Exhibitions
In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is beginning a major transformation !
In preparation for the renovation of its iconic building, the Centre Pompidou is now closed to the public..
Thanks to the Constellation program the Centre Pompidou is more vibrant than ever and closer to you, expanding into hundreds of partner venues across France and around the world, from 2025 until its reopening in 2030.
Discover all the exhibitions designed with our partners:
- In Paris and throughout Greater Paris, notably at the Grand Palais — with four exhibitions per year in two dedicated galleries — or at the Philharmonie; in Giverny or at the MAC VAL;
- In regions across France, including Auxerre, Bonifacio, Lille, Metz, and Toulon…;
- Internationally, in the Centre Pompidou’s historic locations — Málaga, Shanghai… — as well as in other prestigious museums and art centers.
Paris / Grand Paris
© Adagp. Photo : Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
Closing soon
Dessins sans limite
Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou’s Collection
16 December 2025 – 15 March 2026
Grand Palais, 8th arrondissement, Paris
This landmark exhibition presents over 300 major graphic works—spanning from 1900 to the present—drawn from the 35,000-piece collection of the Graphic Arts Department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne. This is the first time such a breadth of the collection will be on display.
Far from a preparatory tool, drawing has long been a field of experimentation, with artists pushing its limits across media—on paper, sketchbooks, walls, installations, even photography, film, and digital art. The exhibition explores this open, inventive practice through iconic and unexpected works.
The exhibition explores the many possibilities offered by the practice of drawing—an inherently open medium for invention and the expression of thought, whether conscious or unconscious. The journey is punctuated by highlights focusing on particularly valuable groups of works, including those by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Giuseppe Penone, and the Duchamp brothers.
| An exhibition by GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
© Adagp, Paris 2025. Photo : Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Look at that!
15 November 2025 – 12 April 2026
A unique figure of the French art scene —at once an artist, writer, teacher and performer— Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux (born in 1950) has been developing since the 1980s a visual, theoretical and performative body of work that is traversed by humour, popular culture and art history, constantly attentive to marginal and non-academic forms.
Developed in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition "Look at That!" plays with accumulation, collage, and the remixing of Labelle-Rojoux’s visual and textual references and affinities. Structured in three parts, it invites viewers to look closely, be surprised—and perhaps even engage in a bit of mockery.
| An exhibition by MAC-VAL x Centre Pompidou
La Bataille des couleurs
13 February – 17 August 2026
Maison Pompidou, Paris 3rd arrondissement
Located at the foot of the Centre Pompidou construction site, Maison Pompidou serves as a permanent hub for information and resources on the Centre’s history, architecture, and forthcoming transformation.
Its first temporary exhibition, "la Bataille des couleurs" (The Battle of Colours), revisits the building’s chromatic history from 1971 to 1977. Before becoming iconic, its visual identity was the subject of intense debate and controversy, retraced here through firsthand accounts, drawings, photographs, previously unpublished documents, and interior design objects (such as tables, lighting fixtures, buckets, cables, etc.).
Photo : Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
Coming soon
Matisse
1941-1954
24 March – 26 July 2026
Grand Palais, 8th arrondissement, Paris
"Matisse, 1941-1954" highlights the final years of the French artist’s creative life.
At nearly 80 years old, Henri Matisse reinvented his practice through the medium of cut-out gouache, which emerged as an autonomous and powerful visual language. Its simplicity allowed him to reach a universal form of expression and fully embrace the decorative dimension of his art. Never before had Matisse been so prolific in his use of diverse techniques and materials—paintings, drawings, illustrated books, textiles, and stained glass all reflect this vibrant new impulse. This is demonstrated by the approximately 300 works brought together here, ranging from intimate pieces to monumental ensembles, drawn from both public and private collections.
| An exhibition by GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
© Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation
Prochainement
Hilma af Klint
6 mai – 30 août 2026
Première exposition en France dédiée à la peintre suédoise Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), reconnue tout récemment seulement comme une artiste incontournable de la modernité artistique et des débuts de l'abstraction – à l'instar de ses pairs masculins, Kandinsky, Kupka, Malevitch ou Mondrian.
