The Fondation Cartier and The New Role of Contemporary Art Museums: New Architectures for Paris and New York

Paris-based curator, Béatrice Grenier, will discuss the project of the new Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain: an exciting new venue for contemporary art in the center of Paris, next to the Louvre. She will be in conversation with Shohei Shigematsu, OMA Partner and architect of the New Museum’s imminent expansion in New York.

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Panelists

Béatrice Grenier is a Paris-based curator, writer and editor. She is currently the Director of Strategic Projects at the Fondation Cartier where she is curating an exhibition on the architecture of Jean Nouvel as part of the collateral program of the XIX Venice Architecture Biennale. She was appointed co-curator of the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Cartier’s new headquarters at Palais-Royal, opening in 2025. In 2024, she was a contributor to “Metropolitan Nature”, the Mondrian Initiative annual residence where she co-curated, together with Emanuele Coccia “On Modernity” a series of conversations with internationally acclaimed architects published in e-flux’s Index series (2025). At the University of Toronto, Beatrice is currently collaborating with Professor Aziza Chaouni on a research project about expanding heritage in the UNESCO world heritage city of StoneTown, Tanzania. Beatrice is the author of Tashkent: A Modernist Capital (Rizzoli), Infinite Memory (ed.) (Lenz Press). She is the Paris desk editor of ArtAsiaPacific and a regular contributor to contemporary art and architecture publications such as Domus, Pin-Up and the Journal of Curatorial Studies. Prior to her current role, Beatrice was based in New York where she worked with internationally acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang to realize large-scale public art projects.

Shohei Shigematsu is a Partner at OMA based in New York. Sho’s projects in the arts include the AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and a new building for the New Museum in New York, currently under construction. He has designed several cultural venues such as the Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles, Sotheby’s Headquarters in New York, Faena Forum in Miami, and has also collaborated with various artists including Marina Abramović, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Taryn Simon. In addition to cultural buildings, he has worked with fashion brands and museums on major exhibition designs, including Louis Vuitton Visionary Journeys in Bangkok; Dior retrospectives in Denver, Dallas, and Tokyo; Prada Waist Down in Tokyo, Seoul, New York, and Los Angeles; and Manus x Machina at the Met Costume Institute.