Museum dedicated to Giacometti to open in Paris in 2026 – ARTnews.com

Fondation Giacometti plans to open a museum dedicated to artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti in Paris in 2026. The museum, which will include a school and provide a permanent home for several hundred works by the artist, will occupy the former Invalides train station and basement of the park.

Aside from Giacometti’s well-known bronze sculptures, the museum will also display drawings, paintings, and decorative objects, “most of which are not currently available to the public,” said Catherine Grenier, director of the Giacometti Foundation, Tell French press agency. She added that there would also be “exhibitions of modern and contemporary art connected to the spirit of Giacometti”.

Invalides Train Station was built in 1900 for the Paris Exposition and is currently under renovation by the city. The new museum and school will occupy 64,600 square feet of space in the train station and its underground annexes.

Giacometti was born in Switzerland in 1901 and moved to Paris in 1922, where he gained fame as one of the most prominent surrealist sculptors. The reconstruction of the artist’s studio will be transferred to the museum from his current home at the Giacometti Institute, which is also located in Paris.

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