Peter Doig

This spring, Maison La Roche will present an exceptional exhibition devoted to Peter Doig, a major figure in international contemporary painting. Since the 1990s, the artist has established himself as one of the most distinctive painters of his generation, renowned for a body of work in which memory, landscape and imagination come together in compositions of great pictorial intensity.

Born in 1959 in Edinburgh, Peter Doig grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and the United Kingdom. His painting develops from images drawn from memories, photographs, films or places he has visited. The artist constructs visual spaces where reality seems to gradually shift towards the dreamlike. His landscapes—forests, bodies of water, isolated architecture, and night scenes—thus become territories where figuration blends with an almost abstract dimension of colour and light.

Peter Doig’s importance in the recent history of painting is widely recognised by international institutions. His works are held in the collections of major museums such as the Tate in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In the 1990s, the artist stayed at the Unité d’Habitation in Briey, an iconic building designed by Le Corbusier. This experience marked one of the artist’s encounters with modernist architecture and with the idea of a landscape shaped by housing. Although the exhibition presented in 2026 at Maison La Roche is not a direct reinterpretation of this moment, it nevertheless reflects a similar sensibility: that of an artist attentive to places, architecture and the ways in which they sustain the imagination.