Exhibitions

The exhibition explores a fundamental aspect of 20th-century art history: the practice of collecting among artists and its integration into their creative process, drawing on the wealth of three collections: those of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the macLYON and the Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou.

The presentation of objects from the most diverse fields-through assemblage, accumulation, proliferation, and display in showcases, boxes, or even small bags-gives them a new dimension that evokes memory and emotion. The aim is to reveal to visitors the sentimental attachment that these objects can inspire, even the most common and seemingly insignificant ones.

This exhibition, presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, brings together in an exceptional way modern and contemporary works from the three partner public institutions and offers a journey through various-sometimes highly unique-approaches to the practice of collecting by some sixty artists and collectives from the 20th and 21st centuries.