On the occasion of the centenary of François Morellet’s birth, and at the initiative of the Centre Pompidou, a series of events will pay tribute to this major artist within French institutions connected to his work.

Accordingly, the nine works by François Morellet from the Albers-Honegger Collection will be presented, along with two in situ installations created using adhesive tape in accordance with a protocol defined by the artist during his lifetime.

To recount the genesis of War and Peace, a political fresco with universal appeal created in 1952, the Alpes-Maritimes National Museums of the 20th Century are launching a new educational initiative in the form of a large-format projection. Aimed at all audiences, this immersive format is designed to enrich the visitor experience and reveal the multiple meanings of this pacifist manifesto.

This exhibition is accessible in French and English, as well as to people with reduced mobility. It has been produced with the exceptional participation of the Centre Pompidou.

Guided by Couëlle’s free and experimental spirit, the programme’s curatorial direction is committed to supporting artists from a wide range of backgrounds, bringing together leading figures from the international art scene such as Mickalene Thomas, Kennedy Yanko, Sable Elyse Smith, and Neville Wakefield, among many others.

The landscaped grounds are home to a sculpture park featuring works by Antony Gormley, Tony Cragg, Claudia Comte, Georg Baselitz, and Alicja Kwade, curated by Maxime Combot, placing Dragon Hill within the tradition of Europe’s great sculptural landscapes.

Throughout the year, Dragon Hill organises exhibitions presenting the outcomes of the residencies, open to the public in partner venues.

Pictorial creation and its free reception converge. Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are major artists of the 20th century. Their work - of mineral beauty in the former and of calculated lyricism in the latter - is inseparable from the writings that supported, even shaped it. Around them gravitates a network of writers and friendships. Their perspectives construct an exegesis, open new fields of meaning, place forms within a history of ideas.

An invitation to rediscover figures of the art world who often remained invisible, particularly important women critics. Archives, texts, canvases offer a sensorial experience where seeing and reading call for a hybrid and joyful form of attention.

The exhibition highlights a striking 20th century ballet, La Création du monde, created in 1923 by the Ballets Suédois, with the dancer Jean Börlin, the poet Blaise Cendrars, the composer Darius Milhaud and the painter Fernand Léger for the sets and costumes. Emblematic of Léger’s relationship to modernity in the 1920s, ballet is conceived as a synthesis of the arts inextricably linking painting, music, dance and poetry.

While we await the temporary exhibitions programme, visitors can explore a curated selection from the museum’s permanent collection, spanning key artistic movements from Impressionism to contemporary art. Nearly 100 works from the Levett Collection are on display, all created by female artists from around the world. Among them, Berthe Morisot, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Marina Abramović, Frida Kahlo, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas.

Brought together for the first time for this exhibition, the works of Nassos Daphnis and Rita McBride — two American artists seemingly distant in time and practice — resonate together within a shared space, at the boundary between functionality and poetry, between authority and freedom.

The exhibition creates a dialogue between Nassos Daphnis’s paintings, with their large, stretched planes of color spanning several periods from the 1950s to the 1990s, and the sculptures, installations, and architectural models produced by Rita McBride over the past thirty years.