From 4 May to 15 September 2024, Paris and the surrounding region will be celebrating contemporary art, culture and sport at La Métropolitaine. This not-to-be-missed event promotes the values of sport and Olympism through exhibitions, performances, meetings, screenings, workshops and round tables.
To mark the occasion, the Greater Paris Metropolis, in collaboration with the TRAM network, is bringing together around a hundred artists in 13 emblematic art venues, including the Cité internationale des arts in the 4th arrondissement, the Ateliers Médicis in Clichy-sous-Bois, the MABA in Nogent-sur-Marne, la Maison Populaire in Montreuil, the Manufacture et Musée nationaux de Sèvres and Le Générateur in the 13th arrondissement.
***Discover six not-to-be-missed highlights that will give you a whole new perspective on the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games!
From 4 May to 15 September 2024
This event takes place in 4 stages throughout La Métropolitaine. Invited by the members of the co-artistic direction committee, the French artist Maxime Rossi was given carte blanche to create a playful, poetic and participative work. The result is the sensory opera Terre, Air, Feu in 4 Acts. Two of them are still to come:
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July 2024
Inspired by the theme of the "fertile hand", for this third experience Maxime Rossi invites spectators to an intimate meditation and an interconnection with nature in his prairie, designed with the same vegetation as in 1924, a nod to the last Games held in Paris.
To bring this haptic prairie to life: botanists, musicians and associations dedicated to preserving and passing on the culture of ancient and wild plants will be on hand. Every visitor is invited to take part in this experience and can plant poems, read maps and fully experience their own relationship with nature.
*Sunday 15 September 2024
For this final Act, Maxime Rossi brings together Boccia and Metallophone! Boccia is a real strategic game played in a wheelchair - the official sport of the Paralympic Games - inspired by pétanque, curling and chess, where the aim is to score the most points in a limited time. The metallophone is a percussion instrument from the xylophone family.
The concept: the game becomes music! Musicians, percussionists and sportsmen join forces to create sounds by hitting the metal plates and throwing the boccie - leather petanque balls - to produce the sounds. A unique collaborative experience!
*From 4 May to 10 August 2024
Behind La Flamme lies an exhibition of visual arts by emerging and established local and national artists taking part in the 24 Carats season at Mains d'Œuvres in Saint-Ouen. The programme includes installations, photography, digital art, sound, video and drawing, as well as various 'activations' (creative workshops, performances, concerts, etc.).
From 4 May to 13 July 2024
The programme includes five major events with a contemporary dance backdrop in the unusual setting of Hangar Y, a former airship hangar in the heart of a 10-hectare park. Find out about upcoming events:
*Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July 2024
Visual artist Benedetto Bufalino will transform the Hangar Y into a work of art and basketball. A monumental basketball court, vertical on the façade and horizontal on the forecourt. The artist takes a humorous and poetic approach to the codes of the sport. There are no basketball hoops here, but a call to dance, to movement and to figures. The visitor becomes one of the main actors in this offbeat work.
*Saturday 13 July 2024
With his monumental fresco of multicoloured geometric shapes, French artist Eltono is paying tribute to the American sport of skateboarding, which is particularly popular with the younger generation.
The artist has taken over the skatepark in Meudon - just a stone's throw from Hangar Y - to create a permanent artistic installation vibrating to the rhythms of the skaters' passing lines, figures and movements.
In this burlesque theatre, Irish artist Malachi Farrel presents two machine-objects: tuned handisport chairs and a breakdance podium. These perfectly synchronised installations come to life, vibrate and come alive to the rhythm of popular, electro and classical sounds. It's a work of art that stands shoulder to shoulder with under-appreciated sporting disciplines, on the fringes of the Olympic spectacle.
*From 4 May to 22 September 2024
Ceramics and unique know-how** from the Manufacture and the Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres are being showcased. At six festive, family-friendly events, let yourself be surprised by the astonishing mix of sport and ceramics, combining the body with contemporary creations. For the occasion, the painter Claire Tabouret is giving free rein to her creativity on the façade of the Musée national de céramique.
*Saturday 22 June 2024
Come and celebrate sport as part of the Cultural Olympiad: creative activities and original tours for all ages are on the programme.
*Sunday 7 July 2024
D-19 before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games! To get you in the mood for the Games, Seville's museums are planning an afternoon full of festivities: modelling workshops, themed tours and sports-themed activities. Get out your best sports costumes.
*Wednesday 24 July 2024
The Olympic Flame comes to life in front of the Musée national de la céramique on 24 July 2024! Come and celebrate the passing of the flame and enjoy a host of fun and musical entertainments for all ages. A historic event and unforgettable memories.
*From 4 May to 15 September 2024
The MAC VAL is organising its games before and during the Games! A golden programme of events focusing on the values of Olympism, the body and movement and artistic activities linked to sport. Don't miss the many exhibitions, projects, visual arts, performances and workshops created for the occasion!
From Saturday 4 May to Sunday 14 July 2024
*Sunday 30 June 2024
Come and enjoy a picnic with family, friends, neighbours and visitors in the garden and the spaces of the museum on the occasion of MAC VAL's annual PIC NIC. This year, Japan and The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are in the spotlight, as the Japanese Breakdance Team is welcomed to the Briqueterie de Vitry-sur-Seine. The programme of festivities includes visits and workshops, match-performances, screenings and musical experiences.
*Sunday 21 July 2024
And yes, the Olympic Flame will also pass through the MAC VAL, the first museum of contemporary art to be set up in the Paris suburbs. Numerous events in the garden and the inauguration of the new exhibition await you.
From 21 July to 22 September 2024
The Tripple Dribble exhibition is a continuation of the collaboration that began in 2018 between visual artist Julia Borderie and the women's basketball players from Union Sportive d'Ivry and Entente Sportive de Vitry.
Modular and dismountable structures mingle with the game, changing its architecture and rules. In order to strengthen her action and its scope, the artist was assisted by Cécile Bouffard and Simon Zaborski with the help of Crédac (Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Ivry-sur-Seine). A film has also been produced as part of the exhibition. Scripted by Eloïse Le Gallo, Simon Zaborski and the players themselves, the film features the sculptures, which were initially experienced as constraints by the sportsmen and women, but were eventually turned to their advantage.
