Exposition générale: Fondation Cartier – Paris

Organised around four main elements that are present throughout the Collection, the Exposition Générale presents the diversity of the institution's artistic commitments. It starts with an architectural laboratory (Machines d’Architecture) where models, drawings, fragments, and installations, in dialogue with the urban environment, demonstrate a variety of approaches to and critical adaptations of architecture. Composing a reinvented town, these shapes mingle with living worlds that invite the onlooker to query the role of the institution in conserving endangered ecosystems and the limits of anthropocentrism (Être Nature). The exhibition also explores creation as a space for experimentation and breaking down barriers, showing how new interactions between art, crafts, and design rejuvenate plastic art forms (Making Things). Finally, it is also a stage for artistic expression, combining technology, fiction, and scientific knowledge, which establishes other ways of interpreting and experiencing the world (Un Monde Réel). In addition to these themed exhibitions, adjacent presentations reveal the individual or collaborative paths and approaches of some of the key artists in the collection. 

The Exposition Générale weaves human and non-human forms and cultures, as well as techniques and artistic forms of expression that are liberated from the traditional hierarchy of fine arts. In doing so, it draws a new map of contemporary creation that breaks away from conventional museum compendiums, bringing new life and purpose to the institution's function as a public space for experimentation and the production of new knowledge.