For almost 50 years, with passion and dedication, François Pinault has amassed a contemporary art collection that is one of the largest in the world. The Pinault Collection brings together around 10.000 modern and contemporary works. The major ensemble is on display through exhibitions in Pinault Collection museum, as well as through loans and events outside the walls in France and abroad.

The collection brings together the works of all generations of artists, emerging talents and recognized names, coming from a wide range of cultures and origins. It is also a manifesto of the diversity of themes that underline and inspire the art of our time, in particular the often highly committed approaches to political, social, and racial and gender issues. The collection is presented to the public through hangings and exhibitions that are regularly renewed in the various museums of the Pinault Collection, and through exceptional loans and a program of off-site events in partner institutions, both in France and abroad.

Begun in 2006, in Venice, with the inauguration of the Palazzo Grassi, followed in 2009, with the opening of the Punta della Dogana and the Teatrino, François Pinault added to his cultural project with the development of an artist residency program in Lens in 2013, and the creation of a prize dedicated to art history – the Pierre Daix Prize. Furthermore, an active policy of loans and off-site exhibitions has been in place since 2007, in collaboration with a network of regional and international museums. The opening of the Bourse de Commerce is a new step towards François Pinault’s mission of sharing art with the public.