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contentsNouvelles vagues - press release04 LA méthode jacobson - Curator: mArC bEmbEkOFFthe Pavillon neuflize oBC09

the black moon - Curator: Sinziana ravini15

LE PriNCiPE GALáPAGOS - Curators: maxime bondu, Gaël Grivand, bénédicte Le Pimpec and Émile Ouroumov23

ADA - Curators: ken Farmer and Conrad Shawcross29

le club des sous l’eau - Curators: Gallien Déjean and Fanny Schulmann33

mArTí ANSON, catalan pavilion. Anonymous architect - Curator: marie Griffay41

companionable silences - Curator: Shanay Jhaveri 45

ArTESUr, collective fictions - Curators: Albertine de Galbert, isabelle Le Normand, Andrew berardini, Jesse mckee and Anca rujoiu 51

CONCErT HALL - Curator: Jean barberis 57

antigrazioso - Curator: Luca Lo Pinto 63

un escalier d’eau - Curator: Natalia Valencia 69

memorial park - Curator: Haeju kim75

the real thing? - Curators: Antonia Alampi and Jason Waite81 Champs élysées - Curators: Julie boukobza, Simon Castets and Nicola Trezzi 87

FiLE NOT FOUND - Curators: The black Ninja Faction CoProduCed By the SingaPore art MuSeuM95

LA FiN DE LA NUiT (partie 1) - Curator: martha kirszenbaum 99

this house - Curators: Anthea buys and mikhael Subotzkyin the Context of the South afriCa-franCe SeaSonS 2012 & 2013 105

the floating admiral - Curators: Ana mendoza Aldana and Cartel de kunst109

A history of inspiration - Curator: Adnan Yildiz 115

Henrique Oliveira. bAiTOGOGO - Curator: marc bembekoffProduCed By SaM art ProjeCtS 121

condensation - Curator: Gaël CharbauProduCed By the fondation d’entrePriSe herMèS 125

LIFESTYLE 131 iNTERVENTIONS on the building - toiletpaper133

PUSH YOUR ART - 3D ART CONTEST 135 a place for all 139 publications143 the mobile app 145 palais DE TOKYO’s partners147

general informations155

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Nouvelles vaguespress release

June, 21 - september,9 2013Opening: Thursday, June 2053 exhibitions, throughout Paris and at Palais de Tokyo

After «Cold Sun», Palais de Tokyo, along with thirty galleries and art spaces throughout Paris, innovates once more to emphasize the emergence of the figure of the curator. At Palais de Tokyo, “Nouvelles vagues” (New Waves) is a large-scale event organized by 21 international young curators (hailing from 13 different countries), working individually or in groups, and selected by a jury from over 500 candidates. «Nouvelles vagues» will transform the entirety of Palais de Tokyo’s exhibition space and spread out throughout the city, putting on display the artists, ideas and situations endorsed by these visionary young professionals. Owing to the efforts of the Comité professionnel des galeries d’art [professional committee of art galleries], this event will be completed through the involvement of some thirty Parisian galleries. In partnership with Palais de Tokyo, these institutions will each invite a young curator to conceive an exhibition within their walls. Together, these fifty proposals will mark an unprecedented moment in Paris’ artistic life and present a fresh perspective on today’s artistic practices.

The jury is composed of Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London), Massimiliano Gioni (Associate Director and Curator, New Museum, New York), Jens Hoffmann (Deputy Director, Jewish Museum, New York), Jean-Hubert Martin (independent curator), Xavier Franceschi (Director, Frac Ile-de-France), Colette Barbier (Director, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris), Fabienne Leclerc (Professional Committee of Art Galleries), Alain Reinaudo (Institut Français), Jean de Loisy (President of Palais de Tokyo) and curators of the Palais de Tokyo.

This event is a unique opportunity to emphasize the emergence of this new definition of the curator, a position that has flourished alongside the artist for the past decades. This essential figure, who organizes exhibitions across the globe, is neither an art dealer nor an institutional curator. He or she does not belong to the academic establishment nor feels subjected to the rules of the art market. Instead, here is a free spirit, a maverick looking for new directions, a nomad who knows no boundaries and is always searching for original poetic, aesthetic and political adventures. Working alone or as part of a group, the curator creates original, temporary environments in which artists from different backgrounds come together around shared goals, ideas and visions. No longer the mouthpiece of a period or a movement, no longer the theorist of a new chapter of art history, they thrive on the challenge of working side by side with the artists.

