Exhibition guide

Over the past twenty years, we have witnessed the massive expansion of gigantic buildings whose sole function is storage. These are logistics warehouses, data centers and self-storage centers. Reduced to the number of living people on earth, the cumulative stock of foodstuffs, data and objects they contain has never been so important in the history of humanity.

Visit details

  • Dates: From Thursday April 16, 2026 to Sunday June 28, 2026: Saturday, Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Venue: La poste Rodier, 30-32 rue Louise-Emilie de la tour d'auvergne, Paris
  • Price: free
  • Audience: All audiences
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

Forgotten by the modernity of just-in-time and tight flow, these buildings could well, in the near future, return to the forefront.

The exhibition Stock, architectures of survival and transmission offers an inventory of contemporary warehouses through maps, key figures and video installations. Every weekend, mediation-workshops, designed by the independent cultural mediation office BIM, are organized for families. Through a selection of 18 types of architecture - represented in models - the exhibition highlights the architectural forms which were used in the past to shelter, transmit and ritualize stock. They are supplemented by highlights: artist interventions, visits from the curator, a conference designed and hosted by tema.archi, as well as a new program for the Nuit Blanche. We have moved away from the primordial gesture which consists of putting aside what we have skillfully and patiently selected to prepare for the future.

How can we no longer just pile up at a distance and preserve again?

The Stock exhibition, architectures of survival and transmission, considers stock as a determining element in our ability to confront supply crises and organize transmission. To go even further, the Pavillon de l'Arsenal is developing new freely accessible mediation supports - a game card and a quiz - allowing you to discover the exhibition independently.A selection of varied documents (plans, photos, archives, etc.) and filmed expert interviews allows us to explore contemporary architectural approaches and projects placing stock at the heart of cities and debates. Pleading to re-architect the stock, it encourages the storage of materials already extracted and for transformation, rather than producing new ones every day.

Because to store, it is not to accumulate without distinction.

It is to know that one day, we could run out.

It is to put away for the winter, to keep for tomorrow.

It is to make a bet on what one considers worthy of going through time.

AROUND THE EXHIBITION

With the experience acquired in the implementation of mediation systems intended for professional audiences, the

Until the Industrial Revolution, places of stock punctuated cities as well as the countryside by organizing the temporalities of life, materializing foresight, and embodying sharing and handover. general public, young audiences and the social field - during its first year outside the walls - the Pavillon de l'Arsenal continues this dynamic on the occasion of the Stock exhibition by offering a varied program of activities accessible to everyone.

During the week, a mediator is available to guide the public in their discovery of the exhibition.