Events / Calendar
Art Brut in Switzerland. Collection de l'Art Brut
Art Brut in Switzerland - From the Origins of the Collection to the Present
February 28 through September 27, 2026
Evening opening on February 27 at 6:30pm
Exhibition Maisons-mères. La Ferme des Tilleuls Renens
Maisons-mères. Utopian and concrete architectures
From 12 February to 21 June 2026
Opening reception on Wednsday11 February at 6.30 pm
Collective intelligence days. Charleroi (Belgium)
From 22 to 22 November 2025
The experience of La « S » Grand Atelier: artistic practices, relationships, dissemination
L’expérience de La « S » Grand Atelier : pratiques artistiques, relations, dissémination
Auditoire Maçonnerie, Campus Charleroi Métropole Boulevard Emile Solvay, 22 6000 Charleroi
Exhibition Novê Salm. BPS22. Charleroi (Belgium=
From 27 September 2025 to 4 January 2026
For its autumn exhibition, BPS22 welcomes artists from La ‘S’ Grand Atelier, a centre for outsider art and contemporary art located in Vielsalm, in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes.
BPS22 Boulevard Solvay 22 6000 Charleroi
For both pictures: La S Grand Atelier - Novê Salm (exhibition view), BPS22, 2025. © Leslie Artamonow
Exhibition Laure Pigeon. Collection de l'Art Brut. Lausanne
From 10 October 2025 to 1 February 2026
Opening reception on 9 October at 6.30pm
Collection de l'Art Brut, Avenue des Bergières 11, 1004 Lausanne
Publication of an essay by Michel Thévoz
Michel Thévoz never ceases to amaze us! In this book, the man known as the ‘Pope’ of Art Brut reshuffles the cards of art and opens the floodgates to new sources. He also inaugurates the new collection of essays ‘Les théories du K.O’ (Theories of K.O.) published by Knock Outsider
Art Brut Festival at the Grand Palais
From 18 to 21 September 2025
Four days to celebrate art brut and close the exhibition Art brut. In the intimacy of a collection. The Decharme donation to the Centre Pompidou
Grand Palais, Salon Alexandre III and Auditorium Alexandre III 1, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
International workshop Vulnérables
From 18 to 20 September 2025
Healthcare professionals, artists, cultural institutions (galleries, museums) and associations form ecosystems of varying scale and intensity and help to change interactions with vulnerable groups. Research, for its part, ensures that the multiple ecologies that have been established are captured in words, images and memory. The workshop brings together the actors of these ecologies for a critical and interdisciplinary perspective.
Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière and Halle Saint-Pierre Paris
Exhibition A Walk on the wild side: artworks from the Collection de l'Art Brut and Elswehre. Power Station of Art, Shanghai
From 12 July to 12 October 2025
In partnership with the Power Station of Art, the Collection de l'Art Brut presents the exhibition A Walk on the wild side: artworks from the Collection de l'Art Brut and Elswehre.
For the first time, Art Brut works drawn exclusively from the collections of the Lausanne museum are being exhibited at the Power Station of Art, China's largest state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art.
Exposition Les collages de Ding Liren
From June 13 to October 26 2025
Collection de l'Art Brut, Avenue des Bergières 11, 1004 Lausanne
Exposition Dans l'intimité d'une collection. Donation Decharme au centre Pompidou
From June 6 to September 21 2025
Martin Ramirez, Untitled (detail), circa 1950 cop. Centre Pompidou and Estate Martin Ramirez
Grand Palais, galeries 8.1 et 8.2
Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris
Festival du dessin Arles
From April 12 to May 11 2025
In collaboration with Atelier Rohling (Bern), the Fondation Guignard is staging an exhibition of works by David Jacot, Sandrine Mbala and Clemens Wild.
Publication of the comic strip Voie de garage
The comic strip ‘Voie de garage’, written by Sophie Adriansen, illustrated by Arnaud Nebbache and published by Dargaud, tells the story of Martial Richoz, known as ‘l'homme-bus’.
