Ubu painter

Alfred Jarry and the arts

Musée Picasso, Barcelone, Espagne
27-11-2025 / 05-04-2026

This exhibition explores the figure of Alfred Jarry and his influence on 20th-century art and thought. The exhibition brings together works, books, graphic art, and drawings by Jarry alongside pieces by artists from his circle, such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles Filiger, George Rouault, and the Nabis. It also highlights the impact that the playwright had on the Surrealists and on the artists of the Collège de Pataphysique, such as Jean Dubuffet and Enrico Baj. In addition, the exhibition also includes contemporary works by William Kentridge, which explore the relevance of the themes Alfred Jarry addressed in his play and its despotic, corrupt, and totalitarian characters. The exhibition concludes with a final section that examines the reception of his work in Catalonia.

Jean Dubuffet & Niki de Saint Phalle, Chassés croisés

Fondation Dubuffet, Paris, France
01-10-2025 / 13-02-2026

The Dubuffet Foundation presents ‘Jean Dubuffet & Niki de Saint Phalle, Chassés croisés’ from 1 October 2025 to 13 February 2026.

This exhibition explores key thematic intersections between Jean Dubuffet and Niki de Saint Phalle, focusing on their subversive approach to the female body, their experimentation with various materials, their distinctive treatment of landscape, and their shared ambition to create large-scale sculptural and architectural works. This dialogue is based on significant connections, for example Saint Phalle's early discovery of Dubuffet's work in Paris in the 1950s.

Organised in partnership with the Niki Charitable Art Foundation (NCAF), this unique confrontation brings together more than 60 works by Jean Dubuffet and Niki de Saint Phalle from public and private collections.

An exhibition catalogue is available and several events will be scheduled alongside the exhibition: meetings, conferences and a seminar.

Jean Dubuffet & Niki de Saint Phalle, Chassés croisés

Carnet d'exposition #2

Déborah Lehot-Couette
Paris, Fondation Dubuffet, 2025

This second issue of the Dubuffet Foundation booklets, Jean Dubuffet & Niki de Saint Phalle, Chassés croisés, accompanies the exhibition of the same name presented in Paris from 1 October 2025 to 13 February 2026.

In this booklet, you will find the exhibition texts, biographies and chronologies of the two artists, images of the works on display and photographic archives.

Graphic design: Bernard Lagacé et Lysandre Le Cléac'h

Jean Dubuffet

L'Hourloupe et son sillage (1962-1982)

Opera Gallery, Paris, France
16-10-2025 / 12-11-2025

Opera Gallery Paris presents ‘Jean Dubuffet: L’Hourloupe et son sillage (1962–1982)’, an exhibition dedicated to Jean Dubuffet's most famous series, L'Hourloupe. Coinciding with Paris Art Week 2025 and marking the 40th anniversary of Dubuffet’s passing, the show explores the genesis, peak, and legacy of the L’Hourloupe cycle and its lasting impact on modern and contemporary art.

Seminar

Slavko Kopac - Il tesoro nascosto

Déborah Lehot-Couette
Firenze, Italy, 9am-8pm
17-10-2025

On Friday 17 October 2025, the seminar 'KOPAC, DUBUFFET, FALZONI, BRETON… Un’avventura internazionale tra Surrealismo, Arte Informale e Art Brut' will be taking place at the Museo Novecento and at the French Institute in Firenze, Italy, from 9 am to 8 pm.

This seminar is being organised to accompany the exhibition ‘Slavko Kopac, il tesoro nascosto’ currently on display at the Accademia del Disegno in Firenze.

Déborah Lehot-Couette, director of scientific program and collections at the Dubuffet Foundation and Art Brut specialist, will give a presentation about the links between Jean Dubuffet and Slavko Kopac. United by a close friendship, the two artists were also bound by Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut collection, of which Slavko Kopac was the curator for several years.

