In 1992, the French entrepreneur François Pinault transferred his majority stake in Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR, renamed Kering in 2013) to his new company, Groupe Artémis, created as a family investment vehicle.

[3] Groupe Artémis bought the news magazine Le Point in 1997,[4] the auction house Christie's[5] and the Ligue 1 soccer team Stade Rennais FC in 1998,[6] and the book-publishing company Éditions Tallandier [fr] in 1999.

[8] In 2005, Groupe Artémis acquired the Palazzo Grassi in Venice,[9] which reopened in 2006 as the first exhibition site of Pinault Collection.

[14] In 2017, the group launched the tech investment company Red River West[15] and acquired the couture house Giambattista Valli.

[17] In 2019, the Pinault family, through Artémis, pledged to donate 100 million euros for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris after the fire.