Check out this other comic book, which tells the story of several authors
Tribute to Jean-Hippolyte Guignard exhibition
From 27 February to 28 March 2025
Opening on 27 February from 5pm to 8pm
Open: Tuesday-Friday 2.45pm-6pm, Saturday 2pm-5pm
Espace Murandaz Chemin du Midi 8, 1260 Nyon (Switzerland)
info@espace-murandaz.ch
Exposition L'Art Brut d'Iran
Du 12 février au 31 juillet 2025
Commissariat: Martine Lusardy et Morteza Zahedi
Halle Saint-Pierre 2, rue Ronsard 75018 Paris
Art Brut Cuba
From December 6 2024 to April 27 2025
Collection de l'Art Brut, Avenue des Bergières 11, 1004 Lausanne
Dubuffet and Art Brut - Milano
From October 12 2024 to February 16 2025
Curated by Sarah Lombardi and Anic Zanzi. With the collaboration of Baptiste Brun for the Jean Dubuffet section. In collaboration with the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne
MUDEC Via Tortona 56 Milan
International symposium: Disability art studios: new sources for Art Brut?
September 30 2024 09:00
Palais de Beaulieu, Salle Saint Moritz Av. Bergières 10 1004 Lausanne
Admission is free, but registration is required :
art.brut@lausanne.ch
The Collection de l’Art Brut will hold an international symposium to coincide with the solo exhibitions of works by Pascal Vonlanthen and Clemens Wild, which run from 14 June to 27 October 2024.
The event will feature art brut specialists, studio directors and the artists they support, and cultural and social policymakers from the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud. The one-day symposium will provide insights into the workings of organisations in Belgium, France and Switzerland that support artists with disabilities and showcase their work. In recent years, these studios have also provided a rich seam of new artist discoveries for museums and galleries with an interest in art brut.
The symposium will look back on the history of disability art studios, most of which started life in psychiatric hospitals – places outside conventional art circles – and explore their early links with art brut. This will also be an opportunity to challenge the criteria by which art brut is categorised in light of the fact that these creative spaces are “supervised”, to compare the various models by which these studios operate, and to examine the support they offer to the artists they accommodate and represent.
Nannetti le colonel astral
From June 29 to July 21 2024 Festival d'Avignon
Written, directed and performed by Gustavo Giacosa Original music played on stage by Fausto Ferraiuolo
Théâtre des Halles 4, Rue Noël Biret 84000 Avignon
What place for art in the public space
June 21 2024 From 09.30 am to 05.00 pm
Whether they are spontaneous, irreverently premeditated or meticulously orchestrated by the authorities, works of art in the public space, by the difficulties or ease with which they find their place, reflect the value attributed to them.
While the notion of well-being in the city is studied through the prism of air quality or noise pollution, what added value does the appearance of a work of art bring to people's daily lives? Is the public hostage to a political choice, or witness to totally free expression? Examples of Art Brut environments created underground and the rebellious culture of street art give us an insight into the diversity of responses to this question: what place for art in the public space?
Ferme des Tilleuls Rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens
Pascal Vonlanthen et Clemens Wild Exhibition
From June 14 to October 27 2024
Collection de l'Art Brut Avenue des Bergières 11 1004 Lausanne
2024-Festival du dessin Arles
From April 20 avril to May 19 2024
Dessin de Bernard Grandgirard ©CREAHM
Checkpoint 2
From 8 February to 23 June 2024 Opening on 7 February 2024
La Ferme des Tilleuls 1020 Renens
Outsider Art symposium Rome
May 3 and 4 2024
Villa Medici, Gustavo Giacosa and Barbara Safarova are organising a weekend devoted to Art Brut, bringing together specialists from France, Italy and Switzerland for an exceptional conference.
Ecritures en errance
An exhibition organised by Sic12 Aix-en Provence
Opening on 18 January 2024 From 19 January to 16 March 2024 Free admission Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 6pm
La Manufacture Gallery Aix-en-Provence
Website la Manufacture Website Sic12
6th Biennial of Outsider Art - Faces
From 08 december 2023 to 28 april 2024 Curated by Pascal Roman Coordination Pauline Mack
Collection de l'Art Brut 11, avenue des Bergères 1004 Lausanne
Website of the Collection de l'Art Brut
Valérie Masson and Mario Del Curto
From 21 October to 31 December 2023 Open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2.30 pm to 6 pm
Galerie Numaga Rue de l'Etang 4 2013 Colombier Suisse
lumbung brut
From 28 September 2023 to 25 February 2024 Curated by Klaus Mecherlein
29 artists from 9 Swiss studios
Open art museum im Lagerhaus Davidstrasse 44 9000 St. Gallen
J'entends un bruit - Station III
09 and 10 September 2023 at 5pm
By the Atelier Théâtre Insolite / Théâtre de l'Esquisse of the Association autrement-aujourd'hui
Maison de quartier de Chailly Avenue de la Vallonnette 12 1012 Lausanne
The Beast of war
From 07 September 2023 to 25 February 2024
Naive Art from Ukraine
Open art museum im Lagerhaus Davidstrasse 44 9000 St. Gallen
Broderie
From 1 September 2023 to 24 March 2024
As part of her solo exhibition "Have Faith", Fribourg artist Stéphanie Baechler presents her collaborative project with CREAHM, a series of embroideries made on a machine from St Gallen.
