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Adel Abdessemed
Boris Achour
Saâdane Afif
Kader Attia
Olivier Babin
Jules de Balincourt
Virginie Barré
Rebecca Bournigault
Mircea Cantor
Alain Declercq
Leandro Erlich
Laurent Grasso
Loris Gréaud
Kolkoz
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Matthieu Laurette
Michael Lin
Mathieu Mercier
Jean-François Moriceau
et Petra Mrzyk
Nicolas Moulin
Valérie Mréjen
Bruno Peinado
Bruno Serralongue
Nathalie Talec
Agnès Thurnauer
Barthélémy Toguo
Tatiana Trouvé
Fabien Verschaere
Wang Du …
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21 January to 7 May 2006
Show opening
Friday 20 January 2006, from 8 p.m. to midnight
20 January to 27 January 2006:
a week of nonstop events
PA LA I S D E TO K YO, SITE DE CRÉATION CONTEMPORAINE, FROM 21 JANUARY TO 7 MAY 2006
director of communication
Sofianne Le Bourhis
T +33 1 47 23 54 57
sofianne@palais de tokyo.com
assisted by
Mylène Ferrand
[email protected]
press contact
[email protected]
T +33 1 47 23 52 00
curators
Nicolas Bourriaud
Jérôme Sans
with the collaboration of
Marc Sanchez
Akiko Miki
Claire Staebler
Daria Joubert
assisted by
Martin Kiefer
Anaël Pigeat
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"Notre histoire…" is a show that looks to the
future, an exhibition that embodies
tomorrow's memory today. Emerging artists in
France already constitute the very stuff of our
future. Because of its commitment, the Palais
de Tokyo is following a history as it is being
written in the present.
"Notre histoire…" has indeed been made
with the featured artists and attests to a
human adventure that began in 2002. That
adventure is the story of a judgment and a
certain bias, i.e., to detect today the emerging
artists who will be creating the art of the 21st
century. "Notre histoire…" reflects that
commitment and mission.
For the occasion, the Palais de Tokyo has
scheduled a week of nonstop events, free
to all, from 20 to 27 January 2006.
A French art scene
Focused on the world of 29 up-and-coming
artists, "Notre histoire…" is designed as a
commitment to a developing French art
scene. "Notre histoire…" makes choices
and outlines a viewpoint that anchors the
Palais de Tokyo's artistic program in the
future. But "Notre histoire…" is more than
the outcome of the experience of working
with artists, it is both the seeds of a history to
be written in the present and a resolute way
of engaging with the future today. "Notre
histoire…" isn't simply 29 "representative"
artists that the Palais de Tokyo is showing to
the public, it is 29 stories that form a future
history. It is a matter of taking control of
"Notre histoire…"
Palais de Tokyo,
site de création contemporaine
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75116 Paris
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open from noon to midnight
everyday except Monday
Metro
Alma Marceau or Iéna
Bus: the 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 82, or 92 line
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Admission
• Full admission: 6 euros
• Reduced admission: 4.5 euros
(over 60 years old; under 26; large families)
• Special admission for artists, art teachers
and art students, and for everyone on the
first Sunday of each month: 1 euro
• Imagine "R" admission: 3 euros
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A premise
A capital of memory for the future
Placing contemporary art once again at the
center of today's world, "Notre histoire…"
doesn't feature artists' views "on" the world
and isn't a reflection on artists' place in that
world today. Rather, the show aims to define
how emerging French artists take part in
elaborating French society from within. What
the artists are producing is an outlook for
constructing the world. They don't react to the
world, they make it and provide it with its
prospects. "Notre histoire…" attests to this
repositioning of the figure of the artist, who is
no longer a proud loner, riding along astride
reality, but is in fact the supplier of a matrix
that anticipates reality. The premise of "Notre
histoire…" is that artists have more than just
something to say. "Notre histoire…" affirms
that it is up to each person to get them to
speak. Works of art are our world's grammar:
they are the syntactic tools that each of us
must be capable of using in order to
formulate the demands of the future.
"Notre histoire…" features major works by
emerging artists on the French art scene.
Whether recent or old, these works form a
three-dimensional landscape that takes
shape throughout the whole of the Palais de
Tokyo's exhibition galleries. Thoroughly
imbued with a futuristic culture that integrates
science fiction, science, and speculative
narrative, the work of Adel Abdessemed,
Nicolas Moulin, Loris Gréaud, Kolkoz,
Mathieu Mercier, Laurent Grasso, Nathalie
Talec, Virginie Barré, Tatiana Trouvé,
Saâdane Afif and Leandro Erlich functions on
the basis of some special effect that distorts,
subverts, and reshapes reality, the better to
foreshadow it.
The reality in question is also the reality of
political, social, and economic events, which
are examined and reworked in pieces by
Bruno Serralongue, Alain Declerq, Mircea
Cantor, Wang Du, Matthieu Laurette, and
Agnès Thurnauer.
From one dimension to another, this
questioning is pursued further in a
pop/popular style that gives greater leeway to
the developments of the imagination in the
works of Michael Lin, Fabien Verschaere,
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Barthélémy Toguo,
Olivier Babin, Kader Attia, Valérie Mréjen,
Boris Achour, Rebecca Bournigault, Bruno
Peinado, Jules de Balincourt, and JeanFrançois Moriceau and Petra Mrzyk.
From one series to the next, each work,
through its resonance, goes well beyond the
dimension it is seemingly assigned and
enters several fields simultaneously. From
futurist art that hinges on special effects, to
current affairs, to pop/popular culture, "Notre
histoire…" sketches the outlines of a
memory captured in real life, the memory of a
not-so-distant future.
