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\n\tAfter three years of anticipation, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha will open in Seoul on June 4, a date that marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The new institution is a joint initiative with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture\u2014the influential philanthropic arm of the Hanwha business conglomerate\u2014and, as the Paris institution described it, the latest star in its \u201cconstellation\u201d of international cultural ventures. KANAL \u2013 Centre Pompidou in Brussels is set to open shortly after, according to a press release issued this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe more imminent Centre Pompidou Hanwha was visited on April 3 by French President Emmanuel Macron, together with the country\u2019s culture minister Catherine P\u00e9gard and Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Centre Pompidou. In the summer of 2023, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the trio formalized the Seoul partnership, confirming rumors that its network of outposts, which currently span Metz, France; M\u00e1laga, Spain; and Shanghai was once again expanding. This expansion also comes while the Centre Pompidou\u2019s main Paris campus is closed as part of a five-year renovation, set to reopen in 2030. <\/p>\n
\n\tPer the agreement with the Hanwha Culture Foundation, the forthcoming institution is housed in Tower 63, the headquarters of the Hanwha group, with the French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte tapped for the design.<\/p>\n
\n\tKorean news outlet Yonhap News<\/em> reported in 2023 that Hanwha was responsible for \u201crental and other fees as agreed under the terms.\u201d Hanwha said in a statement at the time that throughout the four year-collaboration Centre Pompidou \u201cwill offer eight monographic exhibitions\u2014two per year\u2014based on a selection of works from the Center Pompidou collection.\u201d The deal gives Hanwha permission to use the French museum\u2019s brand for four years, with an opportunity for a contract extension.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOnly a week before the Seoul deal was struck, Le Bon finalized a partnership with Saudi Arabia to develop a contemporary art museum in AlUla, an emergent cultural hub in the Kingdom\u2019s northwestern desert region. The Saudi and Seoul branches are expected to bring a much-needed influx of funds for the Centre Pompidou during its five-year closure.<\/p>\n Le Monde<\/em>, which first reported the expansion rumors, quoted Hanwha as paying \u20ac20 million (roughly $23.1 million) to license the Centre Pompidou brand.<\/p>\n \n\tNot every Centre Pompidou expansion has come to fruition. This February, the Paris institution formally scrapped its long-planned satellite museum in\u00a0Jersey City. The project had faced months of pushback from local politicians following a revelation from the mayor that the city had a $255 million deficit. (Last month brought news that the planned site might become affordable housing.)<\/p>\n \n\tSpeaking to reporters in February, Jersey City mayor James Solomon said, \u201cWe will not be doing Pompidou, to be clear. It is dead.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/centre-pompidou-seoul-june-2026-opening-1234780389\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2268994134.jpg?w=1024″] After three years of anticipation, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha will open in Seoul on June 4, a date that marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The new institution is a joint initiative with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture\u2014the influential philanthropic arm of the Hanwha business conglomerate\u2014and, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1870890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}