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Senghor et les arts — Réinventer l’universel
Past: February 7 → November 19, 2023
A portrait of the writer, poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor (1909-2001), through his cultural policy in the aftermath of Senegal’s independence.
Senghor and the Arts. Reimagining Universalism puts into perspective the reflections and achievements in the field of culture of the Senegalese intellectual and sta…
Mixed media
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La Nuit européenne des musées, 2019 — 15e édition
Past: Saturday, May 18, 2019
La 15e édition de la Nuit européenne des musées s’apprête à faire vibrer Paris. Une déambulation nocturne à travers les collections et expositions muséales, où de nombreuses animations se joignent à la fête : concerts, performances, projections, spectacles, visites thématiques… Tous les arts sont conviés, toutes les formes d’expression.
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Urban art, dance, drawing...
Multiple venues
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Peintures des lointains — La collection du musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac
Past: January 30, 2018 → January 6, 2019
Shedding light on the collection of paintings housed at the musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac. Some two hundred hitherto unseen works revealing the evolution of the Western perception of distant and not-so-distant populations, societies and territories over the centuries.
Drawing, painting
Musée du quai Branly
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Le Magasin des petits explorateurs
Past: May 23 → October 7, 2018
How has French popular culture portrayed foreign societies to the youngest members of society? What images and stories have guided their exploration of foreign countries and of the world in general?Looking at education and otherness through youth literature from the 19th century to the present day.
Drawing, film, graphic design...
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Enfers et fantômes d’Asie
Past: April 10 → July 15, 2018
The exhibition focuses its attention on Asian ghost stories, delving into the world of spirits, terror and fantastic creatures as it takes visitors on a journey to the edges of reality, through religious art, theatre, cinema, contemporary design and manga.
Print, graphic design, installation...
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Colloque international Black Dolls
Past: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 9:30 AM → 5 PM
Ce colloque trans-disciplinaire se propose d’analyser, de documenter et de questionner un jouet (la poupée) qui malgré son universalité et son importance considérable dans la formation de l’enfant voire d’une société, reste un sujet d’étude très minoritaire.
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Les Forêts natales — Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique
Past: October 3, 2017 → January 21, 2018
L’Afrique équatoriale atlantique a donné aux arts africains quelques-uns de ses plus exceptionnels chefs-d’œuvre. De la puissance plastique des Fang à l’élégance naturaliste des Punu, panorama des principaux styles artistiques de cette vaste région.
Jewellery, ceramic, sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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L’Afrique des routes
Past: January 31 → November 12, 2017
L’Afrique, un continent sans Histoire ? Si les a priori ont la vie dure, les faits, eux, sont indéniables : les Africains n’ont jamais vécu dans l’isolement. Longtemps ignorés, les échanges panafricains et extra-africains ont pourtant débuté voici des millénaires, bien avant les indépendances, la colonisation et l’arrivée des premiers navires portugais.
Ceramic, sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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La pierre sacrée des Māori
Past: May 23 → October 1, 2017
Next stop New Zealand, on the trail of jade, the sacred stone of the Maori. An object of fascination and a delicate material used in ancestral art, this stone believed to have magical virtues remains closely tied to the stories and legends of the Maori people.
Jewellery, ceramic
Musée du quai Branly
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Picasso Primitif
Past: March 28 → July 23, 2017
« L’art nègre ? Connais pas. » C’est sur le ton de la provocation que le peintre, sculpteur et dessinateur andalou s’efforcera de nier sa relation avec l’art extra-européen. Pourtant, et comme le montre sa collection personnelle, les arts d’Afrique, d’Océanie, des Amériques et d’Asie n’auront cessé de l’accompagner.
Painting, sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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Persona — Étrangement humain
Past: January 26 → November 13, 2016
At a time when our concept of what is human is shaken, as its boundaries are constantly extended, the Musée du quai Branly presents an exhibition for understanding the transfer that is taking place in all cultures between the human and the non-human.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Sepik — L’Art au long du fleuve
Past: October 27, 2015 → February 7, 2016
“Sepik, Art along the river” is the first exhibition in France dedicated to the arts of the peoples from the largest river in the north of Papua New Guinea; the exhibition includes an unseen selection of 230 masterpieces.
Sculpture, mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Worship Soundspaces — Perception sonore des lieux de cultes
Past: November 3 → 4, 2015
This colloquium concerns the audio heritage of religious sites; edifices which are of interest from both a historical, cultural and architectural viewpoint. The preservation of the quality of the sound environment of these sites is today a major challenge taken into account during their refurbishment.
