2024
1 July 2024 Agenda
Summer Staples
With Summer just around the corner, the Fondation invites you to discover its selection of staple exhibitions. Enjoy your break!
Site archéologique Lattara, Musée Henri Prades (FR) 20 June 2024 Loan
Senteurs célestes
arômes du passé
The exhibition Senteurs célestes, arômes du passé (Heavenly scents, aromas of the past), presented at the Site archéologique Lattara, Musée Henri Prades, in Montpellier from the 20th of June 2024 to the 3rd of February 2025, invites its visitors to explore the history of scents in the ancient Mediterranean. Two works from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art are on loan for the occasion.
Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux 20 June 2024 Loan
Vivre et mourir en Égypte
The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art lends ten works to the Musée d'Aquitaine, located in Bordeaux, for the exhibition Vivre et mourir en Égypte (Living and Dying in Egypt) running from the 27th of June to the 3rd of November 2024. This exhibition offers an unprecedented exploration of the cultural exchanges that took place between the Greeks and Egyptians during the Ptolemaic era.
Caen, France 24 May 2024 Announcement
The city of Caen will welcome the collections of the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
Jean Claude Gandur announces choosing the city of Caen to make accessible and visible to all the artworks he collected, which now form the World-Class collections that the Fondation aspires to preserve and showcase. The future museum, a beacon of cross-generational interactions, will serve as a hub for diverse public engagement. It will be a space where people of all ages and backgrounds can meet, learn, and share through the five main fields of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art.
La Boverie, Liège (BE) 24 May 2024 Loan
Abstrait :
No less than seven major artworks from the fine art collection are on temporary display at La Boverie, Musée des Beaux-arts de Liège (BE), as part of the « Abstrait: » exhibition on view from May 31 to August 18, 2024.
HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art 24 May 2024 Loan
Socle du Monde: Do it
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art is lending twenty works by artists of the New Realism movement to the HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art from May 24 to November 24, 2024, for the first exhibition of this group in Denmark.
São Bento Palace, Lisbon 24 April 2024 Loan
A nós a liberdade
Among events to celebrate the Carnation Revolution, Portugal devotes a solo exhibition to artist Helena Maria Vieira da Silva at the São Bento Palace. The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art takes part in this event through the loan of a work from its collection.
Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens (FR) 25 March 2024 Loan
Subterranean Worlds
Echoing the Hauts-de-France region’s history, the Louvre-Lens presents a thematic exhibition about subterranean worlds. This authentic yet invisible universe has fed humanity’s fantasies and hopes. To illustrate the infernal creatures whose imaginations have often inhabited the earth’s bowels, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art lends a fascinating Lavamano decorated with devils from the Tuscan Renaissance.
KunstHausWien, Museum Hundertwasser 28 February 2024 Loan
Long-term loan to the Museum Hundertwasser
Inaugurated on February 28, the KunstHausWien, which houses the Museum Hundertwasser, reopened in its completely renovated original building with a new display of its permanent collection. On this occasion, the Fondation pour l'Art loans over a three-year period "Le Presque Cercle" from the Austrian painter.
Grey Art Museum, New York, US 27 February 2024 loan
Americans in Paris
For its reopening, NYU's Grey Art Museum dedicates its first exhibition to American artists, who flocked to the City of Light after World War II. Americans in Paris explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more during the period from 1946 to 1962.
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES) 21 February 2024 loan
Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art
To mark the centenary of the birth of Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012), the Museo Reina Sofía and Fundació Antoni Tàpies have organised a major retrospective on the artist. With more than 220 works from museums and private collections from all over the world to shine a light on his career arc from 1943 to 2012.
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne (CH) 9 February 2024 loan
Nicolas de Staël
The Fondation de l’Hermitage is partnering with the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris / Paris Musées to stage a major retrospective of Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), a key figure in post-war art.
2023
19 December 2023 publication
Quel avenir pour les œuvres orphelines ?
Press release of the proceedings volume of the symposium organised by the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, the Art Law Centre of the University of Geneva and UNIDROIT Quel avenir pour les œuvres orphelines ? (University of Geneva, Art Law Centre, 4-5 February 2021).
Fondation Opale, Lens (CH) 17 December 2023 loan
High Five !
The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art is taking part in the High Five! exhibition at the Fondation Opale in Lens (VS) from 17 December 2023 to 14 April 2024.
Műcsarnok — Kunsthalle, Budapest 4 October 2023 loan
REIGL JUDIT 100 – Judit Reigl and the Second School of Paris
In addition to Paris and Berlin, Budapest is also paying tribute to the painter Judit Reigl, who was born in Hungary 100 years ago. To crown the events celebrating the centenary, the Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest is organising a major retrospective presenting the seven decades of the artist's life and work.
2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (ES) 27 November 2021 Partnership
Vasos Comunicantes. Colección 1881-2021.
Within the context of its partnership with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía established since 2015, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art plays a role in the new presentation of the Museum’s permanent collection, unveiled in November 2021, and entitled Vasos Comunicantes. Colección 1881-2021. Thirteen works from the Fondation’s fine art collection have been lent to the Museum and can be seen in the Doble exposición: el arte y la Guerra Fría section.
