Clemens Wild
June 14 through October 27, 2024
Past exhibitions
Pascal Vonlanten
June 14 through October 27, 2024
Magalí Herrera, A Spark of Light in this World
March 8 through September 1, 2024
6th Art Brut biennial: Faces
December 8, 2023 through April 28, 2024
Michel Nedjar
June 9 through October 29, 2023
Photomachinées
March 31 through September 24, 2023
Art Brut et bande dessinée
September 16, 2022 through February 26, 2023
LIVES. Art Brut and Life Courses
June 10 through November 27, 2022
Karl Beaudelere, self -portraits in a mirror
June 10 through October 30, 2022
5th Art Brut Biennial: Beliefs
December 17, 2021 through May 1, 2022
Anonymes
June 26 through October 31, 2021
Willem van Genk - Megalopolis
March 4 through June 27, 2021
Art Brut: Frame Work
December 11, 2020 through May 24, 2021
Chicago Calling
March 13 through November 1, 2020
4th Art Brut Biennial: Theatre
November 29, 2019 through August 30, 2020
Carlo Zinelli, recto verso
September 19, 2019 through February 2, 2020
ART BRUT XXL
June 28 through September 22, 2019
Art Brut from Japan, Another Look
November 30, 2018 through April 28, 2019
Acquisitions 2012-2018
June 8, 2018 through March 3, 2019
Our Acquisitions 2012-2018 show invites visitors to discover a selection of works that include several pieces added to the...
Ernst Kolb
February 9 through June 17, 2018
Avant d’être reconnu pour ses œuvres, Ernst Kolb (1927-1993) se fait remarquer à Mannheim, en Allemagne, par sa présence à...
3ème biennale de l'Art Brut: Corps
November 17, 2017 through April 29, 2018
Consacrée au Corps, la troisième édition des BIENNALES DE L’ART BRUT (après Véhicules et Architectures)
proposera...
Anna Zemánková
June 9 through November 26, 2017
The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents a major retrospective of works by the Czech creator Anna Zemánková (1908 – 1986)....
Michael Golz - Travels in Athosland
June 9 through October 1, 2017
"Athosland" is an imaginary country that Michael Golz (born in 1957) has invented totally from scratch. The work is a...
Henriette Zéphir - February 3 through April 30, 2017
February 3 through April 30, 2017
Compellingly incited by a presence she felt at her side, Henriette Zéphir (1920-2012) took to drawing on May 3rd, 1961. Under...
Eugen Gabritschevsky - november 11, 2016 through february 19, 2017
November 11, 2016 through February 19, 2017
Marking its fortieth anniversary, the Collection de l’Art Brut is showing the little known oeuvre of Eugen Gabritschevsky...
People - 3 july through 13 november 13, 2016
July 3 through November 13, 2016
The very title of this exhibition seems to run counter to the anonymity valued by the creators of Art Brut: men and women...
Jean Dubuffet´s Art Brut, the Origins of the Collection - extended until september 25, 2016
March 5 through August 28, 2016
"Many slight works, brief, almost lacking form, ring out very loudly indeed; and for that reason they are preferable to many...
Architecture - 13.11.2015 - 17.04.2016
November 13, 2015 through April 17, 2016
ART BRUT BIENNIAL II Launched in 2013, the Art Brut Biennials continue this year with the Architectures exhibition presenting...
Guy Brunet filmmaker - Paravision studios - 05.06. - 04.10.2015
June 5 through October 4, 2015
Guy Brunet (b. 1945) was 16 when he began filling school notebooks with screenplays (over 350 in all). Gradually, he took up...
Eric Derkenne - 13.02. - 10.05.2015
February 13 through May 10, 2015
Eric Derkenne's work brings to mind a scrivener monk or a shaman: on the one hand, the strictness attached to the slow task of...
Pascal Tassini - 13.02. - 10.05.2015
February 13 through May 10, 2015
Pascal Tassini (1955) resorts to a variety of mediums—drawing, writing, fabric assemblages, ceramics and installations—to...
André Robillard
November 28, 2014 through April 19, 2015
In 1964, André Robillard decided to "make something of his life": he set about assembling various objects taken from waste bins...
Josep Baqué
July 1 through October 26, 2014
Decked out in claws, pincers, pustules and shells, the monsters created by Josep Baqué (1895-1967) bespeak anything but glamor....
Art Brut Around the World
June 6 through November 2, 2014
"One of our civilization’s most awkward facets is the total separation operated between the order of the rational and the order...
Vehicles
November 8, 2013 through April 27, 2014
ART BRUT BIENNIAL IOf unique historic value, the Collection de l’Art Brut holdings comprise over 60,000 paintings, drawings,...
François Burland/ Jacqueline Oyex
September 3 through September 29, 2013
Charles Steffen
May 23 through September 29, 2013
The oeuvre of Charles Steffen is obsessed with never-ending variations on the theme of nudes and the mother figure. Through...
James Edward Deeds
March 15 through June 30, 2013
The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents the first European show devoted to drawings by James Edward Deeds Jr....
Welcome to my World! Daniel Johnston
March 15 through June 30, 2013
Welcome To My World ! Daniel Johnston is indeed a welcome opportunity to present the oeuvre of Daniel Johnston, a cult figure...
