In 1973 Jean-Louis Froment founded the CAPC, Bordeaux’s contemporary art museum, which he directed until 1996. This institution has profoundly marked the French and international contemporary art scene. At the CAPC, Jean-Louis Froment and his staff were able to offer artists a place where they could express themselves and experiment, while allowing a wide public to gain initiation to the art of its time. Always in sync with the artists of his time, Jean-Louis Froment also curated the French Pavilion at the Biennale of Venice in 1990 and 1993. For several years he has headed numerous projects worldwide (Tokyo, Singapore and Sao Paulo or even Shanghai and Moscow) with art at their centre, no matter whether the overriding category was architecture, fashion or design.

He has recently curated the Jean Nouvel architectural exhibition, presented in 2006 at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark; and the Chanel “Art as a Universe” exhibition held at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 2007.