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Ron Mueck
Past: June 8 → November 5, 2023
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invites Australian artist Ron Mueck to exhibit an ensemble of sculptures previously unseen in France, along with iconic pieces from his career. Visitors will discover his monumental installation Mass (2017), presented for the first-time outside Australia, as well as new wo…
Ron Mueck
Past: June 8 → November 5, 2023
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invites Australian artist Ron Mueck to exhibit an ensemble of sculptures previously unseen in France, along with iconic pieces from his career. Visitors will discover his monumental installation Mass (2017), presented for the first-time outside Australia, as well as new wo…
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Damien Hirst — Cerisiers en fleurs
Past: July 6, 2021 → January 2, 2022
From June to November 2020, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invites British artist Damien Hirst to unveil his latest paintings, the Cherry Blossoms. The result of two years intense of work in his London studio.
Damien Hirst — Cerisiers en fleurs
Past: July 6, 2021 → January 2, 2022
From June to November 2020, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invites British artist Damien Hirst to unveil his latest paintings, the Cherry Blossoms. The result of two years intense of work in his London studio.
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Nous les Arbres
Past: July 12 → November 10, 2019
Underestimated by biology for a long time, trees—like the entirety of the plant kingdom—have been the subject of scientific discoveries in recent years that have allowed us to see the oldest members of our community of living beings in a new light.
Nous les Arbres
Past: July 12 → November 10, 2019
Underestimated by biology for a long time, trees—like the entirety of the plant kingdom—have been the subject of scientific discoveries in recent years that have allowed us to see the oldest members of our community of living beings in a new light.
Architecture, design, installation...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Metamorphosis. Art in Europe now
Past: April 4 → June 16, 2019
The exhibition explores the diversity and vitality of the European artistic scene today. Over the course of a year, the Foundation Cartier led a vast research project that brought us to 29 countries all over the European continent, beyond the borders of the European Union. The team met with over 200 artists selected from among the one thousand portfolios.
Metamorphosis. Art in Europe now
Past: April 4 → June 16, 2019
The exhibition explores the diversity and vitality of the European artistic scene today. Over the course of a year, the Foundation Cartier led a vast research project that brought us to 29 countries all over the European continent, beyond the borders of the European Union. The team met with over 200 artists selected from among the one thousand portfolios.
Ceramic, collage, design...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Meriem Bennani — Avatar Idol
Past: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Morocco, France
Digitalomaniac artist Meriem Bennani has conceived Avatar Idol, a live virtual dance battle incorporating motion capture. Cheered on by a host from the future and under the watchful eye…
Event
Aloïse Sauvage — Que rien ne s’arrête
Past: Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 8:30 PM
France
A revelation of the Transmusicales de Rennes 2018, the young rap artist Aloïse Sauvage takes over the Fondation Cartier garden with her consuming passion, her wild energy, and a few surprise gu…
Performance
Rita Pauls et Ant Hampton — Mouth Piece
Past: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Argentina, Germany, United Kingdom
Over the course of a week, artists Rita Pauls and Ant Hampton hitchhiked across Germany to learn German, a language neither speaks. They asked each person they met th…
Performance
Saudaa Group — L’Orgue-Paysage
Past: Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Armenia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland
Alexis Paul (Saudaá Group) and his barrel organ lead a nomadic and poetic adventure, aimed at discovering popular compositions and repertoires from around the…
Concert
Action héro — Oh Europa
Past: Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 2 PM
United Kingdom
For over six months, James Stenhouse and Gemma Paintin of the Action Hero collective travelled 32,000 kilometers across 33 countries in Europe, in their equipped motorhome to record love…
Event
Revue immersion — D’autres mondes
Past: Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 7 PM
Europe
Immersion is the first French print journal to consider the video game as a cultural phenomenon and a creative discipline. In a video game room set up in the heart of the exhibition, the audienc…
Event
Entretiens Infinis — Dirigé par Hans Ulrich Obrist
Past: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 6 PM
Hans Ulrich Obrist continues his Entretiens Infinis [Infinite Interviews] at the Fondation Cartier, leading a debate marathon during which he talks with the exhibition’s artists.
