The Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, nicknamed MAC/VAL, is a museum of contemporary art located in the Place de la Libération in
Vitry-sur-Seine,
Val-de-Marne, a suburb of
Paris,
France. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.
The museum opened in 2005, and is dedicated to works of art from the 1950s to the present. Its building, designed by architect Jacques Ripault, encompasses a total of 13,000 m² floor space (including 2600 m² for permanent exhibitions, 1350 m² for temporary shows, 480 m² for its research center, and 700 m² for storerooms and workshops). It also contains an auditorium and cinema of 150 seats, and is set within 10,000 m² of public garden.
Today the museum contains over a thousand works of artists active in France, including
Martine Aballéa
Martine Aballéa is a French-American artist born in 1950.
Early life
Aballéa was born on August 11, 1950 in New York. She has moved to France in 1973. She followed a scientific and philosophical training before starting to write, take photog ...
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Arman
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') to ...
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Valérie Belin,
Daniel Buren
Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for ...
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Claude Closky,
Delphine Coindet,
Eugène Dodeigne
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Life
Dodeigne was born in Rouvreux, near Liège. He learned his trade from his father, a stonecutter, who hired him to t ...
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Erró,
Hans Hartung,
Pierre Huyghe,
Véronique Joumard
Véronique Joumard (born 1964 in Grenoble) is a French artist.
Early life
Véronique Joumard was born in Grenoble, France in 1964. She studying at the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble. She began her career as an artist in 1987 with an exhi ...
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Valérie Jouve,
Bertrand Lamarche
Bertrand Lamarche is a French artist, working and living in France. He graduated from la Villa Arson, (Nice FR) and is teaching in the architecture school Paris Malaquais. He was born in 1966 in Paris.
Career
Contemporary artist, his work began ...
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Julio Le Parc
Julio Le Parc (born September 23, 1928) is an Argentina-born artist who focuses on both modern op art and kinetic art. Le Parc attended the School of Fine Arts in Argentina. A founding member of Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) and awa ...
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Annette Messager
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François Morellet
François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical a ...
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Marylène Negro,
Orlan,
Bruno Perramant
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Dominique Petitgand
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Françoise Pétrovitch
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Judit Reigl
Judit Reigl (née Némedy; 1 May 1923 – 6 August 2020) was a Hungarian painter who lived in France.
Biography
Reigl was born on 1 May 1923 in Kapuvár, Hungary. She attended the Hungarian University of Fine Arts from 1942 to 1945 where she w ...
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Pierre Soulages,
Jean Tinguely, and
Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Jean-Luc Vilmouth (5 March 1952 – 17 December 2015) was a French sculptor. He was born on 5 March 1952 at Creutzwald and died on the 19 December 2015 in Taipei.Pascal Beausse, « » rchive sur ''lequotidiendelart.com'', 21 décembre 2015 He ta ...
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See also
*
List of museums in Paris
References
Other references
ParisInfo description* ''Paris'', Petit Futé, 2007, page 132. .
External links
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne- official site
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Art museums and galleries in Île-de-France
Contemporary art galleries in France
Art museums established in 2005
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Museums in Val-de-Marne