Morton Bartlett
November 23, 2012 through April 14, 2013
The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents, jointly with the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Contemporary Art...
Centennial of the Palais Idéal, the fantastic dream palace by Facteur Cheval
September 4 through September 30, 2012
To commemorate the centennial of Facteur [mailman] Cheval's Palais Idéal in France, the Collection de l'Art Brut is...
Aloise. The Solar Ricochet
June 2 through October 28, 2012
The summer of 2012 will witness one of the greatest events ever organized in honor of the oeuvre of Aloïse (1886-1964), an Art...
Josef Hofer and the Mirror
March 9 through May 13, 2012
The exhibition presented by the Collection de l’Art Brut features some fifty of Josef Hofer's drawings centered on the male...
Guo Fengyi
November 18, 2011 through April 29, 2012
Guo Fengyi’s majestic paintings are akin to poetic banners. Her large scrolls (several meters high) present historic or...
Blackstock
September 29, 2011 through February 19, 2012
Gregory L. Blackstock inventories the world, methodically and minutely classifying all kinds of animals, objects and plants....
Nannetti "colonel astral"
May 13 through October 30, 2011
The psychiatric hospital of Volterra featured but one place where the patients could take in the sky and the fresh air -...
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
March 5 through August 22, 2010
In the words of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (born circa 1921), his copious oeuvre is the fruit of a celestial vision he ex-perienced...
Ataa Oko
March 5, 2010 through January 30, 2011
Born in Ghana in around 1919, Ataa Oko suddenly took up drawing at the age of eighty-three. He began by drawing from memory the...
Art Brut from the Canton of Fribourg
February 6 through October 18, 2009
Are Art Brut works always free of influences? Do their creators lack any source of inspiration whatsoever?The present...
Japan
February 22, 2008 through January 25, 2009
The recent research undertaken in Japan by the Collection de l’Art Brut turned out to be abundant and fruitful. For the first...
L'Envers et l'Endroit
June 8, 2007 through January 27, 2008
Embroidery, sewing, tapestry, knitting, lace-making, crochet. The various types of needlework, activities traditionally...
Aleksander Lobanov
February 16 through May 27, 2007
The work of Aleksander Lobanov (1924–2003) is that of an almost illiterate man, cut off from the world, a stranger to...
Richard Greaves, Anarchitect
October 6, 2006 through January 28, 2007
“Everything I make here is so I can sleep...
Creative Growth Art Center
May 19 through September 18, 2006
The Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, near San Francisco, is a place of artistic expression for people with psychological,...
The Kingdom of Nek Chand
November 4, 2005 through May 7, 2006
We all have our dreams. The self-taught creator Nek Chand made his dream come true by building a fairytale garden: his creation...
Bestioles
October 30, 2005 through July 2, 2006
The Collection de l’Art Brut is inhabited by all sorts of funny-looking, crazy or mysterious creatures. These animals, real or...
Dubuffet & Art Brut
June 23 through September 25, 2005
The polymorphous creative genius Jean Dubuffet was not just the inventor of the concept of Art Brut but was also behind the...
Spiritualist Art
March 18 through June 5, 2005
Messages from beyond the grave? Evidence of journeys into the subconscious or of spiritual experiences? Did Raphaël Lonné or...
Paul Amar
October 6, 2004 through May 29, 2005
Making pictures with seashells is practised in every maritime region and generally comes under the heading of “kitsch”. Paul...
Santoro
October 6, 2004 through February 27, 2005
Man, woman, horse, pig, camel, life-size. Eugenio Santoro makes large-format wooden sculptures representing animal and human...
Face-to-Face with Art Brut
March 20 through September 26, 2004
This exhibition of Art Brut faces - comical, burlesque, or sometimes enigmatic - welcomes the young at heart and most...
Ecriture en délire
February 12 through September 26, 2004
The many authors assembled in this sweeping exhibition are unlettered persons who — deliberately or not — pay no heed to any of...
Podestà
September 11, 2003 through January 25, 2004
Giovanni Battista Podestà (1895-1976) was no officially recognized artist, writer or philosopher. That is to say, he did not...
Josef Hofer
June 6 through August 24, 2003
Working alone and in utter silence, this deaf-and-mute creator produces works that are surprisingly unconstrained and violently...
Marguerite Burnat-Provins
May 22 through September 14, 2003
When the call to arms rang out in 1914, Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) suddenly experienced visions: "I endure them,...
Louis Soutter et la musique
February 21 through May 4, 2003
From the 21st of February to the 4th of May, 2003, Lausanne’s Collection de l’Art Brut and Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts will...
The New World
September 6, 2002 through January 19, 2003
The discovery of a piece entitled Le Nouveau Monde spurred the Collection de l’Art Brut’s latest eponymous exhibition. To...
The Crowd
February 27 through August 25, 2002
Outsider artists are individuals who are often destined for solitude, living and creating in secrecy and silence. ...
Judith Scott
October 13, 2001 through February 3, 2002
Judith Scott’s fiber sculptures are disturbing in more ways than one. They bring to mind giant, multicolored cocoons; better...
Temporary Exhibitions 1976 - 2001
January 1, 1976 through May 1, 2001
List of temporary exhibitions organised at the Collection de l'Art Brut between 1976 and 2001.