
27.04.2012 / World Bulletin
The anti-museum
Huge, dusty, unfinished and imperfect: the Palais de Tokyo is the largest center for contemporary art in Paris.
Built in 1937 on the occasion of the World Exhibition, it later became a film school, an archive, and finally, in 2002, a contemporary art museum that soon turned into the pioneer of the reconciliation between the Ville Lumière and contemporary art.
This month, after a 10-month renovation that almost tripled its size, the Palais reopened in grand style, with 22,000 squate meters of exhibition spaces and an ambitious project:Â hosting four to five major exhibitions a season, along with many smaller ones.The “unfinished” look, as the center’s President himself explains, is totally intentional: its aim is to stimulate the artists’ creativity by inviting them to take possession of these spaces.
At the moment, the Palais de Tokyo is hosting several exhibitions related to the intervention of 30 artists on the museums building that took place during the relaunch.
Yet, the main event, that will be hosted at the Palais and at other neighbouring institutions until August 26 agosto, is the Contemporarty Art Triennale curated by Okuwi Enwezor. Not to be missed.
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