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Exhibition
Dubuffet Monumental
Dubuffet Foundation, Paris, France
12-02-2025 / 11-07-2025
“Dubuffet Monumental” explores a little-known aspect of the artist: Dubuffet the architect. The exhibition brings together fifteen models of monuments and numerous archives showing how his unique vision of architecture, which emerged from the whimsical world of L'Hourloupe, became reality.
The exhibition accompanies the publication of the latest edition of the Catalogue of Jean Dubuffet's work: “Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres”. This volume lists all of Jean Dubuffet's monumental works around the world, from 1969 to the present day.
Exhibition
Dubuffet et les magiciens
Expressions singulières 1945-2000
Musée du Niel, Hyères, France
03-05-2025 / 02-11-2025
Musée du Niel in Hyères presents, from May 3rd until November 2nd, a selection of works from non-conventional and outsider artists which have left their mark in the second half of the 20th century. Jean Dubuffet serves as an entry point in this journey.
Exhibition
Jean Dubuffet
Banc-salon et Cerfs-volants
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
20-03-2025 / 30-04-2025
In spring 2025, three concurrent exhibitions explore Jean Dubuffet’s sculpted works. In Paris, “Dubuffet Monumental” (12 Feb – 11 July) at the Fondation Dubuffet, and “Banc-salon et Cerfs-volants” at Galerie Lelong; in New York, “The Hourloupe Cycle” (13 Mar – 26 Apr) at Pace Gallery.
In 2024, on its fiftieth anniversary, the Fondation Dubuffet made an edition of Banc-salon and two Cerfs-volants, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong and Pace Gallery. Based on the artist’s original models, these works are the heart of this exhibition.
Since December 2024, Galerie Lelong in Paris handles the distribution of the issues of the Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. A new issue, titled Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres, will be published this spring.
Exhibition
Jean Dubuffet
The Hourloupe cycle
Pace Gallery, New York, USA
13-03-2025 / 26-04-2025
Pace Gallery is honored to present a major exhibition of works from Jean Dubuffet’s celebrated Hourloupe cycle. On view from March 13 to April 26 at the gallery’s 540 West 25th Street location in New York, the exhibition has been conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fondation Dubuffet last year.
It brings together a selection of important paintings, sculptures, and architectural models from public and private collections, including the monumental canvas Nunc Stans—among the largest paintings that Dubuffet ever created—on loan from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Exhibition
Planque Collection
Chapelle des Pénitents blancs, Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
01-01-2025 / 31-12-2025
From 1959 to 1965 Jean Planque was closely associated to Jean Dubuffet, as he ensured the relations between the artist and his galleries, notably the Beyeler gallery in Basel, of which he was its advisor at the time. The artist appreciated the perspective Planque brought to his work and he admitted later in 1974: “Among all those who make a show of caring about art productions, only a few really represent them as fervently as you, for whom they are an essential nutriment”.
During this fruitful collaboration, around 15 paintings were received and acquired in Switzerland, all dating from the years in which the painter radically shifted from the Matériologies to the first Hourloupe inventions.
This remarkable collection, which since then belongs to the Fondation Jean and Suzanne Planque, created in 1997, is on show at the Chapelle des Pénitents, annex to the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, at least until the end of 2025.
Lecture
Déborah Lehot-Couette et Jules Haudry-Hurault
04-03-2025
Exhibition
Daniel Cordier, Memoirs of a life
1920-2020
Galerie Gallimard, Paris, France
24-01-2025 / 15-03-2025
On the occasion of the publication of Rétro-Chaos , the last volume of Daniel Cordier's memoirs, the Galerie Gallimard presents a new exhibition devoted to the life of this great memoirist and historian, curated by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon.
Around a hundred pieces are on display, loaned by Daniel Cordier's family, by the National Archives, by the Dubuffet Foundation and by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, who worked with him from 1989 and published his unpublished texts.
Publication
Rétro-chaos
Memoirs
Daniel Cordier
Prefaced, edited, and annotated by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Paris, Gallimard, 2025
Rétro-chaos is Daniel Cordier's life story, from childhood to the writing of Alias Caracalla. Mixing unpublished anecdotes and retrospective reflections with his usual spontaneity, he revisits his relationship with Jean Dubuffet, at a time when he was a major figure on the contemporary art market.
Other
Podcast - City art with Jean Dubuffet
Tour aux figures, Île-Saint-Germain, Issy-Les-Moulineaux
01-03-2024 / 30-11-2024
What role can monumental art play in the city? How did Jean Dubuffet redefine monumental art to engage with the city and its inhabitants?
These are the questions explored in this immersive and documentary sound piece about Jean Dubuffet's iconic ‘Tour aux Figures’. The project reveals the richness of this mysterious tower, located in the heart of the Ile Saint-Germain park, by combining sound recordings, personal stories and poetic narration.
