Partial view of the Argentine side of Iguazu Falls and San Martin island from the Brazilian side of the Iguazu River near the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguazu, 17 January 2007. AFP PHOTO/Juan MABROMATA (Photo by Juan MABROMATA / AFP) (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)


Whereas its Paris dwelling base closes for 5 years to endure a renovation, the Centre Pompidou will develop its worldwide attain, opening its first South American house in 2027.

Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the brand new location in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, shall be one in all a number of satellites operated by the Centre Pompidou, with others in Shanghai, Málaga, and Metz, France, amongst different locales.

The Brazilian Centre Pompidou museum is receiving monetary backing from Paraná officers, who oversee the territory round Iguaçu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage website. Will probably be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez.

Benítez’s work has been sustainability-focused. The museum stated he’ll work to seamlessly combine his Centre Pompidou satellite tv for pc into its environment.

The museum will embody exhibition galleries and analysis services, and can deal with spotlighting artists from South America whereas additionally foregrounding components of the Pompidou’s everlasting assortment, which includes round 150,000 objects.

It’s one in all a number of Pompidou satellites within the works, with others anticipated to seem in Brussels and Seoul within the coming years.

The Centre Pompidou’s Paris museum will shut for 5 years beginning this September for a $280 million renovation. The renovation, overseen partially by France’s cultural ministry, will improve power methods and modernize the constructing’s ageing infrastructure, which initially opened in 1977. The final exhibition mounted earlier than the closure shall be a Wolfgang Tillmans present set within the museum’s library.