional stories, through to the experimental use of photography, the use of common objects and materials, and large mixed installations with pseudo-autobiographical themes, Messager and Boltanski stimulated each other by seeking to surpass themselves.
Beyond certain themes that have preoccupied them individually, such as destiny and the human condition for Boltanski and the place of women in society for Messager, what becomes apparent over time is the absence of the body for Boltanski and its presence for Messager. This difference in approach has formal and conceptual repercussions on their depiction of human nature.

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