The sculpture garden

The François Schneider Foundation begins outdoor renovation work. From October 2024 to spring 2025, the Garden of Fountains and Sculptures will be renovated and refurbished. The organization is being rethought to incorporate a far-reaching environmental approach.

Our aim is to redesign our space, reduce our environmental impact and modernize our facilities. One of the key elements of our initiative is rainwater harvesting, which will supply the works in the garden thanks to two 20,000-litre tanks, one at the front and the other at the back of the Foundation. This system will also be connected to artist Renaud Auguste Dormeuil’s From Here to There, which greets visitors at the Foundation’s entrance. Created in 2016, the Foundation will undergo a facelift with the refurbishment of its technical premises, enabling it to function properly by March 2025.

We would like to thank the Région Grand Est, the Commune de Wattwiller and the Agence de l’Eau Rhin Meuse for supporting this project.

Due to this work, the garden is currently closed to the public.

Thank you for your understanding.

A stroll through the garden

Water cascades from Niki de Saint-Phalle’s monumental Nana de Star Fountain and trickles from Ilana Isehayek’s Toupies d’eau. Sylvie de Meurville’s installation hugs the ridges of the Vosges and Pol Bury’s steel spheres sparkle. Clément Borderie’s pirate ring freezes or thaws with the seasons and is grafted onto the building. Lorella Abenavolli presents a minimalist cube where water flows in a perfect flat surface.
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil and Rachael Louise Bailey, both winners of Talents Contemporains (4th and 8th editions), have also installed their works here.

In Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil’s From Here to There, water reflects the movement of clouds before being sent across the Pacific through an imaginary tunnel. Concerned by environmental issues, Rachael Louise Bailey has designed a large sphere of inner tubes, which visually responds to the vortex in Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil’s neighboring basin.

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