Centre Pompidou closes for five years in 2025: plan your visit now!

But before that happens, there are still a few exhibitions that are definitely worth a visit. Here are a few suggestions: 

At the Centre Pompidou Museum, you can visit the ‘Modern and Contemporary Collection’ - the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe - until 31 December 2024. On level five, visitors will find works of Fauvism and early avant-garde art, and on level four, impressive multi-sensory installations by artists such as Beuys and Messager.

The current exhibition ‘Surrealism’ can be seen until January 2025 and presents the extraordinary creative power of famous surrealists from 1924 to 1969 in 14 themed areas.

Anyone interested in action art should definitely visit ‘Chaosmose’ - an exhibition that brings together around 120 works from different eras and contexts and celebrates the social and cultural revolution of action art.

From 5 March to 2 June 2025, the most famous works from over five decades by Austrian architect Hans Hollein will be presented. The focus will be on his contribution to the first Architecture Biennale in Venice in 1980. 

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans will be designing the 6,000 m² of the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi) from 13 June to 22 September 2025. With his photographs, which originate from the counterculture of the 1990s, he scrutinises the architecture of the space and the way in which knowledge is communicated.

Of course, the Centre Pompidou will be presenting numerous other exhibitions until it closes. You can find an overview here.

General information about the Centre Pompidou, such as opening hours, directions and ticket sales, can be found here.