I'M LOOKING FOR THE CENTRE POMPIDOU,
DO YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS?
A documentary and performative project with the Centre Pompidou
JULY 2026
LASTEST
NEWS
A monumental installation in the Centre Pompidou Forum introduces the project’s central question: where is the Centre Pompidou now?
Exploring the building in transition, between absence, memory and transformation.
Conversations with visitors, families and passers-by become part of the investigation.
A monumental installation in the Centre Pompidou Forum introduces the project’s central question: where is the Centre Pompidou now?
Searching for the Centre Pompidou beyond its walls.
A participatory and performative project by Carole Pelé, developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in 2026.
Carole Pelé
has been invited by the Centre Pompidou to develop a new participatory and performative project as part of the institution’s
transformation period.
Through interviews,
public encounters and collective actions, the project explores the idea of a centre without a centre, questioning what remains of an institution when
its historic building closes.
The project will unfold across several locations connected to the Centre Pompidou and culminate in a public performance at Chaillot —
Théâtre National de la Danse,
on July 2, 2026, during POP’Arty,
the annual event for
Centre Pompidou members.
Will you be there?
Tickets
available
here
THE FIRST BUYER (PART ONE AND TWO)
Released on Radio Campus Paris
APRIL AND MAY 2026
Teaser 1 — The first Buyer
Arriving at the first buyer’s apartment.
On the table, the work that may begin everything.
In this episode of Can You Hear Me, Carole Pelé introduces a new work:
The First Buyer.
The project begins with a reversal.
In the art world, artists are usually expected to be chosen by a gallery,
a museum, or a collector.
With The First Buyer, the movement shifts. The artist chooses.
Carole Pelé selects someone and proposes that he become the first buyer of her work. Not to acquire an artwork
that already exists, but to decide
whether it begins.
Part of the process remains intentionally undisclosed, creating a sense of mystery that runs throughout the episode.
Through this gesture, The First Buyer explores a simple question:
what determines the value of an artwork, and who decides when that value begins?
Available on Deezer and
Apple Podcasts.
Listen on
Radio Campus
Paris
Teaser 2 — An Unexpected Meeting.
In the art world, artists usually wait to be chosen.
This time, the artist chooses.
WHY I LOVE NEW YORK (PART ONE AND TWO)
Broadcast on Radio Campus Paris
FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2026
Teaser 1 — Under the January blizzard
In the middle of the storm, the artist walks through heavy snowfall in New York wearing a sandwich-board costume,
confronting visibility against snow, silence, and cold.
In these episodes of Can You Hear Me?, Carole Pelé reflects on her evolving relationship with New York.
Moving between French and English,
she approaches the city not as an image or a fantasy, but as a lived experience shaped by rhythm, scale, and exposure.
What does it mean to feel expanded by a place? What does it demand in return?
Through voice, pauses, and subtle sound composition, theses episodes explore how displacement, ambition, and clarity intersect. New York appears not as a backdrop, but as a force that sharpens perception and confronts hesitation.
Theses episodes continue her research into how cities transform presence, and how language itself shifts when one chooses to step into a different scale.
Available on Deezer and
Apple Podcasts.
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Radio Campus
Paris
Teaser 2 — An Unexpected Meeting.
In New York, a simple encounter can change everything.
I’M LOOKING FOR A GALLERY, DO YOU KNOW ONE?
Broadcast on Radio Campus Paris
NOVEMBER 2025
Chelsea, New York, October 2025. Standing still, I hold the question in plain sight: Do you know one? Art begins with exposure, not protection.
Facing the gallery’s façade, I hold my ground. No appointment, no permission, only presence.
I am the message and the messenger. The gallery I’m looking for might already exist, right here, between us.
Chelsea, New York, October 2025. Standing still, I hold the question in plain sight: Do you know one? Art begins with exposure, not protection.
A living artwork crossing Chelsea’s streets.
Inserting the artist’s quest for recognition into the heart of New York’s art world.
New York.
In this new iteration of her ongoing series of public performances,
Carole Pelé walks through the streets wearing a sandwich board costume
that reads:
“I’m looking for a gallery.
Do you know one?”
Between humor and determination,
she exposes the fragile balance between artistic visibility, recognition,
and the act of self-representation
in the art world.
This performance unfolds as both a statement and a question,
an open invitation to reconsider
how and where art finds its place.
The episode,
narrated in French and English,
follows this moment where recognition begins not with validation,
but with the decision to show up.
Available on Deezer and
Apple Podcasts.
Teaser — A street assertion.
The artist walks in a sandwich board costume,
testing recognition in the rhythm of the city.
AICA FRANCE AWARD 2025
A recognition that turns critique into a performative act
October 2025
AWARD
Carole Pelé was selected
as the subject of a feature article
by Diane Der Markarian,
art critic and member of AICA France, as part of the AICA France Award 2025.
This prestigious award celebrates outstanding voices in contemporary art criticism and offers a broad audience the opportunity to discover works
that have not yet received
the attention they deserve.
During the award evening at the INHA (French National Institute of Art History), Diane Der Markarian presented Carole Pelé’s work in a 6’40’’ performative format merging critique
and artistic gesture.
The forthcoming article by
Diane Der Markarian will be published
in Critique d’Art, one of France’s leading journals of contemporary art criticism.
The video is now online.
SOPHIE, TU M'AS VUE.
A sound performance by Carole Pelé
Broadcast on L’Expérience, France Culture –
A radio show by producer Aurélie Charon, with Inès Dupeyron
APRIL 2025
FEATURED
Carole Pelé in the anechoic chamber of Ircam, Centre Pompidou,
where she performs a sound piece created for L’Expérience on France Culture.
Photo: Stefanos Tsiamoulis
Carole Pelé signs a new intimate and experimental sound piece shaped as a one-sided dialogue with Sophie Calle.
Recorded between the anechoic chamber of Ircam - Centre Pompidou,
the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and a Radio France studio, the piece blends personal diary, voice recordings, and sonic landscapes.
An artistic and emotional journey —
to be seen, heard, and felt.
Available on all major streaming platforms.
Listen on
France Culture
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CONNECT
"SOPHIE, TU M'AS VUE." Video credits: Stefanos Tsiamoulis. With the contributors: Tour Orion – Laura Blanche, Lolita Bourdon · IRCAM – Centre Pompidou – Vincent Martos · France Culture team – Félix Levacher, Benjamin Thuau "I'M LOOKING FOR A GALLERY" "WHY I LOVE NEW YORK" Photo / Video credits: David Matorin Paralucent Pictures "I'M LOOKING FOR THE CENTRE POMPIDOU" Photo crédits: Lolita Bourdon