Centre Pompidou, M+, and MoMA Announce Cultural Alliance

Centre Pompidou, Paris, M+ Hong Kong, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, have announced a cultural alliance for sharing resources and curating initiatives.

A framework agreement for the alliance, which brings together three of the most consequential global institutions with a curatorial focus on art of the digital era, was signed at M+, on October 30, 2026, by Christophe Cherix, the David Rockefeller Director of MoMA; Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director of M+; and Laurent Le Bon, President of Centre Pompidou. The museum directors were joined at the ceremony by trustees and stakeholders for all three institutions.

“While each institution will maintain its independence and identity,” the three institutions said in a joint statement, “they will function together with greater capacities than are possible individually.”

“Beyond expanding our reach to an unprecedented level, the cultural alliance also deepens intellectual exchange, as we align our programming, organise joint exhibitions, preserve art, and unite audiences worldwide, allowing us to function as more than the sum of our parts.” (Christophe Cherix)

“Our cultural alliance will, among other initiatives, enable long-term loans, deepening the presentation of key artists and movements,” Le Bon said. “We hope to create new opportunities for artists and audiences,” Raffel said, “shape a more cooperative and sustainable future for museums, and reimagine how cultural narratives resonate around the world.”

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in November 2026, has been adding to its digital art collection, including work by the AI pioneer Harold Cohen, and has built up a particular strand of moving-image works and exhibitions. M+’s largest digital works are its screen commissions, shown on the museum’s giant outdoor LED canvas, overlooking Victoria Harbour. In a recent co-commission with Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, Ayoung Kim’s Dancer in the Mirror Field, 2025, was premiered as a Facade commission for M+ where it was shown, every night from October to December 2025.

The Pompidou, like MoMA — one of the central institutions in the genealogy of modern and contemporary art — is known for its ground-breaking collections of blockchain art. In December 2025 MoMA acquired eight CryptoPunks and a complete set of eight Chromie Squiggles. The Pompidou, which made a celebrated acquisition of NFTs in 2023, bringing 18 works by artists including Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas into France's national collection of modern and contemporary art, has continued to acquire crypto art, with the curators Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli framing blockchain art “within the genealogy of immaterial and conceptual art”.

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With Centre Pompidou’s Paris headquarters at Beaubourg closed for renovation until 2030, the museum’s collection is on show across a constellation of allied institutions across France and around the world, with works from its digital art collection on show in “Computer Worlds” at West Bund Museum, Shanghai (until February 14, 2027). A second travelling exhibition drawn from the collection, “Unstable Media in the 21st Century”, which opens at the Hamburger Kunsthalle on November 20, 2026, reconsiders the field of “new media” by foregrounding what Lista calls the “philosophy of instability” that accompanied the rise of video.