Musée des impressionnismes de Giverny, France

From 17 July – 1 November, 2026, Daniel Buren has been invited to take over the spaces of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny. Born in 1938, Buren is an internationally renowned French contemporary artist. His in situ works feature his characteristic visual tool – alternating white and coloured vertical bands 8.7 cm thick – which enables him to reveal and highlight places and their contexts. From his affichages sauvages (unauthorised posters) of the late 1960s to large public commissions, his works have occupied public spaces all over the world, as well as art venues, playing with viewpoints, colour, space, light and movement.

With his Plantations, travaux in situ, Buren presents a new site-specific creation, which extends from the gardens outside to the museum’s interior, thereby creating a dialogue between the environment of Giverny and works in the collection. A century after Claude Monet’s death, the artist is building on some of the fundamental intuitions of the Impressionist painters, who were interested in the changing effects of colour and light in nature. But whereas Monet and Caillebotte painted quivering water, landscapes and the sky, Buren locates his works in the very space we move through, making perception a shifting and endlessly renewed phenomenon.