Fondation Léa et Napoléon Bullukian, Lyon 

Napoléon Bullukian had a outstanding life. He misplaced each his dad and mom to the Armenian genocide in 1915. Deported, enslaved by a Kurdish tribe, then raised in an orphanage after his escape, he ultimately moved to France. There he met and married Léa Vaillat, who shared his ardour for artwork, and launched a development firm in Lyon. After the Second World Conflict he diversified his industrial actions, ultimately specializing in plastic. In 1983, a yr earlier than his loss of life, he left a bequest to Fondation de France, placing it in command of creating a personal basis devoted to medical analysis, Armenian communities, and younger artists.

A yr later, the Fondation Léa et Napoléon Bullukian artwork heart was inaugurated in a 645-square-foot house in Lyon showcasing works from Bullukian’s assortment. Artists of the Lyon faculty, comparable to Jean Couty, Jean Fusaro, René Chancrin, and Maurice Montet, are featured, as are works acquired after the collector’s loss of life, comparable to items by Jérémy Gobé and Lionel Sabatté. In 2019 the small house was expanded by 4,843 sq. toes and a spacious personal backyard was made accessible to the general public.

Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul de Vence 

In 2012, Belgian artwork collector Hubert Bonnet launched Fondation CAB in Brussels to advertise minimalist and conceptual artwork by an energetic cultural program. Two years in the past a sister establishment opened its doorways in Saint-Paul de Vence in a modernist 1950s constructing revamped by architect Charles Zana.

The French outpost stands out from the Belgian venue with significantly dynamic exhibitions, an artist-in-residency program, and hospitality areas. Works by Carl Andre, Richard Serra, and Michelangelo Pistoletto provide an attractive peek into Bonnet’s everlasting assortment. The show extends into the backyard, the place sculptures by Bernar Venet, Jonathan Monk, and Richard Lengthy might be discovered; plans name for an growth of the gathering over time. There’s additionally a restaurant with Charlotte Perriand furnishings, 4 visitor rooms, and a small Jean Prouvé–designed home the place guests can keep in a single day.

Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles 

In 2000 the French entrepreneur Édouard Carmignac created his namesake household basis to steward his assortment. 13 years later, he acquired the 37-acre Domaine de la Courtade winery on the picturesque Mediterranean island of Porquerolles with the intent of turning it into a recent artwork heart—the Villa Carmignac.

The island is accessible solely by boat from the city of Hyères on the Côte d’Azur. From the boat a street takes guests as much as Villa Carmignac, the place panorama architect Louis Benech designed a “non-garden” crammed with endemic species of flora and a few 20 outside artwork installations. Amongst them are works by Jaume Plensa, Wang Keping, Ugo Rondinone, Nils Udo, and Miquel Barceló, whose Alycastre is an imposing skull-like sculpture that alludes to a mythological creature mentioned to hang-out Porquerolles.

The inspiration’s summer season actions, like film nights and yoga lessons, happen by Ed Ruscha’s billboard-size portray on steel, Sea of Want. Inside, Janaina Mello Landini’s site-specific Ciclotrama 50 (wind),which adorns a staircase to the decrease degree, results in The Imaginary Sea by Bruce Nauman, a fountain sculpture manufactured from 100 suspended fish.

Fondation Clément, Le François, Martinique

Fondation Clément was created in 2005 by entrepreneur Bernard Hayot in Le François, Martinique, to advertise Caribbean tradition and heritage. Its actions are concentrated primarily at Habitation Clément, a rum distillery that’s listed as a UNESCO world heritage web site.

In 2016 architects Reichen and Robert and Associates had been employed to show an outdated vat room right into a 6,500-square-foot exhibition space equally divided into three galleries, all dedicated to up to date artwork. There’s additionally a library that holds quite a few books on the historical past of the Caribbean. As for the 39.5-acre sculpture park that encircles the property, it options works by famend up to date artists together with Angela Bulloch, Dale Chihuly, Jeppe Hein, and Bernar Venet.

The inspiration extends its experience and patronage to 2 different Creole estates, each rehabilitated within the 2000s and in addition UNESCO-listed—Habitation La Sucrerie and Habitation Pécoul. They are often visited solely in September on native heritage day. 

