Jean Dubuffet

The swell of the virtual

Palais des arts et du festival, Dinard, France
31-05-2026 / 20-09-2026

From 31 May to 20 September 2026, the City of Dinard is presenting an exhibition dedicated to Jean Dubuffet at the Palais des Arts et du Festival, organised in close collaboration with the Dubuffet Foundation.

The exhibition 'Jean Dubuffet. The swell of the virtual' offers an in-depth immersion into one of his most emblematic and prolific cycles: L'Hourloupe. Through a collection of one hundred and fifty works (paintings, drawings, sculptures, models, etc.), the exhibition traces the genesis and successive developments of this immediately recognizable graphic universe, made up of sinuous and hatched lines in shades of red, blue, white and black.

Le langage des murs.

Estampages de la Chine à Notre-Dame

Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
18-03-2026 / 28-06-2026

Quatrième exposition présentée dans le cabinet des Dessins, Papiers peints et Photographies, cette exposition-focus illustre la pratique de l’estampage à travers une sélection inédite des collections chinoise et française du musée des Arts décoratifs, d’Eugène Grasset à Jean Dubuffet en passant par Émile-Auguste Reiber.

Jean Dubuffet et la Tour aux figures

Une aventure monumentale

Musée Français de la Carte à jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
03-12-2025 / 28-06-2026

Forty years ago, in 1985, Jean Dubuffet chose the location for his highest sculpture, the Tour aux figures (Tower of figures). It will be on the Île Saint-Germain (Saint-Germain Island), in the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris. To mark the anniversary of the chosen location, the French Museum of the Playing Card in Issy-les-Moulineaux is dedicating an exceptional exhibition to the Tour aux figures, from 3 December 2025 to 28 June 2026. Made in partnership with the Dubuffet Foundation, the exhibition retraces the history and construction of this monumental work with a wide selection of sculptures, drawings, paintings and a large number of archive documents, some of which have never been seen before.

Clair-obscur

Bourse du commerce, Paris, France
04-03-2026 / 24-08-2026

The Bourse de Commerce is offering visitors a sensory experience in which the visible meets the invisible. Chiaroscuro thus emerges as a renewed visual and symbolic language, a narrative device, and a philosophical principle, expressing both the materiality of light and the shadow areas of our unconscious.

This exhibition showcases the works of 28 artists, including Jean Dubuffet. Among the highlights is the painting Monsieur Macadam, the artist’s first work created using tar.

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.

Drawing outside the lines

Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou's collection

Grand Palais RMN, Paris, France
16-12-2025 / 15-03-2026

Over 300 works on paper from the Centre Pompidou’s graphic arts collection are on display at the Grand Palais from 16 December 2025 to 15 March 2026. The exhibition highlights more than 120 artists through a sensitive approach organized around four sequences: studying, narrating, drawing and animating.

Many artists have embraced this original and cathartic mode of expression to push the boundaries of art: beyond the sheet of paper or the traditional sketchbook, drawing extends to other media and opens up to other practices.

This is especially true of Jean Dubuffet, whose work is represented by a rich selection from the ‘Métro’ series. Jean Dubuffet experimented with tools, ranging from coloured pencils to markers, felt-tip pens and Indian ink, but he also explored numerous techniques, such as scraping, collage, engraving and lithography.

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.