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47-608: The Centre Pompidou ( French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ pɔ̃pidu] ), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( lit.   ' National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture ' ), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris , near Les Halles , rue Montorgueil , and

94-558: A 2,000 square metres (22,000 square feet) subterranean glass-and-steel structure called The Cube ( El Cubo ) in Málaga . According to the Spanish newspaper El País , the annual €1 million cost of the five-year project were funded by the city council. The partnership with Málaga was announced by the city's mayor but was not confirmed by Pompidou Centre president Alain Seban until 24 April 2014. Under

141-621: A Pompidou branch housed in a former military base called Esog. In 2019, the Centre Pompidou announced plans to open a 22,000 m (240,000 sq ft) conservation, exhibition and storage space in Massy (Essonne) by 2025. Project backers include the Région Ile-de-France and the French state. Málaga In 2015, approximately 70 works from the Centre Pompidou's collection went on show in

188-505: A large-scale installation within El Cubo . Following the original five-year agreement that was signed in September 2014, the terms were renewed early 2018 and again in 2024. Under the most recent renewal, Málaga city council agreed to pay the Centre Pompidou an annual fee of €2.7 million over five years (2025–29), rising to €3.1 million in the latter period (2030–34). Brussels In March 2018,

235-774: A spire and punctured by upper galleries. The 77-metre central spire is a nod to the year the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris was built – 1977. The Centre Pompidou-Metz displays unique, temporary exhibitions from the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne , which is not on display at the main Parisian museum. Since its inauguration, the institution has become the most visited cultural venue in France outside Paris, accommodating 550,000 visitors/year. Launched in 2011 in Chaumont ,

282-521: A temporary satellite of the Centre Pompidou in the northern French town of Maubeuge close to the Belgian border. The 3,000-square-metre outpost, to be designed by the architects Pierre Hebbelinck and Pierre de Wit, is said to be located at the 17th-century Maubeuge Arsenal for four years. The cost of the project is €5.8 million. In 2015, the city authorities in Libourne , a town in south-western France, proposed

329-629: A wide variety of attractions: bands, caricature and sketch artists , tables set up for evening dining, and even skateboarding competitions. In 2021 artists duo Arotin & Serghei realized for the re-inaugaration of the Place Georges Pompidou after years of works, and in the context of IRCAM 's festival Manifeste the intermedial large-scale installation Infinite Light Columns / Constellations of The Future 1-4, Tribute to Constantin Brancusi , installed along Renzo Piano 's IRCAM Tower, on

376-759: Is nevertheless independent, as Etablissement public à caractère administratif since its creation. In 2011, the museum earned $ 1.9 million from travelling exhibitions . Established in 1977 as the institution's US philanthropic arm, the Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Foundation acquires and encourages major gifts of art and design for exhibition at the museum. Since 2006, the non-profit support group has brought in donations of 28 works, collectively valued at more than $ 14 million, and purchased many others. In 2013, New York-based art collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner announced their intention to donate about 300 works by 27 European and international artists to

423-569: Is situated on the right bank of the River Seine . It contains the Renaissance -era Paris City Hall , rebuilt between 1874 and 1882. It also contains the Renaissance square of Place des Vosges , the overtly modern Pompidou Centre , and the lively southern part of the medieval district of Le Marais , which today is known for being the gay district of Paris. (The quieter northern part of Le Marais

470-454: Is within the 3rd arrondissement ). The eastern part of the Île de la Cité (including Notre-Dame de Paris ) and all of the Île Saint-Louis are also included within the 4th arrondissement. The 4th arrondissement is known for its little streets, cafés, and shops but is often regarded by Parisians as expensive and congested. It has old buildings and a mix of many cultures. With a land area of 1.601 km (0.618 sq mi; 396 acres),

517-499: The COVID pandemic . It has had more than 180 million visitors since 1977 and more than 5,209,678 visitors in 2013, including 3,746,899 for the museum. The sculpture Horizontal by Alexander Calder , a free-standing mobile that is 7.6 m (25 ft) tall, was placed in front of the Centre Pompidou in 2012. The idea for a multicultural complex, bringing together different forms of art and literature in one place, developed, in part, from

