Echoing the exhibition Les collages de Ding Liren, the Collection de l'Art Brut is presenting in Shanghai, in partnership with the Power Station of Art, the exhibition A Walk on the Wild Side: Artworks from the Collection de l'Art Brut and Elsewhere, from 12 July to 12 October 2025.
For the first time, Art Brut works drawn exclusively from the Lausanne museum's collections will be on show at the Power Station of Art, China's largest state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art. Following an invitation to collaborate on a project devoted to Art Brut, 234 works from the Collection de l'Art Brut were selected. The presentation is rounded off by works by five Chinese authors of Art Brut brought together by the Power Station of Art.
These works highlight the relationship between these self-taught creators and the world around them, between the intimacy of their practices and the universality of the messages conveyed by works produced on the fringes of the official art world.
The exhibition is accompanied by photographic portraits of Art Brut artists by Swiss photographer Mario Del Curto, and photographs of Art Brut environments in Europe and the United States from a variety of sources. Archives also accompany a chronological section on Art Brut.
With works by : Josep Baqué, Baya, Kōmei Bekki, Daniele Bertanzetti, Gregory Lee Blackstock, Benjamin Bonjour, Ignacio Carles-Tolrà, Gaston Chaissac, Aloïse Corbaz, Michel Dave, Diego de Mauri, Paul Duhem, Samuel Failloubaz, Guo Fengyi, Jill Galliéni, Madge Gill, Ted Gordon, Guyodo, Emile Josome Hodinos, Danielle Jacqui, Anne-Lise Jeanneret, Benno Kaiser, Davood Koochaki, Hans Krüsi, Joseph Lambert, Raphaël Lonné, Félix Martin, Gene Merritt, Ezekiel Messou, Daniel Miller, Hidenori Motooka, Helmut Nimczewski, Alain Pauzié, Jean Pous, Marco Raugei, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Antonio Roseno de Lima, Chiyuki Sakagami, Judith Scott, Pascal Tassini, Gaston Teuscher, Johann Trösch, Oswald Tschirtner, Pascal Vonlanthen, Aloïs Wey, Adolf Wölfli, Anna Zemánková, Rosa Zharkikh, Carlo Zinelli.
The exhibition is curated by Gong Yan, Director of the Power Station of Art, and Sarah Lombardi, Director of the Collection de l'Art Brut, in collaboration with Astrid Berglund, Curator, and Emilie Cleeremans, Assistant Curator at the Collection de l'Art Brut, as well as Huang Mi, Head of the Exhibitions Department at the Power Station of Art, and Yang Yang, Assistant Curator and Chief Coordinator of the Shanghai Biennale.
In conjunction with this event, a bilingual exhibition catalogue (English and Chinese) is being published by Shanghai Culture Publishing House.
A project in partnership with the Power Station of Art
With the support of the Fondation Guignard
See the exhibition report on the Sinoptic association website.
Read the article on China Daily
