François Pinault, the 90-year-old French billionaire behind Kering and Christie's, has announced he will give his vast art collection its first permanent home. In a rare interview with Le Monde, he said Palazzo Grassi in Venice would host a lasting display of 106 works by 54 artists — the pieces he considers the collection's most significant — starting in March 2027. Pinault has assembled more than 10,000 works over two decades and, since 2006, has shown them only through temporary exhibitions at his three venues: Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris. He explained that certain works had proved their staying power and become landmarks of an era, and that a permanent hang would let visitors perceive connections across periods and generations that fragmented shows could not. The move marks a turning point for one of the world's most powerful private collections. Pinault stressed the display would not be frozen or definitive, noting how fluid the notion of a masterpiece remains as history is reinterpreted. Announced as Paris prepares for Art Basel Paris, the decision cements Venice's role as the public face of a collection he says was built on instinct and passion. Until now the Grand Canal palace has staged large rotating exhibitions. Devoting it to a permanent selection brings the French collector's project closer to the model of peers such as Bernard Arnault's Fondation Louis Vuitton — with the difference that the choice reflects one man's evolving canon rather than an institutional programme.