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Photographe Nicolas Brasseur
From 10 April, the Le Corbusier Foundation will present an exhibition at Maison La Roche featuring Peter Doig, a leading figure in contemporary painting, whose works are held in major institutions such as the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou.
His painting draws on images from memories, photographs or films to create spaces where reality slips into the dreamlike. His landscapes — forests, bodies of water or isolated buildings — become sensitive, atmospheric territories, straddling the boundary between figuration and abstraction.
In the 1990s, a stay at the Unité d’Habitation in Briey, designed by Le Corbusier, shaped his relationship with architecture and the inhabited landscape. Without referring to it directly, the exhibition at Maison La Roche extends this focus on places and their power to inspire the imagination.
The exhibition brings together some fifteen works, including several recent and previously unseen paintings, amongst which are monumental formats specially presented for this occasion. This collection highlights the most recent evolution of his work, in which pictorial material, colour and composition gain in freedom and intensity, in an approach now marked by a dialogue with music.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and grew up in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London to study at Saint Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Since 2002, he has divided his time between London and Trinidad, where he founded a studiofilmclub, an influential arthouse cinema club which he ran from his studio in Laventille.
His major retrospective exhibitions include: Tate Britain, London (2008, touring to the ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 2008–2009); No Foreign Lands, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2013, touring to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2014); Fondation Beyeler (2014–2015); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2020); Courtauld Gallery, London (2023) and House of Music, Serpentine Galleries, London (October 2025 – February 2026)
In 2023–2024, he curated the exhibition Reflections of the Century at the Musée d’Orsay, placing his works in dialogue with pieces from the museum’s collection. Doig has also taught for many years, notably at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany, where he held a professorship from 2004 to 2017. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and, in 2008, received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize awarded by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and grew up in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London to study at Saint Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Since 2002, he has divided his time between London and Trinidad, where he founded a studiofilmclub, an influential arthouse cinema club which he ran from his studio in Laventille.
His major retrospective exhibitions include: Tate Britain, London (2008, touring to the ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 2008–2009); No Foreign Lands, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2013, touring to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2014); Fondation Beyeler (2014–2015); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2020); Courtauld Gallery, London (2023) and House of Music, Serpentine Galleries, London (October 2025 – February 2026)
In 2023–2024, he curated the exhibition Reflections of the Century at the Musée d’Orsay, placing his works in dialogue with pieces from the museum’s collection. Doig has also taught for many years, notably at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany, where he held a professorship from 2004 to 2017. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and, in 2008, received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize awarded by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.
Peter Doig dans la galerie de la Maison La Roche