The Foundation's programmes | Fondation d'entreprise Hermès

Create

- Latitudes
  
  An international programme supporting photography
  
  Reorienting our gaze, exploring new territories, and transcending borders: contemporary photography is a powerful force that helps us discover our world anew. In a society saturated with images, it is increasingly important to support those who undertake deep and intensive work to offer original points of view. This is why the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès is reinforcing its support for contemporary photography by launching the Latitudes programme, which each year will enable a photographer to produce an original series of work.
- Transforme
  
  an itinerant festival dedicated to the performing arts
  
  In 2023, the New Settings programme becomes Transforme, a touring festival created by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in partnership with four theatres in Paris, Lyon, Rennes and Clermont-Ferrand. This new format will foreground works that galvanise both performing artists and audiences, with a multidisciplinary programme in touch with our world today.
- The Foundation’s exhibitions
  
  Four spaces dedicated to contemporary art
  
  Ever since its creation, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has provided long-term support for the visual arts through an ambitious programme of exhibitions conceived by renowned curators attentive to both France’s contemporary art scene and the presentation of work by French artists abroad. Unfolding across the Foundation’s four dedicated spaces in Europe and Asia, these exhibitions often feature new work and constitute broad artistic gestures that that the public are invited to discover.
- Artists' Residencies
  
  Carte blanche to visual artists in the Hermès workshops
  
  Each year since 2010, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has invited artists to explore exceptional gestures and skills at Hermès workshops through its Artists’ Residencies programme. These residencies offer the guest artists carte blanche to expand their creativity alongside Hermès craftspeople, producing original works using singular materials. The residencies lend themselves to unique dialogues and exceptional, unconventional artistic experiments.

Transmit

- Manufacto
  
  The Skills Factory
  
  In 2016, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès launched Manufacto, the Skills Factory, an innovative programme designed to introduce schoolchildren to craft professions. Over the course of the school year, pupils discover gestures, techniques and tools as they create a contemporary, everyday object, discovering the skills of craft and the pleasures of making.
- Skills Academy
  
  A professional skills upgrading programme
  
  Founded in 2014, the Skills Academy brings together the transmission of knowledge with interdisciplinary practice and prospective research. At each edition of the Academy, craftspeople, designers and engineers undertake a collective exploration of a universal material, innovating at the same time as they share their skills with one another. Though the Academy is reserved for professionals, it is also extends its reach through a programme of talks open to the public.
- Artists in the Community
  
  A launchpad for young talents in the performing arts
  
  Through its Artists in the Community programme, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès seeks to ensure that the talents of tomorrow can pursue artistic careers and flourish in their chosen fields today. Artists in the Community promotes the transmission of skills through professional training with a range of support for existing initiatives as well as a specific bursary programme designed to help students facing financial difficulty to train for careers in the performing arts. Each of these initiatives will contribute, in time, to the renewal of the performing arts scene.

Protect

- Biodiversity & Ecosystems
  
  A commitment to the preservation of biodiversity
  
  Dedicated to preserving our environment in general, and our biodiversity in particular, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès acts responsibly and collectively to support people seeking to improve our relationships to the ecosystems that surround us. The Foundation accompanies a number of projects that promote awareness, education and the sharing of sustainable ecological practices, focusing on practical initiatives that are designed in close collaboration with recognised actors in the field.
- Manuterra
  
  Learning from the Living World
  
  Protecting the environment is one of the four axes guiding the actions of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Mindful of the fragility of our ecosystems and the importance of preservation for future generations, the Foundation has strengthened its efforts for a more sustainable world by launching the Manuterra programme. Introduced in 2021, this environmental education initiative takes place in schools and aims to raise young people’s awareness of the living world that surrounds us all.

Encourage

- H³ - Heart, head, hand
  
  A charitable programme led by Hermès staff
  
  With the H³ – Heart, Head, Hand programme, the Foundation encourages house of Hermès staff members to engage in public interest initiatives, either by sharing their skills or through the Foundation’s direct financial support. Projects selected as part of H³, all of which reflect a culture of mutual aid and attention to the local contexts, help to structure the Foundation’s philanthropic actions, while encouraging acts of solidarity throughout our societies and bolstering individual commitments.