Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

The Gallery nationale du Jeu de Paume (short Jeu de Paume ) is a museum of contemporary art in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

The building was in 1861 under Napoleon III. built and initially used as a sports hall for ball games Jeu de Paume. From 1909 on the premises of the collection of art served. Today they are venue for exhibitions of contemporary photography and video art.

  • 3.1 Individual Exhibitions
  • 3.2 Thematic or collective exhibitions
  • 3.3 L' Atelier du Jeu de Paume

Location

The Gallery nationale du Jeu de Paume is in the northwest of the Tuileries to the Place de la Concorde. She is standing on the running along the Rue de Rivoli terrace of the Feuillants.

Building

History

The building was constructed in 1861 under the reign of Napoleon III. built by the architect Viraut. It was equipped with playing fields for the Jeu de Paume, a precursor of tennis.

Since 1909, the former ballroom of the art dedicated. It is the third museum next to the Louvre and the Musée de l' Orangerie opposite the Tuileries Gardens.

During World War II the Museum was used by the German occupiers as a trans-shipment of stolen works of art. The Nazis confiscated works of art owned by Jews and brought them to the Jeu de Paume to inventory and catalog them so that high officials could choose images for personal use. The images were then brought to Germany. The Nazis also confiscated modern art and pictures of Jewish artists, which they described as degenerate, and layered it in a museum Jeu de Paume. They used these images as a commodity for exchange against images that appeared to them as agreeable. What was left, the Nazis destroyed before their departure.

During the occupation, the French curator Rose Valland worked in the museum. She had connections to the Resistance and made ​​a record of the details of the art theft. After the war, they could assist in the investigation of crimes.

From 1947 until the opening of the Musée d' Orsay in 1986, the museum was called Galerie du Jeu de Paume. It works issued by the Impressionists.

On the initiative of the Minister of Culture Jack Lang opened up the gallery after finishing work under the direction of Antoine Stinco at the beginning of the nineties as a gallery nationale du Jeu de Paume, an exhibition of modern and contemporary art. Since 2004, she has devoted himself exclusively to contemporary photography and video art.

Dimensions

  • Length and width: 80 x 13 m
  • Useful Area: 2754.50 sqm
  • Exhibition space: 1137 m²
  • Nine rooms on three levels
  • With 420 m length of wall
  • Clear height of most rooms: 4,50 m ^

List of exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2004: Nuremberg: Behind the scenes in Les du pouvoir, photographs by Arno Gisinger (28 October to 3 December 2004 )
  • Rineke Dijkstra (14 December 2004 to 20 February 2005)
  • 2005: Jean -Luc Moulène ( 15 March-22 May 2005)
  • Tony Oursler: Dispositifs ( 15 March-22 May 2005)
  • Michal Rovner: Fields (4 October to 31 December 2005 )
  • 2006: Craigie Horsfield ( 31 January to 30 April 2006)
  • Ed Ruscha: Photographer ( 31 January to 30 April 2006)
  • Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (16 May to 3 September 2006 )
  • 2007: Pierre et Gilles: Double each - 1976-2007 (26 June to 23 September 2007 )
  • Steichen: Une épopée photographique ( 9 October to 30 December 2007)
  • 2008: Eija -Liisa Ahtila ( 22 January-30 March 2008)
  • Alec Soth: Mississippi & Niagara ( 15 April-15 June 2008)
  • Richard Avedon ( 1 July to 28 September 2008)
  • 2010: William Kentridge: Cinq Thèmes ( June 29 to September 5 2010)

Thematic or collective exhibitions

  • 2005: Burlesques contemporains ( 7 June to 4 September 2005): Claude Closky, Michael Smith, Anne de Sterk, Anna Blume and Bernhard Blume, Gilbert and George, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter Fischli David Weiss et Pierre Malphette, Kim Adams, Francis Alÿs.
  • Chaplin et les images ( 7 June to 18 September 2005)
  • Croiser of the moon, Aspects du document contemporain (4 October to 31 December 2005 ): Emmanuelle Antille, Guillaume Herbaut, Geert Goiris, Stanley Greene, Janaina Tschäpe
  • 2007: L' Événement, les images de l' histoire comme acteurs ( 16 January to 1 April 2007)

L' Atelier du Jeu de Paume

  • 2005: Camille Henrot (15 November to 31 December 2005 )
  • 2006: Yoon Sung -A ( 28 March-30 April 2006)
  • Julien Discrit ( 16 May-25 June 2006)
  • François Nouguiès: Le Dernier Film II ( 28 June to 3 September 2006)
  • Louidgi Beltrame ( 19 September to 5 November 2006)
  • Julien Loustau ( 22 November-31 December 2006)
  • 2007: Élise Florenty ( 16 January to 18 February 2007)
  • Cyprien Gaillard ( 27 February to 1 April 2007)
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