Sepik — L’Art au long du fleuve
Past: October 27 → 28, 2015
Due to the number and complexity of societies established on its banks, but also the astonishing and varied production of material, the valley of the Sepik river and its tributaries has acted as a laborat…
Lecture
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Tatoueurs, tatoués
Past: May 6, 2014 → October 18, 2015
“Tattoo” explores the world of tattooing and offers a unique approach to this ancestral practice, presenting 300 historical and contemporary works from a variety of countries. For the first time, an exhibition presents the artistic dimension of tattooing and its history throughout human culture from its first appearance.
Drawing, mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Spectacle Sama — Inde — France
Past: October 1 → 4, 2015
A rhythmical and exceptional conversation between ancient Indian dance and western percussion.
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Nuit Blanche — 2015
Past: October 3 → 4, 2015
For the occasion of the 14th edition of Nuit Blanche on Saturday 3 October, Slash has put together its own selection of spectacular and alternative events not to miss out on.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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L’Inca et le Conquistador
Past: June 23 → September 20, 2015
“The Inca and the conquistador” presents the conquest of Peru through the epic story of two men: Atahualpa, the Inca, and Francisco Pizarro, the conquistador. The meeting of these two principal players illustrates the clash of two radically different worlds that were to undergo profound political, economic, cultural and religious change.
Ceramic, painting, sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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Mondes miniatures / L’or des Incas — Journées d’étude
Past: September 4 → 5, 2015
On the basis of a corpus of contextualised items from the territory of the Tawantinsuyu Inca and now belonging to a number of different collections, the aim of this encounter is to lead to advances in knowledge regarding the production of gold and silverwork during the period of the Inca empire.
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Jardin d’été — 8e édition
Past: July 3 → August 30, 2015
This summer, the museum will be offering its visitors a rich and varied programme: guided tours, the story-telling garden, workshops, taster sessions, electronic siestas.…
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Les maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire
Past: April 14 → July 26, 2015
By bringing together nearly 200 historic and contemporary works, the exhibition ’Master Sculptors from the Ivory Coast’honours the great sculptors and sculpture schools of the Ivory Coast and neighbouring countries.
Sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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Grèn Sémé — Concert — La Réunion
Past: Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 6 PM
The music of Grèn Sémé is impossible to define in a single word. The term “maloya” is not sufficient. You
need to add a cross-genre fantasy, to speak of “maloya something”, to explain all the groove, the wide-angle
tropicalism, the variety of themes and languages that are merged into this song fusion.
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BKO Quintet — Concert
Past: Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 5 PM
The music of the BKO Quintet is born from an encounter with 5 established artists. Ibrahima Sarr, a strong percussionist, has travelled the world alongside Oumou Sangaré. Fassara Sacko stands out from the other griots in the traditional festivals.
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Au-delà
Past: June 3 → 14, 2015
In Congo-Brazzaville, DeLaVallet Bidiefono is regarded as a pioneer in contemporary dance. In a land that is always on the brink of explosion and that is still painfully recovering from the successive civil wars of the 1990s, contemporary dance is a weapon.
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Singapour mon amour — Émergence et fortunes d’une scène artistique.
Past: Thursday, June 4, 2015
This two-day long colloquium will from a theoretical perspective reflect on the visual art, film, performance and literature presented as part of the project “Singapour mon amour” curated by Lowave. Thematic sessions will focus on each of these disciplines and will focus on what makes them unique within the global artistic landscape.
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L’Art Néo-tantrique — De l’abstraction indienne à la contre-culture
Past: May 28 → 29, 2015
Tantric art belongs to a distinct category, often isolated from Indian pictorial productions (espe- cially at the Biennale of Venice 2013). It is often presented as an art form that is at the same time very old and very conceptual, almost abstract.
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La journée des associations
Past: Monday, May 18, 2015
In order to involve a wider audience by creating partnership links with networks of associations and with the fields of social work and social integration, for the fifth consecutive year, the musée du quai Branly is organising its “La journée des associations”.
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Kobo Town — Concert
Past: Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 5 PM
Founded by the Canadian writer and composer Drew Gonsalves, originally from Trinidad, Kobo Town is also the name of a historic quarter in Portof-Spain, near the fishermen’s wharf, which was the site of constant defiance and conflict during colonial domination.
