With its long-standing commitment to cultural patronage, Groupe FIMINCO created the Fondation Fiminco in 2017 and set it up on the former industrial site of the Roussel-Uclaf factories in Romainville. By taking over these unusual premises, the Fondation Fiminco is pursuing its mission of supporting contemporary artists and providing access to culture for all, as close as possible to the social and cultural dynamics of Grand Paris.
Designed with artists in mind, the site provides them with the spaces, tools and support they need to create an ideal working environment, promoting encounters between all forms of art. This new cultural district brings together all the ingredients needed to create a genuine ecosystem for contemporary creation in a single location aimed at artists: artists’ residencies, exhibition and mediation spaces, galleries, and soon, performing arts structures, craftspeople, associations and a concert hall.
The first part of the project, due to open in October 2019, covers 11,000 m2 and includes the Fabrique – Fondation Fiminco international artists’ residence, exhibition spaces, nine contemporary art galleries – Air de Paris, Galerie Sator, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc, 22,48 m2, Galerie D. and Quai 36, NIKA project space, Iragui gallery, the Gingerlemon audiovisual production company, the book design and publishing house Laurel Parker Book, a campus of the Parsons Paris art and design school, as well as a printing house – Après Midi Lab – and the new storage facillity of the Frac Île-de-France. The second part of the site, currently undergoing renovation, is now home to the Blanca Li company dance studio and the studios of artists Ivan Argote and Mehdi-Georges Lahlou.
In September 2025, the students of the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (CNSAD) will move into the 4,000m2 building dedicated to them.
