Opening, les réserves

New home in Romainville for the frac île-de-france reserve collection!

 

The frac île-de-france will benefit from a new home for its reserve collection from December 2020. A new 2000 m² building has been bought to host the Frac collection by the Île-de-France region in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, at the heart of a site in Romainville, invested in by the Fiminco Foundation.

The frac île-de-france will have new amenities in Romainville, the final component of its multi-site, three-pronged project: Le Plateau in Paris dedicated to production; the Château in Rentilly for regularly exhibiting the collection of the Frac and guest collections; Romainville for optimum conservation of the reserve collection. Through these three locations, each with different audiences, the frac operates at the heart of the Paris region, within the inner and outer suburbs, while continuing its off-site diffusion programme through its collection boasting over 1600 works.

In Romainville, beyond the function of storage, the collection and backstage will be presented in a different light. Mediation activities will be initiated around works and professions and roles related to the collection regarding conservation, restoration and circulation.
Almost a quarter of the spaces in the building will be made accessible to the public, an unprecedented proportion in a venue whose main function is the storage and conservation of works.

The reserve collection will be housed in a new building within this new contemporary art hub in eastern Paris : Komunuma.
Komunuma, «community» or «commune» in Esperanto, the language of sharing, is the name of a site of nearly 11,000 square meters in Romainville, renovated by Fondation Fiminco, where four Parisian galleries have set up in 2019. (Air de Paris, Fabienne Leclerc, Vincent Sator, Jocelyn Wolff).

The site, a former industrial site of the 20th century located near the «Bobigny-Pantin-Raymond Queneau» station, restored by FREAKS, an architectural firm based in Paris, will house a series of galleries, a café, an artists’ residence, as well as exhibition spaces.

In 2020, alongside contemporary art galleries, the Fiminco Foundation wiil open an artist residency and exhibition program and Jeune Création will organize exhibitions with emerging artists.

Komunuma opened its doors in October last year with the inauguration of the new spaces of the galleries. For this opening, the  frac île-de-france, les réserves (Prélude)  presented an installation by the artist Michel Blazy, Sculpcure : bar à oranges, 2009 (Frac Ile-de-France collection), shown at the Plateau for his solo exhibition,Le Grand Restaurant in 2012.

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Komunuma
43 rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville