Est. MMXXVI · Open to the city

The work is the only light.

A contemporary gallery and open archive. Rotating exhibitions, working residencies, and four hundred works held in the open — free every Thursday.

Gustave Caillebotte, Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1893 — dense impressionist blooms in white and gold.

Tue–Sun · 10–18

Walk In

The floors are open Tuesday through Sunday. Free admission every Thursday evening.

Plan a visit

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), circa 1830–32 — a cresting blue wave above Mount Fuji.

40 min · Free

Take a Tour

One curator, a dozen visitors, a single thread through the collection.

Reserve a tour

Rembrandt, Portrait of a Man (The Auctioneer), circa 1658–62 — a man emerging from deep shadow.

By appointment

Private Viewing

Book the gallery after hours for a single work, a single guest, a single light.

A member's privilege

Now Showing · Hall I

Fields of Restless Light

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889 — a wheat field under a churning sky beside dark green cypress trees. — Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · Oil on canvas · On view through autumn

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, circa 1890 — apples and a flowering plant on a table.

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of PrimrosesCézanne · c.1890

№ 01Collect

Living Collection

Over four hundred works held in the open — paintings, prints, and objects that travel between the walls and the public archive. Nothing here is locked away for long.

Browse the archive

Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux, 1888–89 — a seated woman in a dark dress against a yellow ground.

L'Arlésienne: Madame GinouxVan Gogh · 1888

№ 02Exhibit

Rotating Shows

The walls change with the season. Three to four exhibitions a year, each hung for one room and one argument — then taken down and let go.

See the season

Paul Cézanne, The Card Players, 1890–92 — two men seated at a table playing cards.

The Card PlayersCézanne · 1890

№ 03Discover

Artist Residencies

Six artists in residence each year, working in the rooms above the gallery. Their studios open to visitors on the first Sunday of every month.

Meet the residents

Utagawa Hiroshige, from Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces, 1857 — a coloured woodblock landscape print.

Six Jewel Rivers (detail)Hiroshige · 1857

№ 04Experience

Guided Tours

Forty minutes, one curator, a dozen visitors. We walk a single thread through the collection and stop only where the work asks us to.

Reserve a tour

Édouard Manet, The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874 — a family seated on the grass in a sunlit garden.

The Monet Family in Their GardenManet · 1874

№ 05Gather

Openings & Events

Opening nights, late hours, and conversations with the artists. The garden stays open through summer for readings and quiet music.

What's on

Michiel Sweerts, Clothing the Naked, circa 1661 — figures gathered in a dim interior, one offering cloth to another.

Clothing the NakedSweerts · c.1661

№ 06Belong

Membership

Members keep the lights on and the doors open. Free entry, first invitations, and a key to the private viewing room — for the price of a few coffees a month.

Become a member

Come in. Stay until the light moves.

The collection is always open and always changing. Bring someone who hasn't been.

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