Les Modules / Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent — Palais de Tokyo — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Ongoing exhibition

Since its inception in September 2006, the Modules program has played host to more than 150 artists, and is today proving to be a fantastic tool for experimentation and the promotion of the young French art scene. Since 2010, the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation is sponsoring the Palais de Tokyo Modules.

A laboratory and an instrument for promoting young french creativity

A laboratory for young French creativity, the Palais de Tokyo Modules every month give the seal of approval to two ot three artists living in France in spaces specially reserved for the program. A new generation of artists (25 to 30 years of age) has recently appeared, and is having a profoundly upsetting impact on the French artistic landscape. The Palais de Tokyo supports this emerging art, sustains this spirit of renewal, and — as from 2006 — has created the Modules, a program of exhibitions entirely dedicated to promoting this new generation. The Palais de Tokyo’s Modules program is not satisfied with just exhibiting the artists, it accompanies them in the production of their works over a period of time, and offers them considerable visibility in the media as well as a unique international network.

A pool of talent scouts

The Modules program is devised in collaboration with prominent figures in the art world, bringing together its partner, Le Journal des Arts, representatives from contemporary art museums and centers as well as young exhibition curators. Le Journal des Arts gives the artists a free hand, and in each issue publishes a graphic intervention by one of them, designed especially for the occasion.