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564-667: The Marais . It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers , Su Rogers , Renzo Piano , along with Gianfranco Franchini . It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne , which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM , a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location,

611-551: The 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m) Art Deco -style building in October 2015 — is the main funder project, with the conversion costing €122 million. In a joint proposal with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presented in 2005, the Centre Pompidou planned to build a museum of modern and contemporary art, design and the media arts in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District . In 2007,

658-478: The 4th arrondissement is the third smallest arrondissement in the city. It is bordered to the west by the 1st arrondissement , to the north by the 3rd , to the east by the 11th and 12th , and to the south by the Seine and the 5th . The peak of population of the 4th arrondissement occurred before 1861, though the arrondissement was defined in its current shape only since the re-organization of Paris in 1860. In 1999,

705-404: The 4th arrondissement: Circulation (architecture) In architecture , circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building. In public buildings, circulation is of high importance; Structures such as elevators , escalators , and staircases are often referred to as circulation elements, as they are positioned and designed to optimize the flow of people through

752-593: The Centre Pompidou announced plans to open an offshoot branch in Brussels, under the name KANAL - Centre Pompidou . Housed in a former Citroën garage which was transformed by a team comprising ces noAarchitecten (Brussels), EM2N (Zurich) and Sergison Bates architects (London), the new centre brings together the 12,200 sq ft (1,130 m) Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, an architecture centre (CIVA Foundation) and public spaces devoted to culture, education and leisure. The Brussels-Capital region — which acquired

799-603: The Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum opened to the public, based in a wing of the 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m) West Bund Art Museum designed by David Chipperfield . The inaugural exhibitions The Shape of Time, Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection and Observations, Highlights of the New Media Collection were curated by Marcella Lista . Other projects include the Pompidou's joint venture with

846-453: The Centre Pompidou, thereby making one of the largest gifts in the institution's history. In 1999, the heirs of Alphonse Kann requested the return of Georges Braque's The Guitar Player , which the Centre Pompidou had acquired from Heinz Berggruen in 1981. In 2011, Centre Pompidou admitted that it held three paintings, Les Peupliers (Poplars) , Arbres (Trees) , and Composition by the artist Fédor Löwenstein that had been looted during

893-592: The Centre de Création Industrielle was incorporated into the Musée National d'Art Moderne , henceforth called "MNAM/CCI". The CCI, as an organisation with its own design-oriented programme, ceased to exist, while the MNAM started to develop a design and architecture collection in addition to its modern and contemporary art collection. The Centre Pompidou was intended to handle 8,000 visitors a day. In its first two decades it attracted more than 145 million visitors, more than five times

940-526: The Guggenheim on 24 April 2014, Alain Seban suggested that Brazil may be the third country to host a temporary satellite museum, after Spain and Mexico. As a national museum, the Centre Pompidou is government-owned and subsidised by the Ministry of Culture (64.2% of its budget in 2012 : 82.8 on 129 million €), essentially for its staff. The Culture Ministry appoints its directors and controls its gestion, which

987-598: The King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, an arts complex incorporating a museum in Dhahran , the building of which has stalled. In April 2014, Pompidou president Alain Seban confirmed that after Malaga (Spain), Mexico will be the next site for a pop-up Pompidou Centre. A 58,000-square-foot satellite museum Centre Pompidou x Jersey City in Jersey City, New Jersey , was scheduled to open in 2024, which would have made it

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1034-610: The Nazi occupation of France. In 2021, after the French government restituted a looted Max Pechtstein painting to the heirs of Hugo Simon , the Centre Pompidou held an exhibition in a tribute to the persecuted art collector. Touche pas à la Femme Blanche Catherine Deneuve (Actor), Marcello Mastroianni (Actor), Marco Ferreri (Director) 48°51′38.311″N 2°21′8.082″E  /  48.86064194°N 2.35224500°E  / 48.86064194; 2.35224500 4th arrondissement of Paris The arrondissement, also known as Hôtel-de-Ville,

