2022
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (FR) 2 July 2022 Exhibition
At the Heart of the Abstraction. Collection Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Fondation Maeght is unveiling some 120 works from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art (Geneva) and offers a riveting immersion into abstraction from the 1950s to the 1980s. Conceived chronologically the exhibition path offers insights into four decades of creativity during which artists revisited the very foundations of painting in the wake of the war and envisioned new forms of expression. Structured into nine thematic segments, the exhibition charts the evolution of non-figurative art and its various trends.
Musée Cantini, musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille (FR) 9 June 2022 Loan
Vieira da SilvaL’œil du labyrinthe
The Musée Cantini, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Marseille, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, in partnership with the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Paris-Lisbon, are presenting a retrospective of the internationally renowned Portuguese-born artist, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992). The event brings together eighty iconic and seminal works from the artist’s career, scattered in private collections and a number of prestigious French institutions.
Museum Barberini, Potsdam (DE) 4 June 2022 Loan
The Shape of Freedom : International Abstraction after 1945
Supported by the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, the exhibition The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 opens at the Museum Barberini. It focuses on the two most important currents of abstraction following World War II: Abstract Expressionism in the United States and Art Informel in western Europe.
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT) 22 April 2022 Loan
Amazons of Pop! Women artists, superheroines, icons 1961-1973
The exhibition Amazons of Pop !, initiated by MAMAC Nice and previously shown at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, shows in a comprehensive way how complex and heterogeneous women artists’ contribution to the history of Pop Art is. It anchors Pop Art in Europe, explores links with the North American movement, especially in New York, and also examines Austrian Pop Art tendencies at Kunsthaus Graz.
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) 20 April 2022 Loan
An American Woman in Paris
Shirley Jaffe, an American painter who settled in Paris in 1949, is a referential figure in abstract painting at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. She claimed, provocatively, to have discovered Pierre Bonnard in New York, then Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol in Paris. This exhibition constitutes her first retrospective.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (FR) 13 April 2022 Loan
Le Théâtre des émotions
Bringing together almost eighty works dating from the Middle Ages to the present day, coming from both private collections and prestigious French and international museums, the exhibition retraces the history of emotions and their pictorial expression from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS) 9 April 2022 Loan
Erró: The Power of Images
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús is opening Erró: The Power of images, a comprehensive overview of the artist's career that has made use of various media in the visual arts. Erró is one of the few Icelandic artists who has gained a foothold in the international art scene.
Musée d’archéologie méditerranéenne – Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (FR) 8 April 2022 Loan
Objets migrateurs. Trésors sous influences
“Objects in migration” have always existed, whether we are considering populations, deities, ideas, languages, or the like. In the present day, when the reception of those designated as “migrants” is increasingly on the agenda, especially in the Mediterranean area, the Museums of Marseille wish to highlight some exemplary journeys, de-demonize the idea of migration, and show how these migrating objects – a source of cultural enrichment – contributed to form, spread and develop the civilization we consider as ours.
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbonne (PT) 17 February 2022 Loan
Gérard Fromanger. O Esplendor
The Gérard Fromanger (1939-2021) exhibition at Lisbon's Museu Coleção Berardo features a number of series that characterise the artist's work: twenty-six in all, including more than sixty major paintings, drawings and silksreen print as well as his Film-tract from 1968, which was made with Jean-Luc Godard.
La contemporaine, Nanterre (FR) 19 January 2022 Loan
Élie Kagan, Photographe indépendant 1960-1990
La contemporaine pays tribute to Élie Kagan (1928-1999), a socio-politically engaged photographer and formidable archivist of his epoch. The exhibition makes use of over 200,000 images – negatives, prints, contact sheets and slides – accompanied by professional archives, entrusted to La contemporaine in 1999 by the photographer’s family.
2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (ES) 27 November 2021 Partnership
Vasos Comunicantes. Colección 1881-2021.
Within the context of its partnership with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía established since 2015, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art plays a role in the new presentation of the Museum’s permanent collection, unveiled in November 2021, and entitled Vasos Comunicantes. Colección 1881-2021. Thirteen works from the Fondation’s fine art collection have been lent to the Museum and can be seen in the Doble exposición: el arte y la Guerra Fría section.
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL) 21 November 2021 Loan
Calder Now
This coming autumn, Kunsthal Rotterdam presents Calder Now, an extensive exhibition that explores for the first time in Europe the modern master’s enduring and unmistakable influence on contemporary art. Calder Now presents twenty sculptures by Alexander Calder alongside works by ten prominent contemporary artists.
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston (USA) 20 November 2021 Partnership
Long-term partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science
The long-term partnership between the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art and the Houston Museum of Natural Science established in 2021 is the first of its kind pertaining to the foundation’s archaeology collection. The initial loan consists of a selection of fifteen ancient Egyptian artefacts that are presented among the permanent collection of the Museum.
2019
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.
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont 7 February 2019
Presentation of the fragments of the tomb of Autrevillle
Two fragments belong to the Chaumont Museum, the other two are a deposit of the Archaeological Museum of the City of Dijon and a long-term loan from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art.
Past news
Éloge de la lumière (In Praise of Light), Pierre Soulages – Tanabe Chikuunsai IV
Fondation Baur, Genève (CH)
17 November 2021
Amazons of Pop! Women Artists, Superheroines, Icons 1961-1973
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (DE)
2 October 2021
United States of Abstraction. Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964
Musée Fabre, Montpellier (FR)
5 August 2021
Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (US)
1 August 2021
United States of Abstraction. Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964
Musée d'art de Nantes
16 May 2021
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles 1950-1980. Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
Musée d'art de Pully (CH)
2 March 2021
Colloque international Quel avenir pour les « œuvres orphelines » ? Réflexions sur les biens culturels sans provenance
3 February 2021
Le Mural-nomade. Tapisseries modernes et contemporaines
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux (FR)
22 September 2020
Jean Dubuffet, a barbarian in Europe
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG), Geneva (CH)
8 September 2020
Peter Saul
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
Le Delta - Espace Culturel Provincial, Namur (BE)
7 March 2020
Otto Freundlich (1878-1943) La révélation de l’abstraction
Museum of Montmartre Renoir Gardens, Paris (FR)
28 February 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
Hans Hartung, la fabrique du geste
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR)
11 October 2019
Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa
IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valence (ES)
8 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
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
