Le Quai is the space for contemporary art and design inaugurated by Silvia Fiorucci in Monaco. Its name is an homage to the place that houses it, a large open space inside a building facing Monaco’s suggestive port. Once the headquarters of the Fondation Folon, Le Quai is conceived as a place of experimentation through which to enter into relationship with art, design and the whole universe of theoretical and practical knowledge that revolves around contemporary creative production. An exhibition space, in the first instance, Le Quai will also encompass a library and a space dedicated to talks and workshops characterized by an innovative, multidisciplinary approach.
Intended to spark a constructive dialogue between creativity and scholarship, Le Quai is a true creative office that will produce exhibitions, publications, artists’ editions and events. The program anticipates three exhibitions annually, alongside collateral events with which the space intends to become part of Monaco’s cultural panorama, in dialogue with local institutions as well as with the region’s history. For the second exhibition, movable walls designed specifically for Julien Carreyn’s exhibition were created to accommodate the artist’s rich body of work.