Maurizio Cattelan to Curate the Centre Pompidou Collection in Metz: To mark its 15th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will present Endless Sunday—an ambitious, museum-wide exhibition that rethinks the history of art through the lens of Maurizio Cattelan. Over 400 works from the Centre Pompidou’s collection will be seen anew, placed in conversation with 30 of Cattelan’s own, creating a space where irony meets melancholy, and modern mythologies come undone.
From the moment visitors arrive, they will encounter the friction between authority and resistance. Exhibition texts, co-written by Cattelan and women incarcerated at the Giudecca prison in Venice, will form a radical ABC of freedom. In Metz, inmates trained as gallery educators will guide groups through the exhibition, offering personal insight and new perspectives.
Organised like an alphabet, each section—titled after a poem, film, or novel—will reflect on a facet of “Sunday”: as a day of rest, ritual, leisure, or rebellion. Berger&Berger’s circular design will echo cycles of time and the museum’s architecture, while an accompanying book designed by Irma Boom will blend catalogue, manifesto, and memoir.
Works by Dix, Goncharova, Delaunay, González-Torres, Malevich, and others will be brought into dialogue with Cattelan’s iconic sculptures—Felix, L.O.V.E., and the infamous Comedian. The show will move across centuries and media, from Surrealism and avant-garde to contemporary interventions. The legendary Breton Wall will be exhibited outside Paris for the first time, anchoring a section devoted to chance, desire, and the poetic logic of collections.
More than an anniversary show, Endless Sunday will offer a meditation on time, freedom, and the shifting role of the museum. It will reflect on the past while imagining new ways to see, feel, and resist in the present.
Maurizio Cattelan & The Centre Pompidou Collection, 8th May 2025 – 2nd February 2027 –
The Centre Pompidou-Metz
Curators: Maurizio Cattelan, Chiara Parisi, Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz Programming team – Sophie Bernal, Elia Biezunski, Anne Horvath, Laureen Picaut and Zoe Stillpass, accompanied by Marta Papini
Week-end to celebrate the 15th anniverssary of The Centre Pompidou-Metz from 8th to 11th May 202
The opening of Endless Sunday marks the start of celebrations for the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz orchestrated by the legendary Vinii Revlon, who will be inviting the public onto the catwalk for the fourth ball to be organised at the museum, on Friday 9th May at 8pm. Voguing and waacking workshops will offer members of the public the opportunity to discover the ballroom scene, a culture that centred on voguing competitions and the celebration of all identities.
On Saturday 10th May at 8pm, an exceptional DJ set in the garden of the Centre Pompidou-Metz will give centre stage to Kiddy Smile, leader of the French queer vogue scene, who will be presenting new pieces live.