Exhibition
partners
Media
partners
A Vision
A platform for reflection
"Notre histoire…" is the history of an
artistic, institutional, and human commitment,
the commitment made by the Palais de
Tokyo. "Notre histoire…" is a show that
embraces, in all its subjectivity, the vision
incarnated by the Palais de Tokyo since its
inception. What the Palais de Tokyo has
created and brought to the French art scene
since opening in 2002 is rendered here in a
condensed form that will serve as a
stimulating perspective.
Refusing to make do with merely exhibiting
a certain contemporary art scene,
"Notre histoire…" presents it as matter for
reflection. The show will bring together
around its principal theme numerous
intellectuals, scientists, researchers, and
entrepreneurs, all of whom are emblematic of
our age. "Notre histoire…" thus takes shape
as a puzzle that must be put together by
several people at once. It is a game. The
show is part of a process of rendering the
individual responsible that enables
contemporary art, through discussions,
lectures, round tables, and debates, to exist
as the power of an unavoidable proposition.
Beyond a simple inventory of what is, the aim
is to write "Notre histoire…" in a defined
cross-disciplinary manner.
"Notre histoire…" doesn't just take stock of what is
out there, it leads to a suspension, to ellipses…
Permanent
partners
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agence conseil
en communication
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Adel Abdessemed
Boris Achour
Saâdane Afif
Kader Attia
Olivier Babin
Jules de Balincourt
Virginie Barré
Rebecca Bournigault
Mircea Cantor
Alain Declercq
Leandro Erlich
Laurent Grasso
Loris Gréaud
Kolkoz
Valérie Mréjen
Matthieu Laurette
Michael Lin
Mathieu Mercier
et Petra Mrzyk
Nicolas Moulin
Bruno Peinado
Bruno Serralongue
Nathalie Talec
Agnès Thurnauer
Barthélémy Toguo
Tatiana Trouvé
Fabien Verschaere
Wang Du…
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Listening to "Notre histoire…"
Both creative and evolving, audio accompaniments to "Notre histoire…" are available for
visiting the show. You can discover a multivoiced "Notre histoire…" with sound works by
artists featured in the exhibition and commentary by intellectuals taking part in the special
event week that follows the show's opening.
At the museum reception area you can download your choice of audio tracks onto your
USB flash drive, your mobile phone, or your MP3 player.
You can also rent an MP3 player at the museum reception.
Adel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed's videos, performances,
and installations question social, political, and
cultural limits in both Muslim and Western
societies. Shot through with a powerful
sensitivity and steeped in literature and
philosophy, Abdessemed's works always
propose a reflection on human nature.
For "Notre histoire…" Abdessemed has
chosen to present a work that crystallizes
life's ephemeral aspect, representing death in
the form of a subtle, grandiose memento
mori.
Adel Abdessemed was born in Constantine
(Algeria) in 1971. He lives and works in Paris.
Habibi, 2003, installation view at Frac ChampagneArdenne, collection MAMCO, Geneva
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Boris Achour
In his work, Boris Achour likes to question
reality, lightly subverting it through slight
touches and minute shifts. Antirevolutionary
in its way, yet profoundly critical, his art takes
shapes as playful and gently ironic
interventions, like his "Actions few" or his
tracts that proclaim, "The artist Boris Achour
(unknown the world over)!!! He can do
nothing for you!". As in his "Cosmos" video
library (which is made up of covers of
imaginary films, all of which are called
"Cosmos"), Achour has developed a reflection
on the proliferation of signs and the way they
are classified and put in hierarchies because
of our cultural habits. Occasionally
monumental in size, his pieces work like
generators of forms and questions.
For "Notre histoire…" Achour is presenting
the first episode of a new series of works
called "Conatus." The series, which is meant
to grow, plays with the codes of sculpture and
mobiles as they stand on display in the
exhibition space.
Boris Achour was born in Marseille in 1966.
He lives and works in Paris.
Operation Restore Poetry, 2005
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Saâdane Afif
Saâdane Afif works with the concepts of
displacement and contrast. His pieces hum
with multiple meanings and function by using
collusion. He employs objects, models,
installations, sounds, and writing to classify
the unclassifiable, and mirror - in the work
itself - the dialog between the viewer and the
artist. That dialog is continuously fed with
various allusions and is infiltrated from all
quarters by historical, psychological, social,
and cultural elements.
For "Notre histoire…" Affif has put together
a new installation that borrows the codes of
the fun house and the county fair. "Lost
World"
is a piece of art that is unsettling - literally
and figuratively.
Saâdane Afif was born in Vendôme in 1970.
He lives and works in Paris and Berlin.
Laffs in the Dark, 2005
View of the Turin Triennale "The Pantagruel Syndrome"
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Kader Attia
Using photographs, slide shows, videos, and
installations, Kader Attia tackles the questions
of uprootedness, identity, sexuality, and the
socio-economic relationships that define our
lives. His works are like so many case
studies on such subjects as immigration,
ghetto neighborhoods, luxury, or religion, with
a content that is often strongly political.
For "Notre histoire…" Attia has opted to
present an installation that touches on both
Sufism and hip hop culture, two worlds that,
as the artist shows us, aren't as different as it
might first appear. With this piece, Attia
broadens his reflection on detachment vis-àvis questions of belonging.
Kader Attia was born in Dugny in 1970.
The Loop, 2005
The Loop, preparatory drawing, 2005
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Olivier Babin
Olivier Babin is interested in the way the
cultural industry, advertising, and economic
and political marketing appropriate forms that
come directly from abstract, conceptual, or
minimalist art. He works by direct
appropriation of historical forms (cover,
remake, tribute), and by a "secondary
appropriation" of those forms as they are
used by popular culture. Through painting,
sculpture, and performance, he employs
humor and displacement to create "areas of
autonomy" that are both poetic and
disillusioned.
For "Notre histoire…" Babin has undertaken
a new phase in his series of works called
"Towards infinite freshness." His contribution
features a painting and a collection of very
"refreshing" sculptures inspired by the shape
of the watermelon...
