
2021
Musée d'art de Pully (CH) 2 March 2021 Exhibition
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles 1950-1980. Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
The years following the Second World War saw a great artistic effervescence. Paris regained its status as cultural capital and once again attracted painters from all over the world. The geometric trend experienced new developments. At the same time, an emerging generation of artists revolutionized abstract art by transcending gesture and material thanks to new techniques and tools.
2020
1 December 2020 Collection
African Contemporary Art and the Diaspora
The collection of African Contemporary Art and the Diaspora brings together over 200 works produced by artists who have strong links with the African continent and its history in the many forms that characterize them, from the Maghreb to southern Africa.
6 November 2020 Publication
The Decorative Arts (I), Sculptures, Enamels, Maiolicas, and Tapestries
This first catalogue of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art’s decorative arts collection is devoted to works of Western art, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, which serve both an ornamental and a narrative purpose. Sacred and profane, carrying symbolic or spiritual value, these sculptures, enamelled plaques, maiolica ware, and tapestries draw their inspiration from the repertories of Christian and ancient subjects that make up European culture.
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (DE) 17 October 2020 Loan
SoulagesPainting 1946-2019
This retrospective exhibition aims to show the remarkable consistency of his oeuvre in spite of its exceptional time span. The works by Soulages exhibited here, on loan from private collections and European museums, create a very special atmosphere in the light-flooded setting of the Museum Frieder Burda, this "white villa in the middle of a park”.
Curators : Alfred Pacquement, Udo Kittelmann
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) 14 October 2020 Prêt
Martin BarréRetrospective
Considered one of the most important abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century, Martin Barré (1924-1993) is featured in a retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.
Curator : Michel Gauthier, Rita Cusimano
MAMAC, Nice (FR) 3 October 2020 loan
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz !
Les Amazones du POP
As part of the MAMAC's 30th anniversary, the exhibition She-Bam Pow Pop Wiz! The Amazons of Pop looks back on a major axis of its history: the face-to-face between France and the United States and the borrowings between New Realism and Pop Art.
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux (FR) 22 September 2020 loan
Le Mural-nomade. Tapisseries modernes et contemporaines
The Convent de La Tourette is hosting an exhibition this autumn devoted to modern and contemporary tapestry, including the “Muralnomad” tapestries by Le Corbusier. This exhibition is an opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of tapestries created from the 1960s to the present day.
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG), Geneva (CH) 8 September 2020
Jean Dubuffet, a barbarian in Europe
Co-produced with the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille (France) and the IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Spain), the travelling exhibition Jean Dubuffet, a barbarian in Europe moves to the MEG for the third stage of its tour.
Curators : Batiste Brun, Isabelle Marquette
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne (CH) 4 September 2020 loan
Arts et Cinéma
In partnership with La Cinémathèque française and the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie, the Fondation de l'Hermitage is beginning a new chapter in its exploration of artistic modernity by examining the connections between the fine arts and cinema, one of the 20th century’s great visual revolutions.
Mémorial de Caen, Caen (FR) 14 July 2020 Exhibition
La Libération de la peinture, 1945-1962
Through a selection of seventy-five works taken from its collection, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art invites visitors to discover how the traumas of the Second World War had a long-term effect on the course of art, leading many European artists to invent a new pictorial language.
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France) 1 July 2020 Loan
Jacques Monory
By way of a tribute, the Marguerite et Aimé Maeght Foundation is proposing the first monographic exhibition devoted to Jacques Monory since his death in 2018. The exhibition presents his career spanning sixty years and takes a fresh look at the work of this leading figure of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Museum of Montmartre Renoir Gardens, Paris (FR) 28 February 2020 Loan
Otto Freundlich (1878-1943) La révélation de l’abstraction
The Museum of Montmartre is devoting a major exhibition to one of the first great creators of non-figurative art, the German painter and sculptor Otto Freundlich (1878-1943). This exhibition is the first of its kind in a Parisian museum since 1969.
Curators : Christophe Duvivier, Saskia Ooms
Leopold Museum, Vienne (AT) 20 February 2020 Loan
Hundertwasser – Schiele. Imagine Tomorrow
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) shaped 20th-century art beyond the borders of Austria as a painter, designer of living spaces and pioneer of the environmental movement. His life-long, intense exploration of the personality and oeuvre of Egon Schiele (1890–1918) is largely unknown. Twenty years after Hundertwasser’s death, the Leopold Museum is dedicating an exhibition, conceived as a dialogue, to these two iconic artists, which comprises some 170 exhibits.
Curator : Robert Fleck, Hans-Peter Wipplinger
2019
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR) 11 October 2019 Loan
Hans Hartung, la fabrique du geste
For its reopening after a year of renovation work, the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris is presenting Hans Hartung, La Fabrique du geste, dedicated to one of the leading innovators in post-war abstract art.
IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valence (ES) 8 October 2019 Loan
Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa
After the Mucem in Marseille, the traveling exhibition Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa takes up residence at the IVAM and reveals how Jean Dubuffet intertwines in his work his painting and writing activities with the research he has devoted to what he calls Art Brut.
17 May 2019 Partnership
Partnership with the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts
The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art has signed a long-term partnership with the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. Eight works from the FGA that echo the museum’s permanent collection.
2018
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont (FR) 15 September 2018 partnership
Partnership with les Musées de Chaumont
As part of a partnership with the Musées de Chaumont (Haute-Marne, France), the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending a 14th century bas-relief to the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Chaumont. This work joins for a period of three years two other fragments from the same tomb.
Past news