Fondation Hartung Bergman, Antibes

In 1929 Hans Hartung, a French–German pioneer of the Lyrical Abstraction motion, and Anna-Eva Bergman, a Norwegian illustrator and summary painter, met within the Montparnasse district in Paris. They tied the knot, moved to Minorca within the 1930s, divorced in 1937, remarried 15 years later, and settled within the 1960s in a villa they constructed on 5 acres within the hills of Antibes. That is the place the actions of their namesake basis, created in 1994 to maintain their reminiscence alive, now happen. The property was revamped and opened to the general public in Might 2022. 

There’s an earthy vibe to this web site. If Hartung is formally liable for its structure and design, it’s not unattainable that he drew inspiration from the sketches his spouse had made 30 years earlier in Minorca. That the rooms don’t talk is an invite to remain linked with nature: You need to go exterior earlier than you’ll be able to come again in. Alternatives from the everlasting assortment (comprising some 16,000 authentic work and drawings) and non permanent shows occupy Hartung’s and Bergman’s former studios. Hartung’s office was left virtually intact, together with his home made wheelchair prominently positioned.

Between the higher and decrease areas of the villa, respectively reserved for personal and public pursuits, stand about 200 olive timber. Close to the bookstore is the Chez Marcelle meals stall, named after the couple’s prepare dinner, who has been engaged on web site since 1973. Her Pissaladière, an onion pie typical of the Provence area, is to die for. Seven rooms have been reworked to welcome researchers on the grounds. 

Fondation LUMA, Arles

Positioned within the south of France, LUMA Arles is a 2013 extension of the inspiration created in 2004 by artwork collector Maja Hoffmann in Zurich to assist the visible arts, images, publishing, documentaries, and multimedia. It’s housed in a 183-foot-tall constructing designed by Pritzker successful architect Frank Gehry, set throughout the 450,000-square-foot Park des Ateliers designed by famend panorama designer Bas Smets. The location additionally features a former boiler-making manufacturing facility renovated by Moatti & Rivère Architects and a former mechanical workshop and storage facility revamped by Selldorf Architects, all of which has been repurposed into brand-new exhibition areas. 

The Parc des Ateliers is crammed with artwork installations, comparable to OooOoO by Korean artist Koo Jeong, an enormous skate park that glows a phosphorescent inexperienced at evening. Slightly farther alongside are Liam Gillick’s Orientation Platforms, steel sculptures that invite contemplation in addition to dialogue on the junction of artwork and design; Franz West’s all-pink twisting-and-turning sculpture Krauses Gekröse, which had by no means been assembled fully earlier than its set up in Arles; and MEMORY, 2021 by Kerstin Brätsch. This poetic mosaic, that includes characters from the German artist’s canvases, covers your complete ground of Café du Parc, which is the right spot for a lunch break.

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence 

The inspiration created by publishers and artwork sellers Marguerite and Aimé Maeght is alleged to have been the primary dedicated to fashionable and up to date artwork in France. Fondation Maeght, inaugurated in 1964 by then minister of tradition Andre Malraux, was designed by Spanish architect Josep Lluís Sert. The 9,000-square-foot constructing is dwelling to the Maeghts’ assortment of 13,000 artworks, together with 2,000 works by Joan Miró (the most important assortment in France). Outdoors, there are site-specific installations by Georges Braque, Pierre Tal-Coat, Marc Chagall, Pol Bury, and Raoul Ubac and a courtyard crammed with works by Alberto Giacometti.

A 5,381-square-foot growth is presently underway, directed by the Paris-based agency Silvio d’Ascia Structure. Completion of the challenge ought to coincide with the inspiration’s 60-year anniversary, to be celebrated in the summertime of 2024 with an exhibition dedicated to Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard.

Fondation d’Entreprise Martell, Cognac 

If you happen to occur to go to Martell’s legendary cognac cellars in Gâtebourse in southwestern France, you’ll be able to’t miss Fondation d’Entreprise Martell. The 6,000-square foot former bottling plant, topped with an enormous swift (which has been the model’s emblem for 3 centuries), was renovated by French architectural apply Brochet Lajus Pueyo in 2017. Ever since, guests have had the chance to expertise up to date artwork on this uncommon setting. 

