Jeu de Paume
The Jeu de Paume’s ambition is to be the benchmark destination for the image. A loyal supporter of its exhibitions since 2019 and more recently of its cinema, the Louis Roederer Foundation also supports its festival, which is full of reflection, creativity and meetings.
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Snapshots of tomorrow
Entirely devoted to the image, the Jeu de Paume is one of the most internationally recognised art centres. Photography may play an essential part, but the Louis Roederer Foundation enjoys above all its loose definition of photography, in a dialogue with other disciplines such as film and video, and also with new technologies that present the image in a both historical and contemporary slant.
After supporting the Peter Hujar exhibition, the Louis Roederer Foundation sponsored MoMA’s photographic masterpieces, the Thomas Walther Collection. For the first time outside New York, this exhibition displayed iconic works from the first half of the 20th century and retraced the history of photography. The foundation was also a patron of the retrospective devoted to Julia Margaret Cameron, the pioneer of the photographic portrait.
The Louis Roederer Foundation has also supported the Jeu de Paume with off-site exhibitions at the cultural centre Le Cellier in Reims, in particular IMAGE 3.0 , which brought together original work by 17 emerging artists exploring the most recent creative digital practices.
I want to reaffirm the Jeu de Paume’s central role in the debate on the technological dimension of the image, fulfilling our ambition to accompany the major changes that are shaking up this world today. The Louis Roederer Foundation supports us in our projects that are not self-evident, a demonstration of its respect for our vision and a shared taste for nurturing talent.
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2023
Stéphane Couturier – Construire par l’image
Julia Margaret Cameron – Arresting beauty
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2022
IMAGE 3.0
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2021
Chefs-d’œuvre photographiques du MoMA. Collection Thomas Walther
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2019
Peter Hujar. Speed of Life
Sponsored exhibitions
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A new art house cinema
In 2024, the Louis Roederer Foundation chose to support the Jeu de Paume’s brand-new art house cinema, a cultural destination in the heart of Paris offering a selection of independent and research films, débuts by promising directors, and a rich programme aimed at young audiences. It was an opportunity for the Louis Roederer Foundation to screen the audiovisual work Saltation by Alexandre Cornet, winner of the 2024 Art & Science Carte Blanche project, initiated in collaboration with Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, and the film Baby, for which actor Ricardo Teodoro received the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Award at the 63rd Cannes Semaine de la Critique.
A festival dedicated to the metamorphoses of the contemporary image
As an extension of its commitment, the Louis Roederer Foundation also supports the Jeu de Paume festival. Encouraging participative encounters, the festival becomes a living, evolving space where everyone plays a role in their own experience, recalling the very vocation of an art centre. The festival is also an opportunity to commission works by young international artists.
After “Fata Morgana” in 2022, in 2023 the Jeu de Paume unveiled the second edition of its festival with “Paysages mouvants” (“Moving landscapes”). It combined an exhibition, performances, screenings and workshops with artists and a document.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on natural spaces and new imaginary worlds. It features works by 15 artists from today’s art scene, most of whom have never been seen before because they have been specially curated for this event. Among them are two artists close to the Louis Roederer Foundation: Mónica de Miranda, finalist for the 2024 Thinking Sustainability Prize and Mounir Ayache, Villa Medici resident in 2022-2023.
