Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum
5 October -14 November 2010
The Antechamber, the Nicholas Hall, the Hermitage Theater

From 5 October to 14 November 2010 the new project Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum intended to demonstrate the variety of the Pompidou Center's forms of work with modern art will be presented in the State Hermitage within the framework of the year of France in Russia.

The Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture (Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou) is a cultural center in Paris that was officially opened in 1977 by the initiative of the French President Georges Pompidou. The Center includes the Museum of Modern Art, a library, concert and exhibition halls, the Institute of Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music. Exhibitions and other art campaigns organized and held by the Center in 1990s-2000s within the framework of cooperation with artists and curators made it one of the principal global arenas of actual art collection, demonstration and discussion.

The purpose of the project Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum is to pay special attention to the form of demonstration of modern artworks and discussion about them, which will become a continuation of a long-term interaction and mutual enrichment of Russian and French cultures. Holding the project in the primary parade halls of the Winter Palace will enable the opening of a multi-level dialog of styles and ages that is meant to become a smooth artful account on transformations of modern art.

The project consists of two parts, the Exhibition and the Festival.

Among the performers are: Andrey Bartenev, Vladimir Golubev, Rashid Uramdan, the Derevo theater, Compagnie du Zerep. Works by young artists will also be shown: Yves Belorge, Farah Atassi, Stephan Kale, Jamel Tata, Cecil Bart, Ida Tursich and Wilfrid Mille.

The exhibition will be opened on 13 October 2010 at the Antechamber of the Winter Palace simultaneously with the Festival and will last until 14 November 2010. The exposition will feature 12 masterpieces of French art of the 20th century from the collection of the Center Pompidou - famous works by Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Jean Dubuffet, Cesar, Roman Opalka, Robert Filiu, Daniel Buren, Gerard Garouste, Georges Mathieu, Bertrand Lavier whose works are exhibited in St Petersburg for the first time.

An illustrated catalog was prepared for the exhibition.

The Exhibition's and Festival's curator is Yekaterina Lopatkina, junior research associate of the Modern Art Sector of the State Hermitage.

Program of the festival
Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum