Pinault Collection

Pinault Collection is the structure holding the artistic and cultural assets of the French businessman François Pinault. It manages the art collection of the Pinault family, its exhibition sites, institutional and cultural partnerships, art loans, and artist-in-residence programs.

Pinault Collection
IndustryArt
Founded1999
FounderFrançois Pinault
Headquarters
Paris
,
Fance
Services
  • Private art collection
  • Management of exhibition sites
  • Artwork loans
  • Cultural partnerships
ParentGroupe Artémis

Exhibition sites

Venice

Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi.
See also: Palazzo Grassi

In 2005, François Pinault bought the Palazzo Grassi from the Fiat Group. This Venetian complex is composed of two distinct buildings, a historical palazzo built along the Grand Canal during the 18th century, and an old theater in ruins, the Teatrino.[1] In 2006, Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando was commissioned with the Palazzo's renovation. That same year, the new Palazzo Grassi was inaugurated with an exhibition of artwork from the Pinault Collection.[2]

Punta della Dogana
Punta della Dogana.
See also: Punta della Dogana

One year after the Palazzo Grassi opening, the Venice city council organized a competition to convert the 16th century custom house Punta della Dogana into a contemporary art museum. François Pinault won the competition over the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Pinault enlisted Tadao Ando once again for renovations, as the building had been abandoned for over 30 years.[3][4]

The new museum boasts a 54,000 square feet exhibition area and was inaugurated in 2009.[5]

Teatrino

Following the Palazzo Grassi (2006), and Punta della Dogana (2009) restorations, Pinault's cultural project for Venice continued with the rehabilitation of the Palazzo Grassi's Teatrino. Completed in 2013 and led by Tadao Ando, the project included a new auditorium of 200+ seats. The Teatrino had been closed to the public since 1983.[6][7]

Paris

Bourse de Commerce
Bourse de commerce.
See also: Bourse de commerce (Paris)

In April 2016, François Pinault and the Council of Paris announced plans to convert the city's landmark building Bourse de Commerce into a contemporary art museum.[8] The renovation project reportedly cost over 100 million euros. The museum will host around 10 exhibitions per year.[9] According to François Pinault, the new museum will work in coordination with its Venetian sisters.[10] Collaborations with other Parisian art institutions are also planned.[11]

François Pinault entrusted Tadao Ando again for this renovation. He teamed up with Pierre-Antoine Gatier (architect-in-chief of the French National Heritage), as well as Lucy Niney and Thibault Marca of NeM agency, and Setec Bâtiment for the engineering of the project.[12] The façades, the roof and the circular painting in the building's dome were rehabilitated.[13]

A 30-feet high and 100-feet in diameter concrete cylinder built beneath the central cupula serves as the main exhibition gallery, a "building within a building".[11] The project covers a 32,000 square feet modular exhibition surface and a restaurant on the 3rd floor.[14] The French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec were entrusted with the museum's interior and exterior furnishings.[15]

Onsite and offsite exhibitions

The Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana in Venice have been Pinault Collection's main exhibition sites since 2006. Pinault Collection pieces have been presented outside of the Pinault's museums thanks to a blue-chip artwork loan program available to both French and international art institutions, along with exhibitions offsite in different cities.[16]

StartEndPlaceNameNotes
April 2006October 2006Palazzo GrassiWhere are we going?[2]First official exhibition of the Pinault Collection.
November 2006March 2007Palazzo GrassiPicasso, la joie de vivre, 1945-48[17]Partnership with the Musée Picasso in Antibes.
20072007Lille (France)Passage of Time[18]
June 2009April 2011Palazzo Grassi
Punta della Dogana		Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection[19]
20092009Garage Museum (Moscow, Russia)A state of the world?[20]
20112011Seoul (South Korea)Agony and Ecstasy[21]
May 2013February 2015Punta della DoganaPrima Materia[22]Curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan.
20142014Grimaldi Forum (Monaco)ArtLovers: Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection[23]
20162016Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)Dancing with Myself[24]by Urs Fischer.
20172017Fotografiska (Stockholm, Sweden)Resonance[25]
April 2017December 2017Palazzo Grassi
Punta della Dogana		Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable[26]by Damien Hirst.
20182018Couvent des Jacobins - Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes, France)Debout[27]
April 2018January 2019Palazzo GrassiCows by the water[28]by Albert Oehlen.
March 2019December 2019Punta della DoganaLuogo e Segni[29]Curated by Mouna Mekouar and Martin Bethenod.
20192019Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (France)So British![30]
March 2019January 2020Palazzo GrassiLa Pelleby Luc Tuymans.

Other activities

Artist-in-residence program

At the end of 2015, the first Pinault Collection artist-in-residence program was set up in Lens, a former mining city in the North of France where the Louvre opened a local branch known as the Louvre-Lens.[31] An old rectory was chosen for conversion into the main residency building. NeM Architectes designed and led this operation.[32] Six international artists went through the program:

  • Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson (2015/2016)[33]
  • Edith Dekyndt (2016/2017)[34]
  • Lucas Arruda (2017/2018)[35]
  • Hicham Berrada (2018/2019)[36]
  • Bertille Bak (2019/2020)[37]

Pierre Daix Artbook Prize

François Pinault created the Pierre Daix Artbook Prize in 2015, honoring his late friend, writer and Picasso's biographer Pierre Daix. The Pinault Collection awards yearly one outstanding book on modern and contemporary art history with 10 000 euros.[38] Previous winners were:

