59 Rivoli is a working artist collective and public art space in a 19th-century Rue de Rivoli building. Born from a 1999 occupation of a vacant property, it now combines artist studios, a gallery and public programming under an association-city partnership.
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Artists Gaspard Delanoë, Kalex and Bruno Dumont began the 59 Rivoli occupation on 1 November 1999; they opened the building to visitors and other artists joined within days.
The City of Paris completed its acquisition of 59 rue de Rivoli in May 2002 and proposed a long-term cultural arrangement with the artists’ association.
After renovation, 59 Rivoli officially reopened as an artist-run art center on 9 November 2009, with studios and public exhibition space.
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At 59 rue de Rivoli, an ordinary stretch of a grand Paris shopping street opens into something less conventional: artists work in studios while visitors encounter art in progress. The address is in the 1st arrondissement, in the municipality of Paris. The catalog classifies it as a museum, but the collective describes its primary purpose as a place of work for artists, alongside a public gallery.
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