The entry corridor is formed just like the hull of a ship, a reference to the vessels that used to move barrels of Cognac abroad. On the primary ground is an 885-square-foot exhibition house. The second degree consists of wooden, ceramics, glass, paper, and cloth workshops run by artists and artisans. The third ground is reserved for commissioned digital and multisensory experiences, and the fourth degree hosts receptions and personal occasions.

The present exhibition, “Almanach,” on view by December 2023, provides physique to the inspiration’s first five-year analysis program, which charged designers with investigating native supplies and exploring “new methods for constructing a resilient and equitable future.”

Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris 

Welcome aboard the Pernod Ricard Categorical. In 2021 the wine and spirits large moved into a brand new world headquarters—a 195,000-square-foot constructing often known as “The Island” subsequent to the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris. Occupying a lot of the constructing’s floor ground is the Fondation Pernod Ricard, which hosts creative occasions open to the general public freed from cost. Amenities embrace exhibition galleries, a 130-seat auditorium, a café, a library, and a bookshop. 

The doorway wall is roofed with a multicolored checkered work by Mathieu Mercier, whereas within the adjoining rooms the exhibition “Do You Consider in Ghosts,” that includes the six winners of the 24th Prix Pernod Ricard, is on view by October 28. A monumental portray by Salvador Dalí, La Pêche au Thon (Fishing Tuna), hangs within the foyer of the principle constructing.

Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller 

Created in 2000, Fondation François Schneider is the one basis solely dedicated to water in France. Every little thing revolves round this theme, from its assist of up to date artists working with reference to water to its artist-in-residency program (for artwork college students from faculties alongside the Rhine River) to its touring exhibitions and publications.

In 2013 a disused bottling plant on the positioning of former thermal springs in Wattwiller, a metropolis in northeastern France, was restored and expanded by architect Daniel Villotte right into a four-story, 35,520-square-foot artwork heart and exhibition house with an auditorium, a cafeteria, and a bookstore. An adjoining sculpture backyard incorporates water-themed works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Pol Bury, Sylvie de Meurville, and others. The middle’s program contains three yearly exhibitions—a themed presentation, a present devoted to 1 up to date artist, and a gaggle present. 

Lee Ufan Arles

Lee Ufan Arles is an extension of the New York–based mostly Lee Ufan Basis. It opened its doorways final spring within the coronary heart of town after the internationally identified Korean artist created an endowment fund with the assist of a few of his mates, together with Michel Enrici, the previous director of Fondation Maeght. The challenge is nestled in a 16th-century personal mansion that was as soon as the house of a protracted line of antiques sellers. The constructing has been retrofitted by Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando, Lee’s favourite architect, who can also be liable for the Lee Ufan Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima and the Area Lee Ufan on the Busan Museum of Artwork in South Korea.

The four-story manse consists of practically 25 rooms. The decrease degree, which is accessible solely by appointment, is dwelling to a few site-specific creations. On the primary ground are two items from Lee’s “Relatum” collection (Relatum 1969/2022 and Relatum—Gravité). Between these works stands a Roman bust found throughout an early stage of development. The second-floor show is organized chronologically, going from Lee’s 1970s collection “From Line,” with stripes painted in a single gesture till the exhaustion of paint, to the 2000s “Dialogues” collection, the newest items of which embrace wavy traces that convey deeper vibrations. The highest ground, a multipurpose house for conferences, conferences, receptions, and concert events the place authentic moldings and chimneys have been preserved, was inaugurated this yr with a short lived exhibition. Lee has mentioned that he want to embrace works from his private assortment within the everlasting show.

Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence 

“The placement of this heart has had me preoccupied for over 20 years,” mentioned Victor Vasarely earlier than having his basis in-built Jas-de-Bouffan (a neighborhood of Aix-en-Provence), the place the household of his idol, Paul Cezanne, as soon as lived. “I selected Aix-en-Provence . . . due to its wealthy previous, its creative and architectural actions, its famend pageant, its distinctive freeway community and, lastly, due to my admiration for Cezanne.”

