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PAST EXHIBITIONS
- 2012
Morton Bartlett
23.11.2012 - 14.04.2013
The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents, jointly with the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Contemporary Art Museum), Berlin, a first European solo show devoted to the American...
- 2012
Centennial of the Palais Idéal, the fantastic dream palace by Facteur Cheval
04.09.2012 - 30.09.2012
To commemorate the centennial of Facteur [mailman] Cheval's Palais Idéal in France, the Collection de l'Art Brut is mounting an exhibition of photographs and film screenings. During the "Nuit... 
- 2012
Aloise. The Solar Ricochet
02.06.2012 - 28.10.2012
The summer of 2012 will witness one of the greatest events ever organized in honor of the oeuvre of Aloïse (1886-1964), an Art Brut creator that Jean Dubuffet, originator of the very concept, held... 
- 2012
Josef Hofer and the Mirror
09.03.2012 - 13.05.2012
The exhibition presented by the Collection de l’Art Brut features some fifty of Josef Hofer's drawings centered on the male human figure and sexuality. Born in 1945 and pursuing his activity in... 
- 2011
Guo Fengyi
18.11.2011 - 29.04.2012
Guo Fengyi’s majestic paintings are akin to poetic banners. Her large scrolls (several meters high) present historic or ancestral and divine figures whose faces, either fairy-like or monstrous,... 
- 2011
Blackstock
29.09.2011 - 19.02.2012
Gregory L. Blackstock inventories the world, methodically and minutely classifying all kinds of animals, objects and plants. Each item bears a caption in regularly scripted capital letters. Thus, all... 
- 2011
Nannetti "colonel astral"
13.05.2011 - 30.10.2011
The psychiatric hospital of Volterra featured but one place where the patients could take in the sky and the fresh air - namely, the courtyard where they could take their daily walk. Some played...
- 2010
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
05.03.2010 - 22.08.2010
In the words of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (born circa 1921), his copious oeuvre is the fruit of a celestial vision he ex-perienced in Dakar some sixty years ago, an event that illuminated his life.... 
- 2010
Ataa Oko
05.03.2010 - 30.01.2011
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 personalized figurative coffins that he once actually built as a...
- 2009
Art Brut from the Canton of Fribourg
06.02.2009 - 18.10.2009
Are Art Brut works always free of influences? Do their creators lack any source of inspiration whatsoever?
The present exhibition seeks to trace cultural genealogies and to pinpoint potential... 
- 2008
Japan
22.02.2008 - 25.01.2009
The recent research undertaken in Japan by the Collection de l’Art Brut turned out to be abundant and fruitful. For the first time in Europe, the Lausanne museum is presenting these works from... 
- 2007
L'Envers et l'Endroit
08.06.2007 - 27.01.2008
Embroidery, sewing, tapestry, knitting, lace-making, crochet. The various types of needlework, activities traditionally allotted to women, subjugated them to a model to follow, a framework, a so aptly... 
- 2007
Aleksander Lobanov
16.02.2007 - 27.05.2007
The work of Aleksander Lobanov (1924–2003) is that of an almost illiterate man, cut off from the world, a stranger to institutional artistic creation, knowing nothing of drawing, painting, stage... 
- 2006
Richard Greaves, Anarchitect
06.10.2006 - 28.01.2007
“Everything I make here is so I can sleep better.”
Richard Greaves
... 
- 2006
Creative Growth Art Center
19.05.2006 - 18.09.2006
The Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, near San Francisco, is a place of artistic expression for people with psychological, neurological, developmental or mental disabilities. Far from any... 
- 2005
The Kingdom of Nek Chand
04.11.2005 - 07.05.2006
We all have our dreams. The self-taught creator Nek Chand made his dream come true by building a fairytale garden: his creation is said to be second most visited site in India, after the Taj...
- 2005
Bestioles
30.10.2005 - 02.07.2006
The Collection de l’Art Brut is inhabited by all sorts of funny-looking, crazy or mysterious creatures. These animals, real or imaginary, were created by self-taught artists. Eugenio Santoro... 
- 2005
Dubuffet & Art Brut
23.06.2005 - 25.09.2005
The polymorphous creative genius Jean Dubuffet was not just the inventor of the concept of Art Brut but was also behind the origin of the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne. From 1945 onwards he... 
- 2005
Spiritualist Art
18.03.2005 - 05.06.2005
Messages from beyond the grave? Evidence of journeys into the subconscious or of spiritual experiences? Did Raphaël Lonné or Laure Pigeon use a « spiritualist alibi » as a pretext in order to... 
- 2004
Paul Amar
06.10.2004 - 29.05.2005
Making pictures with seashells is practised in every maritime region and generally comes under the heading of “kitsch”. Paul Amar distinguishes himself from this by the singular nature of his... 
- 2004
Santoro
06.10.2004 - 27.02.2005
Man, woman, horse, pig, camel, life-size. Eugenio Santoro makes large-format wooden sculptures representing animal and human figures. These works are similar to anamorphoses. With faces and features... 
- 2004
Face-to-Face with Art Brut
20.03.2004 - 26.09.2004
This exhibition of Art Brut faces - comical, burlesque, or sometimes enigmatic - welcomes the young at heart and most especially the young in age (as of 3 years). Unusual masks and singular figures...
- 2004
Ecriture en délire
12.02.2004 - 26.09.2004
The many authors assembled in this sweeping exhibition are unlettered persons who — deliberately or not — pay no heed to any of the models or rules of language. Whether psychiatric patients,... 
- 2003
Podestà
11.09.2003 - 25.01.2004
Giovanni Battista Podestà (1895-1976) was no officially recognized artist, writer or philosopher. That is to say, he did not acquire the requisite cultural background, nor did he ever gain entry into... 
- 2003
Josef Hofer
06.06.2003 - 24.08.2003
Working alone and in utter silence, this deaf-and-mute creator produces works that are surprisingly unconstrained and violently energetic. He has embraced drawing as his sole medium, taking it up...
- 2003
Marguerite Burnat-Provins
22.05.2003 - 14.09.2003
When the call to arms rang out in 1914, Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) suddenly experienced visions: "I endure them, cringe as I feel them coming and simply cannot help drawing them.” She...
- 2003
Louis Soutter et la musique
21.02.2003 - 04.05.2003
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 be showing the work of the gifted draftsman and astonishing painter... 
- 2002
The New World
06.09.2002 - 19.01.2003
The discovery of a piece entitled Le Nouveau Monde spurred the Collection de l’Art Brut’s latest eponymous exhibition. To construct this maze-like architectural work central to the show,...
- 2002
The Crowd
27.02.2002 - 25.08.2002
Outsider artists are individuals who are often destined for solitude, living and creating in secrecy and silence. Paradoxically, many of them have devoted themselves to the graphic or pictorial... 
- 1976
Temporary Exhibitions 1976 - 2001
01.01.1976 - 01.05.2001
List of temporary exhibitions organised at the Collection de l'Art Brut between 1976 and 2001.