News about the collection

The Foundation loans works from its collection to exhibitions all around the world. The Foundation also organizes exhibitions from its collection and co-organizes theme exhibitions.

The Foundation is particularly keen to encourage encounters between contemporary art and the art of Giacometti.

Loan requests must be addressed to :
Mrs. Véronique Wiesinger
Director of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti
8 rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare
75003 Paris

The Foundation doesn't accept governmental amend for its loans and exhibitions.

 

CURRENT EXHIBITION

"Jean Genet, Act 1",

The Foundation lends 10 works from its collection (sculptures, drawings, decorative arts, photographs) to Nottingham Contemporary, England.

From July 16 to October 2, 2011.

 

"L’Invention de l’œuvre, Rodin et les ambassadeurs",

The Foundation lends 2 works from its collection (2 sculptures) to the Musée Rodin, Paris.

From May 6 to September 4, 2011.

 

" Der Ursprung des Raumes " (Alberto Giacometti. The origin of Space),

The Foundation lends 40 major works from its collection in Austria.

 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg from November 20th, 2010 till March 6th, 2011, 

Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, from March 26 till July 3.

 

"Giacometti in Switzerland",

Exceptional loan from the Foundation for the opening of the Gagosian gallery in Geneva.

was held from November 18 , 2010 to March 5 2011.

 

 

LONG TERM LOANS
 

Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), from April 6, 2010 to April 5, 2012.
For the reopening of the 5th floor of the in Paris, the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti lends 9 works of art (7 sculptures and 2 paintings).

 

La Villa Noailles et le mécénat de Charles et Marie-Laure de Noailles (Hyères), from July 2, 2010 to October 31, 2011.
The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti lends 11 works of art (7 sculptures, 2 drawings and 2 decorative arts).

 

Musée d’art Moderne de Lille Métropole, from September 23, 2010 to August 31, 2011.
For the reopening, the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti lends two sculptures. 

 

 

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

 

2007

"L’Atelier d’Alberto Giacometti. Collections de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti",

Co-organized by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti and the Centre Georges Pompidou,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, October 18, 2007 – February 11, 2008.


"Alberto Giacometti. Estampes rares de la Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti",

Co-organized by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, site Richelieu, Paris, France, October 19, 2007 – January 13, 2008.

 

2008

"Isabel and other Intimate Strangers. Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon",

Co-organized by the Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA, November 2 – December 13, 2008.


"Alberto Giacometti",
Co-organized by the Kunsthal Museum of Rotterdam, Holland , October 18, 2008 – February 8, 2009.

"En perspective, Giacometti",
Co-organized by the Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, France, May 17– August 31, 2008.

 

2010
"Alberto Giacometti : La Femme au chariot",
Co-organized by the Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum-Zentrum, Duisburg, Germany, January 31 – April 18, 2010.


"Daniel Buren-Alberto Giacometti. Œuvres contemporaines 1964-1966",
Co-organized by the Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France April 29 – June 26 2010.

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS

 

- Exhibitions organized by the Foundation.

- Outside loans.

 

LONG TERM LOANS

- List of the Foundation's long term loans (2005-2011).

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