THE WORK OF THE FOUNDATION

Michel Bernardaud established the Bernardaud Foundation in 2002 under the direction of Hélène Huret.  Located on the site of the original company factory and workshops, the Foundation’s mission has three objectives...

A VISIT TO OUR FACTORY

The Bernardaud Foundation also aims to educate the public and dispel preconceived notions about porcelain by conducting interactive guided tours of its workshops.  This is an opportunity for visitors to see how porcelain is made. Unlike a conventional museum visitors are encou ...

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Every year, the Fondation Bernardaud hosts an annual exhibition on contemporary ceramics that has become a not-to-be-missed event that allows one to discover works by artists that are not often displayed in France but yet bear witness to the prolific and global activity with ceramics that the Fondation Bernardaud striv ...

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

2010 - Un peu de terre sur la peau : The Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud presents an exhibition around an art form that is not well recognized in France: Contemporary jewelry. 140 compelling ceramic creations, on loan from the various artists, revisit ancestral forms of artistic expression as a means of c ...

PROJECTS

Artists and designers of all nationalities and backgrounds are invited to Limoges to work in the historic workshops of Bernardaud...

PAE WHITE

ROBERT STADLER

PROJECTS

CHRISTINA DOLL

OLIVIER CHABAUD and LAURENT LEVEQUE

PROJECTS

JAMES BROWN

CECILE PITOIS

PROJECTS

ECAL (University of Art and Design in Lausanne)

SOPHIE CALLE

PROJECTS

5.5 DESIGNERS

JONATHAN HAMMER

DO YOU HAVE A PROJECT FOR THE FONDATION?

The Bernardaud Fondation selects projects to be executed at its Limoges workshops. It is looking for projects that will advance the art of porcelain to higher technical and/or aesthetic levels...