an exhibition-sale is held at the Palais de Tokyo to finance it

Everything must disappear is the exhibition-sale organized by the La Clef Revival collective, at the Palais de Tokyo on October 28 and 29, 2023, to finalize the purchase of the last associative cinema in Paris concluded last April. A total of 86 international artists offered 97 works – photos, videos, paintings and sculptures – to launch this final phase of fundraising. The filmmakers David Lynch, Alain Guiraudie and Wang Bing as well as the actor Philippe Katerine offered their productions as did the artists ORLAN and Pierre Huyghe, the painter Hélène Delmaire (author of the paintings in the film by Céline Sciamma Portrait of the girl on fire) or the photographer Zineb Sedira.

This cultural event comes as the promise of sale, concluded with the owner of Cinéma La Clef, expired on October 26. However, the cinema defense collective obtained a five-month reprieve. A period of time necessary to renegotiate with the banks. The fundraising to raise the 2.9 million euros, the sale price of the building, was organized into several components: private sponsorship, donations and loans. “Unfortunately, explains the collective press releasedue to the rise in interest rates, the banks have reneged on the loan offers on which we had based our financing plan”. Loans will therefore be reduced and the cinema defense collective is counting “find alternatives.

More than half of the sale price combined

This weekend’s exhibition and sale, to which entry is free, is the latest initiative by the Clef Revival to save a cultural place for which it has been fighting for four years and which will become the first cultural common good of the French capital. However, half of the sale price has already been raised, almost one and a half million euros. A goal he had set for himself “Six months ago”.

While awaiting the conclusion of the buyout, the collective can still look to the future with peace of mind. Once the sale has been made, patrons have already committed to providing the cultural venue with “a cash fund”, artist Taddeo Reinhardt, member of the Collective and artist participating in the exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, told Franceinfo. Likewise, the structure will benefit from public aid. Paris City Hall will contribute, among other things, “to the works and the upgrading” of The Key.

“Everything must go”, exposition – sale in support of the La Clef Revival collective
October 28 and 29, 2023 from 12 p.m. at the Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson 75116 Paris
The sale catalog