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
© 2025 Niki Charitable Art Foundation / Adagp, Paris
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten
26 June 2025 – 4 January 2026
Grand Palais, 8th arrondissement, Paris
This exhibition explores the key moments in the careers of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Far beyond their personal relationship, the pair shared a powerful and enduring artistic dialogue, amplified by the influence of Pontus Hulten (1924-2006), the founding director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou.
The exhibition offers both a historical and playful journey through Tinguely’s kinetic machines, Saint Phalle’s colorful reliefs and sculptures, rare archival footage, and exceptional documentation.
| An exhibition by GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025
26 September 2025 – 22 February 2026
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 16th arrondissement
Created in 2000 to highlight the dynamism of the French art scene, the Marcel Duchamp Prize aims to honor the most representative artists of their generation and promote the diversity of artistic practices emerging in France today on the international stage.
The four artists nominated for the 2025 edition are Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen, Lionel Sabatté, and Xie Lei.
Xie Lei is the winning artist for the 2025 edition.
| An exhibition by MAM Paris x ADIAF x Centre Pompidou
Domaine public Photo : © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Kandinsky
The Music of Color
15 October 2025 – 1st February 2026
Musée de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris, 19th arrondissement
The Centre Pompidou and the Musée de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris join forces to co-produce a major exhibition on the musical imagination in the work of Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).
Bringing together nearly 200 works and objects from Kandinsky’s studio (scores, records, books, tools…), the exhibition reveals how music was central to his daily life, his vocation as a painter, and his transition toward abstraction. An immersive audio experience offers insights into the subtle interplay between music, form, and color that guided his reinvention of painting. The exhibition also includes audiovisual and interactive installations that recreate Kandinsky’s synesthetic works and his ambition to synthesize the visual, sonic, and performative arts.
| An exhibition by Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris x Centre Pompidou
© Adagp, Paris 2025. Photo : Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Look at that!
15 November 2025 – 15 February 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
© Adagp. Photo : Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
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 250 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
Archives historiques du Politecnico di Milano. Courtesy Renzo Piano et Ruth Rogers
Coming soon
Le Concours Beaubourg 1971
La Mutation du métier d'architecte
30 January – 22 February 2026
Académie d'Architecture, Paris 4e
A tribute to the Centre Beaubourg architecture competition held in 1971 and its lasting impact on the discipline of architecture and the role of the architect. Around one hundred previously unseen archival documents—including photographs, models, drawings, and recently restored plans—offer a glimpse into forty of the 681 projects submitted for the competition, among them the winning proposal by architects Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini, and the engineers of Ove Arup & Partners. This multidisciplinary team sought to unite architecture, engineering, construction, and high technology in the spirit of "Total Design", aiming for innovation while drawing on the legacy of French pioneers of metal architecture and prefabrication—from Pierre Chareau to Jean Prouvé, as well as Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods.
| An exhibition by Académie d'Architecture x Centre Pompidou
| with the support of École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Étienne
In parallel, the Laboratoire d'histoire permanente du Centre Pompidou is organising a series of workshops led by key witnesses of the Beaubourg adventure, along with researchers and students.
Domaine public. 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 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 230 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
Domaine public. © Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Pom Pom Pidou
A Thrilling Tale of Modern Art
26 April – 9 November 2025
The Centre Pompidou will be taking over all areas at the Tripostal with the exhibition "Pom pom Pidou. A Thrilling Tale of Modern Art" during Fiesta, the 7th major edition of lille3000. On the fringe of the exhibition, all Centre Pompidou entities will be brought together for a live performance programme catering to a young audience.
The exhibition uses the collection and masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou as a starting point for unveiling the stunning story of modern and contemporary art on three levels of the Tripostal, the flagship in lille3000’s major cultural seasons. It demonstrates the extent to which the scope and boundaries of art were continually tested throughout the 20th century and up to the present time.
The chronological journey is punctuated by contemporary counterpoints and interdisciplinary dialogues (design, architecture, comic art).
| An exhibition by lille3000 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
Coming soon
Kandinsky face aux images
20 February – 14 June 2026
LaM – Lille Métropole
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
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.
Surreal on Paper
13 September 2025 – 11 January 2026
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhague
From 13 September 2025 until 11 January 2026 SMK —the national gallery of Denmark— will open a major exhibition focusing on the surrealists' use of drawing. The exhibition features over 100 drawings by artists including Salvador Dalí, André Masson, and Meret Oppenheim. The Centre Pompidou has loaned 75 of its finest Surrealist drawings, which will be shown alongside works from Danish and international collections, as well as from the Royal Collection of Prints and Drawings at SMK.
Brancusi, The Birth of Modern Sculpture
20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026
Originating from Romania, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) settled in Paris in 1904 after crossing Europe, and upon his death, chose to bequeath his entire workshop to the French State. The exhibition is created from this precious collection, held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou.
Exploring different facets of his work (sculpture, film, photography, painting), the exhibition highlights the major themes developed by the artist: the sleeping muse, the child's head, animals, the torso, the kiss, and more… celebrating Brancusi's power of invention and constant quest for beauty.
© Man Ray 2015, Trust / Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Fluxus by Chance
25 September 2025 – 22 February 2026
A daring and dynamic exploration of one of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the 20th century, including works from the Centre Pompidou’s collection only.
Fluxus emerged at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s from the coming together of individuals who were not artists but became so through emulation (George Brecht, Robert Filliou, La Monte Young, George Maciunas…) A collective, cosmopolitan and participatory adventure, Fluxus advocated art without works and without virtuosity, against the persistent over-valuation of the autographed art object, and sought to break down the boundaries and hierarchy between audience and artist.
Domaine public Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist.GrandPalaisRmn
Chez Matisse
El legado de una nueva pintura
29 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
ForumCaixa, Madrid
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 Fundació la Caixa x Centre Pompidou
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Vincent Everarts
Dreamworld
Surrealism at 100
8 November 2025 – 16 February 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie
"Dreamworld. Surrealism at 100" traces the history of surrealism from 1924 to 1969 through six thematic sections, including one dedicated to artists exiled in America during World War II. Featuring over two hundred works—from Salvador Dalí to Frida Kahlo, Joseph Cornell to Jackson Pollock, and including Joan Miró and Dorothea Tanning—the exhibition explores the connections between dream, desire, myth, and political engagement.
This event continues the centenary celebration of the movement, launched with the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. It also marks the final stop of a travelling exhibition, each iteration offering a distinct reinterpretation: at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels with "Imagine!", highlighting the ties between surrealism and symbolism; at the Centre Pompidou in Paris with "Surréalisme"; at Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid with "1924. Otros surrealismos", focusing on Iberian artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, and Luis Buñuel; and at the Kunsthalle Hamburg, where "Rendez-vous der Träume" explored the dialogue between surrealism and german romanticism.
Coming soon
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.
