This exhibition reveals to the public, and for the first time, the collection of the Franco-Russian philosopher and diplomat Alexandre Kojève. Organised by philosopher and art historian Boris Groys, this exhibition gathers of more than 1700 postcards collected by Alexandre Kojève and 400 photographs taken during his travels in the 1950s and 1960s, in Sri Lanka, China, India, Iran, Japan, Nepal, Russia and Western Europe. This collection – a “work” in its own right – now held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Nina Ivanoff donation, 2004) demonstrates Kojève’s philosophical thinking, but also his conception and practice of politics.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Helen Marten, Winner of the 2011 Prix Lafayette, is an emerging artist on the British art scene. She practices “activist tourism” within different forms, exploring the “collusion” of surfaces, signs and materials. At Palais de Tokyo, Helen Marten constructs a scenario, which mixes different conversations about fashion, the natural world, glamour, and the city.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

For his first major solo exhibition within a French institution, Neil Beloufa, a young French artist of Algerian descent who has attracted a lot of attention on the international scene, following his participation in “La Triennale: Intense Proximity” in Paris and shows at Balice Hertling & Lewis in New York and François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles in 2012. Beloufa offers an inventory of his own output, questioning the role of the artist, but also the purpose of images, figures and myths in a mediatized world.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

For his first major exhibition, Damir Očko invites visitors to discover a universe that is both melancholic and poetic at Palais de Tokyo. Through a constellation of works, he clears a path along the meanders of language, opening on to the byways of text and image, poetry and video, drawing and musical score, as part of ‘‘Croatie, la voici".

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

In 2012, the Société des Amis du Musée d’Art Moderne will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PAC – Projet pour l’art contemporain – initiated in 2002 by Alfred Pacquement and François Trèves. As a unique project, the PAC gathers around sixty friends of the MNAM who generously donate to the museum, so that it can, every year, buy from 5 to 10 works by emerging artists. In order to honour this project, the Centre Pompidou will present a selection of 30 pieces from the collection offered by the PAC.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Eloïse Daniels / eloise@claudinecolin.com

The Centre Pompidou Mobile is the first touring museum in the world. Its purpose is to bring masterpieces of modern art to the public, and specifically to the public distant from culture. Designed by architect Patrick Bouchain, the Centre Pompidou MOBILE (650m²) was inaugurated in October 2011 in Chaumont (Haute-Marne) and has since stopped in various locations throughout France. Libourne will be the next stop for the new hanging on the theme « Round and Square ».

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

The new exhibition of modern and contemporary art from the Cultural Institute Bernard Magrez will cross male and female points of view about beauty. It will highlight the contradictions generated by the confrontation of twenty art works from the private collection of Bernard Magrez, including works by Miquel Barceló, Valérie Belin, Marie Bovo, Bernard Buffet, Mauricio Cattelan, Chiharu Shiota, Philippe Cognée, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Dan Hays, Camille Henrot, Benoit Maire, Boris Mikhailov,
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi, Sam Taylor-Wood, Vincent Van Gogh, and Xavier Veilhan.

Samya Ramdane : samya@claudinecolin.com

Tamara Marie : tamara@claudinecolin.com

On the occasion of Lille3000’s new season dedicated to the theme “Fantastic”, the Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (LaM), will present a new exhibition on the urban myths of the Interwar period. “The Magic City” will present four myths, reflecting the fantasies and fears produced by the western world and many modern artists such as Victor Brauner, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Stella, photographers such as Raoul Hausmann, André Kertész and cinematographers such as René Clair, Fritz Lang and John Huston.

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com