Guggenheim to Screen Artistic Portrait of Soccer Legend Zinédine Zidane

Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's masterpiece about the French player will go on view at the museum this summer, timed with a bitter World Cup.

Guggenheim to Screen Artistic Portrait of Soccer Legend Zinédine Zidane. Still from Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, "Zidane, a 21st century portrait" (2006) (© Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2026; courtesy Guggenheim Museum) On the heels of an uninspiring AI tribute to Leo Messi at Christie's last year, one of the greatest artworks about soccer — or football, as it should be called — ever created is coming to New York City this summer. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's “Zidane, a 21st century portrait,” a 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zinédine Zidane, will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup. The two-channel video piece has a deceptively simple premise: a 90-minute match between Real Madrid and Villarreal shot e...