From Stefan Zweig to Martin Bodmer: the Invisible Collection
EXHIBITION, FROM 24 APRIL TO 29 AUGUST 2021
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Stefan Zweig (Vienna, 1881 – Petrópolis, 1942) wasn’t only the internationally successful author of Amok and Letter from an Unknown Woman, he was also an important collector of literary manuscripts. He managed to amass an eclectic range...
Exhibition “Markus Raetz | Le reflet des mots”
Markus Raetz | Le reflet des mots
18 March – 10 July 2022
Language is one of three parameters in the art of Markus Raetz (Bern, 1941–2020). His work is constantly seizing on and sizing up words, pushing them further, exploring their interconnections within several languages, and embodying them in eloquent visual forms – eloquent, too, in the...
Exhibition Józef Czapski | Painter and writer
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The life of the painter, writer, critic, and enlightened thinker Józef Czapski (Prague, 1896 – Maisons-Laffitte, 1993) practically coincides with the whole of the 20th century. Moreover, he knew its tragedies and upheavals directly and intimately. Born in Poland,...
Exhibition «Paul Éluard, Gérald Cramer, Joan Miró | À toute épreuve»
Exhibition, extended from 19 May to 30 August 2020
The collaborative project that brought together the poet Paul Éluard (1895–1952), the publisher Gérald Cramer (1916–1991) and the artist Joan Miró (1893–1983) for the 1958 publication of À toute épreuve produced one of the finest artist’s books of the 20th century.
Éluard wrote the collection’s...
Exhibition « René Char | The Wellsprings and Ways of Poetry »
Exhibition from 14 June to 29 September 2019
René Char (1907‐1988) was a major figure of 20th century poetry. His early work was akin to surrealism but in 1948 he published the collection Fureur et mystère, which brought together texts that are stamped by World War II and his service in the French Resistance. His later work invites us to discover...
Exhibition « Anselm Kiefer | Books and woodcuts »
Exhibition from 8 February to 12 May 2019
OPENING
Tuesday to Friday, 2 pm – 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 9 am – 6 pm
Easter Holiday
Open on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April
Closed on Friday 19 and Monday 22 April
The German artist Anselm Kiefer (*1945, Donaueschingen) long hesitated between two practices, writing and painting....
Exhibition « Graphic Novel »
From 3 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
The American author and cartoonist Will Eisner (1917-2005) is generally credited with coining the term graphic novel. By placing the term on the cover of his 1978 book A Contract with God with the hope of seeing the tome shelved in the literature section of nonspecialized bookstores, he introduced a category that...
Exhibition «Boris Vian | En avant la musique!»
From 16 June to 2 September 2018
– extended until 30 September 2018 –
Tuesday to Friday, 2 – 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 9 am – 6 pm
An artist with a rich gift for invention, a spontaneous musician, a protean author of novels, short stories, and translations, as well as newspaper columns, songs, librettos,...
Exhibition ‘‘Etel Adnan | La fulgurance du geste’’
From 16 February to 20 May 2018
The Lebanese-American poet, philosopher and artist Etel Adnan was born in 1925 in Beirut. Her mother was Greek, her father Syrian. Adnan was educated at French schools in Lebanon and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and Berkeley and Harvard in the United States. This and long stays divided...
Exhibition “Blaise Cendrars et Sonia Delaunay ǀ La Prose du Transsibérien”
From 26 October to 30 December 2017
– extended until 14 January 2018 –
The Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France is the extraordinary fusion of four hundred and forty-five lines of free verse by Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) and the colors of Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979). This beautiful work first saw print in November...
Exhibition “Federico García Lorca en scène”
From 10 June to 24 September 2017
Born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Federico García Lorca was a major poet. But beyond the poet, a number of other Lorcas exist. There was the artist-draftsman, the inspired musician, and the man of the theater, a playwright, actor, and director. Lorca’s body of work is stamped by many popular traditions...
Exhibition ‘‘Jacques Prévert | Images’’
From 17 February to 30 April 2017
The French lyricist, poet, and author of plays, scripts and movie dialogue Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) is mostly known today for his writings. Part of the Surrealists’ circle in his youth, this fiercely independent yet politically committed man would maintain throughout his life strong ties with a number...
Exhibition « Antonio Saura | De l’écriture à la peinture »
19 June – 25 September 2016
Antonio Saura (1930-1998) was a major Spanish artist of the 20th century and an important figure in contemporary art, creating a formidable a body of work that includes painting, illustration, engraving, sculpture, and writing. It is a legacy that is as fertile as it is formally inventive. Today Saura’s work figures in...
Exhibition « Sławomir Mrożek »
Sławomir Mrożek (born 29 June 1930 in Borzęcin, Poland) is a leading Polish dramatist and writer. In 1963 Mrożek emigrated to Italy and France and then to Mexico. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved back to France.
Sławomir Mrożek has reigned as the preeminent playwright...
Exhibition « Photo-literature »
From 14 October to 30 December 2016
1839. Photography is invented and makes its way in among the other arts, uninvited and upending their connections with one another. Initially deemed an “industrial art,” this process for duplicating reality came to modify the ways of depicting space, time, and memory, and to question painters and writers in a...
Horst « Tappe, writers’ portraits »
Horst Tappe, writers’ portraits
from June 21 until September 28 2014
Horst Tappe (1938-2005) settled down in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1965 and photographed the most famous of this world, always in black and white and with his Hasselblad : actors, writers, painters, journalists, musicians and scientists. He is known worldwide...
Exhibition « Baselitz | Malelade – Bestiaire d’images et de mots »
13 February – 15 May 2016
The painter, draftsman, printmaker and sculptor Georg Baselitz (*1938) became famous for doing all his figures upside down starting in 1969. This way of inventing things that from the outset goes about it the wrong way round generates a new relationship to images that are treated as purely formal questions and at the same...
Exhibition Pierre-Alain Bertola | Ecritures graphiques
Architecte, graphiste, scénographe, illustrateur, bédéiste, Pierre-Alain Bertola (1956-2012) a joué tout au long de sa carrière sur un large registre de talents artistiques.
Aux sources de son dessin se trouve un lien particulièrement fort avec les textes littéraires. Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, Le gros poisson du lac de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz,...
Exhibition « Gustave Roud ǀ Le monde des signes et l’univers des choses »
A l’occasion de l’année Gustave Roud, la Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’écriture et la littérature propose de porter un regard neuf sur l’œuvre de ce grand homme de lettres suisse à travers une exposition dédiée à la diversité et à la richesse de ses activités littéraires.
À l’instigation du Centre de recherches sur les lettres...
Exhibition « Henri Michaux | Figures • Ecritures »
From February 21st to June 14th 2015
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 2 pm to 6 pm, from February 21st to June 14th 2015.
Admittance: 5 CHF (adults) /3 CHF (students, retirees, unemployed, groups, IV) / free for those under 18 years of age and residents of Montricher.
Free guided tour included in the...
Manwoz
Du 7 octobre au 21 décembre 2014
La Fondation Jan Michalski accueille le travail d’un artiste au parcours énigmatique. Pour rassembler des éléments de sa biographie, il faut mener une véritable enquête. Il serait né dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle du côté de Tchernobyl, aurait assez jeune pris la route et sèmerait derrière lui,...
