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Exhibitions at the Bpi

Photo: Cécile Desauziers, Bpi 2010.

The exhibitions that the Bpi organises highlight a variety of themes in the same spirit of modernity that underlies the rest of the Library's cultural activity.

Promoting creativity

• Through its organisation of exhibitions, the Bpi seeks to promote recently produced works or to emphasise specific themes. In recent years, the annual Bpi exhibitions have focused on the following two themes:
  
  • newspaper cartoons: the Traits de justice exhibition (in French), organised in partnership with the "Institut des hautes études sur la Justice", will be displayed in the Parliament of Brittany in June 2010. Previous ones have been devoted to Jean Gourmelin, Willem and Reiser.
  
  • the profession of publisher: the exhibition devoted to Seuil in 2007/2008 had followed those on Christian Bourgois and on "Le Livre de poche". For the Bpi, it is a question of raising awareness about one of the important aspects of the book-chain which is also an essential element of recent intellectual and cultural history. On the same theme, an exhibition is being prepared on the "Lois du métier, l'édition engagée".

In the Library, the Rambuteau Gallery is a space where collections or subjects can be highlighted visually. The Bpi regularly organises here presentations such as the Dreamlands as seen by Da Cruz, electronic books or the Angoulême festival.
Access to the Rambuteau Gallery is open and free of charge (via the Library).

• On-line exhibitions frequently complete physical exhibitions.
  Lastly, the Bpi has a catalogue of more than 20 mobile exhibitions which can be presented in libraries or cultural centres. The most recent, "Keskidi Queneau ? Zazie ou l’impertinence du langage", has been prepared with the Municipal Library of Le Havre.
  Often produced jointly with partners, their subjects are diverse: photography, literature, the book....