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Upcoming exhibition June 2025
In the Eye of the Collector: Paving the Way for the Future Museum in Caen
As the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art prepares to inaugurate its museum by 2030, the City of Caen is organising, in collaboration with the Fondation, a unique exhibition dedicated to the collector Jean Claude Gandur, running from 26 June to 28 September 2025 at Caen Town Hall.
loan June 2025
Animal !?
The thematic and group exhibition Animal!? offers a cross-disciplinary and transhistorical exploration of the place of animals in artistic representation. Arguably one of the earliest subjects in the history of art, animals have appeared since prehistoric cave paintings and have remained a central motif across the centuries up to the present day. On this occasion, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending ancient artefacts and post-war paintings.
Loan April 2025
Niki de Saint Phalle. Le bestiaire magique
Renowned for her incredible Nanas, Niki de Saint Phalle developed a powerful, committed universe, vibrant with energy and poetry. The exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle. Le bestiaire magique retraces her entire career, offering a fresh perspective through the lens of animal representation. Designed as an initiatory fairy tale that invites visitors to wander among mischievous creatures, it reveals how her work is inhabited by a fascinating magical bestiary, where symbols, myths, autobiographical narrative, and the legacy of Surrealism intertwine.
Loan April 2025
Caesar & Kleopatra
He was considered Rome’s most powerful politician, she the most beautiful woman of classical antiquity: Caesar and Cleopatra! Speyer's Historical Museum of the Palatinate is devoting a cultural history exhibition from April 13 to October 26, 2025 to the arguably most famous lovers of antiquity, for which the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art loans more than a dozen objects.
Loan April 2025
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Anatomy of Space
In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the Monnaie de Paris is devoting a retrospective to Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), a leading figure of lyrical abstraction whose work has long been overlooked by French institutions. The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art joins this tribute with the loan of two works from the 1940s, marking the beginning of a pictorial career driven by spontaneity and emotion, memory, and a desire to make art accessible to the widest possible audience.