1081-407: The Pompidou "revolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city." The centre was built by GTM and completed in 1977. The building cost 993 million French francs . Renovation work conducted from October 1996 to January 2000 was completed on a budget of 576 million francs. The principal engineer

1128-666: The Pompidou's first satellite museum in North America; by 2024, however, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the Jersey City Redevelopment Authority decided they would no longer fund the museum. There have been rumours of a pop-up Pompidou satellite museum in Brazil since Alain Seban announced the plan for these temporary locations back in 2012. At a talk on satellite museums at

1175-479: The Rue des Rosiers being at the heart of its community. There are a handful of kosher restaurants, and Jewish institutions. Since the 1990s, gay culture has influenced the arrondissement, with new residents opening a number of bars and cafés in the area by the town hall. Lycée Charlemagne is located in the arrondissement, as well as Haredi Jewish institutions Yad Mordekhai. Metro stations within, partially or fully,

1222-637: The agreement, approximately 100 works from the Pompidou's 20th and 21st century collection were put on display, while a smaller area is being used for temporary exhibitions. Portraiture and the influence of Picasso will be among the subjects explored in the permanent display, organised by the Pompidou's deputy director Brigitte Leal. Highlights will include works by Alberto Giacometti , René Magritte , Alexander Calder and Constantin Brâncuși , and contemporary works by Sophie Calle , Bruce Nauman and Orlan . The city of Málaga also commissioned Daniel Buren to create

1269-451: The centre is known locally as Beaubourg ( IPA: [bobuʁ] ). It is named after Georges Pompidou , the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . The centre had 3.1 million visitors in 2022, a large increase from 2021 but still below 2019 levels, due to closings caused by

1316-509: The coloured works by de Saint-Phalle. The fountain opened in 1983. Video footage of the fountain appeared frequently throughout the French language telecourse, French in Action . The Place Georges Pompidou in front of the museum is noted for the presence of street performers , such as mimes and jugglers . In the spring, miniature carnivals are installed temporarily into the place in front with

1363-549: The design was meant to be "not a building but a town where you find everything – lunch, great art, a library, great music". The Centre Pompidou, initially met with dismay akin to the Eiffel Tower's reception in its time, is now widely regarded as an artwork in its own merit. National Geographic described the reaction to the design as "love at second sight." An article in Le Figaro declared: "Paris has its own monster, just like

1410-541: The escalators if they enter, though entrance to the building is free. Since 2006, the global attendance of the centre is no longer calculated at the main entrance, but only the one of the Musée National d'Art Moderne and of the public library (5,209,678 visitors for both in 2013), but without the other visitors of the building (929,431 in 2004 or 928,380 in 2006, for only the panorama tickets or cinemas, festivals, lectures, bookshops, workshops, restaurants, etc.). In 2017,

1457-614: The first major example of an 'inside-out' building with its structural system, mechanical systems, and circulation exposed on the exterior of the building, reflecting their belief that they had no chance of winning the commission. This daring design increased the efficiency of interior space utilization. Initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing , blue ducts are for climate control , electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers ) are red. According to Piano,

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1504-545: The first or sixth floors. Among them, many monographs : In 2010, the Centre Georges Pompidou opened a regional branch, the Centre Pompidou-Metz , in Metz a city 250 kilometres east of Paris . The new museum is part of an effort to expand the display of contemporary arts beyond Paris's large museums. The new museum's building was designed by the architect Shigeru Ban with a curving and asymmetrical pagoda-like roof topped by

1551-534: The idea of Paris as a leading city of culture and art, it was proposed to move the Musée d'Art Moderne to this new location. Paris also needed a large, free public library, as one did not exist at this time. At first the debate concerned Les Halles, but as the controversy settled, in 1968, President Charles de Gaulle announced the Plateau Beaubourg as the new site for the library. A year later in 1969, Georges Pompidou,

1598-407: The ideas of France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux , a proponent of the decentralisation of art and culture by impulse of the political power. In the 1960s, city planners decided to move the food markets of Les Halles , historically significant structures long prized by Parisians, with the idea that some of the cultural institutes be built in the former market area. Hoping to renew

