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| Kadist Art Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kadist Art Foundation |
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | Non-profit art organization |
| Headquarters | Paris; San Francisco |
| Region served | International |
| Leader title | Directors |
Kadist Art Foundation is an international contemporary art organization founded in 2001 that supports artists through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, and collections. It operates activity hubs in Paris and San Francisco and collaborates with museums, biennials, and cultural institutions worldwide. Kadist engages with artists, curators, and scholars through programs that intersect with institutions such as Musée d'Orsay, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Kadist was established in 2001 by collectors and patrons active in contemporary art networks connected to figures associated with Artforum, Frieze Art Fair, Biennale di Venezia, Documenta, and Whitney Biennial. Early partnerships linked Kadist to projects involving artists exhibited at Serpentine Galleries, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and Stedelijk Museum. Throughout the 2000s Kadist expanded its presence during major events such as the Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, and Dhaka Art Summit. Directors and curators have collaborated with figures connected to Marie-Laure Bernadac, Okwui Enwezor, Maggie Nelson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Nicholas Bourriaud. Strategic programs intersected with initiatives from Creative Time, Performa, FACT Liverpool, e-flux, and MoMA PS1.
Kadist operates institutional spaces in Paris and San Francisco that function as exhibition venues, residency sites, and archive centers connected to networks including Le Plateau (FRAC Île-de-France), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Mori Art Museum, Kunsthalle Basel, and MAXXI. The Paris premises have hosted projects alongside Fondation Cartier, Palais de Tokyo, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Institut du Monde Arabe, and La Maison Rouge. The San Francisco site situates Kadist within circuits associated with SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and San Francisco Arts Commission.
Kadist’s mission centers on building an international contemporary art collection while supporting artists through residency, publication, and exhibition programs linked to organizations such as Prince Claus Fund, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Arts Council England, and NEA (National Endowment for the Arts). Programs include artist residencies, editorial collaborations with platforms like ArtReview, Flash Art, BOMB Magazine, and curatorial partnerships with Serpentine Galleries, ICA London, Kunsthalle Wien, and Fondation Beyeler. Kadist’s programming network connects with curatorial initiatives that involve Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, and Tacita Dean.
Kadist curates a collection emphasizing video, installation, and new media works alongside paintings and performance documentation from artists associated with Marina Abramović, Chris Marker, Nan Goldin, Pierre Huyghe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Hito Steyerl, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Shirin Neshat, Kehinde Wiley, Mark Bradford, Taryn Simon, Sophie Calle, Yayoi Kusama, Rosa Barba, William Kentridge, Gerhard Richter, El Anatsui, Julie Mehretu, Takashi Murakami, Do Ho Suh, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Sheila Hicks, Brice Marden, John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Matthew Barney, Doris Salcedo, Pierre Huyghe, Sherrie Levine, Thomas Hirschhorn, Danh Vo, Ghada Amer, Zarina Bhimji, Carlos Garaicoa, Tobias Rehberger. Acquisitions have been shaped through exchanges with collections at Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, M+ (museum), National Gallery of Modern Art (Paris), Guggenheim Bilbao, and private collectors linked to galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Galerie Perrotin, David Zwirner, Lisson Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, White Cube, Praz-Delavallade, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Marian Goodman Gallery, Blum & Poe, Kommune 1.
Kadist commissions artist projects and stages exhibitions that have featured collaborative platforms and guest curators associated with Chus Martínez, Omar Kholeif, Zarina Bhimji, Nadim Samman, Paul Chan, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Tania Bruguera, Raqs Media Collective, Amalia Pica, Alexandre Singh, Cao Fei, Samson Young, Walid Raad, Doris Salcedo, Lara Favaretto, Kader Attia, Shilpa Gupta, Hassan Khan, Sally Mann, Zanele Muholi, Ai Weiwei, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, and collaborations with biennales such as Lyon Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.
Kadist runs education and outreach initiatives aligned with academic and museum partners including California College of the Arts, École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Goldsmiths, University of London, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford, University of the Arts London, Royal College of Art, Sorbonne University, Yale School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, LUCA School of Arts, and community projects engaging organizations like Framer Framed, Art in General, Project Row Houses, Asian Cultural Center, Asia Art Archive, African Artists’ Foundation, Stepsi Foundation.
Kadist’s governance structure involves a board and directors who liaise with funders, donors, and institutional partners including Fondation de France, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, European Cultural Foundation, BNP Paribas Foundation, Institut Français, National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Europe, French Ministry of Culture, San Francisco Arts Commission, and private patrons connected to galleries such as Gagosian, David Zwirner, Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth.
Category:Arts organizations