The Fondation Carmignac, founded in 2000, is a corporate foundation structured around two main pillars: a contemporary art collection of more than 300 works, and the Carmignac Photojournalism Award that annually supports an investigative report that is the subject of an exhibition and a catalog.

Its founder, Édouard Carmignac is President and founder of Carmignac, a company specialized in asset management.  Édouard Carmignac has been collecting contemporary art since the early 1980s. 

Today, his son Charles Carmignac, an entrepreneur, author and musician, has taken over the management of the Carmignac Gestion Corporate Foundation and the Villa Carmignac.

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