Exposition Générale @ Fondation Cartier, Paris - Exposition inaugurale du nouveau bâtiment Place du Palais-Royal de la Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Exposition Générale

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

25 octobre 2025 - fin août 2026

Le nouveau bâtiment de la Fondation Cartier, 

situé 2, place du Palais-Royal à Paris, 

dont l’architecture intérieure est signée par Jean Nouvel

Photo © Luc Boegly

Le 25 octobre 2025, la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain inaugure ses nouveaux espaces dans le centre historique de Paris, au 2, place du Palais-Royal. Entièrement ouvert sur la ville grâce à ses grandes baies vitrées, le projet architectural conçu par Jean Nouvel s’inscrit dans l’édifice haussmannien des anciens Grands Magasins du Louvre. Composée de cinq plateformes mobiles, son architecture dynamique ouvre la voie à un renouvellement profond des possibilités d’exposition. Dans ce lieu de rencontre saisissant entre le passé et l’avenir, l’architecture de la nouvelle Fondation Cartier est à la fois une extension du paysage urbain et un prolongement de son histoire.

Présentée jusqu’à fin août 2026, l’Exposition Générale dévoile l’identité artistique de la Fondation Cartier et son patrimoine à travers près de 600 oeuvres de plus de 100 artistes qui ont jalonné sa programmation de 1984 à aujourd’hui. Reflet de l’histoire de l’institution et de son ouverture au monde dans toute sa diversité, la Collection de la Fondation Cartier témoigne de quatre décennies de création contemporaine internationale. L’exposition met ainsi en lumière la singularité d’une collection unique, qui s’est construite, tout au long de son histoire, à travers sa programmation. Elle est composée d’expositions personnelles et d’ensembles thématiques autour desquels s’articulent les engagements artistiques de la Fondation Cartier : architectures, mondes vivants, technologies et sciences se déploient à travers des oeuvres emblématiques et des fragments d’expositions marquantes qui ont façonné l’histoire de l’institution.

L’Exposition Générale emprunte son titre aux expositions d’objets et de vêtements qui se tenaient aux Grands Magasins du Louvre. Contemporaines des Expositions universelles, dont la première édition parisienne de 1855 fut concomitante de la construction du bâtiment lors de la première phase des travaux du baron Haussmann, ces « Expositions Générales » étaient de véritables lieux de sociabilité et de découvertes, offrant une nouvelle compréhension de la culture matérielle. Le bâtiment incarne un symbole de l’avènement de la modernité dans Paris que la Fondation Cartier fait dialoguer avec sa Collection. En la présentant dans l’esprit d’ouverture qui caractérisait ces « Expositions Générales », l’institution conçoit l’exposition comme un lieu public d’expérimentation et de partage au coeur de la ville.

Week-end d’ouverture gratuit les 25 et 26 octobre 2025 

A l’occasion de l’inauguration de son nouveau site au coeur de Paris, la Fondation Cartier invite le public à découvrir gratuitement ses espaces et l’Exposition Générale. 

Réservation obligatoire et dans la limite des places disponibles

A paraître aux Éditions de la Fondation Cartier

Catalogue Exposition Générale 

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En précommande le 1er octobre

La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain par Jean Nouvel

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En précommande le 1er octobre

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2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates Announcement

2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

The recipients of the 13th Praemium Imperiale are:

Painting: Lee Ufan

Sculpture: Marta Pan

Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Music: Ornette Coleman

Theatre/Film: Arthur Miller

The artists are recognized and awarded for their achievements, for the impact they have had internationally on the arts, and for their role in enriching the global community. The five recipients each receive 15 million yen (c. $125,000), and a diploma and medal presented by governor of the Japan Art Association Prince Hitachi in an awards ceremony in Tokyo. The awards ceremony will be held on October 25.

The Praemium Imperiale is an annual award given by the Japan Art Association for global achievement in the arts. Since its foundation in 1989, it has become a mark of the highest international distinction. The 2001 laureates join a roster of 61 artists, including David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Anthony Caro, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ravi Shankar, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Brook.

2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

Painting: Lee Ufan

Japan-based Korean Lee Ufan has been a presence on the international art scene since the early 1970s. Profoundly rooted in philosophy of the East and West, his works offer his response to the basic problems of western art in the latter half of the 20th century. Lee's questioning of artistic methods and materials classes him among a large group of contemporaries; but his elementary forms and reduced processes and colors, his handling of time and space, connect him above all with Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. The genesis of his work is embedded in long meditative phases and profound concentration.

Sculpture: Marta Pan

Marta Pan has devoted her professional life to a pursuit of geometric simplicity, and to exploration of the themes of equilibrium and continuity. Her site-specific sculptures were pioneering in their attention to the overall landscape, to subtly changing light, and movements of water and wind. They were typically placed in natural environments and sculpture parks, but in recent years are found increasingly in urban settings as her interest shifts to urban scenery, and to the creation of public space environments. She has been very active outside of France, and her encounter with Japan, starting in 1969 with Floating Sculpture for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, was something like a mystical union. She now has about 25 major pieces in Japan that are appreciated for their abstract serenity and harmony with nature that perhaps recalls the essence of the traditional Japanese garden.

Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel is recognized for the clarity, elegance that characterizes his work. Nouvel has created a stylistic language separate from that of modernism and post-modernism, and buildings that go beyond cultural constraints. He places great importance on harmonizing a building with its site and surroundings. Another theme unifying all of his projects is the beautiful interplay of transparency, opacity, shadow, and light. Perhaps the most well known example of this is his Institute du Monde Arab in Paris. Nouvel is considered one of the founders of the high-tech school of architecture. He uses materials such as aluminum, glass, stainless steel and concrete, but he adopts a softer, perhaps more poetic approach than his British colleagues. Nouvel's current projects include the new corporate headquarters for Dentsu Corporation at a site overlooking Tokyo Bay.

Music: Ornette Coleman

Most people think of Ornette Coleman as the revolutionary saxophonist who created "free jazz," but his explorations of the musical possibilities extend much beyond that and reveal a personal musical vocabulary free from prevailing conventions of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic structures. Coleman's innovations, later to be known as "harmolodics," pointed out a new direction, and also established his place among a group of major 20th Century American composers such as Charlie Parker, Harry Partch, Charles Ives and John Cage. He describes Harmolodics as a system that allows every person to express their own emotions and ideas regardless of their languages, instruments, or role.

Theatre/Film: Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller has enriched the stage for over five decades. With his Death of a Salesman in 1949, Miller reached a universal audience and set a standard that marked him as a playwright for his time and for all time. The fate of the individual in society, the tragedy of the common man who loses his integrity due to social and economic pressures, the moral and political issues of our time, including the right to speak and think freely - these are the themes that have occupied Miller throughout his career. Arthur Miller continues to be a major force in world theater.

The Japan Art Association, Tokyo

www.praemiumimperiale.org