Palais de Tokyo

View of the Palais de Tokyo, seen from the Eiffel Tower. The eastern wing is on the right.
An exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine.

The Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to the City of Paris, and hosts the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (Paris' Museum of Modern Art). The western wing belongs to the French state and since 2002, has hosted the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine, the largest museum in France dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

The building is separated from the River Seine by the Avenue de New-York, which was formerly named Quai Debilly and later Avenue de Tokio (from 1918 to 1945). The name Palais de Tokyo derives from the name of this street.

History

The monument was inaugurated by President Lebrun on 24 May 1937, at the time of the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life (1937). The original name of the building was Palais des Musées d'art moderne ("Palace of the Museums of modern art"). The building has since then hosted a number of establishments, projects, and creative spaces. Among them; le musée d'art et d'essai (1977–1986), the FEMIS, the Centre national de la photographie, and in 1986, the Palais du cinéma. The current contemporary art center opened to the public in March 2002, under the new name Site de création contemporaine ("Site for contemporary creation"), specializing in the emerging French and international art scene. It was overhauled and expanded in 2012, by the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, who subsequently won the Pritzker Prize. With no permanent collection, It is "reputed to be the biggest non-collecting contemporary art museum in Europe", and produces all of its exhibitions.

Directors

In March 2002, Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans launched the Site de création contemporaine in the west wing of Palais de Tokyo. It soon became simply known as Palais de Tokyo, quickly making its mark as a trendsetter in the art world.

The Palais de Tokyo has since been led by the following:

  • 2006–2012: Marc-Olivier Wahler
  • 2012–2018: Jean de Loisy
  • 2021–2022: Emma Lavigne
  • 2022–present: Guillaume Désanges

Le Pavillon

The Pavillon ran from 2001 to 2017, and facilitated over 130 international artists. Intended as a studio and laboratory space for resident artists and curators invited to the project, the Pavillon was an experimental program, designed to demonstrate the resident artists' youthful creativity. Since the opening of the building, the director of the programme was artist and filmmaker, Ange Leccia. The residency programme was sponsored by Banque Neuflize OBC, The Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the Cité internationale des arts.

