Conversation: The New Fondation Giacometti Building
November 13 @ 11:00am – 12:00pm
Join curator Émilie Bouvard and Hank Hine, executive director of The Dalí Museum, in conversation as they discuss the Fondation Giacometti’s new home: the historic Esplanade des Invalides building. Opening in 2026, it will become the Giacometti Museum and School, a groundbreaking institution. Designed by internationally renowned architect Dominique Perrault, the 6,000 m² space will house the world’s largest collection of Giacometti’s work—nearly 10,000 pieces most never before on public display.
This ambitious project will bring together a museum, multidisciplinary exhibition spaces and an innovative art school open to all, creating a dynamic hub for dialogue between the public, artists and creative expression in the heart of Paris. This conversation offers The Dalí Museum community much to consider as we look ahead to our own expansion in the coming years.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater
This event is free with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry.
Gallery access is not included.
Dr. Hank Hine
Executive Director at The Dalí
Hank joined The Dalí in 2002 and was instrumental in implementing the creation of the new building. He earned his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees at Brown University. He has extensive experience with contemporary artists and writers and the intersection of media in the current cultural milieu. Dr. Hine was founder and director of Limestone Press and Hine Editions, a San Francisco publishing house specializing in artist books and the production of museum catalogs. He served for seven years as Director of the research and publishing institute GraphicStudio at the University of South Florida in Tampa before joining The Dalí. A writer and educator, Dr. Hine’s publications include text and image relationships, contemporary art, and the opportunities of new media.
Émilie Bouvard
Émilie Bouvard is an art historian and curator of French Art Heritage and Culture (Conservateur du Patrimoine). In 2007, she supported a thesis at the University of Paris entitled “Violence de l’art des femmes, 1958-1978. Surréalisme, psychanalyse et féminisme”, focusing on Louise Bourgeois. She was curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris from 2013 to 2019 where she was, among others, the (co-)curator of the exhibitions “Guernica” and “Picasso. Chefs d’oeuvre !” (2018) and the scientific coordinator of “Picasso-Méditerranée”. She is currently the scientific and collections director of the Giacometti Foundation in Paris for which she curated the exhibition “Alberto Giacometti. Le réel merveilleux” (Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2021) or “What meets the eye. Alberto Giacometti and phenomenology” (National Gallery, Copenhagen, 2024). At the Institut Giacometti, she inaugurated an exhibition on the artist Barbara Chase-Riboud for the Institut Giacometti (autumn 2021), “Alberto Giacometti / Salvador Dalí. Garden of Dreams” (winter 2022) or “Beauvoir, Sartre, Giacmetti. Vertigiousness of the Absolute” (summer 2025).
She is in charge of following the future Fondation Giacometti museum architectural, artistic and scientific programme.