Event
(LA)HORDE — Keep Calm and Listen to Hardstyle
Past: Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 7 PM
Europe
Continuing its exploration of the rebellion of bodies, the (LA)HORDE collective takes the audience on a voyage of discovery during an exceptional late-night opening, where the jumpers of their s…
Event
Niño de Elche — Antologia del Cante Flamenco Heterodoxo
Past: Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Spain
A “punk” to purists, a “vocal virtuoso” to his aficionados, the magnificently inspired singer Niño de Elche experiments with, rather than revisits, flamenco. With his musician compañeros, “the ma…
Concert
Lina Lapelyte — Candy Shop
Past: Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Lithuania, United Kingdom
Artist Lina Lapelyte borrows the title of a dirty rap hit by 50 Cent for her performance-opera Candy Shop. Transforming the original hip-hop texts, 7 female singers invite the…
Performance
Arty Farty — European Lab, Les Métamorphoses
Past: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 PM
Europe
The association Arty Farty, which organizes the festival Nuits Sonores and the European Lab Forum—discussion forums on the creative transformations and democratic innovations in Europe—is settin…
Event
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Malick Sidibé — Mali Twist
Past: October 20, 2017 → February 25, 2018
In 1995, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented the first solo exhibition of the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé outside of the African continent. One year after the artist’s death on April 14, 2016, the Fondation Cartier pays tribute to him with Mali Twist, a large retrospective exhibition accompanied by a catalogue.
Malick Sidibé — Mali Twist
Past: October 20, 2017 → February 25, 2018
In 1995, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented the first solo exhibition of the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé outside of the African continent. One year after the artist’s death on April 14, 2016, the Fondation Cartier pays tribute to him with Mali Twist, a large retrospective exhibition accompanied by a catalogue.
Photography
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Autophoto — Une exploration des relations entre la photographie et l’automobile, de 1900 à nos jours
Past: April 20 → September 24, 2017
Thirty years after the exhibition “Hommage à Ferrari”, the Fondation Cartier will once again focus its attention on the world of cars with the exhibition “Autophoto” dedicated to photography’s relationship to the automobile.
Autophoto — Une exploration des relations entre la photographie et l’automobile, de 1900 à nos jours
Past: April 20 → September 24, 2017
Thirty years after the exhibition “Hommage à Ferrari”, the Fondation Cartier will once again focus its attention on the world of cars with the exhibition “Autophoto” dedicated to photography’s relationship to the automobile.
Photography
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux
Past: July 2, 2016 → January 8, 2017
“The Great Animal Orchestra” is inspired by the work of American musician and bioacoustician, Bernie Krause. The exhibition brings together the work of artists from all over the world and invites the public to enjoy an aesthetic meditation, both aural and visual, on the animal kingdom, which is increasingly under threat in today’s modern world.
Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux
Past: July 2, 2016 → January 8, 2017
“The Great Animal Orchestra” is inspired by the work of American musician and bioacoustician, Bernie Krause. The exhibition brings together the work of artists from all over the world and invites the public to enjoy an aesthetic meditation, both aural and visual, on the animal kingdom, which is increasingly under threat in today’s modern world.
Architecture, installation, photography...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Hors les Murs — La collection de la Fondation Cartier exposée au Musée des Augustins à Toulouse
Past: September 23 → October 23, 2016
Le Musée des Augustins, accueil la collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Créée et enrichie au fil des expositions depuis 1984, cette collection exceptionnelle rassemble quelques 1400 œuvres — uniques pour la pluspart — et réunit environ 300 artistes originaires du monde entier.
Hors les Murs — La collection de la Fondation Cartier exposée au Musée des Augustins à Toulouse
Past: September 23 → October 23, 2016
Le Musée des Augustins, accueil la collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Créée et enrichie au fil des expositions depuis 1984, cette collection exceptionnelle rassemble quelques 1400 œuvres — uniques pour la pluspart — et réunit environ 300 artistes originaires du monde entier.
Architecture, painting, sculpture...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Fernell Franco — Cali clair-obscur
Past: February 6 → June 5, 2016
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents for the first time in Europe a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Fernell Franco, a major yet still under recognized figure of Latin American photography.
Fernell Franco — Cali clair-obscur
Past: February 6 → June 5, 2016
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents for the first time in Europe a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Fernell Franco, a major yet still under recognized figure of Latin American photography.
Urban art, photography
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Daido Moriyama — Daido Tokyo
Past: February 6 → June 5, 2016
This exhibition focuses on Daido Moriyama’s recent work (the eminent Japanese photographer), and displays an immersive multiscreen projection of black and white photographs which plunge viewers into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle and bustle.
