Fondation Carmignac

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Fondation Carmignac

Location within Paris
Established	2000
Location	24 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
Coordinates	48°51′37″N 2°20′15″E / 48.860339°N 2.337599°E / 48.860339; 2.337599
Type	contemporary art,
Director	Charles Carmignac
Website	www.fondation-carmignac.com

Founded in 2000 by Édouard Carmignac and led by Charles Carmignac, the Fondation Carmignac is a corporate foundation that supports contemporary artists through the creation of an international collection, the annual Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism award and the Foundation project open to the public on the preserved site of Porquerolles, Var, France.

History of the collection[]

Originally centred on Pop Art and the Expressionist German School, the Carmignac corporate collection has more than 250 works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including work by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Martial Raysse, Zhang Huan, Korakrit Ayunanondchaï, Richard Prince or Sterling Ruby.

The collection is on display at Carmignac Gestion's headquarters in Paris, and offices in London, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Zurich.

The Carmignac Photojournalism Award[]

Created in 2009, and directed by , the Carmignac Photojournalism Award supports each year the production of an investigative photographic report on a region of the world where fundamental rights are threatened. Endowed with a €50,000 research grant, the laureate carries out their reportage with the support of the Foundation which organises, upon their return, a travelling exhibition and the publication of a monograph.

In 2016, the Photojournalism Award retrospective 2009–2015 at Saatchi Gallery was the most visited photojournalism exhibition (Source: The Art Newspaper).

In 2016, the 7th laureate, the photojournalist Narciso Contreras, brought back the first proofs of slavery in Libya.^[1][2][3]

Past winners:

• 2009 :  [de], Gaza : The Book of Destruction
• 2010 : Massimo Berruti, Pashtunistan : Lashkars
• 2011 : Robin Hammond, Zimbabwe : Your wounds will be named silence
• 2012 : Davide Monteleone, Chechnya : Spasibo
• 2013 : Newsha Tavakolian, Iran : Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album
• 2014 : Christophe Gin, French Guiana : Colony
• 2015 : Narciso Contreras, Libya: A Human Marketplace
• 2016 :  [fr], The trap - Trafficking of women in Nepal
• 2017 : & , Arctic: New Frontier (chaired by climatologist Jean Jouzel, co-laureate of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize)
• 2018 : , Amazônia (chaired by Yolanda Kakabadse, former president of WWF)
• 2019 : The 11th edition is dedicated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Porquerolles project[]

The Foundation has plans to open new premises in 2016 on the island of Porquerolles (Var, France), in the heart of the Port-Cros National Park. The site will be open to the public and will show temporary exhibitions and artworks which will be created in situ for the museum and sculpture park.

The change of use for the existing building, a Provençal country house that is typical of the local architecture, requires a re-design which will be conducted by architect GMAA. The Carmignac Foundation commissioned landscape architect Louis Benech for the design of the gardens.

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