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Centre Pompidou-Metz will open 'Dimanche sans fin. Maurizio Cattelan et la collection du Centre Pompidou' on 8 May 2025, unfolding the exhibition across the Grande Nef, Galerie 1, the Forum and the roof of the galleries through 25 January 2027. The institution describes the project as a major display of works from the Centre Pompidou collection in dialogue with Maurizio Cattelan, with the exhibition structured around 27 entries of an abecedary and centered on the notion of Sunday.
According to the museum, the show is designed to occupy the full breadth of the building. Its online presentation lists the venues as the Grande Nef, Galerie 1, Forum and Toits des Galeries, while the newsletter material also references a sculpture garden presentation. The exhibition text frames the project as one that brings together major works from the Centre Pompidou collection and rarely shown pieces, including what the museum calls the extraordinary wall of André Breton’s studio and Marcel Duchamp’s chess table, which recently joined the collection.
The conceptual focus is explicit: Sunday is treated as a plural subject rather than a single theme. The museum says the collective of curators gathered around Cattelan used the subject to open associations touching social, political and aesthetic questions. In the exhibition description, Sunday is presented as a suspended time between leisure and revolt, and as a way to revisit art history through a broad institutional collection. The project also places Cattelan in conversation with the museum’s holdings rather than isolating his work as a solo survey.
The exhibition page names Maurizio Cattelan and Chiara Parisi, director of Centre Pompidou-Metz, as curators, joined by the programming team Sophie Bernal, Elia Biezunski, Anne Horvath, Laureen Picaut and Zoe Stillpass, with Marta Papini accompanying the project. The museum notes that the exhibition celebrates the institution’s 15th anniversary and draws on the partnership that has allowed Centre Pompidou-Metz to present works from the Centre Pompidou collection since its opening.
The online programme indicates that the exhibition will evolve over time. In February 2026, two major works were added to the section 'Ils ne passeront pas': Marcel Duchamp’s 'La Roue de Bicyclette', identified by the museum as the first ready-made in history, and Otto Dix’s 'Souvenirs de la galerie des glaces à Bruxelles' by the expressionist and Dada painter. From 14 March, Allan Kaprow’s 'Yard' is set to enter the Forum in dialogue with Maurizio Cattelan’s monumental sculpture 'L.O.V.E.'
Another part of the project is the 'Wrong Gallery', where Edi Rama presents 'Sans titre' (2026), combining a ceramic sculpture and a hand-embroidered screen made for the space. The museum says the work sets up a play on the open boundaries of the gallery format. A catalogue, designed by Irma Boom, accompanies the exhibition and is described by the museum as part encyclopedic catalogue, part autobiographical narrative, with contributions including an introductory essay by Chiara Parisi and texts by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Aurélie Verdier. The exhibition remains on view until 25 January 2027.