Daido Moriyama — Daido Tokyo
Past: February 6 → June 5, 2016
This exhibition focuses on Daido Moriyama’s recent work (the eminent Japanese photographer), and displays an immersive multiscreen projection of black and white photographs which plunge viewers into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle and bustle.
Urban art, photography
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Festival Caliwood — Projections, lectures, rencontres
Past: March 30 → April 1, 2016
The Fondation Cartier is joining forces with the Christine 21 movie theater in Paris for a festival devoted to Cali, a vibrant Colombian city besotted with youth, salsa and cinema in the 1970s.
Festival Caliwood — Projections, lectures, rencontres
Past: March 30 → April 1, 2016
The Fondation Cartier is joining forces with the Christine 21 movie theater in Paris for a festival devoted to Cali, a vibrant Colombian city besotted with youth, salsa and cinema in the 1970s.
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Beauté Congo 1926-2015 — Congo Kitoko
Past: July 11, 2015 → January 10, 2016
A place of extraordinary cultural vitality, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be honored at the Fondation Cartier. Taking as its point of departure the birth of modern painting in the Congo in the 1920s, this ambitious exhibition will trace almost a century of the country’s artistic production.
Beauté Congo 1926-2015 — Congo Kitoko
Past: July 11, 2015 → January 10, 2016
A place of extraordinary cultural vitality, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be honored at the Fondation Cartier. Taking as its point of departure the birth of modern painting in the Congo in the 1920s, this ambitious exhibition will trace almost a century of the country’s artistic production.
Architecture, urban art, collage...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Carte blanche à l’artiste Richard Mosse
Past: Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 9 PM
Since his first travel to the East of the Congo in 2010, the Irish photographer Richard Mosse records the inextricable reality of the country’s conflict. For 2013 Venice Biennale, he created the video installation “The Enclave”. With the help of infrared film, he gave magenta, violet and yellow tones to the Congolese landscape.
Carte blanche à l’artiste Richard Mosse
Past: Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 9 PM
Since his first travel to the East of the Congo in 2010, the Irish photographer Richard Mosse records the inextricable reality of the country’s conflict. For 2013 Venice Biennale, he created the video installation “The Enclave”. With the help of infrared film, he gave magenta, violet and yellow tones to the Congolese landscape.
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Littératures, poésies et écritures congolaises
Past: Monday, November 9, 2015 at 8 PM
Within the work frame created around the exhibition Beauté Congo — 1926-2015 — Congo Kitoko, the Nomadic Nights invite the actor and director Dieudonné Niangouna to present an evening dedicated to Congolese literature, poetry and writing, including oral and musical traditions of all sorts.
Littératures, poésies et écritures congolaises
Past: Monday, November 9, 2015 at 8 PM
Within the work frame created around the exhibition Beauté Congo — 1926-2015 — Congo Kitoko, the Nomadic Nights invite the actor and director Dieudonné Niangouna to present an evening dedicated to Congolese literature, poetry and writing, including oral and musical traditions of all sorts.
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Carte blanche musicale aux interprètes de la pièce Coup Fatal — Concerts
Past: Monday, October 26, 2015 at 8 PM
For more than a year, the play “Coup Fatal” has delighted everyone with its mesmerising afro-baroque music and its feverish dances. Brainchild of the Brussels-based composer Fabrizio Cassol, this Nomadic Night will give musicians from Kinshasa the opportunity to express other facets of their multiple personalities.
Carte blanche musicale aux interprètes de la pièce Coup Fatal — Concerts
Past: Monday, October 26, 2015 at 8 PM
For more than a year, the play “Coup Fatal” has delighted everyone with its mesmerising afro-baroque music and its feverish dances. Brainchild of the Brussels-based composer Fabrizio Cassol, this Nomadic Night will give musicians from Kinshasa the opportunity to express other facets of their multiple personalities.
Archives
Faustin Linyekula et Studios Kabako — Fanfare Funérailles de Papy Ebotani
Past: Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 4 PM
After having welcomed his solo “Cargo” performance in July, the Nomadic Nights will offer Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako (a space initiated by Faustin Linyekula in order to develop social and cultural projects in Kinshasa, Congo) two ’Cartes blanches’.
Faustin Linyekula et Studios Kabako — Fanfare Funérailles de Papy Ebotani
Past: Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 4 PM
After having welcomed his solo “Cargo” performance in July, the Nomadic Nights will offer Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako (a space initiated by Faustin Linyekula in order to develop social and cultural projects in Kinshasa, Congo) two ’Cartes blanches’.