The imposing black and white constructing, completed in 1976, consists of 16 hexagonal modules—the hexagon a nod to the tough form of France, which the Hungarian artist, chief of the Op Artwork motion, adopted as his new dwelling in 1930. Based on Vasarely’s imaginative and prescient, this 54,000-square-foot “lumino-kinetic sculpture” seals the merger of structure and fantastic artwork. On the bottom ground, seven 36-foot-high hexagonal chambers are devoted to 42 monumental artworks by the artist, one for every wall. The tapestries particularly hit their mark. The higher ground is reserved for workplaces and non permanent exhibitions. 

Venet Basis, Le Muy 

Le Muy is a metropolis located within the Var division within the south of France. That is the place French mixed-media artist Bernar Venet purchased a 10-acre property that included an 18th-century mill and manufacturing facility the place he might stay, work, and steward his private assortment of minimalist and conceptual artwork. This 10-acre property, which Venet has described as a “self-portrait in disguise” and a “whole art work the place outdated, industrial, and up to date architectures meet,” has been opening its doorways each summer season since 2014 because the Venet Basis (the identify and administrative construction is American as a result of Venet lived for greater than 50 years in the USA). 

Guests come primarily for the sculpture park, dotted with installations by Larry Bell, Donald Judd, Richard Lengthy, Tony Cragg, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Richard Deacon, and Anish Kapoor, amongst others. The centerpiece of this outside show could also be James Turrell’s Skyspace, a chapel erected in 2014 to deal with works by Frank Stella. The artwork gallery is supposed for non permanent exhibitions, which have proven the work of Jean Tinguely, Fred Sandback, Yves Klein, Claude Viallat, and Enrico Navarra. Subsequent yr, a 3D avatar of Venet will probably be current to reply questions from the general public.

Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 

Danièle Kapel-Marcovici and architect Tristan Fourtine had been in love—with one another, with the south of France, and with sculpture in each form and type. Each wished to share their ardour for artwork with as many individuals as potential by pedagogical and principally enjoyable exhibitions. In 2010 they visited a 5,381-square-foot 19th-century mansion with a pink facade within the heart of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, a city within the Vaucluse area, and will image their dream truly coming true.

Two years later, Villa Datris (“Datris” being a mixture of “Danielle” and “Tristan”) opened as a personal artwork heart, dedicated to reshuffling its show yearly based mostly on a theme. “Motion and Mild #2,” for instance, has been on view since April (by October) with works by Miguel Chevalier, Julio Le Parc, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Jean Tinguely, Chul-Hyun Ahn, and others, their names lengthening the checklist of 800 or so artists who’ve been featured there because the opening. The present present, occupying 4 flooring, is a mix of loans and items from Marcovici’s private assortment.

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Created in 2012 by Bernard Arnault, CEO of the LVMH group, as a method to assist artwork, tradition, and heritage, Fondation Louis Vuitton materialized two years later in the course of Bois de Boulogne, close to the Jardin d’Acclimatation. With its 12 glass “sails” and 19,000 panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, this Frank Gehry creation stands like an impressive ship on the fringe of its reflecting pool (although some evaluate it to a cloud, others to an iceberg or a beetle).

Below this imposing glass shell lie 11 galleries, together with one with a 55-foot ceiling, thought of a tribute to Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp. Fondation Louis Vuitton is dwelling to a formidable assortment of up to date artwork that dialogues with the structure in addition to with bold exhibitions dedicated to main figures of artwork historical past, comparable to Russian collectors Sergei Shchukin and Mikhaïl and Ivan Morozov, in addition to artists like Egon Schiele, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Simon Hantaï, Cindy Sherman, and shortly Mark Rothko.

Isa Genzken’s 32-foot stainless-steel rose within the entrance corridor will depart you in awe, as will Olafur Eliasson’s Contained in the Horizon, a luminous set up based mostly on LED lights and glass panels, and Ellsworth Kelly’s Coloured Panels (Pink, Yellow, Blue, Inexperienced, Violet), unfold throughout the auditorium. Although a little bit removed from the middle of Paris, the positioning gained’t disappoint.