Jean Dubuffet

The daily challenge

Jean-Louis Prat, Thomas Wierzbinski et Déborah Lehot-Couette
Brioude, Le Doyenné, 2025

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) defied all trends in modern and contemporary art. A relentless individualist who rebelled against fine arts and institutions, he fought against a suffocating culture all his life. Refusing to be categorised, Jean Dubuffet was a writer, painter, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor, architect and musician. His inventive work is marked by multiple experimentations.

Forty years after the retrospective exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Jean-Louis Prat invites us to rediscover the work of this extraordinary artist who, from 1942 to 1985, never ceased to challenge himself to produce a deeply original work.

Through a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, prints and illustrated books, the exhibition entitled Jean Dubuffet: The Daily Challenge bears witness to the vitality and modernity of this unique body of work, which still manages to surprise us today.

Jean Dubuffet

Le défi au quotidien

Le Doyenné, Brioude, France
28-06-2025 / 02-11-2025

Forty years after the retrospective exhibition at Fondation Maeght, Jean-Louis Prat invites you to (re)discover the works of Jean Dubuffet at Doyenné in Broiude, in collaboration with the Fondation Dubuffet.

Through a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, prints and illustrated books, the exhibition shows the vitality and modernity of this unclassifiable work, which to this day still manages to surprise us.

All the works exposed are part of the collection of Fondation Dubuffet.

Visages magiques

Gaston Chaissac & les autres

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud, France
07-06-2025 / 05-10-2025

This year, Fontevraud Museum of Modern Art has chosen to present the work of Gaiston Chaissac, a unique figure whose life is intrinsically linked to the region of Pays de la Loire. He is situated at the crossroads of several fields of art – modern and contemporary, art Brut, folk art.

Marking this exhibition is a comparison between works of Chaissac and major modern artists like Pablo Picasso, Otto Freundlich and Jean Dubuffet, which is then completed with a selection of non-Western works and ethnographic objects, as well as with a contemporary counterpoint in the form of interventions by painter Romain Bernini.

A series of ten lithographs has been lent by the Fondation Dubuffet for this exhibition.

Animal?!

Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau, France
14-06-2025 / 02-11-2025

The thematic and collective exhibition Animal!?, curated by Christian Alandete, offers a cross-disciplinary, cross-historical approach to the place of the animal in artistic representation. Probably one of history’s first subjects in art, the animal appears sicne cave paintings and spans throughout the centuries until today carrying the same importance.

Jean Dubuffet’s Le Chien (profil à gauche) (1973) from our collection is presented in the exhibition until November 2^nd.

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 3^rd until November 2^nd, a selection of works from non-conventional and outsider artists which have left their mark in the second half of the 20^th century. Jean Dubuffet serves as an entry point in this journey.

Reverse alchemy

Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava

Pace Gallery, Berlin, Allemagne
02-05-2025 / 14-06-2025

The Pace Gallery in Berlin presents works by Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Nava. Focusing on the redefinition of figuration by the three artists, this exhibition shows ‘an expressive immediacy that abolishes the divisions between abstraction and figuration’ and celebrates lively and instinctive creativity beyond academic traditions.

European Heritage Days

Périgny-sur-Yerres
20-09-2025 / 21-09-2025

The Dubuffet Foundation is taking part in the 42d 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.

Reservations required by filling in the form below :

• Saturday 09-20-2025, 10 am
• Saturday 09-20-2025, 2.30 pm
• Sunday 09-21-2025, 10 am
• Sunday 09-21-2025, 2.30 pm

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.

Dubuffet Monumental

Carnet d'exposition #1

Sophie Webel et Déborah Lehot-Couette
Paris, Fondation Dubuffet, 2025

The team of Fondation Dubuffet is pleased to present to you its new collection of exhibition booklets. Published by the Fondation, each book will complement our exhibitions.

This first issue, Dubuffet Monumental, accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on show in Paris from February 12 to July 11 2025.

In this book, you will rediscover all the texts, the list of Jean Dubuffet’s works which are to be found in the public space, in France and abroad, color reproductions of his sculptures, archival documentation and photographic views of the exhibition.

