Discussions
In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is beginning a major transformation !
Throughout the year, the Centre’s spaces are gradually closing to allow teams to relocate and prepare for the renovation project.
At the same time, the Constellation program is being launched, ensuring that the Centre Pompidou remains more vibrant than ever and closer to you, by radiating out through hundreds of partner venues in France and around the world, from 2025 until its reopening in 2030.
- At the Centre Pompidou, don’t miss the final editions of Le Mensuel dedicated to the exhibition "Black Paris", along with a meeting with Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the Museum to come series.
- In June, the Grand Palais in Paris–a key partner of the Constellation program–will host the multidisciplinary event "Fun Palace".
- This autumn, join us at other Parisian institutions for the return of regular discussion series and highlights featuring major intellectual figures such as Gilles Deleuze, Felwine Sarr, and others.
A spoken-word event that highlights current cultural programming at the Centre Pompidou while also exploring the connections between artistic fields and major societal issues.
Around the exhibition "Paris noir"
19 March 2025 : Soirée d’ouverture
2 April 2025 : Ville pluriverselle. Lectures de Bernard Dadié
10 May 2025 : Arts vivants. Carte Blanche à Elsa Wolliaston
11 May 2025 : Paris noir et Outre-mer
4 June 2025 : Féminismes noirs
© Paul Maymont. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cco/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
New
Cycle: The Museum to come
Museology | Cultural policies
Starting March 2025
A new series of reflections on the evolution of cultural institutions, at a time when they are undergoing profound transformation in response to new audiences, social approaches, ecological challenges, emerging technologies and social media, and active reinterpretations of art history.
Grounded in case studies, each session serves as a forum for observing and articulating current changes, while confronting diverse institutional models around a specific theme.
In partnership with The Art Newspaper
- 4 March 2025
The MET and the Centre Pompidou: Transatlantic architectures
Available for replay - 19 June 2025
MoMA – Yesterday, today and tomorrow. A conversation with Glenn Lowry
Fun Palace
Comment vivre ensemble ?
6 – 15 juin 2025
Philosophie | Design | Architecture | Arts plastiques
Grand Palais, Paris 8e
Le programme « New Assemblies » du Centre Pompidou, construit avec le soutien et la collaboration du Chanel Culture Fund, vise à explorer les nouvelles formes d’assemblées dans les domaines de l’art, du design et de l’architecture, imaginer des manières innovantes de se retrouver et de dialoguer.
En 2023, « Platform for New Assemblies » se concentrait sur l’intimité. En 2025, « Fun Palace » se penche sur le plaisir et le bonheur dans l'espace public. Il réunit architectes, designers, chercheurs et artistes internationaux autour d’une programmation de rencontres, conférences, concerts, performances, expériences culinaires et sonores. Avec la participation notamment du Studio Ossidiana, de l'artiste et autrice Alice Bucknell et du philosophe Emmanuele Coccia.
| Un événement GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
Cycle: Profession: Reporter
Journalism
One session per month
What does the job of a field journalist truly entail? What are its challenges, its risks, and its evolution in today’s world shaped by social, political, and environmental upheavals?
In collaboration with the Albert Londres Prize—which annually honours the best French-speaking investigative reporters—this series gives the floor to professionals of information, text, and image.
- 18 June 2025
Intelligence artificielle ou information artificielle ?
La Scam, Paris 8th arrondissement - 13 November 2025
Palmarès 2025 du Prix Albert-Londres
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris 3rd arrondissement
Felwine Sarr
Intellectual-in-residence at the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne
Evening School: "A Common Life"
Autumn 2025
Lectures | Workshops
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris 4th arrondissement
MC93, Bobigny
mk2 Bibliothèque, Paris 13th arrondissement
Since 2017, the Centre Pompidou has invited a leading intellectual each year to accompany its discursive programme and to develop an original line of thought. After historian Philippe Artières, queer philosopher Paul B. Preciado, eco-philosopher Vinciane Despret, and American philosopher Judith Butler, the invitation this year—extended jointly by the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne in Paris—has been accepted by Senegalese thinker and economist Felwine Sarr (born 1972 in Niodor).
His "Evening School" begins with a central question: In an age of deepening global divisions and fractures, how can we imagine the possibility of a shared life on a planetary scale?
The programme unfolds in three thematic sequences, each featuring a multidisciplinary lecture with Felwine Sarr and major voices in contemporary thought and creative practice, along with parallel “sensitivity workshops” involving other artists and approaches.
| A programme Festival d'Automne x Centre Pompidou
Photo : Francesca Mantovani © Éditions Gallimard, 2021
Born in 1972 in Niodior, Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese economist, academic, writer, and musician.
Initially a professor of economics in Senegal and now a professor of African philosophy at Duke University (USA), Felwine Sarr explores contemporary global transformations through a perspective shaped by the experiences, knowledge systems, and questions arising from the African continent and the Global South.
Alongside his academic work, Sarr cultivates a deeply personal creative practice, expressed through narrative writing, theatre, and music—he has performed over 500 concerts and released three albums, both solo and with his band Dolé.
He is also actively involved in collective initiatives aimed at fostering a new generation of intellectuals and researchers across the African continent. Notable among these is the founding, alongside Achille Mbembe, of the Ateliers de la pensée in Dakar, which since 2016 has become a key platform for critical thought and exchange. He also co-founded the publishing house Jimsaan with Nafissatou Dia and Boubacar Boris Diop, which notably co-published La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men) by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt.
Attuned to the pressing issues of our time, Felwine Sarr co-authored a landmark 2018 report with Bénédicte Savoy on the restitution of African heritage. In 2025, he is leading the 11th session of RAW Académie in Dakar, an experimental programme dedicated to research into artistic and curatorial practices and thought.
The Deleuze Inventory
8 – 9 November 2025
Talks | Screenings | Performances | Workshops | Listening Sessions
mk2 Bibliothèque, Paris 13th arrondissement
Marking the centenary of the French philosopher’s birth, The Deleuze Inventory revisits key themes from his work that resonate strongly with today’s world—from the role of machines to the rhythms of desire, from emancipatory becomings-woman to the orchestration of fear by neofascist movements.
Over two days, a rich programme of talks, screenings, readings, performances, workshops, and listening sessions brings together Deleuze readers and major creative voices from across disciplines, both French and international.
In parallel, a scholarly symposium dedicated to his book L’Image-temps (Cinema 2: The Time-Image), marking its 40th anniversary, will be held at Université Paris 8 starting 5 November 2025.