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Révéler. Collection de photographie du Centre Pompidou
About a hundred works by some thirty artists from the Centre Pompidou's photography collection, shown at the Grand Palais during Paris Photo 2026 for the bicentenary of photography.
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Preview: written before the show opened
A woman with a shaved head and a checked shirt leans on the back of a white chair punched with holes, and looks straight into the lens. That's Andrzej Steinbach's Figure I-II (2015), two prints nearly a metre tall, given to the Centre Pompidou in 2024.
Around it hang about 100 works by some 30 artists from the Centre's photography collection, many of them recent acquisitions. The themes are Making the Image, To Infinity and Identities: Robert Cumming and Kunié Sugiura tinker with cameras and software, Timm Ulrichs, Dinh Q Lê and Eileen Quinlan work with copies and replicas, and Martha Wilson and Sam Contis take on the portrait.
It's inside Paris Photo, in the Grand Palais's ground-floor south-east gallery, for four days only. You walk in from aisles of galleries selling prints, and here the photographs belong to a museum. A fair ticket gets you in (indicatively €36 on weekdays, €41 at the weekend). Hours are 1pm to 8pm Thursday to Saturday, 1pm to 7pm on Sunday.
Look for
Andrzej Steinbach, Figure I-II
Look for the black-and-white portrait of a woman with a shaved head, arm hooked over a white chair, staring back at you from a print nearly a metre tall.
Good for
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
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Image credits
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- Révéler. Collection de photographie du Centre PompidouAndrzej Steinbach, "Figure I", 2015 © Adagp, Paris 2026
- Mungo Thomson: Monument© Mungo Thomson. Courtesy l'artiste, galerie frank elbaz, and Karma.
- Yu Nishimura: Towards a SeaCourtesy of Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette
- Hélène Fauquet: VivresseCourtesy of Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette
- Centre PompidouAlf van Beem / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayettePhilouSunshine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonVVVCFFrance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée des Arts et MétiersMarianne Casamance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bourse de Commerce - Pinault CollectionChabe01, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0