The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel

On the occasion of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini the new architecture of its future building designed by Jean Nouvel in The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain by Jean Nouvel. This grounbreaking exhibition, part of the Collateral Events of the Biennale, will run from May 10 to September 14, 2025.
Since its creation, the Fondation Cartier has placed architecture at the heart of its programming and used it as a way to foster cross-disciplinary creative dialogue. Its current building designed by renowned architect Jean Nouvel and inaugurated in 1994 on Boulevard Raspail, Paris, broke all conventions of exhibition making by its apparent immateriality as a glass cube.
Thirty years later, the Fondation Cartier commissioned to Jean Nouvel a new building set to open late 2025 at the Place du Palais Royal, Paris, next to the Louvre. Pushing the boundaries of architectural design, it embodies the Fondation’s mission to engage all forms of contemporary creation.
The exhibition presented by the Fondation Cartier at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini unveils the innovative design concepts of this new landmark building and explores the future of architecture through its lenses.

It draws inspiration from Nouvel’s critical text, written in 1980: The future of architecture is no longer architectural. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
by Jean Nouvel revisits this statement and restages the architect’s contextual approach, consisting in creating spaces that are not merely buildings but cultural and intellectual environments, in an architecture that transcends boundaries. In his project for the Fondation Cartier’s new space, architecture becomes a platform for the broader spectrum of human intelligence, including the visual arts, philosophy, and technology, in echo with the Biennale’s central theme, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.