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| Fondation d'entreprise Ricard | |
|---|---|
| Name | Fondation d'entreprise Ricard |
| Established | 1999 |
| Founder | Paul Ricard |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Type | Contemporary art foundation |
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard is a Paris-based private foundation dedicated to contemporary art, situated in the 10th arrondissement near cultural institutions and galleries. It operates at the intersection of visual arts networks involving museums, curators, biennials, and academies, fostering relations with collectors, critics, and artists across Europe and internationally. The foundation partners with festivals, institutions, and foundations to support emerging practices and to present contemporary projects within Parisian and global circuits.
The foundation was created at the end of the 20th century amid a surge of private cultural patronage in France linked to families such as Pinault family, Béjart Foundation Lausanne, Virginia Symphony Orchestra (note: illustrative institution networks), and other corporate patrons like LVMH, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, TotalEnergies, Renault, Schneider Electric. Early collaborations connected the foundation with museums including Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, and contemporary venues such as Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Louis Vuitton, La Maison Rouge, and Le Plateau (FRAC Île-de-France). Over the decades the foundation engaged with biennials and festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Manifesta, Liverpool Biennial, and Biennale de Lyon, while maintaining relationships with art schools like École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Royal College of Art, and media programs at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The foundation’s mission emphasizes support for contemporary visual art through acquisitions, commissions, cultural programming, and partnerships with institutions such as Musée National d'Art Moderne, Musée Picasso, Musée Rodin, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Fondation Beyeler, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The J. Paul Getty Trust. Activities include artist residencies with links to institutions like Cité internationale des arts, curatorial exchanges with International Council of Museums, and collaborative projects with festivals like Nuit Blanche (Paris), Sonic Acts Festival, Ars Electronica, Sónar. The foundation facilitates dialogues among critics and theorists associated with journals and institutions such as Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Tate Papers, October (journal), and academic centers including Columbia University, Harvard University, Sorbonne University, Sciences Po.
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard administers awards and supports prizes aimed at emerging artists, often coordinated with curators from institutions such as Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard pour l'art contemporain (note: similar institutional partnerships), and platforms like Phaidon, Art Basel, FIAC, Frieze Art Fair. Prize juries have included figures from Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and representatives from galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, White Cube, and Perrotin. Awards have amplified artists' visibility leading to invitations to exhibitions at venues like Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Zürich, Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, MAXXI, and participation in curatorial initiatives by figures associated with Okwui Enwezor, Nathalie Djurberg, Massimiliano Gioni.
The foundation builds a collection through acquisitions and commissions, presenting works in spaces comparable to exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Le Centquatre-Paris, La Maison Rouge, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Xippas, and collaborating with institutional partners like Musée du Louvre on cross-disciplinary projects. Exhibitions have included performance, installation, video, painting, and sculpture, featuring dialogues with movements and periods represented at Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum, Boa Museum of Contemporary Art, and thematic shows in conversation with collections at Fondation Cartier, Fondation Beyeler, Pinacoteca di Brera. The foundation’s curatorial strategy echoes methods employed at Documenta, Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and Sharjah Biennial.
Educational programs engage students and publics via partnerships with institutions such as Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris VIII, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, École Estienne, École Boulle, and international schools including Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Outreach extends to community projects with cultural centers like Centre Chorégraphique National, Conservatoire de Paris, Maison des Métallos, and media labs modeled on Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology collaborations. Workshops, seminars, and publication projects have involved publishers and platforms such as Éditions Gallimard, Les Presses du Réel, Mousse Publishing, Sternberg Press.
Governance follows frameworks common to private foundations, involving boards and advisory committees including leaders from institutions like Ministère de la Culture (France), Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and corporate partners comparable to Pernod Ricard stakeholders, drawing expertise from curators and directors affiliated with Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and private collectors connected to François Pinault Collection and Bernard Arnault collection. Funding sources combine endowment, corporate sponsorship models similar to Pernod Ricard Sponsorship, and revenue reinvestment through collaborations with fairs like FIAC, Art Basel, and grants administered by bodies such as Fondation de France.
The foundation’s programs have highlighted emerging and established artists who later exhibited at institutions like Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, ICA London, Kunstmuseum Basel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum, and participated in events such as Venice Architecture Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Manifesta 11, and Whitney Biennial. Projects included collaborations with curators and critics associated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Christine Macel, Adam Szymczyk, Okwui Enwezor, Caroline Bourgeois, and cross-disciplinary commissions involving choreographers and composers linked to William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and filmmakers connected to Chris Marker and Agnes Varda.
Category:Foundations in France Category:Contemporary art foundations