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La Nuit européenne des musées, 2015
Past: Saturday, May 16, 2015 1 PM → 12 AM
For its 11th edition, the European night of the museums is offering the public an alternative approach to the museum environment, at night and through several events: spectacles, artistic installations, illuminated tours…
Event
Film, new media, performance...
Multiple venues
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Françis Affergan — Penser l’exotisme, l’altérité et la pluralité des mondes : anthropologie, philosophie, poésie.
Past: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Francis Affergan is one of the most original French anthropologists. His work incorporates three rarely united dimensions: anthropology, philosophy and poetry. He is one of the leading specialists in Martinique.
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L’université populaire du Quai Branly
Past: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
For its 10th season, the popular university of the musée du quai Branly began a new long-term cycle on Childhood, in order to better understand this crucial period of life through original approaches, be it that of Freud, a soft toy or of literature.
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Indiens des plaines
Past: April 9 → July 20, 2014
The power of Indian culture is in particular demonstrated by the continuity of its visual styles, despite the fact that during three centuries of contact with Europeans and Americans the Plains territory was subject to fundamental cultural and political changes.
Sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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Bois sacré — Initiation dans les forêts guinéennes
Past: March 4 → May 18, 2014
On the African continent, the initiation ceremony marks a mandatory rite of passage for each individual. For some countries in western Africa, it is the Poro initiation which plays a primordial role in a number of communities in the region. The exhibition examines in particular the secret societies of the Guinean forests: Liberia, Guinea, Ivory Coast.
Sculpture
Musée du quai Branly
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L’Atlantique noir — Nancy Cunard
Past: March 4 → May 18, 2014
Icône anticonformiste des années 1920 et 1930, poète, éditrice, collectionneuse, militante, journaliste, mais aussi modèle de Man Ray et muse d’Aragon, l’anglaise Nancy Cunard symbolise une période où l’avant-garde artistique et littéraire s’imbriquait avec le monde politique.
Engagée contre le colonialism…
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Nocturnes de Colombie — Images contemporaines
Past: September 17, 2013 → February 2, 2014
Présentée dans le cadre de Photoquai, l’exposition ambitionne de donner un éclairage spécifique sur des artistes majeurs de la scène colombienne. Le contexte d’une guerre civile ininterrompue depuis plus de soixante ans mérite d’être souligné dans leurs travaux, tant la situation de la société colombienne apparaît en filigrane dans les productions de ces artistes.
Photography
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Kanak — L’Art est une Parole
Past: October 15, 2013 → January 26, 2014
This exhibition unveils numerous original and spectacular pieces from the great classic works of Kanak art, from New Caledonia: sculpted frames from the great houses, jade monstrance axes, ridge-tile sculptures, statuettes and a wide range of ornaments.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Secrets d’Ivoire — L’art des Lega d’Afrique centrale
Past: November 13, 2013 → January 26, 2014
Les volumes abstraits et les formes simplifiées de l’art lega, l’un des plus importants d’Afrique centrale, frappent par leur inventivité et leur élégance. L’art joue un rôle fondamental pour les Lega, en tant que symbole de réussite, outil d’apprentissage et de commémoration des morts.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Charles Ratton — L’invention des arts primitifs
Past: June 25 → September 22, 2013
This exhibition gives an opportunity to highlight the view of Charles Ratton, an expert, dealer and collector who changed the history of the way “primitive” art was received, by promoting objects which moved away from the taste for “negro” art that had prevailed up to that time.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Philippines, archipel des échanges
Past: April 9 → July 14, 2013
The exhibition brings together a selection of unique works of art from the Philippines, chosen from public collections in the Philippines, America and Europe as well as from private collections. This exhibition, containing more than 300 works, is the first major exhibition in France in the last twenty years devoted to the archipelago of the Philippine.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Cheveux chéris
Past: September 18, 2012 → July 14, 2013
Memories in physical form, relic, talisman, for many hair retains the aura and energy of its owner. A large part of the exhibition is devoted to these mana which have given birth, in the world, to many objects called “magical” or endowed with powers that we can borrow.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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Un artiste voyageur en micronésie
Past: February 26 → May 19, 2013
Paul Jacoulet was a French artist who arrived in Japan in 1899 and lived there for most of his life. In those days, distant travel was unusual however Paul Jacoulet often went to Korea, China and Micronesia, to draw portraits of the native people, favouring depictions of everyday life during the Edo period.
