Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne (Rochechouart Museum)

Since the opening of the museum in 1985, ensembles of work have evolved around the major historical movements which came into being at the end of the 1960s, particularly those exploring the relationship between nature and culture, such as Arte Povera (Alighiero e Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone) and Land Art, which is represented in the collection by Richard Long and Hamish Fulton. Similarly, representative ensembles of work were created around English sculpture (Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Richard Long, Gary Webb etc.), as well as continuities and discontinuities in painting (Bernard Frize, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter etc.). Major figures in 20th and 21st century art (such as Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, and Bruce Nauman in particular) also form the basis of a collection that continues to focus today on the most current creations.