The acquisition policy of the Frac Bretagne collection is a tightly controlled process.

Each year, the technical acquisition committee, composed of personalities and specialists in contemporary art and representatives of the state, the Brittany Region and the City of Rennes, meets to discuss the acquisition proposals received.

The selection of works to be acquired is then submitted for the approval of the members of the Board of Directors.

– Karima Boudou, Exhibition curator and art historian, Brussels, Belgium

– Thomas Conchou, artistic director, Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France

– Isabelle Cornaro, Artist, Paris, France

– Fanny Hauser, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland

– Manuel Segade, Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

– Etienne Bernard, Director, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France

The Technical Committee of Acquisition meets annually in spring.
The next commission will be held on April 2026. Its acquisition recommendations will be submitted to the Frac Bretagne Board of Directors in June 2026 for final validation.

The deadline for submitting applications is on Wednesday 4th February, 2026.

Constitution and transmission of files

The acquisition proposal’s files have to be exclusively sent by digital way and absolutely established with the following documents:

  1. Artist’s Form (download the file by clicking on the link then precisely fill the form)
  2. Artwork’s Form (download the file by clicking on the link then precisely fill the form)

One form is necessary for each work or one form for an established set of works. Maximum 5 artwork’s forms per artist/gallery. Be sure to save each proposal in a separate PDF file (do not save different files in a single PDF file, as this may result in data loss).

  1. HD picturesof each work with related references (photo credit). (TIFF or JPEG)
  2. For videos/movies: sending a link (Vimeo, Youtube or equivalent). Do not send a file.
  3. Argumentsshowing the coherence of the proposals in relation to the Frac Bretagne collection and acquisition guidelines.

You can also add a digital portfolio.

All these elements have to be gathered in a single digital file precisely entitled with the date of the day (YYYYMMDD), following by your initials, without underscore or spaces, according to these following examples: 20251204FB or 20260127AMF

Thank you to send us your complete digital file, after verification of the conformity of its content, by WeTransfer, Smash or equivalent to the email address comite.acquisition@fracbretagne.fr

>> Careful ! Incomplete applications, non-compliant, defective or arrived after the deadline will not be examined.

An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to you to confirm the correct receipt of the file.

If you think it is necessary, files will be eventually complete with a mailing by post with the following documents:

– Catalogue, edition, etc.

(In that case, join imperatively a pre-stamped return envelope for the return of your elements after the studying of your file).

For any information: comite.acquisition@fracbretagne.fr

Acquisition Principles (2023-2026)

Special attention is paid to developping and opening existing thematic bodies of works. Built over four decades, these corpuses constitute research grounds regarding the actuality of art and its projection into the future. Notions of abstraction, status of the contemporary image as well as the relations between art and nature are envisionned in a wider field of creation in connexion with issues that challenge our contemporary world.

These existing thematic corpus are by no means exclusive and could be extended to other artistic and conceptual perspectives.

Acquisitions also carry on providing works for the collection of artist’s books which represents one of the hallmark features of the Frac Bretagne collection.

Both out of a concern for asserting the powerful identity of the Frac Bretagne collection, associated with image, as well as a logic of diffusion, the Frac plans to consolidate its collection of videos and films.

Special attention is paid to female/male equality and to opening up the collection to cultural diversity.

2020 Acquisitions [FR]
2021 Acquisitions [FR]
2022 Acquisitions [FR]
2023 Acquisitions [FR]
2024 Acquisitions [FR]

Participatory Acquisitions Program

In 2020, a participatory acquisitions program was launched. Each year, a school group will take part in the construction of the collection by discovering how it functions as well as learning about economic issues in the sector (art market, artist’s economy, production, etc.).

Students will then present their proposals to the technical acquisitions committee.

The technical acquisitions committee

Appointed by the Board of Directors, the technical acquisitions committee takes part in the Frac’s acquisitions policy. It proposes and publishes opinions about acquisition projects, in a totally independent manner and in association with the Frac’s acquisitions policy as presented above. It proposes acquisition projects and gifts of artworks destined for the collection to the Board of Directors .

The technical acquisitions committee is made up of the director and five French and international art figures qualified in the contemporary art field. These qualified figures are volunteers and must include at least one artist. The composition of the technical acquisitions committee observes strict female/male parity.

The technical acquisitions committee is attended, with a consultative vote, by the head of visual arts for the National Ministry of Culture, a member of the cultural department of the Region of Brittany and a member of the cultural department of the City of Rennes.

Image : Julien Creuzet, Zumbi Zumbi Eterno, 2023. Collection Frac Bretagne © Julien Creuzet. Photo credit : Courtesy of the artist