  • 2019: Rémi Labrousse, Préhistoire, l'envers du temps.[39]
  • 2018: Pierre Wat, Pérégrinations. Paysages entre nature et histoire.[40]
  • 2017: Élisabeth Lebovici, Ce que le sida m'a fait - Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle.[41]
  • 2016: Maurice Fréchuret, Effacer. Paradoxe d'un geste artistique.[16]
  • 2015: Yve-Alain Bois, Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture, Volume One, 1940–1953
    Marie-Anne Lescourret for Aby Warburg ou la tentation du regard.[38]

Revue Pinault Collection

First edited in 2013, the Revue Pinault Collection is a bi-annual magazine compiling all of the activities of Pinault Collection in Venice, Paris and the rest of the world.[16]

Pinault Collection is a private company held by Pinault's Groupe Artémis. François Pinault is the President.[16]

The Venetian sites (Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Teatrino) are held and managed by Palazzo Grassi S.p.A. The city of Venice holds a non-controlling stake of Palazzo Grassi S.p.A and is a member of the board.[42]

As of 2019, the collection contained 5,000 pieces of 20th and 21st century artists, including works from Willem de Kooning, Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Cy Twombly, and Cindy Sherman.[43]

References
  1. Paul Laster, Venice's Contemporary Masterpiece, Theailybeast.com, 4 July 2009
  2. The Palazzo Grassi Presents "Where Are We Going?", Artdaily.cc, 7 September 2006
  3. Alan Riding, Guggenheim Passed Over for New Venice Museum, Nytimes.com, 7 April 2007
  4. Jason Burke, French tycoon wins battle for Venice's modern art gem, Theguardian.com, 15 April 2007
  5. Punta della Dogana contemporary art centre, Tadao Ando, Venice, 2009, Floornature.com, 1 July 2009
  6. Amy Fearson, The Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi by Tadao Ando, Deezen.com, 14 October 2013
  7. Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Domusweb.it, 16 October 2013
  8. Guy Martin, The Power of Art: François Pinault's $1.2 Billion-Collection Finds a Home in Paris, Forbes.com, 29 April 2016
  9. David Bensoussan, François Pinault's New $170 Million Art Museum Finally Has an Opening Date. Here's a Sneak Peek Inside the Breathtaking Space, Artnet.com, 11 October 2019
  10. (in French) Harry Bellet, François Pinault : « Un musée ne peut être un lieu où on se contente de montrer », Lemonde.fr, 27 April 2016
  11. Farah Nayeri, Paris Is Getting a New Museum. Here’s a Sneak Peek, Nytimes.com, 25 April 2019
  12. Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Editorial, Revuepinaultcollection.com, October 2019
  13. Gareth Harris, Virtual reality tour offers glimpse of François Pinault’s long-awaited, grand Paris gallery, Theartnewspaper.com, 13 May 2019
  14. Philip Stevens, Tadao Ando to transform Paris' historic stock exchange into art museum for François Pinault, Designboom.com, 30 June 2017
  15. Stéphanie Hussonnois-Bouhayati, Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec, Revuepinaultcollection.com, October 2019
  16. Art, Groupeartemis.com
  17. "Picasso, la Joie de Vivre, 1945-1948", VeniceWorld.com
  18. Jennifer Allen, Jennifer Allen at the opening of “Passage du Temps” in Lille Lille, France, Artforum.com, 20 October 2007
  19. "Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection" Punta Della Dogana & Palazzo Grassi, Claudinecollin.com
  20. Maurizio Kattelan, Collection Francois Pinault in Moscow, Artinvestment.ru, 20 March 2009
  21. François Pinault Collection enchants Asia Seoul, Flash---art.com, 5 September 2011
  22. (in Italian) Jacqueline Ceresoli, Punta della Dogana e delle meraviglie, Exibart.com, 20 June 2013
  23. 'ArtLovers: Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection' opens at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Artdaily.cc
  24. Urs Fischer Biography, Ursfischer.com
  25. Resonance – Photographs from the Pinault Collection, Artlimited.net, 17 June 2017
  26. Laura Cumming, Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable review – beautiful and monstrous, Theguardian.com, 16 April 2017
  27. Collection Pinault contemporary art exhibition in Rennes, Destination Rennes, Tourisme-rennes.com
  28. Albert Oehlen “Cows by the Water” at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Moussemagazine.it, 2018
  29. Balasz Takac, An Itinerary Through Inner Geography - Luogo e Segni at Punta della Dogana, Widewalls.ch, 31 March 2019
  30. Sylvain Amic, So British!, Revuepinaultcollection.com, October 2019
  31. Louvre goes Lens – and Pinault follows, Bmw-art-guide.com
  32. Majority shareholder of Christie’s concentrates on Lens, Zamou-art.com, 15 October 2014
  33. Former Residents / Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson (2015), Fieldworkmarfa.org, October 2015
  34. Edith Dekyndt, Belgianartprize.be, 2017
  35. Last days to see Lucas Arruda in "Luogo i Segni", Pipaprize.com, 3 December 2019
  36. Céline Doussard, Hicham Berrada, Revuepinaultcollection.com, October 2019
  37. Pascale Pronnier, Bertille Bak, Revuepinaultcollection.com , October 2019
  38. Robin Scher, Inaugural Winners of Pierre Daix Art Book Prize Announced, Artnews.com, 24 November 2015
  39. (in French) Valérie Duponchelle, Préhistoire, l’envers du temps remporte le prix Pierre-Daix 2019, Lefigaro.fr, 2 December 2019
  40. Nominees for the 2019 Pierre Daix Art Book Prize Announced, Art-critique.com, 14 July 2019
  41. Élisabeth Lebovici wins 2017 Pierre Daix Prize, Artforum.com, 11 December 2017
  42. Gregory Volk, Pinault's value based initiative, Artnews.com, 18 September 2009
  43. Vicky Ward, François Pinault's ultimate luxury, Vanityfair.com, 26 November 2007
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