From Félix Fénéon to Clement Greenberg, the 20th century has celebrated the art critic, best epitomised in France by Pierre Restany. During the 1970s and ’80s, the figure of the ultimate “exhibition maker,” such as Harald Szeemann, Germano Celant or Jean-Hubert Martin, emerged, opening up a path for a different way of curating. Younger figures such as Hans Ulrich Obrist or Klaus Biensebach preferred to align themselves with the original meaning of the word “curator”, from the Latin, curare, “to take care of”, “to attend to”.

Borne on a new wave of ingenuity, independence and risk-taking, this new type of curator has blossomed on the art scene.

“Nouvelles Vagues” testifies to this new artistic ecosystem.

Coordination of the season: Marc BembekoffScenography: Franck Vinsot (Agence Zéro six dix)

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« La Méthode Jacobson »*Curator: Marc Bembekoff (France, 1978)With the Pavillon Neuflize OBC: Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Feiko Beckers, Julie Béna, Francesco Fonassi, Daiga Grantina, Peter Miller, Julien Perez, Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz, Gonçalo Sena, Theo Turpin

« The Black Moon »Curator: Sinziana Ravini (Sweden, 1976)With: Boris Achour, John Bock, Talia Chetrit, Sophie Dubosc, Latifa Echakhch, Carl Johan Högberg, Pierre Huyghe, Julien Langendorff, Joanna Lombard, Ursula Mayer, Melvin Moti, Isabel Nolan, Ylva Olgand, Erik Pirolt, émilie Pitoiset, Agnieszka Polska, Hans Rosenström, Martin Soto Climent, Linda Tedsdotter (list to be confirmed)

« Le Principe Galápagos »Curators: Maxime Bondu (France, 1985), Gaël Grivet (France, 1978), Bénédicte Le Pimpec (France, 1986) and émile Ouroumov (Bulgaria, 1979)With: Atlantic, Alain Bedos and Christian Moncel, Maxime Bondu, Simon Boudvin, René Daumal, Arnaud des Pallières, Simon Faithfull, Joseph Grigely, Gaël Grivet, Ceel Mogami de Haas and Vianney Fivel, Laurent Montaron, Uriel Orlow, Jean Painlevé, Ilya Prigogine, Principauté de Sealand, Superstudio, Christian Waldvogel

« ADA »Curators: Ken Farmer (United-States, 1984) and Conrad Shawcross (United-Kingdom, 1977)With: Conrad Shawcross

« Le Club des Sous l’Eau »Curators: Gallien Déjean (France, 1978) and Fanny Schulmann (France, 1982)With: Louis Boutan, Jean Comandon, Louis de Corlieu, Stéphane Devidal, Ligia Dias, Philippe Halsman, Geneviève Hamon, Marie Jager, Sachin Kaeley, Yves Le Prieur, Genêt Mayor, Christian Newby, Noyade (Lemoine & Minkkinen), Jean Painlevé, Pierre Paulin, Bruno Persat, Mary Ping, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Clément Rodzielski, Analia Saban, We Are The Painters, Pedro Wirz (with the collaboration of Christian Rothmaler), Gerda Åkesson

« Martí Anson, Catalan Pavilion. Anonymous Architect »Curator: Marie Griffay (France, 1987)With: Martí Anson

« Companionable Silences »Curator: Shanay Jhaveri (India/United-Kingdom, 1985)With: Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tarsila do Amaral, Zarina Hashmi, Camille Henrot, Adolf Loos, The Otolith Group, Amrita Sher-Gil, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil

« Artesur, Collective Fictions »Curators: Albertine de Galbert (France, 1980), Isabelle Le Normand (France, 1980), Andrew Berardini (United-States, 1982), Jesse McKee (Canada, 1984) and Anca Rujoiu (Romania, 1984) With: Iván Argote, Ricardo Brey, Eugenia Calvo, Leyla Cárdenas, Ana Gallardo, Juan Fernando Herrán, Juliana Iriart, Daniel Jacoby, Tamara Kuselman, Flavia Metzler, Estefanía Peñafiel, Manuela Ribadeneira, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Arnábal, Guillermo E. Rodríguez Rivera, Cintia Clara Romero, Sofía Ruiz, Maya Watanabe

