Galeries Lafayette and Pompidou-Metz Unite for Artful Collaboration in Paris

Galeries Lafayette opens the doors of Pour Toujours next to the Pompidou-Metz center. The first collaboration between the most emblematic department store in Paris and the cultural institution and museum of modern and contemporary art located in the French city of Metz materializes with a hors-les-murs show of the exhibition Dimanche sans fin, by Italian artist Mauricio Cattelan.

From March 10th through April 27th next year, the exhibition Pour Toujours will arrive at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann.The exhibition is one of the parts that make up a larger show, which was conceived under the name Dimanche sans fin at the Pompidou-Metz center and combines works by Cattelan with other outstanding pieces from the museum’s permanent collection.

Dimanche sans fin shows a dialogue between artists and the histories of contemporary art through the vision of Cattelan himself and Chiara Parisi, director of the center, curators of the exhibition.

Pour Toujours’ will be curated by the Italian artist Mauricio Cattelan and the director of the Pompidou-Metz center, Chiara Parisi

The tour created by the two institutions takes shape in the emblematic spaces of the Paris Haussmann department store and brings together the works of four major artists, including Gloria Friedmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Lawrence Weiner.

This project creates an unprecedented dialogue between Galeries Lafayette and the Pompidou Center, “affirming that art also inhabits the places of everyday life, at the heart of the city and its energy,“ the department store said in a statement.

Mauricio Cattelan is an Italian contemporary artist born in 1960 who has participated in institutions such as the Venice Biennale and in exhibitions for museums such as Moma and Tate Modern.