National gallery of Jeu de Paume

The national gallery of Jeu de Paume is a place of exposure of Contemporary art and Photographie of a surface of 1  200 m 2 located in Garden of Tileries at the Western end of the Terrace of Breaking into leaf, Place of the Harmony, with Paris 1 {{er}}.

Building

Dimensions

  • Length and width: 80 X 13 Mr.
  • Usable surface: 2 754,50 Mr.
  • Surface of exposure: 1.137 Mr. Is nine rooms out of three levels and 420 m of ogee mouldings.
  • Height under ceiling in the majority of the rooms: 4,50 m

History

The building was built in 1861 pennies the reign of Napoleon III for courts of the ancestor of tennis, the play of palm.

The building as from 1909 was devoted to art, in relation to the Musée of the Orangery and the Louvre. During the Second world war, works of confiscated Jewish artists and other works flights by the Nazis were stored there or there forwarded before leaving for Germany (see Pink Valland). To 1947 until 1986 goes back from the opening of the Musée of Orsay, the gallery of Jeu de Paume presented the fabrics of the impressionist S. Of installations carried out, the gallery reopened at the beginning of the Années 1990 on the initiative of Jack Lang, becoming the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume. The new place of exposure is then dedicated to the modern art and contemporary in all his forms before becoming in 2004 a place exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography and the video.

Association manager

This same year 2004, three associations devoted to photography and the contemporary art (the national Gallery of Jeu de Paume, the National center of photography and the photographic Inheritance) amalgamated to give rise to the Jeu de Paume , new association subsidized by the Ministère of the Culture, chaired by Alain-Dominique Perrin and directed, since October 1st 2006, by Marta Gili (which succeeded Régis Durand).

In addition to the building located place of the Harmony, association has another site to organize its exposures: the Hotel of Sully, 62 Street Saint-Anthony, Paris 4 {{E}}.

List exposures

Individual exposures

  • 2004 :
    • Nuremberg: Slides of the capacity , photographs of Arno Gisinger (October 28th - December 3rd, 2004)
    • Rineke Dijkstra (December 14th, 2004 - February 20th, 2005)

  • 2006 :

    • Craigie Horsfield (January 31st - April 30th, 2006)
    • Ed Ruscha photographer (January 31st - April 30th, 2006)
    • Cindy Sherman: retrospective (May 16th - September 3rd, 2006)
    • Friedlander (September 19th - December 31st, 2006)

  • 2007 :

    • Pierre and Gilles, double I - 1976 - 2007 (June 26th - September 23rd, 2007)
    • Steichen, a photographic epopee (October 9th - December 30th, 2007)

Collective exposures and sets of themes

  • 2005 :

    • Burlesques contemporaries (June 7th - September 4th, 2005): Claude Closky, Michael Smith, Anne de Sterk, Anna Blume and Bernhard Blume, Gilbert and George, Refusals Oppenheim, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Pierre Malphette, Kim Adams, Francis Alÿs.
    • Chaplin and the images (June 7th - September 18th, 2005)
    • To cross worlds , Aspects of the contemporary document (October 4th - December 31st, 2005): Emmanuelle the Antille, Guillaume Herbaut, Geert Goiris, Stanley Greene, Janaina Tschäpe

  • 2007 :

    • the Event , images as actors of the history (January 16th - April 1st, 2007)

The Workshop of Jeu de Paume

  • 2005 :
    • Camille Henrot (November 15th - December 31st, 2005)

  • 2006 :

    • Yoon Sung-A (March 28th - April 30th, 2006)
    • Julien Discrit (May 16th - June 25th, 2006)
    • François Nouguiès: Last Film II (June 28th - September 3rd, 2006)
    • Louidgi Beltrame (September 19th - November 5th, 2006)
    • Julien Loustau (November 22nd - December 31st, 2006)

  • 2007 :

    • Elects Florenty (January 16th - February 18th, 2007)
    • Cyprien Gaillard (February 27th - April 1st, 2007)

See too

External bond

  • Official site

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