En marge d'une production figurative conventionelle, Hilma af Klint réalise une œuvre nourrie de spiritualisme et de sciences, où spirales, cercles et faisceaux traduisent les forces invisibles qui régissent le monde et une quête de l’harmonie cosmique. Longtemps tenue secrète du vœu même de l'artiste d'abord, celle-ci n'est présentée au public pour la première fois qu'en 1986 dans une exposition collective « The Spiritual in Art: Abstract painting 1890-1985 » au Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA).
Cet événement vient non seulement mettre en valeur les multiples sources d’inspiration de son œuvre (ésotérisme, folklore et art populaire, culture scientifique), mais également interroger la manière dont l’histoire de l’art a longtemps ignoré les artistes femmes et leur contribution aux mouvements fondateurs.
| Une exposition GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
Courtesy, Maurizio Cattelan’s Archive. Courtesy Perrotin. Photo: Zeno Zotti
Dimanche sans fin
Maurizio Cattelan & the Centre Pompidou collection
8 May 2025 – 2 February 2027
To mark its 15th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is transforming all of its galleries to host hundreds of works from the Musée National d’Art Moderne collection. These include rarely seen pieces—sometimes thought untransportable—such as André Breton’s studio wall or Marcel Duchamp’s chess table.
The exhibition explores the theme of Sunday in its social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. Curated collectively under the guidance of artist Maurizio Cattelan, the exhibition unfolds as a poetic journey through 27 sections, each conceived as an alphabetical entry of thoughts, verses, slogans… touching on themes such as the division between leisure and work, private and public space, spirituality and light, or art’s power to imagine alternative worlds and evoke melancholic reflection.
Domaine public. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Kandinsky face aux images
20 February – 14 June 2026
A pioneer of 20th-century abstract art, Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is known for his interest in the spiritual and inner life—but rarely associated with photographic images, scientific publications, or press illustrations, despite maintaining a strong connection to them throughout his life. Drawing on the artist’s personal archives, the exhibition invites a reconsideration of the role of images in his work: not merely as iconographic sources, but as subjects of reflection and pedagogical tools that shaped his visual thinking. This chronological journey offers a deep dive into the studio behind these iconic works of art history, their sources of inspiration, and their secrets of creation.
| An exhibition by LaM x Centre Pompidou
Prochainement
François Morellet
100 pour cent
3 avril – 29 septembre 2026
Pour le centenaire de la naissance de François Morellet (1926-2016), le Centre Pompidou-Metz présente une rétrospective en 100 œuvres allant de 1941 à 2016, la plus complète jamais réalisée à ce jour.
Morellet a ceci de singulier qu'il est tout à la fois le principal représentant français de l'abstraction géométrique – privilégiant un art programmé et systématique, qui met à distance toute subjectvité et s'en remet au hasard, dialoguant avec l'art concert et précurseur du minimalisme – et celui qui aura le plus décisivement contribué à déstabiliser celle-ci – explorant les aberrations optiques engendrées par ses propres programmes, valorisant la déstabilisation du regard et l'instabilité de la perception dans un esprit néo-dadaïste et empli d'humour. L'exposition met en évidence cette ambivalence au gré de deux parcours chronologiques, en partant de ses premières peintures figuratives des années 1940.
100 x Morellet
En écho à la rétrospective « François Morellet. 100 pour cent » présentée au Centre Pompidou-Metz, un vaste programme national est initié par le Centre Pompidou, en collaboration avec le Studio Morellet, la galerie Mennour qui représente l'artiste et de nombreuses institutions partenaires.