1645-422: The jury. It was the first time in France that international architects were allowed to participate. The selection was announced in 1971 at a "memorable press conference" where the contrast between the sharply-dressed Pompidou and "hairy young crew" of architects represented a "grand bargain between radical architecture and establishment politics." Rogers and Piano, two emerging architects in their thirties, designed

1692-444: The living heart of creation" . By the mid-1980s, the Centre Pompidou was becoming the victim of its huge and unexpected popularity, its many activities, and a complex administrative structure. When Dominique Bozo returned to the Centre in 1981 as Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne , he re-installed the museum, bringing out the full range of its collections and displaying the many major acquisitions that had been made. By 1992,

1739-419: The museum for the first time went on the road to the French regions with a selection of works from the permanent collection. To do this, it designed and constructed a mobile gallery, which, in the spirit of a circus, will make camp for a few months at a time in towns throughout the country. However, in 2013, the Centre Pompidou halted its mobile-museum project because of the cost. In 2014, plans were released for

1786-437: The museum had 3.37 million visitors. The public library had 1.37 million. The Musée National d'Art Moderne itself saw an increase in attendance from 3.1 million (2010) to 3.6 million visitors in 2011 and 3.75 million in 2013. The 2013 retrospective "Dalí" broke the museum's daily attendance record: 7,364 people a day went to see the artist's work (790,000 in total). Several major exhibitions are organised each year on either

1833-497: The new president, adopted the Beaubourg project and decided it to be the location of both the new library and a centre for the contemporary arts. In the process of developing the project, the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) was also housed in the complex. The Rogers and Piano design was chosen among 681 competition entries. World-renowned architects Oscar Niemeyer , Jean Prouvé and Philip Johnson made up

1880-475: The number first predicted. As of 2006, more than 180 million people have visited the centre since its opening in 1977. However, until the 1997–2000 renovation, 20 percent of the centre's eight million annual visitors—predominantly foreign tourists—rode the escalators up the outside of the building to the platform for the sights. Since re-opening in 2000 after a three-year renovation, the Centre Pompidou has improved accessibility for visitors. Now they can only access

1927-539: The one in Loch Ness ." But two decades later, while reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize in 2007, The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre "turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems". The Pritzker jury said

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1974-513: The opposite site of Brancusi's studio, visible from both, the Place Igor Stravinsky and Place Georges Pompidou. The president of the Centre Pompidou, Serge Lasvignes, highlighted in his inauguration speech: "The installation symbolizes what the Centre Pompidou wants to be, ... a multidisciplinary ensemble, ... it is the resurrection of the initial spirit of the Centre Pompidou with the Piazza,

2021-503: The other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. The Île de la Cité has been inhabited since the 1st century BC, when it was occupied by the Parisii tribe of the Gauls . The Right Bank was first settled in the 5th century. Since the end of the 19th century, le Marais has been populated by a significant Jewish population,

2068-456: The population was 30,675, and the arrondissement hosted 41,424 jobs. ¹ The peak of population in this area occurred before 1861, but the arrondissement was created in 1860, so there are not accurate figures before 1861. An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On

2115-588: The then president Bruno Racine announced plans to open a museum carrying the Pompidou's name in Shanghai, with its programming to be determined by the Pompidou. The location chosen for the new museum was a former fire station in the Luwan district's Huaihai Park. However, the scheme did not materialize for several years, reportedly due to the lack of a legal framework for a non-profit foreign institution to operate in China. In 2019,

2162-555: The upcoming renovations is $ 235 million. In January 2021 Roselyne Bachelot , France's culture minister, announced that the centre would close completely in 2023 for four years. The nearby Stravinsky Fountain (also called the Fontaine des automates ), on Place Stravinsky, features 16 whimsical moving and water-spraying sculptures by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle , which represent themes and works by composer Igor Stravinsky . The black-painted mechanical sculptures are by Tinguely,

2209-457: Was the renowned Peter Rice , responsible for, amongst other things, the Gerberette . During the renovation, the centre was closed to the public for 27 months, re-opening on 1 January 2000. In September 2020, it was announced that the Centre Pompidou would begin renovations in 2023, which will require either a partial closure for seven years or a full closure for three years. The projected cost for

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