Martin Arnold

• Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (FR)
• 08.05.2025–02.02.2027

Since it opened in 2010, the Centre Pompidou-Metz has been privileged to host numerous major works loaned by the Musée National d’Art Moderne, works that have marked the museum’s history and exhibitions. The Endless Sunday is part of this dynamic, offering an immersion in the collection through a multitude of different media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video and film, in an unprecedented dialogue with the world of Maurizio Cattelan.

Traditionally associated with rest and contemplation, Sunday is a paradoxical day. From sacred day to a day of leisure and consumption, it reflects the changes that have taken place in society. Taking the form of an ABC, a nod to Gilles Deleuze, this thematic exhibition explores the day’s multiple facets. The sections, each named after a poem, film or novel (A for ‘Air de famille’, B for ‘Bats-toi’, C for ‘Conduis-moi sur la lune’, etc.), revisit the ideas associated with Sunday, while immersing visitors in the complex, tortured world of Maurizio Cattelan, who takes them on a historical and sensorial journey.

Visitors can wander freely between the 26 letters of the alphabet, to which a 27th has been added, for the section devoted to ‘Sunday’. Designed by Berger&Berger, the exhibition roams across the history of art, leading to astonishing associations on every floor of the museum.

The layout plays on forms and cycles. Echoing the hexagonal architecture of Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, the exhibition is organised around a circular flow in the Grande Nef and concentric circles in the Galerie 1, punctuated with straight lines that structure the visitor experience. It spreads across several levels, offering a journey through the history of art and its upheavals.

Centre Pompidou-Metz