While its Paris home base closes for five years to undergo a renovation, the Centre Pompidou will expand its international reach, opening its first South American space in 2027.
Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the new location in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, will be one of several satellites operated by the Centre Pompidou, with others in Shanghai, Málaga, and Metz, France, among other locales.
The Brazilian Centre Pompidou museum is receiving financial backing from Paraná officials, who oversee the territory around Iguaçu Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It will be designed by Paraguayan architect Solano Benítez.
Benítez’s work has been sustainability-focused. The museum said he will work to seamlessly integrate his Centre Pompidou satellite into its surroundings.
The museum will include exhibition galleries and research facilities, and will focus on spotlighting artists from South America while also foregrounding parts of the Pompidou’s permanent collection, which comprises around 150,000 objects.
It’s one of several Pompidou satellites in the works, with others expected to appear in Brussels and Seoul in the coming years.
The Centre Pompidou’s Paris museum will close for five years starting this September for a $280 million renovation. The renovation, overseen in part by France’s cultural ministry, will upgrade energy systems and modernize the building’s aging infrastructure, which originally opened in 1977. The last exhibition mounted before the closure will be a Wolfgang Tillmans show set in the museum’s library.