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Faustin Linyekula et Studios Kabako — The Kin-Philly Connection
Past: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM
After having welcomed his solo “Cargo” performance in July, the Nomadic Nights will offer Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako (a space initiated by Faustin Linyekula in order to develop social and cultural projects in Kinshasa, Congo) two ’Cartes blanches’.
Faustin Linyekula et Studios Kabako — The Kin-Philly Connection
Past: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 8:30 PM
After having welcomed his solo “Cargo” performance in July, the Nomadic Nights will offer Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako (a space initiated by Faustin Linyekula in order to develop social and cultural projects in Kinshasa, Congo) two ’Cartes blanches’.
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Pierre Kwenders — Le Dernier Empereur Bantou — Concert
Past: Monday, October 12, 2015 at 8 PM
Pierre Kwenders mixes progressive afrobeat, Congolese rumba and electro, and describes his music as Afrofuturist. It escapes neither his African roots, nor the Canadian multiculturalism. On stage, he sings in lingala, French and English, and speaks of living “in modernity, in the future, in electro”.
Pierre Kwenders — Le Dernier Empereur Bantou — Concert
Past: Monday, October 12, 2015 at 8 PM
Pierre Kwenders mixes progressive afrobeat, Congolese rumba and electro, and describes his music as Afrofuturist. It escapes neither his African roots, nor the Canadian multiculturalism. On stage, he sings in lingala, French and English, and speaks of living “in modernity, in the future, in electro”.
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Paris Design Week 2015
Past: September 5 → 12, 2015
For eight days, Paris Design Week invites French and international professionals and the general public to discover the best showcases of design in Paris, while the leading talents in the discipline gather in the now! le Off exhibition.
Paris Design Week 2015
Past: September 5 → 12, 2015
For eight days, Paris Design Week invites French and international professionals and the general public to discover the best showcases of design in Paris, while the leading talents in the discipline gather in the now! le Off exhibition.
Event
Design
Multiple venues
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Bruce Nauman
Past: March 14 → June 21, 2015
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents a major solo exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman’s artwork, the first in France in over 15 years. For the occasion, the artist made a careful selection of recent works never before shown in France, along with some earlier installations.
Bruce Nauman
Past: March 14 → June 21, 2015
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents a major solo exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman’s artwork, the first in France in over 15 years. For the occasion, the artist made a careful selection of recent works never before shown in France, along with some earlier installations.
Installation, new media, performance...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Ballade pour une boîte de verre — Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Past: October 25, 2014 → February 22, 2015
Musings on a Glass Box” is a complex work occupying the entire ground floor of the Fondation Cartier, where a disturbance in the ceiling triggers a series of surprising reactions. The result is an immersive environment, including an integral acoustic component by American composer David Lang and sound designer Jody Elff.
Ballade pour une boîte de verre — Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Past: October 25, 2014 → February 22, 2015
Musings on a Glass Box” is a complex work occupying the entire ground floor of the Fondation Cartier, where a disturbance in the ceiling triggers a series of surprising reactions. The result is an immersive environment, including an integral acoustic component by American composer David Lang and sound designer Jody Elff.
Installation, sound - music
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Les Habitants — Une idée de Guillermo Kuitca
Past: October 25, 2014 → February 22, 2015
Guillermo Kuitca’s installation “The Inhabitants” constantly plays on viewers’ sensations and creates optical illusions. It also invites visitors to reflect upon his oeuvre as a whole, characterized by references to maps and the intersection between places and things, as well as allusions to physical, mental and emotional territories.
Les Habitants — Une idée de Guillermo Kuitca
Past: October 25, 2014 → February 22, 2015
Guillermo Kuitca’s installation “The Inhabitants” constantly plays on viewers’ sensations and creates optical illusions. It also invites visitors to reflect upon his oeuvre as a whole, characterized by references to maps and the intersection between places and things, as well as allusions to physical, mental and emotional territories.
Installation, painting, sound - music
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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La Fondation Cartier — 30 ans de mécénat libre et généreux
Past: May 10 → September 21, 2014
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invite the public to celebrate 30 years of patronage and exhibitions. “Vivid Memories” tells an alternative history of contemporary art, one that emphasizes the value of human relationships with artists when it comes to building a successful museum program.