Olivier Babin was born in 1975. He lives and
works in Paris.
Towards Infinite Freshness, 2005
Art for the very last people, 2005
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Jules de Balincourt
The French artist Jules de Balincourt, who is
based in New York and Berlin, has been
developing a figurative pictorial practice that
blends apocalyptic vision, derision, and urban
fresco, which he casts in a colorful yet critical
light. Decrying economic, social, and political
constraints in a naïve yet lucid manner,
de Balincourt tells quirky, even prophetic
contemporary fables that exist at the point
where realism borders on symbolism. His art,
an enigmatic folk vision that is stamped by a
bankrupt America, takes the form of both
sculptures and installations.
For "Notre histoire…" de Balincourt is
presenting a series of recent paintings.
Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris en
1972. He lives in Brooklyn and Berlin.
U.S. World Studies #1, 2003
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Virginie Barré
Virginie Barré poses hyperrealist sculptures
in various contexts. Moving between fiction,
the minor news item, and reality, the artist
navigates a filmic world that is akin to
B-movies and film noir, even the universe of
master filmmakers like Hitchcock and
Kubrick. While her works border on an
occasionally bloody realism, the absurdity of
the situations conjured up makes viewers
shiver and smile. They become witnesses to
crime scenes that in a way have to be solved.
For "Notre histoire…" Barré conjures up
both humor and fear in an off-beat form that
borders on the absurd.
Virginie Barré was born in Quimper in 1970.
She lives and works in Douarnenez.
Fatbat, 2005
Écarlate, 2004
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PA LA IS D E TO K YO, SITE DE CRÉATION CONTEMPORAINE, FROM 21 JANUARY TO 7 MAY 2006
Rebecca Bournigault
Rebecca Bournigault is part of the generation
of artists who are developing a
pluridisciplinary approach to art. She is a
watercolorist, draftsman, painter,
photographer, and videomaker all in one. Her
work stands out as an art of portraiture
somewhere between fiction and reality. Her
references come essentially from the world of
music, but she also creates pieces in which
commonplaces are featured and the question
of the Other is a recurrent theme. Her work
fittingly offers situations where others are
revealed through their silences or stories.
For "Notre histoire…" Bournigault is
showing a selection of recent watercolors and
photographs.
Rebecca Bournigault was born in Colmar
in 1970. She lives and works in Paris.
Boy Meet Girl, watercolor, 2002
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Mircea Cantor
A spearhead of the young Romanian art
scene, Mircea Cantor, who elected to live in
Paris in 2000, has been developing a body of
work as a visual artist as well as a graphic
designer and publisher with Version
Magazine. This young artist is fascinated by
travel and the bridges spanning cultures,
languages and spaces, and one often finds
in his work that desire for investigating reality,
for research and negociation in the field.
For "Notre histoire…" Cantor has decided to
show two projects, including the video
installation "The Landscape is changing,"
that features a demonstration whose
participants brandish mirrors in place of
banners.
Mircea Cantor was born in Romania in 1977.
The Landscape Is Changing, 2003
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Alain Declercq
The various guises that power assumes, the
contemporary forms of oppression and
security, and manipulation by the media lie at
the heart of Alain Declercq's concerns. Since
the early 1990s, his work has involved
collecting clues, provoking micro-dysfunctions,
and reversing situations in order to disturb
our representations of authority.
For "Notre histoire…" Declercq is
presenting a new phase in his work following
the creation of his last docu-fiction film
"Mike."
Alain Declercq was born in Moulins in 1969.
Mike on the Top of the World Trade Center, 2001
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Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich's installations function like
traps made up of fake mirrors, inversions,
and trompe l'œil, in which the viewer is
invited to share the odd experience of his
presence or disappearance, and to go
beyond the optical games in order to explore
the depths of a psychological reality that is
murkier than it seems.
For "Notre histoire…" Erlich plays once
again on optical and special effects in a new
and original work called smoking room.
Leandro Erlich was born in Buenos Aires
in 1973. He lives and works in Paris.
La pilita, 1998
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Laurent Grasso
Laurent Grasso uses video, sound, and light
to modify our conception of things and their
manifestation. The materials he works with
are often immaterial and invisible, such as
electromagnetic waves. Grasso also makes
use of film techniques to create something
other than a film. "Radio Ghost," "Tout est
possible," and "Projection" offer us mental
spaces that influence our perception of reality
and notion of time.
For "Notre histoire…" Grasso has decided
to show a new work created for this
exhibition.
Laurent Grasso was born in Mulhouse in
1972. He lives and works in Paris.
Projection, 2005
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Loris Gréaud
Loris Gréaud likes to work on the incredibly
slight, between states, and zones that are
beyond control, laying out avenues of
discovery that the viewer must take over. He
summons different elements and fields of
competence (historians, architects, graphic
designers, musicians) in a chain of
collaborations in which he serves as the final
producer. Each project thus becomes a
composition, design, architecture, film or
story, i.e., a hybrid form that offers visitors a
space for improvisation and action in a story
that exceeds their comprehension.
For "Notre histoire…" Gréaud is presenting
"Devils Tower," a monumental sculpture that
questions our perception of stability.
Loris Gréaud was born in 1979. He lives and
works in Paris.
Devil's Tower Satelite, 2005
Mobile sculpture
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Kolkoz
Kolkoz is the name of the artistic duo
Benjamin Moreau and Samuel Boutruche.
Under this pseudonym, the two artists dream
up projects that go beyond merely producing
objects, since they make concrete a concept
of life that constitutes their daily existence:
reality or virtuality? In works by Kolkoz, the
two worlds blend and the sham fades into
"real" sequences.