« Concert Hall »Curator: Jean Barberis (France, 1978)With: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Frédéric Durieu, Julien Gasc, Rabid Hands (Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Andrew Schrock, VnessWolfCHild and Ben Wolf), Sunita Prasad, maya.rouvelle, Nick Yulman

« Antigrazioso »Curator: Luca Lo Pinto (Italy, 1981)With: Darren Bader, Anne Collier, Paolo Gioli, Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, Enrico Imoda, Cameron Jamie, Medardo Rosso, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing

« Un Escalier d’eau »Curator: Natalia Valencia (Colombia, 1984)With: Manon de Boer, France Fiction, Herz Frank, Mario García Torres, Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet, Michael PortnoyMuseography of Felipe Arturo

« Memorial Park »Curator: Haeju Kim (South Korea, 1980)With: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sora Kim, Hwayeon NamWith the support of Arts Council Korea (regards sur la culture coréenne), theSeoul Museum of Art and the Centre culturel coréen

« The Real Thing? »Curators: Antonia Alampi (Italy, 1983) and Jason Waite (United-States, 1980)With: Jérôme Bel, Alicia Frankovich, Shadi Habib Allah, Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe in collaboration with Valerie Oberleithner, Alexi Kukuljevic, Pilvi Takala, Diego Tonus

« Champs Elysées »Curators: Julie Boukobza (France, 1980), Simon Castets (France, 1984) and Nicola Trezzi (Italy, 1982)With: Harold Ancart, Danai Anesiadou, Matteo Callegari, Valentin Carron, Anna Craycroft, Trisha Donnelly, Ida Ekblad, Simone Fattal, Lara Favaretto, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Susan Hefuna, Tom Holmes, Jamie Isenstein, Esther Kläs, Henri Labrouste, Maria Loboda, Goshka Maçuga, Rodrigo Matheus, Duane Michals, Sarah Ortmeyer, Sarah Pucci, Davis Robbins, Auguste Rodin, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach, Alice Tomaselli (list to be confirmed)

« File not found »Curators: The Black Ninja FactionWith: Randy Chan, Zaki Razak, Lee Wen, Joel YuenCoproduced by the Singapore Art Museum

« La Fin de la nuit (partie 1) »Curator: Martha Kirszenbaum (France, 1983)Scenographer: Marianne ZamecznikWith: Kenneth Anger, Brian Butler, Oskar Fischinger, Karthik Pandian, Stephen G. Rhodes, Jennifer West

« This House »Curators: Anthea Buys (South Africa, 1984) and Mikhael Subotzky (South Africa, 1981)With: Alexandra Makhlouf, Gordon Matta-Clark, Serge-Alain Nitegeka Magnhild Øen Nordahl, Mikhael Subotzky, André TehraniIn the context of South Africa-France Seasons 2012 & 2013

« The Floating Admiral »Curators: Ana Mendoza Aldana (Guatemala, 1987), and Cartel de KunstWith: Francis Alÿs, Isabelle Cornaro, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Nicolas Floc’h, Mario García Torres, Germain Hamel, Nathan Hylden, Zhanna Kadyrova, Kitty Kraus, Hugo Pernet

« A History of Inspiration »Curator: Adnan Yıldız (Turkey, 1979)With: Erdağ Aksel, Aaron Angell, Mariechen Danz, Michael Dean, Cevdet Erek, Nilbar Güreş, Toril Johannessen, Ahmet Öğüt, Wael Shawky, Slavs and Tatars, KIBLENÜMA

« Henrique Oliveira, Baitogogo »* Curator: Marc Bembekoff (France, 1978)With: Henrique OliveiraProduced by SAM Art Projects

