In an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, from June 14, 2025 to January 12, 2026, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is devoting an unprecedented exhibition to the creation of copyists. Copying is at the heart of the classical tradition: copying from the masters, learning techniques, canons and narratives from them, absorbing their expertise, is to make their mastery our own, a path to knowledge and creation, from the most academic to the most contemporary.

A year ago, several artists received an invitation from the two associate curators: “Using a work of your choice from the Musée du Louvre collections, imagine a copy of it".