Ce projet d’envergure se déploie dans toute la France à travers des accrochages inédits, des redécouvertes d’œuvres figuant dans les collections et dans l’espace public, ainsi qu’un ensemble de rencontres, conférences et un colloque international. L’objectif : réinterroger l’héritage de Morellet, sa place dans l’histoire de l’art, son rapport au patrimoine et à l’architecture, et l’influence qu’il continue d’exercer sur les artistes contemporains.
Reinventing Landscape
Highlights of the Centre Pompidou collection
28 April 2025 – 18 October 2026
"Reinventing Landscape" is the fourth semi-permanent exhibition of the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum project since its launch in 2019.
It turns the spotlight on landscape art and its profound transformations in the 20th and 21th centuries through nine exhibition sections.
Don des Amis du Centre Pompidou, Groupe d'Acquisition pour l'Art Contemporain, 2022
© Caroline Achaintre. Photo : Rob Harris. Coutesy de l’artiste et Art : Concept, Paris
To Open Eyes
Artists' Gaze
3 July 2025 – 31 January 2027
The new semi-permanent exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Málaga focusses on the way in which artists invite us to decentre our gaze and thus transform our relationship with art, society and the world. "To Open Eyes" is an undirected exhibition that proposes a broad and non-exhaustive panorama of the major movements and disruptions that marked the history of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, right up until recent works reflecting certain contemporary issues.
AM CB
Annette Messager and Christian Boltanski
21 November 2025 – 6 April 2026
Two major French artists recognised on the international scene from the 1970s, Annette Messager (born in 1943) and Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) became life partners and very early decided to separate their careers in order to develop independently from one another. This exhibition aims to restore a dialogue between their work by revealing its affinities, which have been little analysed: shared interests, methods, and languages that drive them to challenge and inspire one another—while, over time, cultivating radically opposing approaches to the body and human nature.
Domaine public. Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Colors!
24 January – 15 April 2026
A modern history of color, and equally, a dialogue between East and West.
The exhibition "Colors!" brings together over one hundred 20th-century masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou’s collection, presented in dialogue with modern works from the Minsheng Art Museum and contemporary pieces by leading Chinese artists.
© Adagp, Paris, 2026. Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Arduna
1st February – 15 April 2026
"Arduna"—which means "our land" in Arabic—brings together over 80 works by Saudi, regional, and international artists, exploring how modern and contemporary artists have represented nature through a wide range of media. Iconic pieces by Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Mitchell, and David Hockney are presented in dialogue with works by leading contemporary artists such as Manal AlDowayan, Ayman Zedani, Etel Adnan, Samia Halaby, and Imran Qureshi.
The exhibition is presented in the pre-opening spaces of AlUla’s future contemporary art museum, as part of the AlUla Arts Festival 2026.
© Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved (Adagp). Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Coming soon
Constantin Brancusi
20 March – 9 August 2026
With more than 150 sculptures, photographs, drawings, films, and rarely seen archival materials from the Centre Pompidou and other public and private international collections, the exhibition offers the most extensive survey of Constantin Brancusi’s (1876-1957) multifaceted work to date.
In addition to key works such as Le Baiser (The Kiss), L'Oiseau dans l'espace (Bird in Space), La Muse endormie (Sleeping Muse), and La Colonne sans fin (Endless Column), the exhibition also features a partial reconstruction of Brancusi’s legendary studio—shown outside of Paris for the first time since its bequest to the French state in 1957. His organic forms, reduced to their essence, established him as a pioneer of sculptural abstraction in the early 20th century.
Domaine public Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist.GrandPalaisRmn
Coming soon
Chez Matisse
El legado de una nueva pintura
26 March – 23 August 2026
The exhibition highlights the work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) as a perpetual reinvention of painting —the medium he consistently described as "the pinnacle of his desires"— embracing both its historical legacy and its relevance in the present. It brings some thirty of his paintings into dialogue with major figures of the 20th and 21st centuries—from Sonia Delaunay and Natalia Goncharova to Daniel Buren and Barnett Newman—tracing his influence across both real and imagined spheres of artistic creation.
| An exhibition by Fundación "la Caixa" x Centre Pompidou
