Парижский Дворец Токио: Центр современного искусства

Building in Paris

The Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to the City of Paris, and hosts the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (Paris' Museum of Modern Art). The western wing belongs to the French state and since 2002, has hosted the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine, the largest museum in France dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. The building is separated from the River Seine by the Avenue de New York, which was formerly named Quai Debilly and later Avenue de Tokio (from 1918 to 1945). The name Palais de Tokyo derives from the name of this street. The Iéna station on Line 9 of the Paris Metro is located very close to the museum.

The monument was inaugurated by President Lebrun on 24 May 1937, at the time of the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life (1937). The original name of the building was Palais des Musées d'art moderne ("Palace of the Museums of modern art"). The building has since then hosted a number of establishments, projects, and creative spaces. Among them; le musée d'art et d'essai (1977–1986), the FEMIS, the Centre national de la photographie, and in 1986, the Palais du cinéma. The current contemporary art center opened to the public in March 2002, under the new name Site de création contemporaine ("Site for contemporary creation"), specializing in the emerging French and international art scene. It was overhauled and expanded in 2012, by the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, who subsequently won the Pritzker Prize. With no permanent collection, it is "reputed to be the biggest non collecting contemporary art museum in Europe",

The Pavillon ran from 2001 to 2017, and facilitated over 130 international artists. Intended as a studio and laboratory space for resident artists and curators invited to the project, the Pavillon was an experimental program, designed to demonstrate the resident artists' youthful creativity. Since the opening of the building, the director of the programme was artist and filmmaker, Ange Leccia.

+All Pavillon residents, by yearYear residency startedArtistNationality2001Charlotte BeaurepaireFranceFrance2014Basma Alsharif2014Charbel Joseph H. Boutros2014Jonathan Martin2015Jean Alain Corre2015Alexis Guillier2015Hoël Duret2015Lou Lim2015Ollie Palmer2016Manolis Daskalakis Lemos2016Lola Gonzàlez2016Taloi Havini2016Yu Ji2016Thomas Teurlai2016Wataru Tominaga

The Museum also publishes the magazine Palais /, which annually releases three editions (Spring, Fall, and Summer) and was created in 2006 by Marc Olivier Wahler. The Magazine features articles centering around a central artistic theme selected for each edition. The subjects are conceptual, and are explored using photography, various artistic media, essays, and often experimental media. The theme generally coincides with the exhibition concurrently featured at the museum. In addition to Palais /, Palais de Tokyo also published five volumes of a contemporary art encyclopedia, From Yodeling to Quantum Physics between 2007 and 2011.