Musée d’art et d’histoire Fribourg Rue de Morat 12, 1700 Fribourg
La Kermesse
16th and 17th September 2023
Kermesse at La "S" Grand Atelier Rencheux barracks (Vielsalm)
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Photobrut BXL
From November 24, 2022 to March 19, 2023 Four places, eight exhibitions. Brussels
La Fondation Guignard supports the exhibition catalogue.
Inauguration ORGAnUGAMME II
Saturday 5th November 2022 from 2pm to 10pm Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens
Inauguration of the Collossal d'Art Brut from Danielle Jacqui
Exhibition "brut favorits.! feilacher's choice"
From September 30, 2022 to March 3, 2023 Museum Gugging, Vienna
La Fondation Guignard supports the publication of the exhibition catalog.
Art Brut et bande dessinée
Exhibition from 16 September 2022 to 26 February 2023
The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne presents "Art Brut et bande dessinée". This exhibition, curated by Erwin Dejasse, includes works by Jean Leclerq donated to the Collection de l'Art Brut by the "S" Grand Atelier as part of the Outsider Art Prize of the Guignard Foundation in 2021.
To be discovered on this occasion, the exhibition catalogue
Karl Beaudelere exhibition Autoportraits au miroir
From June 10th to October 30th 2022.
La Collection de l'Art Brut, in Lausanne, presents "Autoportraits au miroir", an exhibition about Karl Beaudelere, laureate of the Outsider Art prize of the Guignard Foundation in 2021.
To discover on this occasion, the mongraphy "Karl Beaudelere : visages atomisés", published by Cahiers dessinés, as well as a film directed by Philippe Lespinasse.
Fictions Modestes et Réalités Augmentées
The MIAM, in Sète, presents from February 17th to September 18th 2022 its new exhibition.
Fictions Modestes & Réalités Augmentées recounts the artistic and human adventure led by la "S" grand atelier, in Vielsalm. Dossier de presse.pdf
The Guignard foundation sustains the catalog to be published in April 2022. https://www.miam.org
Reopening of the MIAM, Sète
The MIAM presents two exhibitions from June 4th 2021 to January 9th 2022. Forever MIAM : 20 ans d'expositions Psyché-Délices : expériences visionnaires en France. Forever Miam.pdf
The Guignard Foundation is invited. It supports the forthcoming catalogue published for the exhibition "Fictions modestes & réalités augmentées" which will take place in 2022.
Finishing Pierre Aebischer's exhibition
In music with the Magic BeBop Sunday 23rd May at 5 pm. Ferme des Tilleuls 1020 Renens
https://fermedestilleuls.ch/event/magic-be-bop/
Jean-Hippolyte Guignard Prize awards 2020 and 2021
Because of the current public-health situation, the prize-giving ceremony for the 2020 award has been postponed until 2021, when it will take place concurrently with the 2021 award ceremony on the occasion of the vernissage of the exhibition of Pierre Aebischer’s monumental work.
The 2020 prize is awarded to Pierre Aebischer and to the “S” Grand Atelier, in Vielsalm, Belgium. The 2021 prize is awarded to Karl Beaudelere and to the “S” Grand Atelier, Vielsalm, Belgium.
Thursday 6 May 2021, at 18h30
La Ferme des Tilleuls (The Tilleuls Farm) Rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens https://fermedestilleuls.ch/informations-pratiques/
©Matthieu Gafsou
Pierre Aebischer Exhibition
From 6 to 23 May 2021. Barn of the Tilleuls Farm in Renens. Vernissage: Thursday 6 May 2021 at 18h30 (time to be confirmed). Closing reception to the music of Magic BeBop, 23 May 2021
©Matthieu Gafsou
Big City Life Exhibition
From 13 February to 20 June 2021 at the Cartoon Museum Basel
The FranDisco project, developed and supported by the “S” Grand Atelier, is to take part in the Big City Life Exhibition. The Guignard Foundation will be supporting the residencies of the artists Marcel Schmitz and Thierry van Hasselt at the Exhibition. PDF
Jean-Hippolyte Guignard Exhibition
From 1 December 2020 to 2 May 2021 Château de Nyon. Every day except Mondays, from 14h00 to 17h00.