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

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.

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.

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.