Upcoming exhibition

The museum in motion

Artist(s) Giovanni Anselmo, Edouardo Basualdo, Christian Boltanski, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Julien Dubuisson, Peter Coffin, Richard Deacon, Hamish Fulton, Raoul Hausmann, John Issacs, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc , Joachim Koeste, Suzanne Lafont, Jim Lambie, Elodie Lesourd, Christian Lindow, Richard Long, Étienne Jules Marey, Marie-France Martin, Patricia Martin, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jon Rafman, Gerhard Richter, Kiki Smith, Patrick Tosani, Daniel Tremblay, Marnie Weber, Graham Wilson

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations in 2025, the Rochechouart Departmental Museum of Contemporary Art invites the public to discover an exhibition dedicated to movement — artistic, human and institutional movement that has shaped its history over the past four decades and is resolutely looking ahead to the next four.

Open from Sunday 1 March, with free admission, this exhibition is a unique and committed project: it has been entirely designed, conceived and produced by the museum’s staff, across all disciplines. The entire team has come together to create a collective project that reflects a living museum in transformation, driven by those who bring it to life on a daily basis.

Drawing exclusively from the museum’s collections, the exhibition offers the public a fresh look at iconic works, as well as pieces that are rarely or never shown, thus affirming the richness and vitality of a collection that is constantly being rediscovered.

Spread over several floors, the exhibition consists of two complementary sections:

on the second floor and in the attic, the works are grouped around the theme of the art of movement, exploring the dynamics of the body, the gaze, matter and space, and highlighting the ability of the works to question, in a constant dialogue with the viewer, the notions of inertia, movement and immobility.

On the first floor, the exhibition Raoul Hausmann – L’homme-orchestre embodies movement in all its dimensions: movement of forms and media — from watercolour to photography, phonetic poetry, painting, engraving and performance — movement of ideas carried by the co-founder of the Dada movement.

Like Raoul Hausmann, the one-man band, this new 2026 exhibition is a collective, polyphonic work, imbued with multiple energies. It tells the story of a museum that has been in motion for 40 years, a museum that is undergoing renewal today, and a team fully committed to inventing, together, the museum of tomorrow.