Colloque international Quel avenir pour les « œuvres orphelines » ? Réflexions sur les biens culturels sans provenance
3 February 2021

Peter Saul
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
Le Delta - Espace Culturel Provincial, Namur (BE)
7 March 2020

Scrivere Disegnando. Quand la langue cherche son autre
Centre d'Art Contemporain (CAC), Geneva (CH)
29 January 2020

Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) Par où on ne sait pas
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen (FR)
17 January 2020

Pour tout l'art du monde: Interview with Jean Claude Gandur in the Vacarme show, RTS radio, 25 October 2019
25 October 2019

Venezia, 1958. A selection of artworks from the Spanish Pavillion
Galeria Mayoral, Barcelone (ES)
26 September 2019

Peter Saul. Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse (FR)
20 September 2019

The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art connects painting and music at Saint-Germain
Église Saint-Germain, Genève (CH)
7 July 2019

Histoire de l'art cherche personnages...
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (FR)
20 June 2019

Relive the exhibition "My 2000-year-old Double" through virtual reality
Musée de la Civilisation, Québec (CA)
3 June 2019

Jean Dubuffet, un barbare en Europe
MUSÉE DES CIVILISATIONS DE L'EUROPE ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE (MUCEM), MARSEILLE (FR)
24 April 2019

Tous les sexes du printemps, Jean Messagier (1920-1999)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole (FR)
22 March 2019

Helena Rubinstein, l'aventure de la beauté
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris (FR)
20 March 2019

Autour de la Pleurante d’Autreville : les destinées d’un tombeau champenois du XIVe siècle
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont (FR)
19 March 2019

Presentation of the fragments of the tomb of Autrevillle
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont
7 February 2019

Mitchell/Riopelle. Un couple dans la démesure
Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau (FR)
16 December 2018

L’Armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire
Musée départemental Arles antique, Arles (FR)
14 December 2018

París pese a todo. Artistas extranjeros 1944 - 1968
Artistas extranjeros en París (1944-1968)
21 November 2018

Pierre Soulages. Noir - Lumière. Farbe und Geste in den 1950er Jahren
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (DE)
4 November 2018

A very cool business: 2000 years of French wine and the spread of viticulture in the North
University of Ghent, Ghent (BE)
1 June 2018