The Foundation's programmes

The Foundation’s four core missions enact its commitment to targeted philanthropy and support through in-house programmes designed to transmit skills and expertise, create new works of art, protect the environment and encourage gestures of solidarity. The Foundation supports its beneficiaries as they contribute to building tomorrow’s world.

Create

    • Latitudes

      An international programme supporting photography
      Description HP
      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
      Description HP
      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
      Description HP
      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.
  • Mounir Ayache, en résidence à la Holding Textile Hermès (Rhône), 2024 © Tadzio

    • Artists' Residencies

      Carte blanche to visual artists in the Hermès workshops
      Description HP
      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

  • Séance Manufacto © Benoît Teillet

    • Manufacto

      The Skills Factory
      Description HP
      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
      Description HP
      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.
  • Cunningham × 100 de Merce Cunningham, par les étudiants de la direction des études chorégraphiques du Conservatoire de Paris, 2019 © Charlotte Bommelaer

    • Artists in the Community

      A launchpad for young talents in the performing arts
      Description HP
      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

  • Festival Agir pour le vivant, Arles, 2024

    • Biodiversity & Ecosystems

      A commitment to the preservation of biodiversity
      Description HP
      To address the pressing environmental issues that we are faced with today, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès takes action by supporting projects committed to protecting the living world. The Biodiversity & Ecosystems programme takes a responsible approach to patronage by backing practical initiatives that rely on close collaboration with organisations that have proven expertise and engagement in the environmental field.
  • Séance Manuterra © Benoît Teillet

    • Manuterra

      Learning from the Living World
      Description HP
      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
      Description HP
      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.