« Condensation »*Curator: Gaël Charbau (France, 1976)With: Marcos Avila Forero, Oliver Beer, Simon Boudvin, Gabriele Chiari, Elisabeth S. Clark, Marine Class, Marie-Anne Franqueville, Sébastien Gschwind, Atsunobu Kohira, Oh You Kyeong, Benoît Piéron, Félix Pinquier, émilie Pitoiset, Andrès Ramirez, Olivier Sévère, Anne-Charlotte YverProduced by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

AT PALAIS DE TOKYO

*exhibitions suggested outside the jury’s selection

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THROUGHOUT PARISIAN GALLERIES

“La Retenue”Curator: Damien AiraultSemiose galerie - 54, rue Chapon - Paris 3e

“Medusa Caravage Salon”Curator: Massimiliano BaldassarriGalerie Dominique Fiat - 16, rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais - Paris 3e

“Degrees of Separation”Curator: Rod BartonGalerie Jeanroch Dard - 13, rue des Arquebusiers - Paris 3e

“bruissements”Curator: Léa BismuthGalerie Isabelle Gounod - 13, rue Chapon - Paris 3e

“Terres – Copenhagen Ceramics invites”Curator: Margaux BrugvinGalerie Maria Lund - 48, rue de Turenne - Paris 3e

“Sanctum Sanctorum”Curators: Les Frères ChapuisatJGM. Galerie - 79, rue du Temple - Paris 3e

“Mark Jenkins, The Studio”Curator: Stéphane ChatryGalerie Patricia Dorfmann - 61, rue de la Verrerie - Paris 4e

“Bloody Mary”Curator: Jonathan ChauveauTORRI., Paris - 7, rue Saint-Claude - Paris 3e

“Indices de réfraction”Curators: Les Commissaires AnonymesGalerie Eva Meyer - 11 rue Michel Le Comte - Paris 3e

“Dépaysement systématique”Curator: Marion DanielGalerie Jean Fournier - 22, rue du Bac - Paris 7e

“Anna Barham, Agnès Geoffray, Nathania Rubin”Curator: Vanessa DesclauxGalerie Jousse Entreprise - 6, rue Saint-Claude - Paris 3e

“Interior 301”Curator: Dorothée DupuisGalerie Alain Gutharc - 7, rue Saint Claude - Paris 3e

“Art of Living (i.e. Good Bye, Blue Monday)”Curators: Luca Francesconi, Frédérique & Philippe ValentinValentin - 9, rue Saint-Gilles - Paris 3e

“Historico-vagabond”Curators: Marie Frampier & Javier VillaGalerie Alberta Pane - 14, rue Saint-Claude - Paris 3e

“La Distance Juste”Curator: Albertine de GalbertGalerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois - 36, rue de Seine - Paris 6e

“Arrhythmia” (“a Tale of Many Squares”)Curator: Paul GalvezGalerie Nathalie Obadia - 3, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri - Paris 4e

“Purkinje effect”Curator: Laurent GrassoGalerie 1900-2000 - 8, rue Bonaparte - Paris 6e

“L’image pensée”Curator: Donatien Graukamel mennour - 47, rue Saint-André des Arts - Paris 6e

“Available for you”Curator: Nina KirschGalerie Eric Dupont - 138, rue du Temple - Paris 3e

“Push pins in elastic space”Curator: Gabriel KuriGalerie Nelson Freeman - 59, rue Quincampoix - Paris 4e

“Gerald Petit - L’entremise”Curator: Judicaël LavradorFondation d’entreprise Ricard - 12, rue Boissy d’Anglas - Paris 8e

“Destiny : the B’s”Curator: Isabelle Le NormandGalerie Anne Barrault - 22, rue Saint-Claude - Paris 3e

“Société Réaliste - Thelema of Nations”Curator: Matteo LucchettiGalerie Jérôme Poggi - 115/117, rue la Fayette - Paris 10e

“∞ > ∞”Curator: Mathieu MercierGalerie Le Minotaure - 2, rue des Beaux Arts - Paris 6e

“Looking for Video”Curators: Valentine Meyer & Marion PapillonGalerie Claudine Papillon - 13, rue Chapon - Paris 3e

“Sur la Mauvaise Pente”Curator: Nabila MokraniGalerie De Roussan - 10, rue Jouye-Rouve - Paris 20e

“It Means It Means!”Curator: Tom MortonGalerie Perrotin - 76, rue de Turenne - Paris 3e

