Whereas its Paris house base closes for 5 years to bear a renovation, the Centre Pompidou will increase its worldwide attain, opening its first South American house in 2027.
Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the brand new location in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, might be one in every of a number of satellites operated by the Centre Pompidou, with others in Shanghai, Málaga, and Metz, France, amongst different locales.
The Brazilian Centre Pompidou museum is receiving monetary backing from Paraná officers, who oversee the territory round Iguaçu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage website. Will probably be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez.
Benítez’s work has been sustainability-focused. The museum mentioned he’ll work to seamlessly combine his Centre Pompidou satellite tv for pc into its environment.
The museum will embrace exhibition galleries and analysis services, and can give attention to spotlighting artists from South America whereas additionally foregrounding elements of the Pompidou’s everlasting assortment, which includes round 150,000 objects.
It’s one in every of a number of Pompidou satellites within the works, with others anticipated to look in Brussels and Seoul within the coming years.
The Centre Pompidou’s Paris museum will shut for 5 years beginning this September for a $280 million renovation. The renovation, overseen partly by France’s cultural ministry, will improve vitality programs and modernize the constructing’s getting older infrastructure, which initially opened in 1977. The final exhibition mounted earlier than the closure might be a Wolfgang Tillmans present set within the museum’s library.
