Fondation

The PHI Foundation aims to disrupt the perception that contemporary art is inaccessible, hard to understand and only for certain people. Instead, we want to reinforce how artists make work that resonates with our own preoccupations, questions, and desires. Art is for all of us.

Our primary guiding principle is to be of service in a way that nurtures a culture of care. Inherent to this are the values of generosity, empathy, empowerment, inclusion, and critical thought. It means infusing all our gestures with a sense of duty, taking into consideration the presentation of the artist’s work and the visitor’s experience in equal measure. This manifests itself in the way we greet and care for visitors, in our curatorial, mediation and public engagement approaches.

From its inception, the Foundation has also been about championing creative freedom and increasing access to contemporary art. We want to become freer from conventional exhibition practices so that we might interfere less in the process of reception and encourage a multiplicity of readings of a work of art. This commitment to access also includes a constant engagement with how to lower and remove economic and spatial barriers to contemporary art experiences.