Lafayette Anticipations
Lafayette Anticipations is a general
interest foundation structured around its production activities and support
provided to contemporary creation. The Foundation acts as a catalyser,
providing artists unique, made-to-measure conditions in which to produce,
experiment and exhibit.
Since its opening on 10 March 2018, the Foundation
has been the first multidisciplinary centre of its kind in France. In its 19th
century building situated in the heart of the Marais and renovated by OMA, Rem
Koolhaas’s architecture firm, the public discovers a curatorial machine in
which new pieces produced by international creators—stemming from the fields of
contemporary art, design and fashion—are presented.
Throughout the building’s renovation from
2013 to 2017, Lafayette Anticipations explored the Foundation’s evolving
identity during artist-in-residence programmes, workshops, partnerships and
direct support for the production of pieces.
Lafayette Anticipations also supports
contemporary creation through the Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin. Established
in 2013, this endowment fund implements initiatives to support general interest
artistic projects, while pursuing a policy of acquisition and enhancement of
its art collection.