Unstable Media in the 21st Century

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Salomania, 2009, Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, Inventarnummer: AM 2023-832 © Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Bildnachweis: Centre Pompidou, MNA

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20.11.2026 - 02.05.2027

Highlights from the Centre Pompidou New Media Collection

Venue

1st floor Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atrium and Basement

UNSTABLE MEDIA IN THE 21^ST CENTURY examines some of the most radical voices in media art today based on some 40 key works from the Centre Pompidou’s pioneering New Media Collection.

Ever since the 1980s, the uncertain future of emerging technologies has challenged any stable notion of »new media« as an art form, with one technology rapidly replacing the next. These technologies have nevertheless become em-bedded in our sensory memory and form what could be called our »subskin«. Through innumerable interfaces and perpetual resonances, media culture is embodied and realised daily as an inescapable substrate of human life, making it virtually impossible to take a critical stance. The exhibition brings together a variety of different art forms and situations in order to explore how artists have appropriated and reinvented various media in recent decades, simultaneously recognising and altering them. The show is divided into eight chapters, unfolding along a series of selected paths that propose potential new stories and histories.

The Centre Pompidou is closed until 2030 for extensive renovation work. This presents a special opportunity to experience selected works as part of a coopera-tive exhibition by the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Centre Pompidou.

Curators

Dr. Marcella Lista (Head of New Media, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou); Dr. Corinne Diserens (Director & Exhibition Curator for Contemporary Art)

Assistant Curator