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston (USA) 20 November 2021 Partnership
Long-term partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science
The long-term partnership between the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art and the Houston Museum of Natural Science established in 2021 is the first of its kind pertaining to the foundation’s archaeology collection. The initial loan consists of a selection of fifteen ancient Egyptian artefacts that are presented among the permanent collection of the Museum.
2019
17 May 2019 Partnership
Partnership with the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts
The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art has signed a long-term partnership with the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. Eight works from the FGA that echo the museum’s permanent collection.
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont 7 February 2019
Presentation of the fragments of the tomb of Autrevillle
Two fragments belong to the Chaumont Museum, the other two are a deposit of the Archaeological Museum of the City of Dijon and a long-term loan from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art.
Past news
La Régence à Paris (1715-1723). L’aube des Lumières
Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Paris (FR)
20 October 2023
« L’art des années 60, entre combats politiques et luttes sociales » by Yan Schubert
Mémorial de Caen, Caen
19 September 2023
Action, Gesture, Paint
Women Artists and Global Abstraction (1940-1970)
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
22 May 2023
Alexandria: Past Futures at the Mucem
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem), Marseille (FR)
8 February 2023
Paris et nulle part ailleurs (Paris and nowhere else)
Musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris (FR)
29 September 2022
Vieira da SilvaL’œil du labyrinthe
Musée Cantini, musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille (FR)
9 June 2022
The Shape of Freedom : International Abstraction after 1945
Museum Barberini, Potsdam (DE)
4 June 2022
Amazons of Pop! Women artists, superheroines, icons 1961-1973
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
22 April 2022
Objets migrateurs. Trésors sous influences
Musée d’archéologie méditerranéenne – Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (FR)
8 April 2022
Éloge de la lumière (In Praise of Light), Pierre Soulages – Tanabe Chikuunsai IV
Fondation Baur, Genève (CH)
17 November 2021
Amazons of Pop! Women Artists, Superheroines, Icons 1961-1973
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (DE)
2 October 2021
United States of Abstraction. Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964
Musée Fabre, Montpellier (FR)
5 August 2021
Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (US)
1 August 2021
United States of Abstraction. Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964
Musée d'art de Nantes
16 May 2021
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles 1950-1980. Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
Musée d'art de Pully (CH)
2 March 2021
Colloque international Quel avenir pour les « œuvres orphelines » ? Réflexions sur les biens culturels sans provenance
3 February 2021
Le Mural-nomade. Tapisseries modernes et contemporaines
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux (FR)
22 September 2020
Jean Dubuffet, a barbarian in Europe
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG), Geneva (CH)
8 September 2020
Peter Saul
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
Le Delta - Espace Culturel Provincial, Namur (BE)
7 March 2020
Otto Freundlich (1878-1943) La révélation de l’abstraction
Museum of Montmartre Renoir Gardens, Paris (FR)
28 February 2020
Scrivere Disegnando. Quand la langue cherche son autre
Centre d'Art Contemporain (CAC), Geneva (CH)
29 January 2020
Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) Par où on ne sait pas
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen (FR)
17 January 2020
Pour tout l'art du monde: Interview with Jean Claude Gandur in the Vacarme show, RTS radio, 25 October 2019
25 October 2019
Hans Hartung, la fabrique du geste
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR)
11 October 2019
Jean Dubuffet. Un bárbaro en Europa
IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valence (ES)
8 October 2019
Venezia, 1958. A selection of artworks from the Spanish Pavillion
Galeria Mayoral, Barcelone (ES)
26 September 2019
Peter Saul. Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More
Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse (FR)
20 September 2019
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art connects painting and music at Saint-Germain
Église Saint-Germain, Genève (CH)
7 July 2019
Histoire de l'art cherche personnages...
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (FR)
20 June 2019
Relive the exhibition "My 2000-year-old Double" through virtual reality
Musée de la Civilisation, Québec (CA)
3 June 2019
Jean Dubuffet, un barbare en Europe
MUSÉE DES CIVILISATIONS DE L'EUROPE ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE (MUCEM), MARSEILLE (FR)
24 April 2019
Tous les sexes du printemps, Jean Messagier (1920-1999)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole (FR)
22 March 2019
Helena Rubinstein, l'aventure de la beauté
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris (FR)
20 March 2019
Autour de la Pleurante d’Autreville : les destinées d’un tombeau champenois du XIVe siècle
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Chaumont (FR)
19 March 2019
Mitchell/Riopelle. Un couple dans la démesure
Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau (FR)
16 December 2018
L’Armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire
Musée départemental Arles antique, Arles (FR)
14 December 2018
París pese a todo. Artistas extranjeros 1944 - 1968
Artistas extranjeros en París (1944-1968)
21 November 2018
Pierre Soulages. Noir - Lumière. Farbe und Geste in den 1950er Jahren
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (DE)
4 November 2018
A very cool business: 2000 years of French wine and the spread of viticulture in the North
University of Ghent, Ghent (BE)
1 June 2018