For "Notre histoire…" Kolkoz has chosen to
present an installation in the form of a
livingroom that allows visitors to view their
vacation films, which have been completely
redone in 3D.
Benjamin Moreau was born in Paris in 1973.
Samuel Boutruche was born in Avranches
in 1972. They live and work in Paris.
Les films de vacances, 2005
Installation view, Les films de vacances,
Maison des Arts, Malakoff, 2005
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An exhilarating artist, a well-known figure on
the performance scene and a spoilsport,
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux clearly descends from
the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Dada, the
Pieds Nickelés and Fluxus. He questions art's
limits via the ludicrous and a sly rereading of
the 20th century's avant-garde movements.
Although best known for his performances,
Labelle-Rojoux has also created installations
that stand cultural hierarchies on their head in
a great remix in which the high-brow is
revised and updated with popular culture.
For "Notre histoire…" Labelle-Rojoux has
produced a vast painting that sheds a
subversive contemporary light, through an
accumulation of motifs, disgressions and
trompe l'œil references, on art from the1960s
to the present.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux was born in 1950. He
lives and works in Paris.
Exhibition view
C'est quoi dégueulasse,
Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2005
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Matthieu Laurette
The shortcomings of the commercial system,
the interstices of social power, and the
opportunities of the media networks mark off
the field of Matthieu Laurette's activity. He
questions the artist's presence in the
"spectacular merchant society." Like a rovider
of some service, he offers, for example,
recipes that enable their users to create a
media identity for themselves. In 1993, with
his taking part in the French television game
show "Tournez manège," he declared himself
a multimedia artist. Since then he has quite
regularly used television as a tool and
workplace.
For "Notre histoire…" Laurette has created
"Money back," a large-scale installation
through which he aims to present his system
of social pirating that enables one to live
more cheaply by enjoying the advertising
one-upmanship of the consumer society, like
a form of anarchist social security.
Matthieu Laurette was born in Villeneuve
Saint-Georges in 1970. He lives and works
in Paris.
Moneyback Life ! Mobile Information Stand for
Moneyback products (version#1), 2001
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Michael Lin
Michael Lin's works cover walls and floors
using large floral or geometrical motifs
inspired by traditional Taiwanese fabrics.
His installations, designed specifically for
the architecture of the exhibition space, often
become meeting places, venues to be lived in
and enjoyed, before being a painting to be
looked at. Viewers are plunged into a
welcoming, comfortable "all over" artwork.
The artist likes to introduce into his work the
notion of use, lay claim to a different
relationship between viewers and painting,
and propose a transgression that occurs
through the direct contact and mobilization of
the body.
For "Notre histoire…" Lin has done a
monumental mural painting inspired by
childhood imagery that immerses the viewer
in a magical world.
Michael Lin was born in Taiwan in 1959.
wall-painting project, 2005
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Mathieu Mercier
Sculpture, installation, and painting are the
means Mathieu Mercier employs to study a
form, even rework it to the point of exhaustion.
Using design or architecture with the aim of
exploring the stereotypes of modernity and
the way popular culture recycles them,
Mercier's work is able to summon up
Mondrian's paintings as a banal plastic garden
chair because they are, as the artist sees it,
fed by the same logic.
For "Notre histoire…" Mercier has pulled off
a reappropriation of easily recognizable forms
in order to transform them with a touch of
irony.
Mathieu Mercier was born in Conflans-SainteHonorine in 1970. He lives and works in
Berlin and Paris.
Sans titre, 2005
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5
et Petra Mrzyk
Master draftsmen practicing their art on paper
and walls, and in wallpaper and video
animation, Jean-François Moriceau and Petra
Mrzyk capture gestures, attitudes, settings,
and bits of daily life, which they transpose
into little scenes that are funny as well as
disturbing. Their drawings look like a fluid
stroll through the fantasies of a certain age,
namely our own, in a spirit that conjures up
both Odilon Redon and Sempé, Alain Séchas
and Surrealism.
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For "Notre histoire…" Moriceau and Mrzyk
have created a large wall drawing.
Jean-François Moriceau and Petra Mrzyk
were born in 1976 and 1974. They live and
work in Paris.
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1>4, Exhibition view Docteur No, Villa Arson, Nice,
2004/2005
5, Untitled, 2005
6, Untitled, exhibition view I Still Believe in Miracles,
volet 1/1, dessins sans papier, Couvent des
Cordeliers, ARC/Musée d’art moderne de la ville de
Paris, 2005
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Nicolas Moulin
Reappropriating landscape, whether deserted
or urban, Nicolas Moulin takes sites that
inspire him and empties them of all human
presence. By reworking his photos,
disembodying the terrain and rendering space
virtual, Moulin creates a spare world that
blends the imaginary and technology. The
uncanny quality that rises from these views
and their studied cool renders fiction more
real than one might think. Moulin's evanescent
shots, with their look of some futurist
archeology, impart an implicit political tinge
to his work.
For "Notre histoire…" Moulin has made his
scientifico-virtual data storage the material of
a reflection on the future of humans in the
spaces they inhabit by their absence. Thanks
to an installation that reactivates the artist's
databanks, virtual wandering becomes a
component of a new way of "being-in-theworld."
Nicolas Moulin was born in Paris in 1970.
He lives and works in Paris and Berlin.
Aviafluenza, 2005
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Valérie Mréjen
Valérie Mréjen is a video filmmaker,
photographer, and writer. Her work, which lies
at a point where several artistic fields meet, is
a continuous research in biography, both her
own, specifically her relationships with the men
in her life (her father, grandfather, and lover
are the subjects of her books) and others'.
These stories, whether filmed or written, are
short and sober, always hitting the mark with
a delicate touch. Focusing on the most banal
things that life has to offer, the artist questions
anonymous individuals about their daily
existence, the relationship between men and
women, their religious convictions.
