Special projects
Special projects
Exhibitions specially designed for Art Monte-Carlo, presented by foundations, institutional collections, and private collections.
Pierre Yovanovitch © Eric Petschek
Pierre Yovanovitch, Guest of Honour at Art Monte-Carlo, presents ‘Bleu Méditerranée’, an immersive scenography blending furniture and contemporary art.
From July 7 to 9, Pierre Yovanovitch will take over a 60 m2 space to showcase a selection of his furniture in a scenography that reflects his vision of the Riviera, where he was born and has deep roots. The installation draws visitors into a colorful architectural setting where his furniture engages in dialogue with vintage pieces. Blue, the iconic color of the Mediterranean, plays a central role.
The scenography resonates with contemporary artworks selected by Marie-Sophie Eiché-Demeter, Art Advisor to Pierre Yovanovitch. This exhibition reinforces the dialogue between furniture, architecture, and artistic creation – a cornerstone of Pierre Yovanovitch’s work.
Centre Pompidou – Mezzanine vers Pole Nord © Moreau Kusunoki en association avec Frida Escobedo Studio
Metamorphosis of the Centre Pompidou 2025-2030
Curator:
Boris Hamzeian, Musée National d’Art Moderne – Service architecture, MNAM-CCI
In collaboration with:
Moreau Kusunoki
Frida Escobedo Studio
AIA Life Designers
Stand E3
Vassily KANDINSKY, Bleu du ciel, 1940, oil on canvas
100x73cm / Donation of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1976 / Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle
Colors !
A selection of works by Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition Colors! Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, at Grimadi Forum Monaco
In 1998, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon devoted an exhibition to the only form of color that seemed compatible with the principles of pictorial modernism: the monochrome (Note: the title of the exhibition was: “La couleur seule, l’expérience du monochrome”).
It would take two more decades before color once again became the focus of an exhibition updating the theoretical stakes of its modern use. In 2008, MoMA in New York inaugurated Color Chart, which explored the shift that occurred around 1950, when artists began to move away from a chromaticism still rooted in their sensory experience, in favor of a “ready-made” color—borrowed from the color charts of industry, interior design, and graphic art. The scarcity of studies on modern color gives rise to a sense of suspicion, perhaps even suggests a kind of discomfort… In 1986, the neo-Situationist provocateurs grouped under the banner Présence pantchounette struck where it hurt. Their ironically titled exhibition Coquet, lumineux, meublé (“Chic, Bright, Furnished”) revealed the unspeakable, the unacknowledged “decorative” dimension of modern art—an art whose theoretical rationale, grounded in “purity” and abstract idealism, had vehemently rejected such a notion.
The exhibition Colors! Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, curated by Didier Ottinger at the Grimaldi Forum, pays tribute to those earlier exhibitions. The hundred masterpieces from the Pompidou Center’s collection that form the core of the show offer a way to understand the iconographic, symbolic, and cultural reasons behind modern chromaticism.
Sigg Art Residency © Herve Milliard
Bloom as Gesture
With Bloom as Gesture, the Sigg Art Foundation presents a constellation of works that speak to growth — not only botanical, but personal, technological, and collective. From cast glass to generative prints, living plants to sculpted illusions, each piece explores what it means to be in bloom today: to transform, to hybridize, to evolve. Echoing our mission to nurture emerging creatives and cultivate dialogue between craft and computation, this selection captures the fragile strength of forms in transition. These are not static flowers, but unfolding processes — gestures of becoming that question how we shape beauty, memory, and identity in a world on the cusp of reinvention.
Presented artists:
Dana-Fiona Armour, Salomé Chatriot, Sougwen Chung, Léa Collet, Ben Elliot, Mamali Shafahi, Seneca.
About Sigg Art Foundation:
Sigg Art Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation founded in 2020 by longtime art collector Pierre Sigg. Through residencies, collection, and programming, the Foundation supports the development of new ideas, fosters knowledge exchange, and builds bridges between cultures. With a particular focus on emerging creatives, Sigg Art Foundation champions artists who challenge history and artistic heritage through the lens of digital and technological innovation.
The Foundation operates under Belgian non-profit private foundations legislation and works internationally. Its artist-in-residence programme is based at a private estate in the South of France. Funding is provided through advisory and consulting services, partnerships with sponsors who share the Foundation’s core values of excellence, innovation, and collaboration, and the continued support of founder Pierre Sigg.
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