Debate / Meeting
Photographie © Charlotte Abramow, 2024
Extra!
"Le festival de la littérature vivante"
8th edition
12 – 22 September 2024
Readings I Exhibitions I Performances I Literary season
Free
For this 8th edition, Extra! sets its sights on imagination.
As part of Extra!:
Bernard Heidsieck–Centre Pompidou International Prize for Literature
12 September 2024
Award ceremony
Presentation evening for the Honorary Prize and the 2024 Prize, in the presence of the jury chaired this year by the poet and writer Cia Rinne.
Find out more about the history of the prize and its winners
© Droits réservés. Photo : César Decharme
New!
AB/CP - Outsider Art at the Centre Pompidou
Plastic arts
Once a month
In 2021, Bruno Decharme donated an astonishing body of outsider art, including nearly a thousand works from his collection, to the Centre Pompidou. The museum regularly updates themed presentations on Level 4 and Level 5 to gradually reveal this major collection to the public.
The concurrent new series of monthly meetings "AB/CP - Art Brut au Centre Pompidou" (Outsider Art at the Centre Pompidou) provides an opportunity to explore the full riches of this collection, with contributions by specialists and the presentation of films, readings and creations.
Le Mensuel
The Centre Pompidou's spoken review
Arts I News
Once a month
Le Mensuel presents a spoken word rendezvous, devoting each session to reviewing the progress and particular issues of a specific cultural domain, but also its latest news. Each session is linked to the Centre Pompidou programme, with guest artists, while remaining attentive to weaving possible connections between these specific cultural fields and the major societal issues that run through our time.
Watch previous issues in video (in French)
« Terra Forma : Manuel de cartographies potentielles » (éditions B42, 2019)
Planetarium
Contemporary maps
Ideas
Once a month
Can art and contemporary thinking guide us in a world where all our former landmarks have been shattered? In order to contribute to building up another image of the world, once a month the Planetarium cycle proposes to articulate two series of investigations:
- On the one hand, a panorama of instruments, both technical (from cartography to geolocalisation) and conceptual (what is happening to the local-global duo? What do we still call a frontier?)
- On the other, an inventory of attachments, the geographical associations on which the exercise of thought and creation depend in a concrete manner.
Laboratory for the Permanent History of the Centre Pompidou
Antoine de Baecque
History
Once a month
In view of renovation work that will gradually begin in the fall of 2024, the Centre Pompidou explores its history. Set up at the heart of the Centre Pompidou and welcoming many researchers, the "Laboratory for the Permanent History" imagined by French historian Antoine de Baecque aims to to shed light on the Centre Pompidou’s history, retracing the establishment’s multi-disciplinary trajectory, from its inauguration through to the present day.
Debate at the Centre
Debates in reaction to social, political and cultural news, to reflect on current questions of today’s societies.
Jean-Yves Jouannais: L'Encyclopédie des guerres
"L'Encyclopédie des guerres is a literary work in progress that will never take the form of a book. It has been elaborated progressively in the course of monthly conference–performances, at the Centre Pompidou since September 2008." Jean-Yves Jouannais
Masterclasses
Discovering artists’ ways of creating
Students in the fields of art, cinema and journalism interview artists (videographers, visual artists, choreographers…) about their work, their creative process and the thoughts that have led to creation.
Profession: Reporter
What does being a reporter actually involve? What challenges and difficulties do they face in today’s ever-changing world with its many social, political and environmental conflicts? These news professionals working for the press, TV and radio are given a voice in collaboration with the Prix Albert Londres, which is awarded to the best French-language reporters.
