REANIMATION PAINTINGS: A THOUSAND VOICES 
Large-scale participatory project
From 4 Oct 2024 to 12 Jan 2025 | Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, France
11 avenue du Président Wilson 75116 Paris
Free access on the week-ends from 10am to 6pm. 

Invited by the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Oliver Beer is launching a large-scale participatory project for thousands of children and adolescents aged 4 to 18, titled Reanimation Paintings: A Thousand Voices.

This project continues Beer’s Reanimation Paintings series, where he reinterprets iconic works from popular culture and art history. The aim is to involve young participants, from kindergarten to high school, in a creative process that establishes a new dialogue between the public and the museum’s collections. The artist and museum want to give participants the opportunity to reinterpret these works and see their creations become part of the collection.

Oliver Beer has selected four key works from the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris' collection — by Victor Brauner, Nina Childress, Sonia Delaunay, and Georges Rouault — that will be reinterpreted and transformed into four films created by Beer. Music, a central theme in his work, guided the selection of these masterpieces.

Entirely free of charge, A Thousand Voices starts with a visual and sound collection phase, running from October 4, 2024, to January 12, 2025, in two studios designed by Beer within the museum’s permanent galleries. The collection will include drawings and sound recordings created by the young participants.

Each child or adolescent—whether with their class or visiting individually with family—will be invited to recreate and personalise one of the four selected works through drawing or sound.

These drawings will be assembled and printed on film at 12 frames per second to create four videos. The recorded sounds will form the core of a new immersive composition that will accompany the films. All participants, their schools, and the public will have the opportunity to view these films during an exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in spring 2025.