West Bund Museum

Shanghai, CN, Nov 12, 2020 - Feb 28, 2021

Second temporary exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project from 12 November 2020 to 28 February 2021, “Design and the Wondrous” questions current adornment and how it relates to new digital logics for designing and producing design items. With a wealth of formal and technological experimentation, the exhibition is situated between a scientific “marvellous” bordering on the imaginary, and the exploration of morphologies for objects whose materials and innovative techniques open out to a future that is connected to nature and the living world.

The exhibition thus presents more than a hundred design objects, essentially from the Centre Pompidou collection. Characterised by a strong cultural dialogue between China and France, the exhibition brings together and for the first time also places Centre Pompidou works in resonance with those of contemporary Chinese designers, some of which were produced specifically for the exhibition.

Curators: Marie Ange Brayer, Head of the design and industrial prospective department and Olivier Zeitoun, Assistant curator, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris