Founded in 2014, the Thalie Foundation has spent a decade supporting contemporary creation through an art center in Brussels and Arles, artist residencies, an exhibition program, and an art collection. In 2025, it transitions into an endowment fund, integrating climate urgency and the crisis of the living world into its mission.
From 2018 to 2024, the Foundation hosted residencies for artists and writers, produced exhibitions, and developed a multidisciplinary program bridging art, design, science, and literature, establishing itself as a key cultural player and art center in Brussels. In 2023–2024, it also organized exhibitions and artist residencies in Arles, in the south of France.
The Thalie Foundation is a private philanthropic initiative led by Nathalie Guiot—curator, art collector, publisher, and philanthropist. It is now evolving into an Fond de dotation Art, design et Environnement, continuing its mission in a nomadic format through research grants and publications.
Géologie des âmes
Géologie des âmes (“Geology of Souls”) evokes the idea that human subjectivities—both individual and collective—are as complex, profound, and stratified as the geology of the Earth. Each layer, each fault line, each emotional or political sediment leaves a trace: the memory of a trauma, a colonial legacy, the loss of connection with the living world—or, conversely, an attempt to repair, to listen, to transmit.
Regenerative Futures
Thalie Foundation is proud to announce the release of ''Regenerative Futures'', a compelling new book published on the occasion of the exhibition, held in 2024, at the Fondation Thalie (Brussels), to mark the Foundation’s 10th anniversary.
Créateur.ices urgence climat
Créateur.ices Urgence Climat brings together the perspectives of artists, designers, and scientists to foster the emergence of new ways of thinking and concrete actions to combat the environmental crisis we face. This book stems from the conferences and podcasts held at the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 2022. These gatherings facilitated the exchange of artistic, scientific, anthropological, and philosophical practices by confronting them with major contemporary issues: habitat, eco-mobility, biodiversity, inclusion, and eco-feminism.