In 1982, The consortium was awarded the Art Center label, and moved to an old 600 m2 (6,500 sq ft) appliance store in downtown Dijon and in 1983, Le Coin du Miroir, À La Limite and Déjà Vu joined and became a single entity.

It hosted the works of Chris Burden, Rémy Zaugg, Yayoi Kusama, but also the first exhibition in France and even in Europe of today recognized artists as Jorge Pardo, Maurizio Cattelan, Sylvie Fleury, Mark Leckey, Rachel Harrison, Charline von Heyl...

The collection contains more than 250 works of international artists - mostly acquired at the beginning of their careers - which have been the subject of an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1998 and which are regularly loaned to many institutions.

Since 1991, Le Consortium has been mediator of the Fondation de France within the framework of the Nouveaux commanditaires activities in Bourgogne, which give individuals, organizations, and public corporations the opportunity to commission a contemporary artwork.

Fifty monumental works of artists from different nationalities are presented in Anyang City : John Armleder, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Buren, Marc Camille Chaimovicz, Eunji Cho, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Rachel Feinstein Sylvie Fleury, Gloria Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Gimhongsok, Dan Graham, Yayoi Kusama, Bertrand Lavier, Olivier Mosset, Mai-Thu Perret, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gary Webb, Yan Pei Ming...

Deeply linked to the heritage and the culture of Qatar and its people, such a public collection will gather pieces from local and emerging artists, along with works of internationally recognized ones.

Two years later, in 2011, the famous Japanese architect Shigeru Ban conceived the new building of Le Consortium, in accordance with the consideration of what an art center is in its founders’ minds.

As an example, conceptually and architecturally, Le Consortium displays our capacity to invent new forms of spaces and places, and to supervise the construction a museum from alpha to omega, from the building to the programming, including the commercial and promotional matters.

Its publications include series about today's most relevant contemporary art, as well as the main historical and literary texts from or about the 20th century's avant-gardes : Monographs (Lily van der Stokker, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Bull, Annette Messager, etc.

The series ‘L’Ecart Absolu’, ‘Document sur l’Art’, ‘Otto Muehl’s’ and ‘Hans Hartung’s', the publications Permanent Food and Charley, define an editorial policy which gives Les Presses du Réel a singular position in the landscape of French and international publishing.

Le Consortium is one of the main shareholders in the production company ANNA SANDERS FILMS,[7] which was created by the artists Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Charles de Meaux and Dominique Gonzalez-Foester.