Drawing
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Les maîtres du désordre
Past: April 11 → July 29, 2012
Dans la plupart des cultures, des forces contraires structurent ou déconstruisent l’individu et se disputent l’univers : ordre et désordre sont au cœur du mouvement du monde. « Les maîtres du désordre » effectue un parcours entre vitalité et destruction, parmi les chefs-d’œuvre de collections anthropologiques et des installations d’artistes contemporains.
Mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
Cycle de spectacles Transes et désordres — Au cœur du Nil soufi
Past: June 13 → 17, 2012
Une cérémonie dans un village de Haute-Egypte, dans la région de Louxor.
Réalisation artistique : Alain Weber
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Cycle de spectacles Transes et désordres — Projet Sors : autour de la Danse de la sorcière de Mary Wigman
Past: June 15 → 17, 2012
Le chorégraphe Pedro Pauwels travaille pour 2012-13 sur un projet chorégraphique avec Carlotta Ikeda, Robyn Orlin, Raimund Hoghe et Josef Nadj, et présente différents work in progress autour du solo mythi…
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Le théâtre agricole — savoirs vernaculaires, développement durable et impérialisme vert
Past: Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 10 AM
The agricultural theatre is a study day organised by Betonsalon and dedicated to exploring the political, socio-economic and ecological stakes of the production, transformation and distribution of agriculture, historically and today.
Rencontre avec Sam Begay
Past: Friday, May 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Ordre et désordre dans la pensée navajo : rencontre avec Sam Begay, homme médecine Navajo.
Lecture
Cycle de cinéma
Past: May 10 → 20, 2012
Le musée du quai Branly programme dans le cadre de l’exposition une série de projections et de rencontres avec les réalisateurs des films présentés.
Accès libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
Screening
Rencontre avec Bertrand Hell et Edouard Collot
Past: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Mettre en scène la maladie pour guérir : rencontre avec Bertrand Hell, anthropologue, et Edouard Collot, psychiatre — hypnothérapeute, autour des ethnodrames de la cure chamanique et des « performances » …
Lecture
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Patagonie — Images du bout du monde
Past: March 6 → May 13, 2012
What does “Patagonia” call to mind? A land at the edge of the world, with indeterminate outlines, the myth of Patagonian giants, fabulous animals left over from prehistoric times. On a chronological stroll punctuated by images and sounds, visitors are swept up in the magic of the narrative alternating between evocations of the fantastic and reality.
Drawing, lithography / engraving, photography
Musée du quai Branly
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La Pluie
Past: March 6 → May 13, 2012
Forecast, sought, feared, Rain is also associated to musical analogies; it requires protection, but it is hailed as the greatest gift of all and ultimately, deified. Through a selection of artefacts, the exhibition explores how the trivial and the spiritual, the profane and the religious, are confronted and united in almost a metaphor of life itself.
Drawing, painting, sound - music...
Musée du quai Branly
Rencontre avec Bernard Saladin d’Anglure et Françoise Morin
Past: Friday, April 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Rencontre avec Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, anthropologue de l’Arctique, spécialiste des communautés inuit, et Françoise Morin, anthropologue, spécialiste des Shipibo-Konibo d’Amazonie péruvienne.
Lecture
Cycle de spectacles Transes et désordres — Sankirtana — Inde
Past: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM
Au Manipur, entre Bangladesh et Birmanie, vivent des sociétés religieuses semi-nomades qui se consacrent au rituel vishnouiste, dédié particulièrement à Krishna.
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L’invention du sauvage
Past: November 29, 2011 → March 3, 2012
L’exposition met en lumière l’histoire de femmes, d’hommes et d’enfants, venus d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Océanie ou d’Amérique, exhibés en Occident à l’occasion de numéros de cirque, revues de cabaret, villages reconstitués, et explore la mise en scène de l’Exotique ou du monstre, questionnant le visiteur sur ses préjugés dans le monde d’aujourd’hui.
Lithography / engraving, photography, sculpture
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Maori — Leurs trésors ont une âme
Past: October 4, 2011 → January 22, 2012
The musée du quai Branly presents Māori: Their treasures have a soul, featuring Māori culture through 250 pieces from the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. This exhibition, never shown before outside New Zealand, is a testimony to a strong and living culture.
Photography, sculpture, mixed media
Musée du quai Branly
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07 Paris 7
Alma – Marceau
Bir-Hakeim
Iéna
Opening hours
Tuesday & Wednesday, Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Thursday – Saturday, 11 AM – 9 PM
Admission fee
Full rate €9.00 — Concessions €7.00
Billet jumelé (collections permanentes et expositions temporaires) : tarif plein 11 € / tarif réduit 9 €