Collection de L'Art Brut

Avenue des Bergieres 11
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland

UPCOMING EVENTS

6th Art Brut biennial: Faces

From: 
Friday, December 8, 2023
Until: 
Sunday, April 28, 2024

PAST EVENTS

Michel Nedjar

From: 
Friday, June 9, 2023
Until: 
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Photomachinées

From: 
Friday, March 31, 2023
Until: 
Sunday, August 27, 2023

LIVES. Art Brut et parcours de vie

From: 
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Until: 
Sunday, November 27, 2022

5th Art Brut Biennial

From: 
Friday, December 17, 2021
Until: 
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Anonymous

From: 
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Until: 
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Art Brut does not recognise the concept of authorship. The anonymous works in this exhibition, taken from the Art Brut Collection or loaned by partner institutions abroad, were often considered as symptoms of deviance at the time they were created. They bear witness to humanity denied, buried within the massive prison-asylums of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Curators:
Gustavo Giacosa, stage director and actor,
and Pascale Jeanneret, curator, Collection de l’Art Brut

Willem van Genk - Megalopolis

From: 
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Until: 
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Art Brut: Frame Work

From: 
Friday, December 11, 2020
Until: 
Monday, May 24, 2021

The creators of Art Brut conceive their works in the margins of what is gene­rally accepted as art, and so are indifferent to any rules or standards relating to artistic creation. Michel Thévoz’ analysis of the concept of the frame in Art Brut is therefore fascinating, precisely because the works selected for the exhibition tend to break out of their frames, both literally and figuratively.

Michel Thévoz’s book Pathologie du cadre, preface by Sarah Lombardi, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 2020, 160 pages, 67 color plates, will be published this autumn.

Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow

From: 
Friday, March 6, 2020
Until: 
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Museum open to limited audiences; exhibition extended

4th Biennial of Art Brut

From: 
Friday, November 29, 2019
Until: 
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Carlo Zinelli, recto verso

From: 
Friday, September 20, 2019
Until: 
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Art Brut XXL

From: 
Friday, June 28, 2019
Until: 
Sunday, September 22, 2019

The Collection de l’Art Brut will be closed until September 17th (2019) for construction work entailing, above all, the installation of an elevator. Given this time frame, we take pleasure in inviting you to a show extending from June 28th to September 22nd in the gardens of the Château de Beaulieu in Lausanne and featuring large-scale photographs of Outsider Art “environments” from around the world. These represent architectural feats or installations set up, for the most part, on private plots or gardens belonging to self-taught builders. Some of the latter have, however, taken over such sites covertly: to such creators, the very act of creating is part and parcel of their entire life.

The photographs to be presented hail from various sources. Some, now belonging to our museum archives, come from a group of slides donated to the museum by the photographers Cynthia Carlson, Francis David and Beryl Sokoloff. Others (Scott Miller, Willem Volkersz, Robert Foster) hail from the SPACES (Saving and Preserving Art and Cultural Environments) association — a non-profit organization born in Los Angeles in 1978, and spearheaded, at the time, by the renowned and militant community founder Seymour Rosen, who passed away in 2006. SPACES was the first institution devoted to documenting and conserving Outsider Art environments, initially in the United States and, later, worldwide. The selection on display will also include several photos by resp. Hervé Couton, Mario Del Curto and Philippe Lespinasse. We are most grateful to them for their support of this project, as we are to Jo Farb Hernández (currently heading SPACES) and to the Vevey Images festival.

Japan, Another Look

From: 
Friday, November 30, 2018
Until: 
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Acquisitions 2012-2018

From: 
Friday, June 8, 2018
Until: 
Sunday, December 2, 2018

Ernst Kolb

From: 
Friday, February 9, 2018
Until: 
Sunday, June 17, 2018

3rd Biennial of Art Brut

From: 
Friday, November 17, 2017
Until: 
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Anna Zemankova

From: 
Friday, June 9, 2017
Until: 
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Anna Zemánková (1908-1986) was more than fifty years of age when she took up drawing. She developed an innovative technique involving a mix of pencil, ink, pastel, perforation, collage, decoupage, crimping and embroidery. Her work is related to so-called “ mediumistic ” creativity : Anna Zemánková creations harnessed the magnetic forces emanating from a parallel world.

Michael Golz - Travels in Athosland

From: 
Friday, June 9, 2017
Until: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The imaginary world of Michael Golz, entitled “ Athosland ”, is a lifetime’s work. Its German creator, born in 1957, has been working on it since childhood. This unique and monumental creation is made up of several elements : a geographical map, drawings depicting views of places and folders containing drawings and texts relating to Michael Golz’s travels throughout this land.

Henriette Zéphir

Henriette Zéphir

From: 
Friday, February 3, 2017
Until: 
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Eugène Gabritschevsky

Eugène Gabritschevsky

From: 
Friday, November 11, 2016
Until: 
Sunday, February 19, 2017

People

From: 
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Until: 
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Jean Dubuffet´s Art Brut, the Origins of the Collection

From: 
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Until: 
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Architectures: 2nd Biennale de L'Art Brut

From: 
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Until: 
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Guy Brunet Realisateur: Les Studios Paravision

From: 
Friday, June 5, 2015
Until: 
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Two Belgian Creators: Pascal Tassini and Eric Derkenne

From: 
Monday, February 2, 2015
Until: 
Sunday, May 10, 2015

André Robillard

From: 
Friday, November 28, 2014
Until: 
Sunday, April 19, 2015

L'Art Brut Dans le Monde

From: 
Friday, June 6, 2014
Until: 
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Assembling works by several creators from different parts of the world, this exhibition presents visitors with a worldwide selection of the latest Art Brut productions, including wild flying machines by Gustav Mesmer of Germany, colorful cutout figures by Ni Tanjung of Bali, drawings of animals and spirits by the Inuit Anarqaq, and more. The highly unusual approaches to creation that these works represent transgress our established classifications.

With works from :
Giovanni Bosco – Sicily/ Ni Tanjung – Bali/ Ezekiel Messou – Bénin/ Anarqaq - Far North Arctic/ Kashinat Chawan – India/ ARL – Brasil/ Gustav Mesmer - Germany.

Vehicles

From: 
Friday, November 8, 2013
Until: 
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Charles Steffen

From: 
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Until: 
Sunday, September 29, 2013

James Edward Deeds

From: 
Friday, March 15, 2013
Until: 
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Morton Bartlett

From: 
Friday, November 23, 2012
Until: 
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Aloïse. Le ricochet solaire

From: 
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Until: 
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Josef Hofer et le miroir

From: 
Friday, March 9, 2012
Until: 
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Guo Fengyi

Guo Fengyi

From: 
Friday, November 18, 2011
Until: 
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Gregory Blackstock The Major World Troublemaker Beetles, 2008 Mine de plomb, mar

Blackstock

From: 
Friday, September 30, 2011
Until: 
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Nannetti « colonel astral »

Nannetti « colonel astral »

From: 
Friday, May 13, 2011
Until: 
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Ataa Oko

From: 
Friday, January 1, 2010
Until: 
Sunday, January 30, 2011