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Matisse: Life & Spirit events

Events list

Past events

  • Young Professionals Meet Up event

    Meetup

    Young Members meetup Celebrate Matisse

    Wednesday 9 March 2022
    6pm

    Charges apply

    Join us during Art After Hours for our Young Members meetup!

  • Tour

    Japanese-language guided tour of Matisse: Life & Spirit 「マティス　ライフ＆スピリット」展　日本語ツアー

    Friday 25 February 2022
    1pm

    Free with exhibition entry

  • Tour

    Mandarin and Cantonese-language guided tours of Matisse: Life & Spirit 馬諦斯 生命與精神特展中文專人導覽

    Cantonese tour: Sundays 10am, 30 January – 20 February 2022

    Mandarin tour: Thursdays 11am, 27 January – 10 March 2022

    Free, bookings required

  • Henri Matisse, Polynesia, the sky (Polynésie, le ciel) (detail), 1946, gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, from Mobilier national et Manufactures des Gobelins, de Beauvais et de la Savonnerie since 1975 AM 1975-DEP 13. © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021. Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Bertrand Prévost / Dist RMN-GP

    Tour

    Guided tour Matisse: Life & Spirit

    Daily (weekdays only) 11.30am, 2pm
    Wednesdays also 5.30pm, 7pm

    Free with exhibition entry

  • Bernard Ollis in the studio. Photo by Martin Lane

    Online

    The Artist Speaks: Matisse Maria Stoljar in conversation with Bernard Ollis

    Bookings: Thursday 17 February, 5pm – Thursday 31 March 2022, 5pm

    Charges apply

  • Tour

    Korean-language guided tour of Matisse: Life & Spirit 마티스의 생애와 그의 정신　한국어   가이드 투어

    Wednesdays

    1pm

    Free, bookings required

  • Music

    Concert Matisse & jazz with Major Zulu

    Sunday 30 January 2022

    6.30–9pm

    Charges apply

    Enjoy a fabulous concert and exhibition viewing

  • Photo by Belinda Roland

    Music

    Cocktail party Summer sounds with Matisse

    Sunday 20 February 2022, 6.30pm

    Charges apply

    Celebrate Matisse with music and art at the Art Gallery

  • Henri Matisse 'Interior, goldfish bowl (Intérieur, bocal de poissons rouges)' 1914, Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, bequest of Baroness Eva Gourgaud, 1965 AM 4311 P, © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021, photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP

    Online

    Short lecture series Matisse: colour and movement

    Bookings: Wednesday 5 January, 5pm–Friday 11 March 2022, 5pm

    Charges apply

  • Image: Henri Matisse ‘Still life with magnolia (Nature morte au magnolia)’ 1941 (detail), Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1945 AM 2588P, © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021, photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP

    Tour

    Coffee tour Matisse: Life & Spirit

    Various dates, November 2021–March 2022

    9.30am, 9.45am

    Charges apply

  • Drop in and make

    Workshop/demonstration

    Drop in and make Window on the world

    Mondays–Fridays 
    3–21 January 2022 
    11am – 3.30pm

    Free, no bookings required

  • Virtual incursion events Hilma af Klint

    Online

    Virtual case study Matisse Life & Spirit

    22–24 November 2021

    11am

    Free

    A virtual incursion for Stage 5 & 6 students

  • Henri Matisse Blue nude II (Nu bleu II) 1952, Centre Pompidou, Paris, MNAM-CCI, purchased 1984 AM 1984-276, © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021, photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist RMN-GP

    Tour

    Curator tour Matisse: Life & Spirit

    Thursday 9 December 2021
    10.30am 

    Charges apply

  • Henri Matisse 'Still life with green marble table (Nature morte à la table de marbre vert)' 1941 (detail), oil on canvas, 46 x 38.5 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased 1945 AM 2591 P © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021 Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP

    Free members viewings

    Free viewings for members Matisse: Life & Spirit

    20–26 November 2021
    Daily 10am, 10.30am, 3pm, 3.30pm
    Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 November also 9.30am

    Free, bookings required

  • Henri Matisse 'Odalisque with red culottes (Odalisque à la culotte rouge)' 1921 (detail), oil on canvas, 65.3 x 92.3 x 2.5 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, purchased by the state, 1922 LUX.0.85 P © Succession H Matisse/Copyright Agency 2021 Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist RMN-GP

    Online

    Online curator presentation and Q&A Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive

    Thursday 2 December 2021

    12.30pm

    Charges apply