A transformed home for a collection shaped by four decades
Since October 2025, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain occupies its new site at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, facing the Louvre. Inside the historical façade, Jean Nouvel has designed a flexible architecture of movable platforms and open sightlines – a space conceived to change with every exhibition.
The Collection: A Living Archive
Created through commissions, collaborations and long-term relationships, the Collection includes 4,500 works by more than 500 artists.
Its core themes:
- architecture & urban imaginaries
- nature & ecosystems
- materials, craft & processes
- science, technology & speculative thought
“Exposition Générale” – the inaugural exhibition
From 25 October 2025 to 23 August 2026, the first show in the new building, Exposition Générale, unfolds as a dense, generous overview of the Fondation’s vision:
Nearly 600 works by 100+ artists, arranged along four curatorial lines:
- Machines d’Architecture – architecture as imagination
- Être Nature – beyond anthropocentric perspectives
- Making Things – the poetry of making
- Un Monde Réel – knowledge, technology, speculation
Highlights include focused presentations of James Turrell, Agnès Varda, Matthew Barney, David Hammons, Beatriz Milhazes and Olga de Amaral.
The exhibition extends into the Place du Palais-Royal and the Galerie Valois, linking the museum to the city.
A New Kind of Institution
More than a museum, the new Fondation Cartier functions as an open cultural platform – hosting workshops, performances, discussions and encounters.
A place defined not by permanence, but by transformation.
