Vranken-Pommery Monopole is a Europe’s leading winegrower company, a family-owned group, founded in 1976, specialized in champagne production. Thanks to its subsidiaries, Vranken-Pommery Monopole is represented all over the world. Champagne and Domaine Pommery has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2015.
https://www.vrankenpommery.com
Launch year:
1976
Status of collection:
International
Artistic domains and general information about the collection:
For more than 20 years, the Vranken-Pommery Monopole Group has placed the focus of its development on the support of artistic creation. Domaine Pommery welcomes and invites the most talented representatives of the international contemporary scene for new productions in the heart of their art contemporary exhibitions, such as Daniel Buren, Bertrand Lavier, Tadashi Kawamata, Jean-Michel Othoniel ... 30 meters underground, the EXPERIENCE POMMERY # celebrate art and life in the largest and the deepest cellars of the Champagne and make the entire domain vibrate. Exhibitions form a panorama of the latest contemporary creation and transform the Vranken-Pommery domain into a must-see place.
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Pommery has become also one of the major partners of cultural institutions and events that matter on a national level : museums (Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Petit Palais), festivals (Printemps de September in Toulouse, Festival de Ramatuelle), all of which contribute to the outreach and dissemination of contemporary culture in France and on the international level. Pommery has become the champagne of art and artists. As a symbol of French luxury, Pommery is exporting and asserting its presence at international contemporary art fairs, prestigious music festivals and international museums : Armory Show in New York, Mori Museum in Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
In 2012, Paul-François Vranken was awarded the “Grand Mécène de la Culture” (Grand Patron of Culture) medal on behalf of the Vranken Pommery Group by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
In addition, in 2021, the Vranken-Pommery Group has become a Société à Mission (French Profit-with-Purpose Corporation). The Société à Mission aims to promote the preservation of cultural heritage.