The work offers a sensitive experience: a sonic journey through the spaces and materials of the tower, where the voices of visitors and the sounds captured on site interact with the architecture. It's an exploration that invites us to escape, to dream and to rethink our relationship with art and landscape.
This sound creation is available on all podcast platforms.
Exhibition
Dubuffet et l'Art Brut
L'art outsider
MUDEC, Milan, Italie
12-10-2024 / 16-02-2025
The MUDEC is presenting "Dubuffet and Art Brut. Outsider Art", from October 12, 2024 to February 16, 2025 in Milano. The exhibition presents a body of works and documents that place the invention of the concept of Art Brut in a historical perspective, relative to Jean Dubuffet’s work.
Exhibition
Materia
Clavé Fine Art, Paris, France
13-10-2024 / 01-02-2025
The exhibition « MATERIA » at Clavé Fine Art brings together the works of Jean Dubuffet, Claude de Soria, Claudine Drai and François Réau, with a focus on the reflection and working with matter.
Exhibition
Accross the fields
Modernity and rurality in the collection of the Centre Pompidou
Musée Crozatier, Puy-en-Velay, France
29-06-2024 / 05-01-2025
The exhibition "Accross the fields" explores the world of rurality through the eyes of 20th-century painters and photographers in France and Europe. Two paintings of Jean Dubuffet are exhibited, Campagne heureuse and Paysage vineux (1944).
Exhibition
Georges Noël / Jean Dubuffet
Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
05-10-2024 / 02-11-2024
Georges Noël (1924-2010) invented his own pictorial language, by confronting first the work of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985).
To mark the 100th anniversary of Georges Noël's birth, the Christophe Gaillard gallery is bringing together around twenty of his works, exhibited alongside historic works by the painter Jean Dubuffet on loan from the Fondation.
Publication
Fondation Dubuffet
Françoise Bonnefoy
Paris, nouvelles éditions Scala, 2024
Published for the 50th anniversary of the Dubuffet Foundation, this new opus of the collection ‘L'esprit du lieu’ printed by Scala invites the reader to discover the two sites of the institution. One is in Paris, in a 19th century private mansion that regularly presents temporary exhibitions. The other one is in Périgny-sur-Yerres and presents Jean Dubuffet's major work, the Closerie Falbabla.
Other
European Heritage Days
Périgny-sur-Yerres
21-09-2024 / 22-09-2024
The Dubuffet Foundation is taking part in the 41st European Heritage Days. To mark the occasion, the Closerie Falbala, a major work by Jean Dubuffet built between 1970 and 1973 and listed as a Historic Monument in 1998, is open to the public free of charge.
Visits are already fully booked!
Other
A new management team at the Foundation
Dubuffet Foundation, Paris
16-09-2024
On 27 June 2024, the Board elected Stanislas Ract-Madoux as Chairman of the Dubuffet Fondation and Oliver Donat as Director of the institution. This new team succeeds to François Gibault and Sophie Webel, who worked to promote the work of Jean Dubuffet for over twenty years. Together, Stanislas Ract-Madoux and Olivier Donat will continue their mission to protect and promote the work of Jean Dubuffet.
Exhibition
Fondation Dubuffet: a chronicle of 50 years of activity
The Anniversary Exhibition
Fondation Dubuffet, Paris, France
15-03-2024 / 21-12-2024
Throughout 2024, the Fondation Dubuffet will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. Recognized of public utility by decree on November 22, 1974, the Foundation is one of the few institutions in France whose founder was the artist himself. While the first ten years were closely linked to the artist's activities, since Jean Dubuffet's death it has remained very much alive and active.
Exhibition
Outside the Lines : Late Paintings of Jean Dubuffet
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
08-07-2024 / 02-09-2024
The upcoming exhibition of the Jonathan Novak gallery showcase exceptional works from the artist’s later period, spanning the years from 1979 to 1983. The exhibition features paintings from three distinct series : Brefs exercices d’école journalière, Psycho-sites, and Mires.
Exhibition
Fashion, Design, Jewellery
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
03-04-2024 / 10-11-2024
For the first time, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents a selection of haute couture and ready-to-wear pieces, as well as jewelry and costume jewelry, in the permanent galleries dedicated to design from the 20th century to the present day. 30 fashion silhouettes and 100 pieces of jewelry from prestigious designers and fashion houses interact with the great names in design.
This display includes one of the dresses created by Jean Dubuffet for his "Coucou Bazar" show, and donated to the museum in 2006 by Margit Rowell.
Exhibition
The Beauty of Diversity
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
16-02-2024 / 18-08-2024
The exhibition "The Beauty of Diversity" presents the rich depth and breadth of the ALBERTINA Museum’s contemporary collections while demonstrating the essential turn toward women and LGBTQIA+ artists, people of color, aboriginal artistic stances, and autodidacts, all of whose works stand out before the contrasting foil of the Old Masters.