“Alice De Mont : Retroperspectief”Curator: Florence OstendeGalerie Dohyang Lee - 75, rue Quincampoix - 3e

“Psychonautes”Curator: Arnauld PierreMalingue - 26, avenue Matignon - Paris 8e

“Forming the Loss in Darkness” Curator: Jo-ey TangGalerie Praz-Delavallade - 5, rue des Haudriettes - Paris 3e

“Résonances - Painting, Performance, Photo”Curator: Alexandre VialGalerie Chauvy - 18, rue de la Grange Batelière - Paris 9e

“Hyperliens : le QR code comme média vers l’œuvre”Curator: Sophie ZanteGalerie Véronique Smagghe - 10, rue de Saintonge - Paris 3e

With the support of the Comité professionnel des galeries d’art

Gallery eexhibitions end dates vary between late July and early August.

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bAItoGoGoCurator: Marc Bembekoff

solo exhibition [level 2 - alcôve little palais]

In the form of paintings, sculptures or installations, the hybrid art of Henrique Oliveira (b. 1973, lives and works in São Paulo) evokes both the urban and the vegetable, the organic and the structural, as well as art and science, through compositions in which the unexpected generates a universe tinted with the fantastic.

Graduating from the University of São Paulo in 1997, the artist explores fluidity, the combination and color of materials, which endows his installations with a certain pictorial quality. Oliveira often borrows materials from the Brazilian urban landscape, notably tapumes, wood taken from fences surrounding and blocking access to construction sites. By using these materials, Oliveira highlights the endemic and parasitic nature of these constructions; evoking wooden tumors, his installations function as a metaphor for the favelas’ organic growth, thus revealing the dynamic decay of São Paulo’s urban fabric. In the artistic lineage of Lydia Clark or Hélio Oiticica, he uses the very context of this sprawling city as a raw material. The way in which it is treated, as well as its unexpected apparition, destabilizes the visitor’s perception of space.

Through a kind of architectural anthropomorphism, Henrique Oliveira reveals the building’s structure. At Palais de Tokyo, he plays on the space’s existing and structuring features, prolonging and multiplying pillars in order to endow them with a vegetable and organic dimension, as though the building were coming alive. The artist draws inspiration from medical textbooks, amongst others, and particularly from studies of physical pathologies such as tumors. Through a formal analogy, these outgrowths evoke the outermost layers of the bark of a common tree. The texture of this wooden tapumes installation inevitably calls to mind certain tree essences from Amazonian, humid tropical forests: the rivulets and other nodes constitute uncontrollable networks, in a logic that Man can no longer suppress.

CURATOR

Marc Bembekoff is currently a curator of the Palais de Tokyo (where he organized Damir Očko and Dewar & Gicquel’s solo exhibitions, amongst others), as well as an independent curator (“The Mystery Spot,” at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard in Paris, 2012; “Du monde clos à l’univers infini” at the Quartier in Quimper, 2012) and a co-founder of the collective Le Bureau/. He has contributed to several monographic publications (Bettina Samson, Nicolas Boulard, etc.) and exhibition catalogues (musée Rodin, Freud Museum, etc.).

ARTIST

Henrique Oliveira (born in 1973 in Ourinhos, Brazil; lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil)After receiving a degree in painting from the University of São Paulo in 1997, Henrique Oliveira has developed, since 2003, a practice of in situ installations, in which he uses wooden boards and plywood retrieved from the streets of São Paulo.

In 2009, he participated in the 29th São Paulo Biennial. He has been awarded several grants and prizes, such as the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (Washington, D.C., 2008) and the Prêmio CNI/SESI Marcantonia Vilaçia for Visual Arts (Brazil, 2009). His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Rice University Art Gallery (Houston, 2009), the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), the George-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery (Paris, 2011) and the OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria (Linz, 2012).

In 2013, he is in residency at Villa Raffet following SAM Art Projects’ invitation.

Creating a spectacular and invasive Gordian Knot, Henrique Oliveira plays with Palais de Tokyo’s architecture, allowing a work that combines the vegetal and the organic to emerge. The building itself becomes the womb that produces this volume of “tapumes” wood, a material used in Brazilian towns to construct the wooden palisades that surround construction sites.