Notable Pavillon residents

All Pavillon residents

All Pavillon residents, by year
Year residency started Artist Nationality
2001 Charlotte Beaurepaire France
2001 Kim Sop Boninsegni Switzerland/France
2001 Gérald France
2001 Emily Joyce United States
2001 Alexandre Pollazzon France
2001 Julia Rometti France
2001 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand
2002 Quentin Armand France
2002 Angela Detanico Brazil
2002 Andreas Fogarasi Austria
2002 Rafael Lain Brazil
2002 Adriana Lara Dominguez Mexico
2002 Lucas Mancione France
2002 Nicolas Milhe France
2002 Émilie Renard France
2002 Jiri Skala Csechia
2002 Johann Van Aerden France
2002 Gabriela Vanga Romania
2003 Ziad Antar Lebanon
2003 Louidgi Beltrame France
2003 Davide Bertocchi Italy
2003 Sophie Dubosc France
2003 Johannes Fricke Waldthausen Netherlands
2003 Shiho Fukuhara Japan
2003 Agnieszka Kurant Poland
2003 Gerald Petit France
2004 Marcelline Delbecq France
2004 Alice Guareschi Italy
2004 André Guedes Portugal
2004 Corentin Hamel France
2004 Nicolas Juillard France
2004 Anne-Laure Maison France
2004 Benjamin Martin USA/France
2005 Liliana Basarab Romania
2005 Isabelle Cornaro France
2005 Adriana Garcia Galan Columbia
2005 Benoît Maire France
2005 Mihnea Mircan Romania
2005 Wagner Morales Brazil
2005 Émilie Pitoiset France
2005 Koki Tanaka Japan
2005 Adam Vackar Czechia
2006 Alex Cecchetti Italy
2006 Duvier Del Dago Fernandez Cuba
2006 Mati Diop France
2006 Manu Laskar France
2006 Jaime Lutzo United States
2006 Cova Macías Spain
2006 Denis Savary Switzerland
2006 Jean-Luc Vincent France
2007 Meris Angioletti Italy
2007 Jose Arnaud Bello Mexico
2007 Gaëlle Boucand France
2007 Niklas Goldbach Germany
2007 K.G. Guttman Canada
2007 Romain Kronenberg France
2007 Charlotte Moth United Kingdom
2007 Jorge Satorre Domenech Mexico
2007 Andreas Siqueland Norway
2007 Stéphane Vigny France
2008 Pedro Barateiro Portugal
2008 Emma Dusong France
2008 Isa Griese Germany
2008 Louise Hervé France
2008 Chloé Maillet France
2008 Matteo Rubbi Italy
2008 Axel Straschnoy Argentina
2008 Iris Touliatou GR Greece
2008 Gilles Toutevoix France
2009 Andrea Acosta Columbia
2009 Patrick Bock France/USA
2009 Haizea Barcenilla Garcia Spain
2009 Davide Cascio Switzerland
2009 Anthony Lanzenberg France
2009 Florence Ostende France
2009 Jorge Pedro Núñez Venezuela
2009 Samir Ramdani France
2009 Ramiro Guerreiro Portugal
2010 Jérome Allavena France
2010 Einat Amir Israel
2010 Elisabeth S. Clark United Kingdom/USA
2010 Gintaras Didziarapetris Lithuania
2010 Alexandra Ferreira Portugal
2010 Morten Norbye Halvorsen Norway
2010 Estelle Nabeyrat France/Germany
2010 Fabrice Pichat France
2010 Charlotte Seidel France
2010 Betina Wind Germany
2011 Laëtitia Badut Haussmann France
2011 Oliver Beer United Kingdom
2011 Fouad Bouchoucha France
2011 Eglé Budvytytè Lithuania
2011 Onejoon Che South Korea
2011 Anthea Hamilton United Kingdom
2011 Egija Inzule Latvia
2011 Hélène Meisel France
2011 Noé Soulier France
2011 Oriol Vilanova Spain
2012 Carlotta Bailly-Borg France
2012 Feiko Beckers Netherlands
2012 Julie Béna France
2012 Daiga Grantina Latvia
2012 Francesco Fonassi Italy
2012 Peter Miller United States
2012 Julien Perez France
2012 Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz Poland
2012 Gonçalo Sena Portugal
2012 Theo Turpin United Kingdom
2012 Lucas Biberson France
2013 Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet France
2013 Rebecca Digne France
2013 Guillaume Henry France
2013 Chai Siris Thailand
2013 Mikhail Lylov Russia
2013 Sébastien Martinez Barat France
2013 Karin Schlageter France
2013 Clémence Seilles France
2013 Antonio Vega Macotela Mexico
2013 Yonatan Vinitsky Israel/Poland
2014 Aung-Ko Myanmar
2014 Basma Alsharif Kuwait/Palestine/France/USA
2014 Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros Lebanon
2014 Jonathan Martin France
2014 Keiichiro Shibuya Japan
2014 Shelly Nadashi Israel
2015 Ayoung Kim South Korea
2015 Jean-Alain Corre France
2015 Alexis Guillier France
2015 Hoël Duret France
2015 Lou Lim Philippines
2015 Ollie Palmer United Kingdom
2016 Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos Greece
2016 Lola Gonzàlez France
2016 Taloi Havini Papua New Guinea
2016 Yu Ji China
2016 Thomas Teurlai France
2016 Wataru Tominaga Japan

Palais /

The Museum also publishes the magazine Palais /, which annually releases three editions (Spring, Fall, and Summer) and was created in 2006 by Marc-Olivier Wahler. The Magazine features articles centering around a central artistic theme selected for each edition. The subjects are conceptual, and are explored using photography, various artistic media, essays, and often experimental media. The theme generally coincides with the exhibition concurrently featured at the museum.

In addition to Palais /, Palais de Tokyo also published five volumes of a contemporary art encyclopedia, From Yodeling to Quantum Physics between 2007 and 2011.

See also

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