Maurizio Cattelan “Endless Sunday” at Centre Pompidou-Metz

An endless Sunday, when time is suspended between leisure and rebellion. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is inviting the general public to take a vertiginous dive into the history of art and contemporary thought through the Endless Sunday, an exceptional exhibition that will be taking over the entire museum. More than 400 works from the collections of the Centre Pompidou will be subjected to the implacable gaze of Maurizio Cattelan, while in addition, some thirty works by the Italian artist will offer a lucid, melancholic examination of modern mythologies.

Right from the entrance, visitors will be confronted with a mise en scène of authority and opposition to it. Here, the gallery texts carry the personal words of Maurizio Cattelan and inmates from the women’s prison at Giudecca, Venice, who together explore the concept of freedom in the form of an ABC. In the gallery, other inmates trained as gallery educators from the prison in Metz will accompany groups.

Structured like an ABC, the exhibition alternates iconic works and unexpected pieces, creating transhistorical dialogues. Berger&Berger’s immersive exhibition design transforms the museum into a circular trail, echoing cycles of time as well as the architecture of Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines.

Designed by Irma Boom, the book published in conjunction with the exhibition, far from being a classic catalogue, explores the ideas in more depth. In it Maurizio Cattelan gives unique insight into his own work and his personal story. More than a collection of texts, it is an autobiography.

What is meant by an endless Sunday? It is a day that stretches between freedom and constraint, memory and projection, wandering and engagement. With this exhibition, the Centre Pompidou-Metz offers a labyrinth of stories in which art, in dialogue with reality, continues to open new perspectives in our vision of the world.

Fifteen years after his inaugural exhibition Chefs-d’œuvre ? (2010), during which the Centre Pompidou-Metz examined in particular our knowledge of art history, the institution offers a fresh take on the works and the concept of a collection. The Endless Sunday represents a culmination of this reflection. This wide-ranging exhibition showcasing Maurizio Cattelan and the Centre Pompidou’s collection marks the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, creating a rich dialogue with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, currently undergoing complete renovation.

Participating artist:
Chantal Akerman, Jean-Michel Alberola, Kenneth Anger, Anonyme, Giovanni Anselmo, Karel Appel, Diane Arbus, Avigdor Arikha, Martin Arnold, Arnould Reynold, Jean Arp, Francis Bacon, Bruce Baillie, Oswald Birley, Ulla von Brandenburg, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Miriam Cahn, Sophie Calle, Pia Camil, Maurizio Cattelan, Zhen Chen, Giorgio de Chirico, Shirley Clarke, Francesco Clemente, Henry Clews, Condoy, John Coplans, Tony Cragg, Julie Curtiss, Jean Daligault, André Deed, Sonia Delaunay, André Derain, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffet, Hubert Duprat, Daniel Eisenberg, Max Ernst, Fischli & Weiss, Lucio Fontana, Samuel Fosso, Helen Frankenthaler, Roger de la Fresnaye, Gloria Friedmann, Katharina Fritsch, Cyprien Gaillard, Jochen Gerz, Alberto Giacometti, Natalia Gontcharova, Julio González, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Huang Yong Ping, Fabrice Hyber, Dorothy Iannone, Alex Israel, Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn, Birgit Jürgenssen, Paul Klee, Claude Lalanne, François-Xavier Lalanne, La Ribot, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Maurice Lemaître, Natacha Lesueur, Roy Lichtenstein, Jacques Lipchitz, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Urs Lüthi, Alberto Magnelli, Kasimir Malévitch, Man Ray, Théo Mercier, Jean Messagier, Ivan Meštrovic, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell, Henry Moore, Zoran Music, Michel Nedjar, Senga Nengudi, Hélène d’Oettingen, Meret Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Nesa Paripovic, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Yvonne Rainer, Hans Richter, Robert Ryman, Fernand Sabatté, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alberto Savinio, Claude Schurr, George Segal, Tino Sehgal, Gino Severini, Philippe Starck, Claire Tabouret, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, Tunga, Rosemarie Trockel, Jacques Vaché, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Maurice de Vlaminck, Danh Võ, Franz West, Gil Wolman, Erwin Wurm, Li Yongbin, Akram Zaatari, Billie Zangewa

at Centre Pompidou-Metz
until February 2, 2025