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Henrique Oliveira, Desnatureza, 2011. Exhibition view, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Paris). Photo: Aurélien Mole.

Henrique Oliveira, Transubstantiation, 2013. Vue de l’exposition « L’arbre de vie », Collège des Bernardins, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Paris).

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Henrique Oliveira, Casa dos Leões, 2009. Installation view VII Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (Brazil). Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Paris). Photo: Eduardo Ortega.

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PALAIS DE TOKYO13, avenue du Président Wilson,75 116 Paris+33 1 81 97 35 88

OPENING HOURSPalais de Tokyo is openedFrom noon until midnight every day, except TuesdaysClosed January 1st, May 1st and December, 25

ADMISSIONFull price : 10€Discounted price : 8€ (For visitors under 26, holders of the “Famille nombreuse” card, teachers.)Free : For visitors under 18, unemployed, Welfare recipients, seniors, handicapped and accompanied adults (with the appropriate documents less than three months old)

POINTS OF SALEOn site at the ticket officeOn the website : www.palaisdetokyo.com

New:Automatic distributors of tickets are located at Seine entrance (niveau 1A) and Wilson (niveau 2).

GETTING HEREMétro, Bus, RERMétro : Line 9, stations Iéna and Alma MarceauBus : Lines 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 82, 92RER : Line C, Station Pont de l’Alma

Vélib’Stations Vélib’ near Palais de Tokyon° 16007 : 4, rue de Longchampn° 8046 : 2, rue Marceaun° 7023 : Quai Branly

The Palais de Tokyo is only one station away from Trocadéro, and two stations from the Champs Elysées.

General Informations

JOIN US : TOKYOPASS, AMIS, MEMBER OF TOKYO ART CLUBWith the Tokyopass you enjoy…… unlimited access free of charge for one year (from date of issue to date of expiry) … a pass card … 5% discount at the Palais bookshop… three issues of the magazine Palais gifted… a guided tour of each new exhibition… 10 % discount at the Galerie des Multiples on every co-production by the Galerie des Multiples and the Palais de Tokyo… discount prices and benefits from our cultural partners

AdmissionRegular fee: 40 eurosReduced fee: 30 euros (more than 60 ; famille nombreuse ; teacher and reregistration)Under 26 visitor: 25 eurosDuo fee: 60 euros (invite who you want)Art student fee: 15 euros

RegisteringOn site at the ticket office daily (except Tuesdays), from 12.00 to 24.00By post: Tokyopass, 13 avenue du président Wilson, 75116 ParisBy email: [email protected] phone: +33 1 81 97 35 88

COMMUNICATION

Director of communicationJean-Baptiste de Beauvais

Head of communicationDolorès Gonzalez

Communication officerVanessa Julliard

+33 1 47 23 52 00

MEDIA CONTACTS

Claudine Colin Communication+33 1 42 72 60 01Mathilde Beaujard: [email protected] Gounod: [email protected]

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Press contacts: Agence Claudine Colin Communication [email protected] / [email protected] — Tél. +33 (0)1.42.72.60.01

Le Palais de Tokyo béné�cie du soutien de / Palais de Tokyo bene�ts from the generous support of

PARTENAIRES FONDATEURS / FOUNDING PARTNERSSwarovski, Orange, JTI

PARTENAIRES ANNUELS INSTITUTIONNELS / INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL PARTNERSFondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, The Absolut Company, Fondation Louis Roederer

PARTENAIRES MÉDIAS / MEDIA PARTNERS

PARTENAIRES DE LA MÉDIATION / MEDIATED LEARNING PARTNERSCalligaris, GDF SUEZ

LE PALAIS DE TOKYO REMERCIE ÉGALEMENT / PALAIS DE TOKYO ALSO THANKS

Le Tokyo Art Club et les Amis du Palais de Tokyo, ainsi que le Comité professionnel des galeries d’art.

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PARTENAIRE DU PAVILLON / PAVILLON PARTNER

PARTENAIRES PROJETS / PROJECT PARTNERS

Innovative Fire Systems, Le Méridien Etoile, SABMiller France, Horticulture & Jardins, Modular

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