With almost a third of its collection dedicated to video art and the recent addition of NFTs (starting in 2021) to the collection scope, KADIST maintains strong ties to artistic innovation and emerging technologies. KADIST also believes that artists play a vital role in shaping society, often anticipating cultural currents, driving progress and fostering meaningful dialogue. Recognizing the near-future impact of artificial intelligence on creativity and artistic practice, KADIST and the Centre Pompidou are focusing on both the critical and the transformational potential of this dawning revolution of visual culture.
The collaboration between the Centre Pompidou and KADIST explores artificial intelligence and sound, image and video generating technologies, and how they will impact the field of artistic creation and production. These extractive softwares are poised to disrupt, launching debates about automation, problematics of cultural aggregation, issues of artistic consent, and the limits of copyright. This collaboration has three components:
In July 2023: a public event at the Centre Pompidou will set the groundwork for critical frameworks and artistic reflections in progress.
In 2024: a series of new commissions and recent acquisitions will be presented at the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne.
In 2025: an intervention in the public space will take form, following the closure for renovation of the Centre Pompidou building.
A conference during Moviment inaugurates this new collaboration with an afternoon of conversations, video screenings and discussions, from 3 to 9 pm. The focus will be on critical takes of this cultural moment, as AI is simultaneously absorbed or deployed and alternately resisted and rejected.
As a singular and engaged nonprofit, KADIST plans to establish long-term partnerships with museums, ensuring the continual renewal and relevance of its collection for the next generation. Conceived alongside a group of curators and museum directors, the “KADIST Nomadic Collection” is a reflection on the future of a networked institution, its collection and the relationships between public museums and private foundations. It will extend the already existing links between these two types of entities, which usually amount to financial support or short-term endeavors.
Every 3 to 5 years, this collaborative program will make available, via a multi-year loan, a large part of the KADIST collection to a leading museum, for exhibitions and educational programs addressing key issues of our time. The aim is to augment the accessibility of the KADIST collection (with over 2,000 artworks) to a broader audience in a creative way. The Pinacoteca de São Paulo (Brazil) will follow the Centre Pompidou, in 2025.
About KADIST
KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization that believes artists make an important contribution to a progressive society through their artwork, which often addresses key issues of our time. Dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists represented in its collection, KADIST encourages this engagement and affirms contemporary art’s relevance within social discourse. Its local hubs in Paris and San Francisco organize exhibitions, physical and online programs, and host residencies. KADIST stays apprised of developments in contemporary art via a global advisor network, and develops collaborations internationally, including with leading museums, facilitating new connections across cultures and vibrant conversations about contemporary art and society.
