Past Board Member
Paris, Fr
Sparkling, playful, adventurous, Palais de Tokyo, created ten years ago, woke Paris: anti-museum par excellence, fallow rebel in the 16th district, "palace" quirky and ambitious, exchanges and surprises, it was pioneered a movement of reconciliation between the City of Light and contemporary art. Its model and its programming have school beyond French borders, both in the circle of specialists that among fans and the general public.With these successful years, the Palais de Tokyo became in 2012 one of the largest sites dedicated to contemporary art in Europe, its area from 8,000 m² to 22,000 m². It now extends to the Seine, forming a hyphen hillside between the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées. His success, his spirit of adventure and new spaces in the service of artists, their gestures and their eyes enhance our ability to perceive, think and open new paths.Today the expansion of its territory and its project at Palais de Tokyo gives an opportunity to rethink the role of cultural institutions face the ongoing acceleration of our lives. He became the meeting place between ourselves and the art of our time. A place born, lived and grew its contradictions. Delighted and violent, and transgressive poetic, sensual and meditative, intimate and large, public and secret, which is known to be enthusiastic without being pompous, relaxed and attentive, sharp but accessible when you're not working on art but with the art, and where we work it.The Palais de Tokyo is a destination with wide spaces are as mobile as the lives that cross. Secured a perpetual pier at the river, a terraced garden with forking paths, a utopia on, an interface whose residents and visitors live both inside and outside the city codes, the "culture" of the daily . Territory, offering explorers of this, the possibility modest and essential taste the flavors of pulsation and what emerges, making us finally daring contemporary of our own time.