Graphic design: Bernard Lagacé and Lysandre Le Cléac'h

Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres

Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - Fascicule XXXIX
Paris, Fondation Dubuffet, 2025

Fascicule XXIX Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres", latest volume of the Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, is finally out!

This new volume lists all of Jean Dubuffet’s monumental sculptures made around the world since 1968 until today. Fully illustrated in color, this volume will allow you to discover the monumental works created during the artist’s life, as well as after his death, under the supervision of the Fondation Dubuffet.

This volume is available at the bookshop of Fondation Dubuffet and online on the website of Galerie Lelong.

Habitats, Closerie Falbala, Salon d'été

(1969-1977)

Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - fascicule XXXI
Introduction by Jean Dubuffet
Paris, Minuit, 1981

Out of print since many months, fascicule XXXI of the Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet has been republished in a new edition, updated by the Fondation Dubuffet. This volume, "Habitats, Closerie Falbala, Salon d'été", puts the emphasis on the construction of the Closerie and Villa Falbala, between 1973 and 1976.

This volume is available at the bookshop of Fondation Dubuffet and online on the website of Galerie Lelong.

Writing workshops

Scribulations Hourloupéennes

Fondation Dubuffet, Paris

As part of the exhibition “Dubuffet Monumental”, the Fondation Dubuffet organizes a series of writing workshops. Hosted by Etienne Orsini and in partnership with Espace Andrée Chedid, a series of stimulating propositions and writing challenges will allow you to sharpen your eye and your writing skills while exploring the in-and-outs of Jean Dubuffet’s universe. Your writing will be shared in the second half of the session.

The workshop will be preceded by a guided visit of the exhibition.

Visit-workshop for families (children aged 3-6 / 7-10)

Le monde s'hourloupe!

Fondation Dubuffet, Paris, 9h-10h

On the occasion of « Dubuffet Monumental”, the Fondation Dubuffet is launching a series of visits-workshops for families to discover the exhibition with their children. The workshop will offer a playful tour of the rooms around the theme of the “Hourloupe”, the parallel world created by Jean Dubuffet in 1962 from a series of Bic pen doodles.

Two visits are proposed: for children aged 3-6 and children aged 7-10.

Conférence #2 - Dubuffet vu par Manuelle Gautrand

Regard d'un architecte sur un autre architecte

Manuelle Gautrand, architecte
ADAGP, 11 rue Duguay Trouin, Paris 6e, 7 p.m.
21-05-2025

The Fondation Dubuffet continues its series of conferences in collaboration with ADAGP. On this second appointment, architect Manuelle Gautrand, creator of several large-scale projects in France and abroad, will take us on an architectural walk through the work of Jean Dubuffet. This conference is part of the exhibition program for “Dubuffet Monumental”.

Dubuffet Monumental

Dans les coulisses des ateliers

Sophie Webel (co-commissaire de l'exposition "Dubuffet Monumental"), Pierre Girard et Martin Guyot (Atelier Revery), Clémentine Bollard (Conservateur-Restaurateur, Doctorante à l’université de Cergy)
ADAGP, 11 rue Duguay Trouin, Paris 6e, 7 p.m.
24-04-2025

The Fondation Dubuffet presents a series of conferences in collaboration with ADAGP. The first conference in this series is titled “Dubuffet Monumental. Dans les coulisses des atelier” and it was created in relation to our current exhibition at the Fondation Dubuffet, “Dubuffet Monumental”.

Sophie Webel, previous director of the Fondation Dubuffet, Pierre Girard and Martin Guyot of Atelier Revery, and Clémentin Bollard, Curator-Restorer and PhD at Cergy University, will unveil the behind-the-scenes of Jean Dubuffet’s studios, from 1970 until today.

This event will take place in the auditorium of ADAGP Thursday 24^th, April at 7 p.m. Admission to the conference is free and must be booked in advance via the link below.

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.

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.