Exhibitions

Since 2011, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art lends its works to the most prestigious institutions in the museum world so that they can be discovered by as many people as possible : from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid to the Hermitage in Lausanne, from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris.

The Foundation wished to briefly retrace the purpose of the exhibitions for which it has lent works. These texts are largely inspired and drawn from the sites relating to the exhibitions of the borrowing institutions, for which they are thanked here.  The Foundation is pleased to be able to contribute to the influence of the artists and the different cultures exhibited through these loans.

Musée des arts asiatiques, Nice (FR) 2 August 2025 - 1 February 2026

SUMŌ – Absolute Balance

From August 2, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Museum of Asian Arts in Nice will host an exhibition dedicated to sumō – a high-level sport with deeply ancestral and traditional roots. This immersive exploration of the balance between movement and stillness in sumō wrestling will be accompanied by numerous works of art, including a loan from the Fondation.

Curator: Adrien Bossard

Learn more

Musée Fabre, Montpellier (FR) 28 June 2025 - 4 January 2026

Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre

From June 28, 2025, to January 4, 2026, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole will celebrate its bicentenary with an exhibition dedicated to Pierre Soulages. The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is taking part in this event by lending two paintings by the artist.

Curator: Michel Hilaire

Learn more

Museum MORE, Gorssel (NL) 22 June 2025 - 28 September 2025

POP MODELS: Women in European Pop Art

The POP MODELS exhibition at the More Museum in Gorssel (NL) becomes one of the first museums to put women in Pop Art at centre stage, not only as (top) model or muses but also as creators. By lending 14 artworks, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art takes part in this examination of the representation of women.

Curators: Julia Dijkstra, Feico Hoekstra

Learn more

Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau (FR) 14 June 2025 - 2 November 2025

Animal !?

Learn more

Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (FR) 11 June 2025 - 11 January 2026

Le Mystère Cléopâtre

Among the great female figures in history, Cleopatra, the last sovereign of Egypt, remains the most popular. The exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe from June 11, 2025, to 11 January 11, 2026, explores the legends that have contributed to her fame, as well as recent archaeological discoveries about her. For this exhibition, the Fondation is lending 10 objects from its archaeology collection..

Learn more

MAH, Musée Rath, Geneva 22 May 2025 - 7 September 2025

Jean Tinguely

The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva (MAH) pays tribute to Jean Tinguely in celebration of the centenary of his birth. The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art has contributed to this unique event through the loan of six significant works.

Curator : Samuel Gross

Learn more

Caumont - Centre d'Art, Aix-en-Provence (FR) 30 April 2025 - 5 October 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.

Curator: Lucia Pesapane

Learn more

Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque, Dunkerque (FR) 26 April 2025 - 14 September 2025
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen (FR) 26 October 2024 - 23 February 2025

Judit Reigl, L'envol. Dessins et peintures (1954-2012)

After a first stop at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, the Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque presents, from April 26, 2025, to September 14, 2025, an exhibition dedicated to Judit Reigl’s major series of drawings, from her Éclatements on paper (1954) to her Oiseaux (2012). On this occasion, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending two emblematic painted works, highlighting the close connection between painting and drawing in the artist’s work.

Curators: Milena Glicenstein and Hanna Alkema

Learn more

Speyer Historisches Museum, Speyer (DE) 13 April 2025 - 28 October 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.

Curator: Lars Börner

Learn more

Collection Peggy Guggenheim, Venice (IT) 12 April 2025 - 15 September 2025

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Anatomy of Space

From 12 April to 15 September 2025, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is presenting a major retrospective dedicated to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), a distinctive voice on the European art scene in the twentieth century. With the loan of two works, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art contributes to this reappraisal of an oeuvre shaped by exile, memory, and the construction of pictorial space.

Curator : Flavia Frigeri

Learn more

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (FR) 11 April 2025 - 7 September 2025

Georges Mathieu
Gesture, Speed, Movement

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.

Curators: Christian Briend, Éric de Chassey, Béatrice Coullaré, assistés de Manon Thibodot.

Learn more

Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna (AT) 28 February 2024 - 1 January 2027

Long-term loan to the Museum Hundertwasser

Inaugurated on February 28, the KunstHausWien, which houses the Museum Hundertwasser, reopened in its completely renovated original building with a new display of its permanent collection. On this occasion, the Fondation pour l'Art loans over a three-year period Le Presque Cercle from the Austrian painter.

Curator: Andreas J. Hirsch

Learn more