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For "Notre histoire…" Mréjen has decided
to present a new series of videos on the
theme of the diary and the photo romance
novel, describing in the form of a parody a
day in the life of a woman at home.
Valérie Mréjen was born in Paris in 1969. She
lives and works in Paris.
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Dieu, video still, 2004
Sans titre, video still, 2005
Sans titre, video still, 2005
Oops, video still, 2002
Portraits Filmés 2, 2003
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Bruno Peinado
In the face of dominant cultures which he
says excludes him, Bruno Peinado has opted
for the strategy of the varied and the mixed
through a kind of crossbreeding and chance
contamination. The craftsmanlike aspect of
his art and the use of commonplace objects
and recognizable logos assume a social
dimension in his œuvre. Peinado's works
represent a way of freeing oneself from
models and stereotypes, and reappropriation
proves to be a point of resistence.
For "Notre histoire…" Peinado has created
a new installation.
Bruno Peinado was born in Montpellier in
1970. He lives and works in Douarnenez.
Exhibition view Perpetuum Mobile,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004
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Bruno Serralongue
Bruno Serralongue moves through the world
of utopias and social struggles, melding
writing and photography. His subjects are all
sustained by a sociological and political
vision. For some ten years now, the artist has
traveled to the four corners of the world to
practice his brand of reportage. From sordid
minor events along the Riviera and
neo-Zapatistas in Chiapas, to unrestrained
restructuring in Korea and the retrocession of
Hong Kong, he works like an unconventional
journalist who is representing the world with a
camera.
For "Notre histoire…" Serralongue has
contributed a new series of photos shot in
Tunis during the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).
Bruno Serralongue was born in Châtellerault
in 1968. He lives and works in Paris.
Delegates at Rally against US imperialism, Kranti
Maidan, Mumbai 2004, 2004
Portrait d'Ernesto Guevara, Santa Clara,
16.10.1997, 1997
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Nathalie Talec
Working simultaneously in several fields,
Nathalie Talec has forged a singular, varied
persona. Sensitive to the experience of the
double as a space for science/fiction, she has
always introduced an element of play into her
world. Nowadays she doesn't shy from
challenging the clichés of the contemporary
audiovisuel spectacle by making televisual
reality her battlefield and area of activity.
For "Notre histoire…" Talec has laid the
corner stone of a vast project that will
transform the world of art into an exciting
sitcom.
Nathalie Talec was born in 1960. She lives
and works in Paris.
People Fiction, 2005
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Agnès Thurnauer
To Agnès Thurnauer, paintings are a space
for contemporary dialog that is nurtured by
material from modern life in order to form a
continuous, interconnected whole. Her
pictures are reminiscent of daily trips, images
picked up in the street, snippets of
conversation and newspaper articles that
concretely reflect the way the mind operates,
linking multiple objects that are apparently
without connection and the different meanings
they give rise to. The artist approaches the
image as a "between" place, a place of links,
of meetings, not of breaks.
For "Notre histoire…" Thurnauer has
produced a new series of large-format
paintings dealing with the question of history
and the avant-garde.
Agnès Thurnauer was born in 1962. She lives
and works in Paris.
Remake, 2005
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Barthélémy Toguo
Barthélémy Toguo uses drawing,
photography, performance, sculpture, and
video to forge an artistic language that draws
its inspiration from his travels and encounters
with others. The world of his art is an
autobiographical vision and a critical
observation of the world, both beautiful and
monstruous. Toguo has developed a body of
work that remains close to social concerns
and focused on human emotions. It is an art
whose obsession is Life.
For "Notre histoire…" Toguo has created
"The Promised Land #2" (2006), a piece that
takes the form of a strange landing strip that
is entirely covered with a range of materials,
stones, bottles, etc., which prevent an
airplane from taking off. This installation
conjures up a reality, an invitation to travel,
dream, and the quest for an elsewhere.
Barthélémy Toguo was born in Cameroon in
1967. He lives and works in Paris and
Cameroon.
The Promised Land, 2001/2002
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PA LA IS D E TO K YO, SITE DE CRÉATION CONTEMPORAINE, FROM 21 JANUARY TO 7 MAY 2006
Tatiana Trouvé
A poetic and sometimes somber world on a
small scale, the work of Tatiana Trouvé
stands apart for its forms as well as its
surreal vocabulary, which lies somewhere
between sports equipment, an office space,
and an SM torture room. Since 1997, the
artist has placed her various projects and
activites at the mysterious and Kafkaesque
BAI (Bureau d'activités implicites, or Bureau
of Implicit Activities), which features
micro-architectures (the "Polders" and
"Modules") and records ghost activities, i.e.,
the artist's desires, movements, researche,
failures, and aspirations. Trouvé describes
her work as drawings in space done with
materials that she produces herself and then
arranges as complex and deliberately
unusable interiors.
For "Notre histoire…" Trouvé has returned
to her installation "Polder" (red beads), first
shown at the "Djinns" exhibition at the
c.n.e.a.i in Chatou. It is a collection of works
designed like mental spaces linked to
memory.
Tatiana Trouvé was born in Italy in 1968.
She lives and works in Paris.
Polder (perles rouges), 2005
Exhibition view Djinns, c.n.e.a.i, Chatou, France
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Fabien Verschaere
Fabien Verschaere likes to tell stories,
anecdotes, real and invented deeds which he
interprets and passes on as fairy tales or
mythic tales, thus becoming an intercessor
between different realities. Each of his
projects is the occasion for a multitude of
stories in images offered to the public via a
sometimes chaotic, playful, and overloaded
visit. His work swings between the public and
the private spheres, blending poetry and
cryptography and endlessly renewing its
own vocabulary.
For "Notre histoire…" Verschaere has built
a surprising magic house.
