Contemporary Art Center in Wattwiller

Located at the foot of the Vosges mountains in the village of Wattwiller in Alsace, the Fondation François Schneider art center offers 3 to 4 exhibitions a year and a cultural program devoted to the theme of water.

The Foundation encourages creativity and pursues a dual commitment to education and culture through various initiatives:

→ The organization of exhibitions in the art center & outside its walls
→ An international competition Talents Contemporains
→ Acquisition of works for its collection
→ Grants for higher education
→ A residency program for young artists

On the theme of water

The François Schneider Foundation is housed in a former bottling plant designed around light and transparency, and transformed into an art center. One of its distinctive features is that it has chosen water as the central theme of its artistic program. Today, the competition’s works form a unique collection, questioning this vital element, the source of humanity, in plastic, poetic, aesthetic, geographical, political and scientific terms.