Institut Giacometti

The Institut Giacometti is the place of reference in Paris dedicated to the work of Alberto Giacometti. Located in the 14th arrondissement, the Institut Giacometti essentially presents to the public the collection of the Fondation Giacometti, universal legatee of the artist's wife Annette Giacometti. As such, it has the world's largest collection of works by Alberto Giacometti, including sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and objects by the artist.
Like Alberto Giacometti, who chose to live from his arrival in Paris in 1922 until his death in 1966 in the Montparnasse des Artistes, the Institut Giacometti welcomes the public in the heart of this historic district, at 5 rue Victor Schœlcher. At this address, in a classified former private mansion by the artist-decorator Paul Follot, the Art Deco and Art Nouveau decorations have been completely preserved, restored and refurbished. Since 2018, the Institut Giacometti has been inviting visitors to discover the artist's work in an atypical place, like a collector's house on a human scale.
The Institut Giacometti has a permanent display of the artist's studio, in which every element, furniture, painted walls, personal objects and works never before exhibited have been carefully preserved by Annette Giacometti. On the other hand and throughout the year, a programme of temporary exhibitions offers a new vision of Giacometti's work, bringing together literary or little-known themes, his friends artists and writers of his day, but also his contemporaries.
The Institut Giacometti is also a meeting place with its research programme in art history, the School of modernities and its series of online and in-person lectures. On site, a library enables researchers to consult, by appointment, the books - sometimes personal - of Alberto Giacometti. The Giacometti LAB offers educational workshops for the young and older, as well as courses in drawing and art history.