Fabien Verschaere was born in Vincennes in
1975. He lives and works in Paris.
Once Upon No Time, 2005
A Novel for Life
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Wang Du
"I want to be a media," says Wang Du, whose
work forms a biting critique of mass media's
power in contemporary society. The artist's
way of working is simple and spectacular.
Using the traditional processes of sculpture
and casting, he lends three-dimensional
volume to two-dimensional pictures borrowed
from the mass media, giving fleeting images
extension in space (depth, body) and time.
For "Notre histoire…" Wang Du has
decided to present a large environment called
"Luxe populaire" (Popular Luxury), which
visitors are invited to immerse themselves in.
The viewer moves through a gigantic
landscape of newspapers spread over the
floor, from which sculptures representing
crumpled press clippings arise.
Wang Du was born in China in 1956. He lives
and works in Paris.
Luxe populaire, 2001
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A voyage to the very center of
contemporary art:
8 days of nonstop exploration.
A week of free events that
are open to one and all.
Everyday between 21 and 27 Jan.:
> Free admission to all from noon to midnight…
> Every hour, free guided visits by our
mediators
> Free audioguides: the soundtrack to
"Notre histoire…"
> The film "Palais de Tokyo - Notre histoire..."
the key moments of the Palais de Tokyo on
a giant screen…
> Special menus that change everyday at
the TokyoEat restaurant
> Surprise events...
"Notre histoire…" is a wager on the future,
making emerging art in France an important
cultural issue that has to be grasped in the
real world now. Because the show is indeed
an attempt to grapple with "Notre histoire…"
the Palais de Tokyo has put together a week
of nonstop events. At every hour of the day,
throughout the Palais de Tokyo's exhibition
space and in the company of artists,
intellectuels, scientists, musicians, and
performers, visitors will discover a whole
series of events, from concerts and
performances to roundtable discussions and
workshops, a wealth of activity transforming
the Palais de Tokyo into a living venue, a
media unto itself.
It is an exceptional program that has been
scheduled, blending genres, encouraging
multiple approaches, and offering the
opportunity to think about, experience, and
feel contemporary art today. A week of events
in order to write "Notre histoire…" together.
(Program still under development)
Episode 1 :
Friday
Episode 2 :
Saturday
Episode 3 :
Sunday
Episode 4 :
Monday
Episode 5 :
Tuesday
Episode 6 :
Wednesday
Episode 7 :
Thursday
Episode 8 :
Friday
... along with new episodes unfolding continuously until 7 May !!!
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Episode 1 : Friday 20 january
From 10 a.m. to noon
Press visit
From 6 to 8 p.m.
VIP opening + Pommery cocktail
From 8 p.m. to midnight
Opening to the general public +
Tokyo Sandwich Market
Scheduled in three phases (for the press,
VIPs, and the general public), the show
opening is to be a high point for starting the
festivities: "Notre histoire…" opens 20
January, unveiling iconic and spectacular
works by 29 emerging artists.
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Beginning at 5 p.m.
The Pavillon's "Hut" in the
the Palais de Tokyo entrance
The Pavillon, the Palais de Tokyo's
educational department that has been home
to various artists in residence since the venue
first opened, will present "The Pavillon's Hut,"
based on a proposal by the art critic and
guest curator Pascal Beausse. The entrance
to the Palais will display a hut, which is to be
created by an architect. This architectural
object will create a site in an area of everflowing movement, delineating a specific
space for contributions by the current
residents of the Pavillon, the Palais de
Tokyo's art laboratory, as well as by a
selection of French or France-based artists
who have taken part in earlier residencies at
the Pavillon. Rather than a show, the hut is a
program of different types of events that will
change daily and include performances,
artists' interventions, presentations, and lots
more…
Each artist is invited to imagine his or her
way of occupying the Pavillon's hut
for the space of a day.
Episode 2 : Saturday 21 january
Episode 3 : Sunday 22 january
From noon to 6 p.m.
A workshop every hour with
artists featured in the show
(Q&As, performances, etc.)
From noon to 6 p.m.
Workshop every hour with
the show's artists (Q&As,
performances,…)
A unique chance set at a furious pace
to meet the artists who are making
the art of today and tomorrow. A
powerful spotlight on the
artists, the true trailblazers of our
age, who will be meeting with
the public by turns every hour for
discussions, performances, and
workshops.
4 p.m.
Conférence Art / Science
Catherine Vidal, neurobiologist
4 p.m.
Talk given by the philospher Michel Onfray
(to be confirmed) on the theme of "Art and
philosophy," with examples drawn from
"Notre histoire…"
9 p.m.
Concert (artist or French band)
Format: electro light / laptop)
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5 p.m.
Art / Science lecture
Trinh Xuan Tuan, astrophysicist
(to be confirmed)
6 p.m.
Forum: Michel Maffesoli, sociologist,
dialog with the show's artists
9 p.m.
Outdoor concert along the colonnade and
the square. (Format: mulled wine/discomobile.
Dance)
From noon to midnight
In conjunction with each of the special week's
events, "Notre histoire…" will be open to the
public everyday from noon to midnight.
"Notre histoire…" features the work of 29
artists from the emerging French art scene,
on display throughout the whole of the Palais
de Tokyo's galleries.
Episode 4 : Monday 23 january
From 3 to 5 p.m.
"Emerging art / emerging economy"
Symposium
The Palais de Tokyo is a platform for
exchanging views and a catalyst for ideas
that looks to explore the convergence of
emerging art and emerging economies.
Brought together for a symposium on the
notion of emergence, economists, business
leaders and personalities from the art world
will examine, at the crossroads of art and the
economy, the inescapable pertinence of
contemporary art to building together the
world of tomorrow.
Participants (to be confirmed): business
leaders, partners, patrons, Michel
Henochsberg, Edgar Morin, Nicolas
Bourriaud, Jean-Baptiste de Bellescize,
Pierre-Michel Menger.