Exhibition
Hommage to Michel Ragon
Expression et non-figruation
Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, France
31-03-2024 / 31-03-2025
Michel Ragon (1924 - 2020) had more than one string to his bow. Writer, poet, historian, essayist, novelist, art and architecture critic, he was an early proponent of abstract art and became a fellow traveler of the Cobra group. Author of numerous texts on Jean Dubuffet published between 1951 and 2006, he devoted a monograph to him published by Fall in 1958.
Exhibition
The Truthful Eye. The Museum in the Second Degree
A new hanging of the collection
MAC VAL musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
13-05-2023 / 02-12-2024
Related to Gérard Genette and his work Palimpsests. Literature in the Second Degree (1982), this new hanging of the collection aims to meet a demand: the desire to revisit or even rediscover works from the permanent collections that, for the most part, have not been shown since the museum first opened in 2005.
Exhibition
Eyewitness - Kurt Wyss in dialogue with Jean Dubuffet
photo basel
Volkshaus Basel, Basel, Switzerland
11-06-2024 / 16-06-2024
In this year's edition, photo basel is dedicating a special exhibition to Basel photographer Kurt Wyss (*1936). With "Eyewitness Kurt Wyss in Dialogue with Jean Dubuffet" we are presenting an insight into an important phase of his photographic work. Kurt Wyss first photographed Jean Dubuffet in 1970, and their collaboration lasted until th artist's death.
Exhibition
Jean Dubuffet - Banc-salon et Cerfs-volants
Art Basel - Pace Gallery & Galerie Lelong & Co
Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
13-06-2024 / 16-06-2024
During his decade-long involvement in the Hourloupe cylce, Jean Dubuffet prepared models and precise specifications for architectural and sculptural completion. Banc-Salon, as well as the Cerfs-volants Le Digité et Le Tétrapode, are both culptures and pieces of furniture originally conceived to furnish the Cabinet logologique, belong to this cycle. These new editions (6 copies each), produced in collaboration with Galerie Lelong under the supervision of the Fondation Dubuffet, are presented for the first time at Art Basel.'
Exhibition
Perceptions Unveiled
Jean Dubuffet and Allan McCollum
Fleiss-Vallois, New York, USA
16-05-2024 / 27-05-2024
Gallery 1900-2000 NYC is pleased to present an exhibition combining works by Jean Dubuffet and Allan McCollum.Works by Jean Dubuffet from the ‘Matériologies’ and ‘Texturologies’ series create a dialogue with Allan McCollum's ‘Perpetual Photo’ series, which began in 1972 when the artist began photographing television screens at any time of day.
Exhibition
Dubuffet x Giacometti
Nahmad Contemporary, New York, USA
01-05-2024 / 08-06-2024
Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to present "Dubuffet x Giacometti", a long overdue tête-à-tête between two of the most significant artists of the 20th century, on view from May 1 through June 8, 2024. Despite moving in the same Parisian circles, sharing a gallerist and concurrently introducing their unique postwar European sensibilities to New York, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti have only once been presented together in a dedicated pairing: at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, in 1968. After more than half a century and countless solo and group exhibitions across the globe, "Dubuffet x Giacometti" juxtaposes a careful selection of more than 20 works by these iconic artists, including paintings and sculptures.
Exhibition
Festival du dessin. La joie de l'innocence
Jean Dubuffet / Robert Coutelas
Musée Réattu, Arles, France
20-04-2024 / 19-05-2024
Following the success of last year's exhibition of drawings and prints by Pierre Alechinsky, the Musée Réattu is continuing its partnership with the Festival du Dessin by hosting this year's exhibition, "La joie de l'innocence", bringing together two artists who made drawing the privileged agent of their creative freedom and perpetual reinvention: Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) and Robert Coutelas (1930-1985).
On this occasion, 55 drawings by Jean Dubuffet from the collections of the Musée des Arts décoratifs are being presented to the public.
Exhibition
The Choice of paint
Another history of abstraction, 1962-1989
Musée de Tessé, Le Mans, France
10-02-2024 / 09-06-2024
This exhibition examines three decades of abstract painting in France, from the early 1960s to the 1980s. It brings together artists whose approach was based on a new conception of gesture, the role of color and the notion of the painting. For the exhibition, the Fondation Dubuffet loan Mire Kowloon G21, painted by Jean Dubuffet in March 1983.
Publication
Amateur d'art. Alias Caracalla 1946-1977
suivi de Monsieur et Madame Dubuffet n'ont pas eu le fils qu'ils méritaient
Daniel Cordier
Prefaced, edited, and annotated by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Paris, Gallimard, 2024
Daniel Cordier has had many lives. Alias Caracalla follows up after the war. Jean Moulin’s former secretary turns to art. He sets up a collection with works of De Staël or Hartung, then opens his galleries in Paris, New York, and Frankfurt, where he exhibits Jean Dubuffet, among others.
This edition includes unpublished pages and illustration from Daniel Cordier’s life, as well as an incomplete biographical text dedicated to Jean Dubuffet, whose first retrospective exhibition was organized in 1959.