In France you can turn your home into an arthouse: works on loan for two months

Takingin a work of art in the home temporarily on loan from artists and galleries to turn one’s home into an arthotheque: this is the initiative launched in France by painter Olivier Masmonteil entitled Une oeuvre à la maison. The artist believes inart that is non-elitist and accessible to all, and if in this period of restrictions due to the pandemic the French cannot visit museums and art galleries, then it will be art that will temporarily go into their homes, for a period of two months.

The initiative is aimed at all artists and collectors, all galleries and foundations, as well as museums, who want to lend works under 10,000 euros and not too fragile to all people residing within ten kilometers of the locations of the works. A dedicated Instagram account (@uneoeuvrealamaison) makes them visible and is intended to entice people to participate in the original initiative. After an available work is posted on this account, anyone wishing to have that work in their home has fifteen days to provide reasons with their request. At the end of the two weeks, artists galleries and museums select the winners and will arrange for the desired work to be brought home.

“I would like to turn France into a giant arthouse and for this operation to go viral,” Masmonteil said. “We would even like the Louvre to lend a small work! And, the day the art venues reopen, it would be good for everyone to come and hang the works they have received on loan, in a giant exhibition.”

A partner in the initiative is APPIA Art & Assurance, which provides insurance for all possible risks of the loan of the works. Fifteen euros are charged in exchange for the loan.

The artist, during the first confinement in March 2020, had initiated a project to donate works for the benefit of French hospitals.

Pictured are some works involved in Une oeuvre à la maison: Gael Davrinche, Nocturne 40 (2020), Olivier Masmonteil, Untitled (2020), Marion Charlet, A wedding banquet (2020) © DR

In France you can turn your home into an arthouse: works on loan for two months

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