
Prior to its closure for renovations from 2025 to 2030, and following the success of the exhibition dedicated to Surrealism, the Centre Pompidou presents two new exhibitions 目China– A New Generation of Artists, highlighting the multidisciplinary works of some twenty artists from the Chinese contemporary scene, and Suzanne Valadon, a never-before-seen retrospective in the form of a monograph on this French painter and printmaker. Painting, printmaking, photography, video installations, drawing… the Centre Pompidou’s great creative anthill still has a long way to go!
目 China – A new generation of artists (until February 3, 2025)
The Chinese contemporary scene is honored for the first time in France in this group exhibition taking place in Galerie 3, Level 1 of the Centre Pompidou. Based on the symbolism of the character 目 (mù), meaning the eye, the gaze and the ability to organize reality, this Franco-Chinese curated exhibition covers a wide spectrum of practices (video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography and new media).
Through the prism of Art in all its diversity, it deciphers the history of Chinese society and the challenges it faces (globalization, the environmental crisis, changing lifestyles, etc.), offering the new generation a fertile breeding ground for creation, with a particular emphasis on new media.
Suzanne Valadon (until March 10, 2025) at the Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou is devoting a monograph to Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), one of the most important artists of her generation. A painter of the real – she placed the nude, both male and female, at the heart of her work, depicting the body without artifice or voyeurism. An enlarged version of the monograph dedicated to Suzanne Valadon and created by the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2023, it presents nearly 200 works from the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay and the Orangerie, supplemented by exceptional loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fondation de l’Hermitage and major private collections, and focuses on her two preferred media: painting and drawing, with an emphasis on her graphic work. From her beginnings as a model in Montmartre to her artistic apogee, the exhibition retraces the life and work of Suzanne Valadon, painting the portrait of a modern woman with a bold character and an assertive brushstroke.