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Large Opens on Île Seguin With a Focus on French Art in All Its Forms

The nonprofit center backed by collector Laurent Dumas anchors a mixed-use district on Île Seguin with commissions, accessible spaces and family programming. Its inaugural show pairs historic pieces loaned by the Fonds Renault pour l'Art et la Culture with 17 new works by artists including Théo Mercier and Bianca Bondi.

In the expanding Parisian art ecosystem, a new art center has opened in time for Art Basel Paris. Located just beyond the City of Light, Large welcomed its first visitors on October 17, anchoring a new cultural district on Île Seguin in Greater Paris and becoming a fresh point of reference for French contemporary artists. Housed in a landmark building designed by RCR Arquitectes (winners of the 2017 Pritzker Prize) and CALQ, Large has links to Groupe Emerige and its CEO and founder, French collector Laurent Dumas, though when we met in advance of the opening, director Paula Aisemberg was quick to clarify that Large is a French nonprofit association, not a corporate foundation. “We are an art center with a hybrid model,” she told Observer. “We are not simply an extension of Groupe Emerige. We are independent of it while receiving its support.”

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An art historian and curator, Aisemberg is director of artistic projects at Emerige after having run La Maison Rouge, the Parisian contemporary art foundation, for 17 years. She is also president of the Trampoline organization, vice president of the Jeu de Paume and a board member of POUSH and the Fonds de dotation Christian Boltanski.

Large’s primary mission is to support and promote French art in all its diversity, from emerging practices to........

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