La Fondation Cartier — 30 ans de mécénat libre et généreux
Past: May 10 → September 21, 2014
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invite the public to celebrate 30 years of patronage and exhibitions. “Vivid Memories” tells an alternative history of contemporary art, one that emphasizes the value of human relationships with artists when it comes to building a successful museum program.
Mixed media
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Soirée Nomade — Robyn Orlin + Frédéric Ferrer, danse, performance
Past: Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 9 PM
Danse with Robyn Orlin & Seydou Boro + performance with Frédéric Ferrer.
Event
Archives
Soirée Nomade — Un dimanche après-midi avec Macha Makeïeff
Past: Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 3 PM
Macha Makeïeff today returns to the Fondation Cartier surrounded by her mythical characters and yet other stories for an off-beat and poetic afternoon.
Soirée Nomade — Un dimanche après-midi avec Macha Makeïeff
Past: Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 3 PM
Macha Makeïeff today returns to the Fondation Cartier surrounded by her mythical characters and yet other stories for an off-beat and poetic afternoon.
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Nuit de l’Incertitude — Swans and bats (2/2)
Past: Friday, July 11, 2014 at 9 PM
A recent study on the garden of the Fondation Cartier carried out by the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris (2012) found a surprising abundance of ultrasounds revealing the presence of two species of Chiroptera, better known as bats: the common pipistrelle and the Kuhl’s pipistrelle.
Nuit de l’Incertitude — Swans and bats (2/2)
Past: Friday, July 11, 2014 at 9 PM
A recent study on the garden of the Fondation Cartier carried out by the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris (2012) found a surprising abundance of ultrasounds revealing the presence of two species of Chiroptera, better known as bats: the common pipistrelle and the Kuhl’s pipistrelle.
Nuits de l’Incertitude — Swans and bats (1/2)
Past: Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 9 PM
Swans (a tribute to Pelechian) by Patti Smith
Event
Soirée Nomade — Un dimanche après-midi avec Valérie Mrejen, spectacle, atelier
Past: Sunday, July 6, 2014 at 3 PM
S’inspirant de l’art du bruitage, l’auteur, vidéaste et plasticienne Valérie Mréjen a imaginé « Trois Hommes verts », un conte de science-fiction pour enfants dont elle présente pour la première fois, à l…
Event
Soirée Nomade — Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith et Louis Sclavis, musique improvisée
Past: Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 9 PM
Les trois grands musiciens et maîtres de l’improvisation Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussions), Fred Frith (guitares) et Louis Sclavis (clarinette) se réunissent pour un concert spontané qui promet un échange …
Event
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Soirée Nomade — Marcelline Delbecq + Georges Aperghis + Tim Etchells
Past: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 9 PM
Drawing on her unforgettable and forgotten memories as a spectator, Marcelline Delbecq has written a narrative in images that questions the experience of each and every spectator, reader and listener. Neither fiction nor a true documentary, “Oublier, voir” exonerates a subjective story from viewing as it relates to memory.
Soirée Nomade — Marcelline Delbecq + Georges Aperghis + Tim Etchells
Past: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 9 PM
Drawing on her unforgettable and forgotten memories as a spectator, Marcelline Delbecq has written a narrative in images that questions the experience of each and every spectator, reader and listener. Neither fiction nor a true documentary, “Oublier, voir” exonerates a subjective story from viewing as it relates to memory.
Soirée Nomade — Bettina Atala + Nicolas Maury & Julien Ribot, Stand-up
Past: Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 9 PM
Event
Soirée Nomade — Une soirée imaginée par Charlie le Mindu, cabaret, concert
Past: Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 9 PM
With Charlie le Mindu, Kap Bambino DJ set, Angie Reed, and guests.
Event
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Soirée Nomade — Meredith Monk avec Katie Geissinger en concert
Past: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 9 PM
Internationally acclaimed MacArthur “Genius”, Meredith Monk is regarded as both a “magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers". Monk’s performance with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble member Katie Geissinger reflects her groundbreaking technique and profound understanding of the voice’s flexibility.
Soirée Nomade — Meredith Monk avec Katie Geissinger en concert
Past: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 9 PM
Internationally acclaimed MacArthur “Genius”, Meredith Monk is regarded as both a “magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers". Monk’s performance with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble member Katie Geissinger reflects her groundbreaking technique and profound understanding of the voice’s flexibility.
