Installed since 2011 in a 4000 m2 building designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, the history of the Consortium began in 1977 on the second floor of an alternative bookstore, then in an old store located at the back of the courtyard on the market square in downtown Dijon, Burgundy. Young academics put into practice their ambition to exhibit the art of their time: accompanied by a handful of enthusiasts, its founders Xavier Douroux and Franck Gautherot, organized exhibitions with avant-garde artists from the late 1970s: Christian Boltanski in 1978, Hans Peter Feldmann in 1979, Annette Messager in 1980, Cindy Sherman and Daniel Buren in 1982, Carl Andre and Richard Prince in 1983, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Haacke in 1986... From the end of the 1980s, the Consortium questioned the nature and conventions of the exhibition by means of the exhibition itself, organizing with "Une Autre Affaire" an "exhibition of exhibitions" re-enacting in almost real time, in Dijon, the Group Shows organized in the United States by Peter Halley, Bob Nickas or Steven Parrino; also organizing, with "Le Choix des Femmes" in 1990, an exhibition which led 4 male curators to invite 4 women artists each.