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From 7 to 8:30 p.m.
"The Forum of the Year," on the theme
"Emerging art, emerging economy: a stake
for France"
(organised by Radio Classique and
Le Monde)
Episode 5 : Tuesday 24 january
From noon to 6 p.m.
"One piece, one hour, one mediator"
Once every hour, a Palais de Tokyo mediator
will talk about a practical example of his or
her work based on a selected piece from
"Notre histoire…" How far does mediation
go? How do we grasp a work of art? How
much should be left up to the visitor? What is
the role of critical thinking? Once an hour
throughout the afternoon, each of the Palais's
mediators will offer answers to these
situations, which are as varied as there are
art forms and attitudes.
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From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
"Display of a work of art:
artists surrendered to the public"
Every exhibition, by definition, is an offer
made to museum visitors. The work of art
then enters the system of public presentation
in an institutional framework (a venue) and
precise timetable. When an artist is invited to
work with the Palais de Tokyo, he or she
knows that the invitation is a chance not only
to confront an impressive building but also to
embrace a special relationship with the
public. And the Palais de Tokyo's architecture
does indeed lead to a freer, even looser
behavior on the part of visitors. Several artists
who have experienced the Palais de Tokyo
venue will talk about that peculiar moment
that arises when an artwork is put on display.
They will be joined by various mediators who
have lived with the artworks during this time.
Episode 6 : Wednesday 25 january
From 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tok Tok activities.
An essential event for three- to ten-year-olds,
Tok Tok activities are winning over ever
growing numbers of children. Inventive,
playful, and full of fun, Tok Tok activities take
place right there among current shows and
make contemporary art a truly fun time. On
25 January, the Palais de Tokyo will play host
to over 600 children and their parents to
celebrate an unforgettable anniversary, the
Palais de Tokyo's first four years. With offbeat
studios, goofy guided tours, workshops with
the artists, a crazy contemporary art picnic,
and a bubble-filled snacktime, to make
"Notre histoire…" a fountain of youth
starting now.
Tok Tok studios
9 Tok Tok studios for six- to ten-year-olds
9 themes: selfportrait / fashion /
music / contemporary art / performance /
sculpture...
at 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 4:30 p.m.;
length: 90 min.
Tok Tok tales
2 Tok Tok tales for three- to six-year-olds
at 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.;
length: 90 min.
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The workshop
A studio workshop by an artist designed for
the whole family and taking place in the
exhibition galleries. Throughout the day,
whether alone, in twos and threes, or even as
a large family, come and add your touches to
a collective work of art.
length: nonstop throughout the day
from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tours
With its potential for mystery and
outlandishness, "Notre histoire…" offers the
chance to do a genuine fiction-tour!
Tok Tok tours, for leisure centers, junior high
and high schools.
at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.; length:
90 min.
The picnic
A contemporary art picnic to learn that food,
too, is an art material to artists, that you can
play with colors and forms, and that getting
together around the table is a choice moment
for conviviality and social interaction. Lets
play with all our senses and actually dig in to
some art at the contemporary art picnic.
from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Snacktime
A birthday snack to celebrate the Palais de
Tokyo's 4th anniversary. At 4 years old, we
know how to walk, talk, laugh, and cry. At 4,
we can do a forward roll. Children will blow
out all together the 4 candles of a Palais that
is no longer "small" or "mid-sized," but indeed
all grown up!
from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
Professional encounters
What approach to contemporary art should
one take with children?
The Palais de Tokyo invites student teachers
in France's teacher training colleges to come
and discover "Notre histoire…" and discuss
with the Palais's teaching department ways of
approaching contemporary art with a young
audience. Future teachers will benefit from
the Tok Tok studio workshops under way by
observing art practices that can be done with
children in primary school.
6 p.m.
Teacher tours of "Notre histoire..."
Eager to respond to the pedagogical
demands of instructors, the Palais de Tokyo
is offering teachers a workshop on the
themes that are touched on in the new show.
This tour is the chance for teachers to
consider the links between their programs
and the show's themes. The Palais's teaching
staff will be on hand to answer any questions
on putting together a visit to the Palais de
Tokyo, or devising with the individual
instructor a specific project for a class visit.
A teaching kit for "Notre histoire…" will be
distributed to teachers, activities leaders, and
art instructors.
From 5 p.m. to midnight
Round-table conferences
"But what are the critics up to?!" will
feature all the critics and curators of
importance today. A joint event with the École
nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.
Moderators: Bernard Marcadé, René Denizot,
and Nicolas Bourriaud.
"Notre histoire…" will be an occasion for
professionals from the contemporary art field
to examine the French art scene today and
kick off the debate. What ways of thinking
about art are valid for the 21st century?
How is critical thought at the heart of an art
school? An exceptional conference that will
bring out the real issues and new themes, as
a way of drafting "Notre histoire…" together.
Episode 7 : Thursday 26 january
From noon to 6 p.m.
Art publishing today. The Palais de
Tokyo bookshop has carte blanche.
Publishing catalogs and books, graphic design,
the new practices coming from Web culture-what
is at stake today in distributing contemporary art?
What place does the Palais de Tokyo occupy in
this landscape? In partnership with the bookshop,
the Palais de Tokyo reveals in all their diversity the
new visual forms that accompany art at its most
contemporary. An explosive panorama of art
publishing today and the artistic issues it raises
are at the heart of this day-long event, which
visitors will want to peruse page by page. Q&As
with graphic designers, publishers, and artists are
scheduled throughout the day.
6 p.m.
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem. Lecture
"Pop philosophy and contemporary art," with
examples drawn from "Notre histoire…"
A cross between Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and
Jacques Lacan, the philosopher-writer-actor Mehdi
Belhaj Kacem has been elaborating a complexfree pop philosophy that doesn't shy from tackling
in a conceptual light video games, pornography,
the crisis in fatherhood, youth subcultures, Fight
Club, or gangsta hip hop. As part of the events
around "Notre histoire…" the author goes over
the esthetic games that have been introduced by
the emerging French art scene.