Soirée Nomade — Une soirée imaginée par Anne-James Chaton, poésie, performance, concert
Past: Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 9 PM
With the “Guitar Poetry Tour” (Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor et Thurston Moore), Bernard Heidsieck, David Wampach, Nicolas Fenouillat and Antoine Jolycœur.
Performance
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America Latina — 1960-2013
Past: November 19, 2013 → April 6, 2014
America Latina offers a new perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image. The exhibition reveals the great diversity of photographic practices by presenting the work of documentary photographers as well as that of contemporary artists who appropriate the medium in different ways.
America Latina — 1960-2013
Past: November 19, 2013 → April 6, 2014
America Latina offers a new perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image. The exhibition reveals the great diversity of photographic practices by presenting the work of documentary photographers as well as that of contemporary artists who appropriate the medium in different ways.
Photography
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Les Soirées Nomades, Revue #12 — Fredi Casco, Sueño de la Razón
Past: Monday, March 31, 2014 at 8 PM
The Paraguayan writer and visual artist Fredi Casco has designed an evening associated with the South American photography review Sueño de la Razón. The program includes a photographic performance and w…
Performance
Les Soirées Nomades — Lázaro Valiente
Past: Monday, March 17, 2014 at 8 PM
Lázaro Valiente is both a filmmaker and a musician. In this event he revisits his documentary film “La Isla Bonita (Pop as an island)” — a musical road trip through Brazil — with live orchestration and s…
Event
Les Soirées Nomades — Mariano Pensotti, El Paraíso
Past: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 8 PM
In this new project, the Argentine author and director Mariano Pensotti and his set designer Mariana Tirantte attempt to bring to life the unfinished. Texts excerpted from unproduced screenplays are proje…
Performance
Les Soirées Nomades — Rosângela Rennó, Per Fumum
Past: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 8 PM
The Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó reconnects with ancient times, when the combustion of plants and tree resin was seen as a sacred offering. During this evening devoted to incense aromas she reactivate…
Performance
Les Soirées Nomades — Fred Forest
Past: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 8 PM
A review of the prolific career of Fred Forest, a pioneering artist who has explored and co-opted new technologies and media since the 1960s, shaking up traditional values in the contemporary art world. T…
Meeting
Les Soirées Nomades — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Past: Monday, November 25, 2013 at 8 PM
From films to comic books, theater and psychomagic, Alejandro Jodorowsky has produced a vast, multifaceted body of work that is rich in symbolic content. Over the course of the evening he will give one of…
Event
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Les Soirées Nomades — Hommage à Roberto Bolaño & Nicanor Parra
Past: Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 7 PM
The Fondation Cartier and the Chilean Embassy have joined forces to present a literary tribute to Roberto Bolaño and Nicanor Parra, two of the most influential authors in Latin American literature.
Les Soirées Nomades — Hommage à Roberto Bolaño & Nicanor Parra
Past: Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 7 PM
The Fondation Cartier and the Chilean Embassy have joined forces to present a literary tribute to Roberto Bolaño and Nicanor Parra, two of the most influential authors in Latin American literature.
Les Soirées Nomades — Miguel Rio Branco
Past: Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 8:30 PM
The painter, photographer, and filmmaker Miguel Rio Branco presents a selection of his films, videos, and video-installations, reviewing his pictorial and poetic work, which is difficult to define due to …
Meeting
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Ron Mueck
Past: April 16 → October 27, 2013
Ron Mueck has his first major exhibition in Europe since the hugely successful exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in 2005. His sculptures — whose subjects otherwise appear so ordinary — radiate a profound humanity. Aiming well beyond the traditions of portraiture, Mueck reveals the uncanny nature of our relationship with body and existence.
Ron Mueck
Past: April 16 → October 27, 2013
Ron Mueck has his first major exhibition in Europe since the hugely successful exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in 2005. His sculptures — whose subjects otherwise appear so ordinary — radiate a profound humanity. Aiming well beyond the traditions of portraiture, Mueck reveals the uncanny nature of our relationship with body and existence.
Agnès Varda
Past: Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 2 PM
After her exhibition “L’île en elle” in 2006, artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda returns to the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain for a day and creates a special event for the garden.
Event
Chrysta Bell — Concert
Past: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 9 PM
Discovered by David Lynch, Texan songwriter Chrysta Bell hypnotizes with her sensual floating voice. Her extended ballads, between trip-hop and smoky blues, are reminiscent of the artist’s phantasmagoric …
Closing
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De fiction en friction — Revue #10
Past: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8 PM
A proposal from the Spanish performer, choreographer and curator Juan Dominguez. The stories told at this event are fictions where the authors’ humor takes us to an emotional realm from which it is hard to escape.
