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.

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

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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

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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

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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.

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Barberini Museum, Postdam 15 February 2025 - 18 May 2025

Kandinsky's Universe
Geometric Abstraction from Constructivism to Op Art

From February 15 to May 18, 2025, the Barberini Museum devotes an exhibition to geometric abstraction in the 20th-century. Kandinsky's Universe: Geometric Abstraction from Constructivism to Op Art includes 13 artworks loaned by the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art.

Curator: Sterre Barentsen

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Soulages Museum, Rodez 25 January 2025 - 18 May 2025

Geneviève Asse
Le bleu prend tout ce qui passe

From 25 January to 18 May 2025, the exhibition Geneviève Asse. Le bleu prend tout ce qui passe brings together seventy works by French painter and engraver Geneviève Asse (1923-2021) at the Musée Soulages in Rodez. The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending two artworks from its collection for the occasion.

Curators: Benoît Decron et Malika Noui

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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

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