{"id":61229,"date":"2025-08-11T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61229\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:43:16","slug":"wolfgang-tillmans-exhibition-to-close-out-paris-pompidou-center-before-major-five-year-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61229\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition to close out Paris’ Pompidou Center before major five-year renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n

The Pompidou Center<\/a>, one of Paris\u2019 most radical and beloved cultural institutions, is preparing to shut its doors this autumn for a major five-year renovation. <\/p>\n

The renovation will see asbestos removed from all facades, major fire safety upgrades, and entire floors reconfigured – including the creation of a new level dedicated to children. <\/p>\n

Its vast collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces will be dispersed across museums in Paris, throughout France, and beyond.<\/p>\n

Work is set to begin by the end of 2025, with a grand reopening planned for 2030.<\/p>\n

The building that broke the rules and caused a scandal<\/p>\n

With its unconventionally exposed pipes and skeletal escalators crawling across the exterior, the Pompidou was once considered an architectural scandal. <\/p>\n

Early critics mockingly dubbed it the \u201cNotre-Dame of the Pipes,\u201d appalled by its defiant break from the orderly elegance of Haussmannian Paris. <\/p>\n

But over time, the building – designed by then-unknown young architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and opened in 1977 – won over the hearts of the public. <\/p>\n

Commissioned by and named after President Georges Pompidou – who died before its completion – the building was born from his radical vision: a place where art and life would collide, and where disciplines from painting to performance could coexist under one roof.<\/p>\n

Today the Pompidou holds more than 120,000 works of modern and contemporary art, featuring iconic pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo<\/a>, Joan Mir\u00f3, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall<\/a>, and many more.<\/p>\n

No wonder it’s such a hit. In 2024 alone, the centre drew over 3 million visitors, making it one of Paris\u2019 most visited institutions – second only to the Louvre (8 million) and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay (3.7 million).<\/p>\n

This year, the institution staged one of its most ambitious and politically resonant shows in recent memory. Titled Paris Noir<\/a>, the exhibition (which ran until late June) traced the rich, too-often overlooked contributions of Black artists from Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean who lived in or passed through Paris between 1950 and 2000.<\/p>\n

With over 150 artists – from Wifredo Lam to Luce Turnier, Beauford Delaney to Agust\u00edn C\u00e1rdenas – the show was a sweeping and visually powerful re-mapping of post-colonial modernity. <\/p>\n

Now, the final major show before the Pompidou’s shutdown is a sweeping retrospective of German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Sprawled across what used to be the public library, the show brings together over three decades of work by the Turner Prize-winning artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential photographers of his generation. <\/p>\n

Titled Nothing could have prepared us \u2013 Everything could have prepared us, the retrospective showcases his wide-ranging approach to image-making across portraiture, still life, architecture, documentary photography, and abstraction.<\/p>\n

The Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective runs until 22 September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 08\/08\/2025 – 9:23 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The Pompidou Center, one of Paris\u2019 most radical and beloved cultural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,22296,356,75,12269,637,22150,13782,1062],"class_list":["post-61229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-contemporary-art","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-france","tag-museum","tag-paris","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}