"Reinventing Landscape," the fourth semi-permanent exhibition of the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project since its opening, offers this new section a spotlight on landscape art. A favored pictorial genre in the 19th century , with Impressionism in particular making it its preferred theme, landscape has undergone profound changes in the 20th and 21st centuries .
To demonstrate this, the presentation proposed here is designed as a vast thematic journey drawing on the Centre Pompidou's very rich collection in the fields of painting, installation, photography, cinema, design and new media. Each of the nine sections of this exhibition is devoted to the various ways of representing the natural or urban environment in which human societies evolve. From 1905 to the present day, the evolution of the landscape is considered according to stylistic categories, but also by raising the question of the point of view adopted by the artists or their relationship to light. Their interventions in the heart of nature are also addressed, as well as attempts to recreate environments related to landscapes in the exhibition space itself.