"The architectural project for the institution reinvents the 19th-century Grands Magasins du Louvre as a mobile organism. Exposition Générale, the inaugural exhibition, designed by Formafantasma, brings together over 600 works by more than 100 artists, including David Lynch, Claudia Andujar, Sarah Sze, Cai Guo-Qiang, Junya Ishigami, Giuseppe Penone, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro to map forty years of contemporary creation through a scenography that reactivates the very notion of what a museum can be."
"Inside the historic Haussmannian shell, French architect Jean Nouvel strips the structure back to its core, carving out vast, transparent voids where light and movement orchestrate the experience. Five monumental steel platforms, each a stage of 250 square meters and 250 tons, rise and fall on command, suspended by a cable-and-pulley system engineered in collaboration with specialists in bridge and theater design. These movable floors allow for infinite reconfigurations, forming an ever-changing topography of spaces that can expand, contract, or vanish entirely."
The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain opens at 2 Place du Palais-Royal in Paris on October 25, 2025, in a Jean Nouvel–designed building. The design transforms the 19th-century Grands Magasins du Louvre into a mobile organism by stripping the shell to create transparent voids and introducing five monumental movable steel platforms. Each platform measures 250 square meters and weighs 250 tons, rising and falling via a cable-and-pulley system engineered with bridge and theater specialists to allow infinite reconfigurations. The inaugural exhibition Exposition Générale, designed by Formafantasma, assembles over 600 works by more than 100 artists to map forty years of contemporary creation.
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