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About
The foundation functions as a multidisciplinary cultural hub dedicated to contemporary creation, supporting emerging and established artists through exhibitions, performance installations, and long-term residency programs. Its programme emphasizes experimental formats, transgenerational works, and inclusive access, offering free admission to engage a broad public with current artistic practices.
Lafayette Anticipations is a public foundation located at 9 rue du Plâtre in Paris, France, operating under the auspices of Galeries Lafayette. The venue presents contemporary art exhibitions, performances, and festivals, such as the Échelle Humaine Festival, alongside artist residencies like Hors Cadre. It offers free entry to its exhibitions and provides educational programs including guided visits and workshops for families and groups.
Exhibitions
Current and upcoming shows at Lafayette Anticipations.
Visit
Hours, tickets, and directions for Lafayette Anticipations.
Address
9 rue du Plâtre, 75004 Paris
People
Artists
Artists associated with the museum's collection and programme.
Yu Nishimura
Yu Nishimura (born 1982) is a Japanese painter. Working in oil and tempera, he builds his images from superimposed, slightly offset layers of outline and colour, producing blurred, dreamlike portraits, landscapes and urban scenes that draw on everyday sources such as street photography, anime and the landscapes and built environments of Japan. His understanding of the 'portrait' extends beyond the human figure to animals, cars and elements of landscape. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues including Lafayette Anticipations and Crèvecœur in Paris, David Zwirner in New York, Sadie Coles HQ in London, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan.
Hélène Fauquet
Hélène Fauquet is an artist whose work moves between ornamental forms and a conceptual dimension bordering on Surrealism, exploring decoration and art, nature and artifice, history and the present. Her practice focuses on the residues of photography and the movement of images: in her sculptures, photographs are obscured by shells and set in extravagant frames, and since 2023 she has worked with the motif of the bubble, drawn from advertising, scientific photography and domestic trinkets. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Kunsthaus Glarus (2023), Kunstverein Nürnberg (2019), Édouard Montassut, Paris, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, and Rodeo, London. Vivresse at Lafayette Anticipations (2026–27) is her first institutional exhibition in France.
Mungo Thomson
Mungo Thomson (born 1969) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. His wide-ranging, often serial practice spans film, sound, sculpture, photography, installation, drawings and books, engaging with mass culture, everyday perception, representation and cosmology. Working with cultural signs and analogue materials, he repurposes them into immersive optical and kinetic experiences, in a manner often placed within the tradition of West Coast conceptual art. His work is held in collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA and the Walker Art Center, and recent solo exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Aspen Art Museum and Karma, New York. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025.