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Loan August 2025
SUMŌ – Absolute Balance
From August 2, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Museum of Asian Arts in Nice will host an exhibition dedicated to sumō – a high-level sport with deeply ancestral and traditional roots. This immersive exploration of the balance between movement and stillness in sumō wrestling will be accompanied by numerous works of art, including a loan from the Fondation.
Loan July 2025
Pierre Soulages. La Rencontre
From 28 June 2025 to 4 January 2026, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole will celebrate its bicentenary with an exhibition dedicated to Pierre Soulages. The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is taking part in this event by lending two paintings by the artist.
Loan June 2025
POP MODELS: Women in European Pop Art
The POP MODELS exhibition at the More Museum in Gorssel (NL) becomes the first museum to put women in Pop Art at centre stage, not only as (top) model or muses but also as creators. By lending 14 artworks, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art takes part in this examination of the representation of women.
Exhibition June 2025
In the Eye of the Collector: Paving the Way for the Future Museum in Caen
As the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art prepares to inaugurate its museum by 2030, the City of Caen is organising, in collaboration with the Fondation, a unique exhibition dedicated to the collector Jean Claude Gandur, running from 26 June to 28 September 2025 at Caen Town Hall.
loan June 2025
Animal !?
The thematic and group exhibition Animal!? offers a cross-disciplinary and transhistorical exploration of the place of animals in artistic representation. Arguably one of the earliest subjects in the history of art, animals have appeared since prehistoric cave paintings and have remained a central motif across the centuries up to the present day. On this occasion, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending ancient artefacts and post-war paintings.
Loan June 2025
Le Mystère Cléopâtre
Among the great female figures in history, Cleopatra, the last sovereign of Egypt, remains the most popular. The exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe from June 11, 2025, to 11 January 11, 2026, explores the legends that have contributed to her fame, as well as recent archaeological discoveries about her. For this exhibition, the Fondation is lending 10 objects from its archaeology collection.
