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Endless Sunday

May 8, 2025 — Feb 2, 2027 | Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

Endless Sunday. A suspended moment between leisure and revolt. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is inviting the public to take a dizzying plunge into the history of art with Dimanche sans fin, an extraordinary exhibition taking over the entire museum. Nearly 400 pieces from the Centre Pompidou's collections are brought face to face with the implacable gaze of Maurizio Cattelan, 40 of whose works question our modern mythologies with lucidity and melancholy.

The exhibition is structured like a primer, alternating iconic works with unexpected pieces and transhistorical dialogues. Berger&Berger's immersive scenography transforms the museum into a circular wanderer, echoing the cycles of time and the architecture of Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines.

The exhibition catalogue, designed by Irma Boom, takes this reflection even further. In it, Maurizio Cattelan takes a unique look at his own work and personal history. More than a collection, it's an autobiography.

The texts in the exhibition room are embodied in the words of Maurizio Cattelan and the inmates of the Giudecca Women's Prison in Venice, in the form of an alphabet book. Prisoners trained in mediation from the Metz Prison Centre are on hand to accompany the groups from time to time.

What does “an endless Sunday” mean? A day that stretches out between freedom and constraint, memory and projection, wandering and commitment. With this exhibition, the Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a labyrinth of narratives in which art, in dialogue with reality, continues to open up gaps in our perception of the world.

Fifteen years after its inaugural exhibition Chefs-d'œuvre ? (2010), in which the Centre Pompidou-Metz questioned the achievements of art history, the institution is continuing its exploration of the way we look at works of art and the notion of the collection. This reflection culminates in Dimanche sans fin. Maurizio Cattelan et la collection du Centre Pompidou, a major exhibition celebrating both the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and its fruitful dialogue with the Centre Pompidou, which is undergoing a major metamorphosis.

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