Invitation
to Daniel Buren
"Plantations", in situ works, 2026

Invitation to Daniel Buren
Plantations, in situ works, 2026

For summer 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 (museums and galleries), 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.

Scattered around the landscapes of Giverny, his Plantations create large coloured vistas – tinged with blue, yellow, black, red and violet – which are inserted into the verdant setting of the hill and gardens, extending into the interiors of the rooms. In the galleries, Buren’s work is displayed alongside a selection of works from the museum’s collection, offering visitors an immersion in nature and artistic creation.

Curator: Cyrille Sciama, Director General of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Chief Curator, and and Sylvie Patry, General Curator of Heritage at the Musée d’Orsay

Credits:
Daniel Buren (né en 1938)
Photo-souvenir : Le Vent souffle où il veut, 2009
Travail in situ, in “Beaufort 03″, Le Coq, Belgique (collection ville de Nieuport)
© DB / ADAGP, Paris, 2026

Opening days

Exhibition open from July 17, to November 1, 2026. The museum will be exceptionally closed on Friday, September 4, 2026.

Full price | Concession price

• Adults: €12 | €9
• Audioguide : €4/person (FR or EN)

Free entry for:

• Visitors under 18.
• Eure residents on the first Sunday of the months of August and September (proof of residency required)
• All individual visitors on the first Sunday of the months of October and November.

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