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The Last Museum

As the National Museum of Modern Art prepares to close its doors for five years, Galerie Poggi is proud to pay tribute to this landmark institution, with which it has maintained a close and longstanding connection—both geographically and intellectually.

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Throughout the exhibition, a daily procession of trucks will quietly transport the museum’s artworks, removed one by one from its walls. The Last Museum aims to echo this slow and symbolic withdrawal, gradually giving way to a profound sense of emptiness. By doing so, the exhibition revisits the notion of « vide »— famously explored by Laurent Le Bon in 2009 at the Centre Pompidou through a retrospective on empty exhibitions, beginning with Yves Klein’s iconic 1958 show. Here, it is the sudden and extended absence of the museum’s collection that prompts reflection.

With Babi Badalov, Christian Bonnefoi, Larissa Fassler, Clédia Fourniau, Anthony Goicolea, Brion Gysin, Danylo Halkin, Nikita Kadan, Kapwani Kiwanga, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei, Wesley Meuris, Sophie Ristelhueber, Georges Tony Stoll, Ittah Yoda.

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May 16 - August 2, 2025

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Works (Selection)

Brion Gysin at the window of his apartment at 135 rue Saint-Martin, 4th floor, 1976, Black-and-white photography, 29 x 44 cm, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Explosions Near the Museum, 2023, Photos from the exhibition of Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei "It already happened", 2023. Courtesy of Voloshyn Gallery
Christian Bonnefoi, P.L. IV - 3, 2014, Acrylic on trevira, 160 x 130 cm, 63 x 51 1/8 in, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris
Christian Bonnefoi, P.L. IV, 2014, Acrylic on trevira, 50 x 50 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris
Sophie Ristelhueber, Sans titre (Beyrouth 1982), 2016, Pigment print on Fine Art matte paper, 90 x 130 cm, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP (#1/3)
Sophie Ristelhueber, Sans titre, 2016, Pigment print on Fine Art matte paper, 130 x 90 cm, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP (#1/3), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris / © ADAGP
Georges Tony Stoll, Absents, 1994, Silver photograph, RA-4 prestige satin-finish color print, 100 x 67 cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs (#5/5), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris
Georges Tony Stoll, Le couloir, 1997, Series of twelve silver photographs, RA-4 satin-finish color print, 58 x 36 cm each, Edition of 5 plus 2 AP (#1/5), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris
Anthony Goicolea, The Woodcutters' March, 2023, Oil, cold wax and sand on raw linen canvas, 203.2 x 155 cm, 80 x 61 in
Brion Gysin, The Last Museum, 1974, Contact sheet, 30 x 40 cm, Courtesy of Galerie Véronique Smagghe, © . Kit
Brion Gysin, Portrait of Hanson, "The Process II", 1974, Photographic collage on superimposed auroller grids, 65 x 50 cm, Courtesy of Galerie Véronique Smagghe, © . Kit
Brion Gysin, Le Dernier Musée, 1975, Photographic collage on grey roller screen, 66 x 51 cm, 26 x 20 1/8 in, Courtesy of Galerie Véronique Smagghe, © . Kit
Babi Badalov, Making Art is Killing Time, 03-2022, Painting on fabric, 236 x 247 cm