Cartier Foundation

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The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain is a museum for contemporary art in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

The foundation was established in 1984 by the Cartier company as a center for contemporary art . The aim is stated to present exhibitions by established artists as well as to offer young artists an opportunity to debut and to include their work in the collection. In 1994 the foundation moved to its present location in a building designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and which includes a garden designed by Lothar Baumgarten .

The museum shows exhibitions by contemporary international artists and includes more than 1000 works by 300 artists. The collection includes monumental works such as The Monument to Language by James Lee Byars , Caterpillar by Wim Delvoye , Backyard by Liza Lou , La Volière by Jean-Pierre Raynaud and Everything That Rises Must Converge by Sarah Sze .

Contemporary art in France is represented by works by the following artists, among others:

The artists from abroad exhibited here include works by

Exhibitions

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Individual references, footnotes

  1. ^ Paris exhibition "Histoires de Voir": In search of the land without evil , taz of July 18, 2012, accessed on July 21, 2012
  2. ↑ From the joy of driving in FAZ from June 1, 2017, page R6
  3. ↑ When the pictures learned to dance in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from November 12, 2017, page 51
  4. ↑ Christiane Meixner: Exhibition at the Fondation Cartier celebrates the plants in Paris, (Paris; until November 10th) Review in Der Tagesspiegel of August 12, 2019, accessed on the same date

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 14.4 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 55"  E