Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio

Brancusi's Paris studio—a workspace and artwork itself—reconstructed through rarely lent sculptures, photographs, films, and hand-carved furniture from the Atelier Brancusi.

Why go

For the first time in decades, works from the Atelier Brancusi (currently closed for renovations at Centre Pompidou) travel to New York, including the infamous Bird in Space and archival materials revealing how Brancusi's studio functioned as an integrated environment of experimentation and display.

What to expect

A large-scale exhibition on Floor 6 featuring sculptures, photographs, films, hand-carved pedestals and furniture, tools, and archival materials from the Atelier Brancusi in dialogue with MoMA's own Brancusi collection and local loans, exploring the studio as a unified work of art.

Things to know

• Brancusi bequeathed his entire studio to France in 1957, preserving it as the Atelier Brancusi at Centre Pompidou.
• Bird in Space was notoriously rejected by a U.S. customs agent as inadmissible art, sparking a landmark legal case.
• The exhibition is organized by Anne Umland (guest curator) and Mia Matthias (Assistant Curator) in collaboration with Centre Pompidou curato
• Brancusi's studio on impasse Ronsin in Paris served simultaneously as home, workshop, and exhibition space over four decades.
• The Atelier Brancusi is currently closed for Centre Pompidou renovations, making this exhibition a rare opportunity to see its contents.