Музеят, рушен и изграждан: Артистични практики в музея и отвъд него. Една мащабна изложбена продукция в Гран Пале
The Museum, Demolished and Rebuilt: Artistic Practices in the Museum and Beyond. A Major Exhibition at the Grand Palais

Summary/Abstract: From the late 1950s and early 1960s, new artistic practices – drawing inspiration from the avant-garde movements of previous decades began to undermine the authority of art museums. Paradoxically, at first glance, this of-ten occurred with the institutional support of a new type of museum institution. Painting, sculpture, architecture, installations, moving machines, performances, happenings, experimental cinema, and anything that could create an emotional experience were quickly validated on the art scene by a new generation of visual artists, curators, and audiences. By creating order and meaning in an exhibition today, can we go against the grain, against the creative intention to stage chaos, to craft ephemeral objects and spectacular performances? An example of such an endeavour is the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén, at the Grand Palais in Paris (June 2025 – January 2026). The exhibition commemorates the centenary of Tinguely’s birth and is a co-production of the Centre Pompidou and the Grand Palais, with the participation of the Niki Art Foundation. The curator of the exhibition is Sophie Duplaix, chief curator of contemporary collections at the Centre Pompidou. Referring to specific examples from the exhibition, the article examines artistic objects and archival materials – projects, drawings,(illustrated) letters, documents from film and television archives, etc. – which, like a time machine, attempt to connect the museum exhibition of today with the corresponding historical moment at the push of a button. This look at the exhibition from Bulgaria is important because it concerns both the global and local art scenes.

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