CHIARA PARISI APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ

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Thursday 28th November 2019

PRESS RELEASE CHIARA PARISI APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ Press contacts Centre Pompidou-Metz Marion Gales Press relations officer

Serge Lasvignes, chairman of the board of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Chairman of the Centre national d’art et de culture-Georges Pompidou, has appointed Chiara Parisi Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz for a five year mandate beginning on 2nd December 2019.

phone: +33 (0)3 87 15 52 76 mail:marion.gales@centrepompidoumetz.fr Claudine Colin Communication Francesca Sabatini phone: +33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 mail:francesca@claudinecolin.com Credits: © Philippe Levy

The board of the Centre Pompidou-Metz proposed Chiara Parisi’s candidacy to Chairman Lasvignes, out of a list of candidates unanimously drawn up by a commission composed of public personalities represented on the board (the Centre Pompidou, the state, Metz Métropole, the Grand Est Regional Council and the City of Metz) as well as a recognized expert (Marie Lavandier, Director of the Louvre-Lens).

Chiara Parisi will therefore succeed Emma Lavigne, appointed Executive President of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2019 and Laurent Le Bon, Executive President of the Musée Picasso, who inaugurated the institution in Metz in 2010. “Chiara Parisi

2 proposed for Centre Pompidou-Metz a strong artistic project that unanimously delighted the jury. I am very happy to be able, on the eve of the institution 10th anniversary, to count on her experience, her dynamic and creative spirit to take further, with her very own personality, the successful path laid down by Emma Lavigne” stated Serge Lasvignes concerning Chiara Parisi.

Art historian, Chiara Parisi worked during five years as Director of Cultural Program at the Monnaie de Paris where she notably devoted an important monographic exhibition to the artist Marcel Broodthaers and organised milestone exhibitions, in particular on Maurizio Cattelan and also Take Me (I’m yours) with Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist. She has also been curator of exhibitions at the French Academy in Rome-Villa Medici where she recently presented the work of Anne and Patrick Poirier and conceived the group exhibition Le Violon d’Ingres, at the crossroads of history of art and contemporary research. Numerous other projects have been entrusted to her, she was amongst others one of the invited curators for the Nuit Blanche in Metz in 2010, and then artistic director with Julie Pellegrin, for the Nuit Blanche in Paris in 2013.

3 Biography Chiara Parisi is holder of a state doctorate from the University of La Sapienza in Rome where she taught the history of modern and contemporary art as well as the history of architecture and industrial design.

Her career path has been marked by the accompaniment of artists in their most unexpected and audacious adventures, in order to enable each one of them to achieve the intense experience of creation. She profoundly believes that art changes life and she will strive to convey this to the public through a close contact with the real world.

In 2011, she was appointed Director of Cultural Programs at the Monnaie de Paris. Her ambitious programme was based on urban scale events such as Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market bringing together more then 80 artists, Stockhausen’s Helicopter string quartet, the video installation by Mohamed Bourouissa in collaboration with the rapper Booba, or the project

by John Baldessari, Your Name in Lights, a participative lighting installation in which over 100 000 people participated.

In 2014, for the opening of the site, the artist Paul McCarthy inaugurated the XVIIIth century salons on the banks of the Seine with his Chocolate Factory. In 2016, Jannis Kounellis took over the spaces, and then Bertrand Lavier with a tribute to Raymond Hains.

His artistic direction concluded with the largest exhibition ever presented in Europe by Maurizio Cattelan, Not Afraid of Love, thus marking the return of the artist who had previously declared having brought his career to an end.

By placing a multidisciplinary approach at the heart of her project, she organised the cycle “Factory” which, once a year, invited an artist to create a contemporary work for the Monnaie’s collections. Fabrice Hyber, Kerstin Brätsch, Chantal Akerman, Danh Võ succeeded each other in this residency programme.

In 2017, Chiara Parisi was appointed curator for the exhibitions at the French Academy in Rome–Villa Medici. Entitled Une, a new cycle of exhibitions devoted to women artists began with Annette Messager, then Claire Tabouret and Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Peyton and Camille Claudel, Tatiana Trouvé and Katharina Grosse.

Always concerned by the appropriation of art by the public, she had for the first time ever, the famous gardens of the Villa Medici opened at night for the exhibition Ouvert la nuit (Open at Night) which invited renowned artists to take over the sixteen mythical garden squares, amongst others Rosa Barba, Christian Boltanski, Trisha Donnelly, Elmgreen & Dragset, Felix González-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Hassan Khan, Lee Mingwei, Otobong Nkanga… Important exhibitions were also organized in honour of the residents, in between research and production, as part of the cycle Loro.

From 2004 to 2011, Chiara Parisi was director of the International Centre for art and landscapee on Vassivière island which under her impulse, gave rise to original projects in the Aldo Rossi building as well as in the sculpture park, such as those by Claude Lévêque, Huang Yong Ping, Cyprien Gaillard, Oscar Tuazon, Thomas Houseago and also Hubert Duprat, Marisa Merz, Rosa Barba, Victor Man, Bethan Huws. A large number of artists thus were able to present their first monographic exhibition in France.

She has also set up artists’ residencies conceived by the architects Berger&Berger and extended the site with monumental works such as the skate-park OTRO designed by the artist Koo Jeong A or La Licorne Eiffel, an environmental sculpture by the architect Yona Friedman.

Chiara Parisi takes part in several committees notably for the Italian Ministry of Culture, the National Museum of Monaco, the Frac Franche-Comté, The School of Visual Arts of the City of Monaco… In 2019, she was appointed Artistic Director for Public Procurement, Léonard et le voyage (Leonard and the voyage), for Rome Airports.

4 Exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2020: -

Constructed Worlds. A choice of sculptures from the Centre Pompidou From 22 November 2019 to 23 August 2021 Galerie 1

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Folklore From 21 March to 21 September 2020 Galerie 2

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The sky as a workshop. Yves Klein and his contemporaries From 2 May to 2 November 2020 Grande Nef

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Chagall. The Light passer From 17 October 2020 to 15 February 2021 Galerie 3

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Aerodream. Architecture, Design and inflatable structures 1950-2020 From 21 November 2020 to 19 April 2021 Galerie 2

Installations in 2020: -

Giuseppe Penone Indistinti confini - Noce From 21 March to 2 November 2020

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Susanna Fritscher Flickering From 21 March to 17 August 2020 Galerie 3

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Lee Mingwei, Sonic Blossom May 2020 Grande Nef

Current exhibitions: -

The Extatic Eye. Serguei Eisenstein, filmmaker at the crossroads of the arts From 28 September 2019 to 24 February 2020 Grande Nef

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Opera as the World. The quest for a total work of art From 22 June 2019 to 27 January 2020 Galerie 3

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Rebecca Horn. Theatre of metamorphoses From 8 June 2019 to 13 January 2020 Galerie 2

EXHIBITION IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE PHOTO LIBRARY (centrepompidoumetz.fr/phototheque).

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