Centre Pompidou extends Malaga partnership through 2025

The Centre Pompidou has renewed its agreement with the city of Malaga, extending the operation of its satellite museum until 2025. The original five-year deal, signed in 2014 and inaugurated in 2015, was set to expire in 2020. The extension was formalized in a protocol signed by Malaga mayor Francisco de la Torre and Centre Pompidou President Serge Lasvignes. The museum will remain at The Cube, a 6,000-square-meter space designed by Spanish studio L35 and decorated by French artist Daniel Buren. The Centre Pompidou will receive approximately €1.5 million annually for the use of its brand. The agreement, which must be finalized by March 19, 2019, commits both parties to a program of temporary exhibitions, dance events, performances, concerts, films, conferences, and workshops. Lasvignes noted that the Malaga museum is the first Pompidou-branded institution outside France and has attracted half a million visitors in three years, strengthening the city's position in the global art geography. Malaga has developed into a major cultural destination, with the Museo Picasso (2003), Museo Carmen Thyssen (2011), and CAC-Centro de Arte Contemporáneo among its notable institutions. The Centre Pompidou is also expanding to Brussels (opening in 2022 in a former Citroën garage designed by Alexis Dumont and Marcel Van Goethem) and Shanghai (negotiations ongoing, expected spring 2019 in the Xuhui district).