‘The Endless Sunday’ featuring Tunga at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

14 May 2025

From 8 May 2025 – 2 February 2027, the Centre Pompidou-Metz presents ‘The Endless Sunday’ featuring Tunga. Traditionally associated with rest and contemplation, Sunday is a paradoxical day. From sacred day to a day of leisure and consumption, it reflects the changes that have taken place in society. Taking the form of an ABC, a nod to Gilles Deleuze, this thematic exhibition explores the day’s multiple facets. The sections, each named after a poem, film or novel (A for ‘Air de famille’, B for ‘Bats-toi’, C for ‘Conduis-moi sur la lune’, etc.), revisit the ideas associated with Sunday, while immersing visitors in the complex, tortured world of Maurizio Cattelan, who takes them on a historical and sensorial journey.

Creating a unique vision inspired by psychoanalysis, philosophy and alchemy, Tunga (1952-2016) embraced a multi- faceted practice spanning the various mediums of contemporary art. Driven by research across many fields, his early works were marked by a deep interest in the symbolic and the mythological. From this beginning his practice evolved into complex installation-making in the 1980s with the incorporation of a wide range of materials including magnets, lightbulbs, electrical wires, copper, felt and rubber.

Find out more via the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Image: Tunga and Eryk Rocha, Quimera, 2004, Short film, 35mm, 15'38", © Tunga Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Photo: still by Eryk Rocha