De fiction en friction — Revue #10
Past: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8 PM
A proposal from the Spanish performer, choreographer and curator Juan Dominguez. The stories told at this event are fictions where the authors’ humor takes us to an emotional realm from which it is hard to escape.
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Marie Losier déménage — Revue #9
Past: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 8 PM
After 20 years in New York, the effervescent filmmaker Marie Losier is returning to Europe and is unpacking her crates at the Fondation Cartier, where she presents first-time screenings of dailies, in the company of her artist-friends from eccentric worlds.
Marie Losier déménage — Revue #9
Past: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 8 PM
After 20 years in New York, the effervescent filmmaker Marie Losier is returning to Europe and is unpacking her crates at the Fondation Cartier, where she presents first-time screenings of dailies, in the company of her artist-friends from eccentric worlds.
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Les soirées nomades — Archi-poésie
Past: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 6 PM
A mix of languages: the languages of architects, musicians, and the poet. Anne-James Chaton wraps up his artistic residency at the Nomadic Nights with a blend of words and genres. Lecture, reading, concert and performance: from one to the other and vice versa, the dividing line is tenuous.
Les soirées nomades — Archi-poésie
Past: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 6 PM
A mix of languages: the languages of architects, musicians, and the poet. Anne-James Chaton wraps up his artistic residency at the Nomadic Nights with a blend of words and genres. Lecture, reading, concert and performance: from one to the other and vice versa, the dividing line is tenuous.
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Yue Minjun — L’ombre du fou rire
Past: November 14, 2012 → March 24, 2013
The Fondation Cartier presents the first European exhibition dedicated to Yue Minjun. The artist directs the same howl of laughter at the face of the world that reflects whatever one wants to see in it: a caricature of the homogenization of Chinese Society, a way of “grinning and bearing it” in a world that has become absurd or a form of self-derision.
Yue Minjun — L’ombre du fou rire
Past: November 14, 2012 → March 24, 2013
The Fondation Cartier presents the first European exhibition dedicated to Yue Minjun. The artist directs the same howl of laughter at the face of the world that reflects whatever one wants to see in it: a caricature of the homogenization of Chinese Society, a way of “grinning and bearing it” in a world that has become absurd or a form of self-derision.
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Histoires de voir — Show and Tell
Past: May 15 → October 21, 2012
Histoires de voir — Show and Tell presents the works and narratives of over 40 artists. The exhibition arose from a desire to explore the meaning of the terms “naïve” “primitive” and “self-taught” art, to meet artists who pursue paths outside the norm of conventional visual codes, and to examine the relationships between contemporary art and folk art.
Histoires de voir — Show and Tell
Past: May 15 → October 21, 2012
Histoires de voir — Show and Tell presents the works and narratives of over 40 artists. The exhibition arose from a desire to explore the meaning of the terms “naïve” “primitive” and “self-taught” art, to meet artists who pursue paths outside the norm of conventional visual codes, and to examine the relationships between contemporary art and folk art.
Ceramic, design, drawing...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Mathématiques — Un dépaysement soudain
Past: October 21, 2011 → March 18, 2012
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents the exhibition “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere”. For this unprecedented event, the foundation has opened its doors to the community of mathematicians and asked artists with whom it has worked closely in the past to accompany them in order to create opportunities for seeing and interpreting mathematics.
Mathématiques — Un dépaysement soudain
Past: October 21, 2011 → March 18, 2012
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents the exhibition “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere”. For this unprecedented event, the foundation has opened its doors to the community of mathematicians and asked artists with whom it has worked closely in the past to accompany them in order to create opportunities for seeing and interpreting mathematics.
Architecture, collage, drawing...
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Vaudou
Past: April 5 → September 25, 2011
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present for the first time an exceptional group of voodoo objects from the collection Anne and Jacques Kerchache, in a scenography conceived by Enzo Mari, one of the great masters of Italian industrial design.
Vaudou
Past: April 5 → September 25, 2011
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present for the first time an exceptional group of voodoo objects from the collection Anne and Jacques Kerchache, in a scenography conceived by Enzo Mari, one of the great masters of Italian industrial design.
01 Paris 1
01 Paris 1
Louvre – Rivoli
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre
Opening hours
Every day except Monday, 11 AM – 8 PM