8 p.m.
Bernard Lahire. Lecture
"Towards a new paradigm, the culture of
individuals," with examples drawn from "Notre
histoire…"
In his famous 2004 book La culture des individus,
(Culture of individuals) Bernard Lahire shook up
received wisdom touching on the opposition of
elite and popular cultures. By closely observing the
practices surrounding leisure, going out, and
cultural consumption, Lahire subtly demonstrates
how we have entered the age of "dissonance," i.e.
a time when the same individual engages in a
great balancing act between legitimate culture
(literature, opera, theater, fine arts) and "low"
culture (television, leisure activities, hobbies).
9:30 p.m.
"Three developing projects: the Pompidou
Center in Metz, the Louvre in Lens, the Quai
Branly Museum."
Three new institutions are rising in or around
Paris that place visitors deliberately at the heart of
the institution. The Louvre in Lens in 2009, the
Pompidou Center in Metz in 2007, and the Quai
Branly Museum in Paris in 2006 are meant to be a
response to the notion of decentralization, and a
new way of displaying art. This new generation of
museums is attempting to bring off the difficult task
of blending scientific ambitions, pedagogical
concerns, and the esthetic experience thanks to
architectural designs that have a strong
commitment to these ideals. What is the visitor's
role in defining these projects? In what way do
architects integrate these expectations?
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Episode 8 : Friday 27 january
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
"The Palais de Tokyo, 4 years of
emerging art."
Nonstop screenings of the Palais de
Tokyo's archives.
The closing day of a festive and wildly busy
week featuring a wealth of new perspectives
on the issues facing contemporary art today,
Friday 27 January will also be the occasion
for Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans to
go back over the artistic, human, and
institutional adventure of the Palais de Tokyo.
A day that will offer plenty of surprising
developments for a unique venue, a day for
catching the Palais de Tokyo at its festive
best.
Official footage, amateur artists, TV
broadcasts, Sunday photographers, archivist
squatters, or peerless documentary
filmmakers will present their bits of film, slide
shows, or available reels for an official and
unofficial history of the Palais de Tokyo.
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Palais de Tokyo,
site de création contemporaine
> Palais de Tokyo by night
Founded in 2002 at the initiative of the Ministry of
Culture and Communications, the Palais de Tokyo
is a venue for experimentation and innovation.
Designed as a forum open to one and all, the
Palais offers a new way of experiencing art that is
closely in tune with today's world and the
expectations of artists and the public. The Palais
de Tokyo is an institution where culture is a living
thing, the first art center to remain open from noon
to midnight, offering exhibitions, events, talks,
video screenings, music, a restaurant, a bookshop,
and a boutique. The Palais has also created a
museum reception that is made to measure, ready
to assist all visitors thanks to its staff of mediators,
who are specialized in the latest forms of
contemporary artmaking.
> Bruno Peinado “Perpetuum Mobile”
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The program of events and shows at the Palais de
Tokyo reflects the art of our day and age and
attests to the creative explosion of the
contemporary world, the disciplines involved in
artmaking today, and the many emerging forms of
expression that point out the direction of its future.
Cross-disciplinary, sensitive to current trends,
international, experimental, and diversified, the
Palais de Tokyo's program makes plain its
unending commitment to artists throughout
the creative process to produce with them the
most pertinent and meaningful of new works.
Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans founded and
currently direct the Palais de Tokyo. Mr. Bourriaud,
a writer and art critic, is the author of L'Esthétique
relationnelle, a major work and point of reference
for an approach to contemporary art. Jérôme Sans
was an outside curator at the Institute of Visual
Arts in Milwaukee (USA), where he mounted a
number of solo shows of such major artists as
Pierre Huyghe, Erwin Wurm, Philippe Parreno,
Kendell Geers, and Martin Parr.
> Daniel Buren, installation
“Quatre fois moins ou quatre fois plus ?”
Maurice Lévy, who is the chairman of the board of
Publicis Groupe S.A., the world's leading media
group, is president of the Palais de Tokyo
association's board of directors; Pierre Cornette
de Saint-Cyr, the board's vice-président, is a wellknown auctioneer. The board also includes a
number of artists such as Orlan, Catherine Breillat,
and Daniel Buren.
Located in the heart of Paris between the Eiffel
Tower and the Champs-Élysées, the Palais de
Tokyo, site for the contemporary arts, has become
a showcase for the vitality of artmaking today.
The Palais de Tokyo occupies an historic building
that was built in 1937 for the Universal Exhibition
and renovated for its present use by the architects
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. The
venue boasts an exceptional exhibition space
(4000 m2), which places it among the great
international institutions devoted to the art of
today.
> Group show
“Hardcore, vers un nouvel activisme”
A few numbers...
From 22 January 2002, when it first opened its
doors to the public, until 30 October 2005, the
Palais de Tokyo has seen:
> over 850 000 people visit its shows, an average
attendance of 18 743 visitors per month, or 803
visitors per day;
> over 3 million people visit the Palais's
Website at www.palaisdetokyo.com;
> 36 000 subscribers receive the Palais's
newsletter.
Between January 2002 and December 2005, the
Palais de Tokyo exhibited the work of 286 artists
> 108 (37.8%) of these artists were French,
178 (62.2 %) were foreign;
> 74 (26%) of these artists were women,
212 (74%) men.
During this same period, the Palais de Tokyo
mounted 96 solo exhibitions.
> 52% of these involved French
artists, 48% foreign ones.
> 27% of these exhibitions were created
by woman artists, 73% by men.
> Surasi Kusolwong
“La La La Minimal Market”

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