Chefs-d’œuvre en résonance avec le Centre Pompidou

The exhibition “Masterpieces in Resonance” places works from the Centre Pompidou among the casts, wall paintings and stained-glass windows of the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. Modern sculptures and other works meet these fragments of historic monuments, bringing together gestures, materials and figures separated by several centuries.

The exhibition explores these juxtapositions: Niki de Saint Phalle’s figures echo the grotesque creatures of historic architectural sculpture, while Nam June Paik and Judit Reigl give the doorway new symbolic significance. In works by Jean Dubuffet, Thomas Schütte and Gina Pane, the body is distorted, reassembled and put to the test. Other connections emerge through impressions and imprints in the work of Giuseppe Penone and Roy Adzak, or through verticality in pieces by Sheila Hicks and Jean-Michel Othoniel.

Marking the Cité’s twentieth anniversary and the Centre Pompidou’s fiftieth, this display invites visitors to view the architecture collections through works that offer fresh ways of interpreting them. It is part of the Constellation programme, which brings the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne to other venues during the Centre Pompidou’s renovation.

Practical information
- Open daily from 11 am to 7 pm, except Tuesdays. Late opening on Thursdays until 9 pm.
- Trocadéro entrance, 1 place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre.
- Closed on 1 May. Free admission for everyone on the first Sunday of each month.

Jean Dubuffet, Le Veilleur, 1972, Centre Pompidou Collection, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle © Jean Dubuffet / ADAGP, Paris, 2026. Souillac, Sainte-Marie Abbey Church, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1140, cast by Jean Pouzadoux, 1890 © Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine / Nicolas Krief