Autumn season 2024

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris presents a new season of exhibitions from October 17, 2024 to January 5, 2025.

The rapid pace of current events should not overwhelm us, but rather inspire us to deepen our commitment to the paths we’ve carved—those rooted in freedom, diversity, and the transformative power of art. Together with artists, we must persist in weaving new narratives and challenging the status quo. By connecting art with societal issues, ecology, and the untold stories of history, we honor art’s unique ability to resonate with our times. The upcoming program at the Palais de Tokyo embodies this spirit, where ancestral ties and forgotten practices converge to reveal unseen perspectives, enriching our understanding of the present and what lies beyond.

Exhibitions
Myriam Mihindou: Praesentia
Curators: Daria de Beauvais and Marie Cozette
Praesentia reflects on presence, power, and protection. It showcases a selection of Myriam Mihindou’s work from the past two decades, including new pieces. The exhibition (co-organized with the Crac Occitanie) emphasizes the social, political, therapeutic and spiritual roles of art, highlighting marginalized voices and practices.

Malala Andrialavidrazana: Figures
Curator: François Piron
The Palais de Tokyo commissions Malala Andrialavidrazana to transform its skylit gallery, “La Grande Verrière”, using its curved walls to present a 60-metre long digital collage. Her work features geographical maps, fragments from postage stamps and banknotes, evoking the times of colonial extraction and exploitation. It explores the present time through archival documents.

Tituba, who protects us? (Tituba, qui pour nous protéger ?)
Curator: Amandine Nana
Tituba, who protects us? is a group show featuring eleven artists from France, Great Britain, and North America with Caribbean and African diasporic backgrounds. Inspired by Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, the exhibition reflects on grief, memory, migration, and ancestrality, invoking Tituba as a symbol of protection while blending artistic and literary creation.

With: Naudline Pierre, Abigail Lucien, Rhea Dillon, Miryam Charles, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi, Naomi Lulendo, Inès Di Folco Jemni, Liz Johnson Artur, Tanoa Sasraku, Claire Zaniolo, Massabielle Brun

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Quand un nœud est dénoué, un dieu est libéré (Everytime a knot is undone a god is released)
Curators: Coline Davenne and Hugo Vitrani
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an acclaimed sculptor, poet and novelist. She lives and works in Paris since 1961. The Palais de Tokyo joins seven other Parisian institutions to celebrate her work, showcasing recent creations, including bronze sculptures from the Standing Black Woman of Venice series.

Julian Charrière: Stone Speakers (Les bruits de la terre)
Curator: Daria de Beauvais
Stone Speakers immerses the audience in a volcanic landscape of mineral sculptures, including the primordial sounds of the earth. The space, designed as a symbolic crater, incorporates recordings of volcanoes and live seismic data. It rethinks the hierarchy established between the different forms of life.

Borders are nocturnal animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūna
Curators: Neringa Bumblienė and Émilie Villez
Co-organized by the Palais de Tokyo, KADIST Paris, and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius for the Lithuanian Season in France, this exhibition brings together Lithuanian artists and others from “post-socialist” countries. It highlights stories from a region overshadowed by dominant narratives, offering new perspectives on past and present.

With: Andrius Arutiunian, Beyond the post-soviet, Agnė Jokšė, Deimantas Narkevičius, Marija Olšauskaitė, Algirdas Šeškus, Emilija Škarnulytė, Anastasia Sosunova, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Anna Zvyagintseva.

The Cynics Republic (La République (cynique)), a score by Pierre Bal-Blanc
Coordinator: Coline Davenne
The Cynics Republic presents a counter-narrative of performance art, tracing its origins to Ancient Cynicism. Designed as a living score, the exhibition evolves daily, using dematerialized resources like scores and sound pieces from the CNAP (Paris) and Kontakt (Vienna) collections engaging visitors dynamically.

Renée Levi: LA ELLE
Curators: Horya Makhlouf and Hugo Vitrani
Renée Levi signs the return of on-site commissions in the Palais de Tokyo building. With LA ELLE, she transforms La Zone, the free area of the art center, with an analogue mural on the walls and a large, digitally rendered drawing on the windows, creating a stained-glass effect.