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UNSTABLE MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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Highlights from the Centre Pompidou New Media Collection

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

Jana Pfort

Press conference

Wednesday, 18 November 2026, 11 a.m.

Opening

Thursday, 19 November 2026, 7 p.m.

UNSTABLE MEDIA IN THE 21ST 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 embedded in our sensory memory and form what could be called our »subskin«. Through countless interfaces and persistent resonances, media culture is embodied and enacted daily as an entangled substrate of human life, questioning the possibility of 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 cooperative exhibition by the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Centre Pompidou. 
 

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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
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzSalomania, 2009
Aaron S. Davidson, Melissa Dubbin Delay Lines (feedback), 2020 / 2021, Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle Inventarnummer: AM 2023-169 © Rechte vorbehalten Bildnachweis: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-Cc
Aaron S. Davidson, Melissa DubbinDelay Lines (feedback), 2020/2021
Christian Marclay (*1955) Subtitled, 2019  Installation vidéo Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle  numéro d’inventaire : AM 2024-272  Copyright de l’oeuvre : ©  Christian Marclay
Christian MarclaySubtitled, 2019
Thao Nguyen Phan (*1987), Mute Grain, 2019, Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, Inventarnummer: AM 2021-632 © Rechte vorbehalten, Bildnachweis: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-Cci/Dist.RMN-GP
Thao Nguyen PhanMute Grain, 2019
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