Biography
Guillaume Bruère, born in 1976 in Châtellerault, France, is a painter, draftsman, sculptor and performer. He lives and works in Berlin.
His work has been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Fondation VanGogh Arles and at MARTa Herford. Bruère has, furthermore, collaborated with Sasha Walz and Barbara Frey in dance and theater. His fragile and impulsive works, ranging from small-format drawings to monumental paintings, are charged with a fulminant energy.
For many years, he reinterpreted important works of art history in numerous renowned museums. Color, collage, and a relentless search for expressiveness all contribute to creating a distinctive artistic universe, evident both in Bruère's reinterpretations of old paintings and in public performances in which he visibly drives himself to the point of exhaustion.
For more than a decade, Bruère has worked in spaces at the margins of society, including refugee shelters and more recently, homeless shelters, where he finds the subjects for his haunting portraits.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2025
Angesichter, Forum Kunst at the Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
2021
Dead & Alive. Alte Meister, Kultum, Graz, Austria
2020
Portraits de cette histoire, le Centquatre, Paris, France
2019
Guillaume Bruère, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Dibujos en el museo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain
Guillaume Bruère dibuja el Apostolado del Greco, Museo del Greco, Toledo, Spain
2016
Über den Unterschied der Gesichtszüge des Menschen, Schadow-Haus Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
Portaits of Refugees, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015
François 1er illimité, Château de Chambord, France
2012
GIOM Tausendfüßler, Marta Herford, Germany
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2025
You Shall Make for Yourself an Image. Contemporary Art and the Religious Experience, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
US. 19 Fundamental Rights. 19 Artistic Positions. One Dialogue Space, Forum Kunst at the Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
New and Old Friends. Acquisitions and Donations to the Marta Collection, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Contemporary Art Within Old Walls, Admont Abbey Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Admont, Austria
2020
In the Picture: Portraying the Artist, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Picasso, Baigneuses et Baigneurs, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
2018
Chefs-d'œuvre!, Musée Picasso Paris, France
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2014
Van Gogh Live!, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France
2013
Visionen, Marta Herford, Germany
2006
Peintures / Malerei, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Collections
Public
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany
Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages, Berlin, Germany
Marta Herford, Germany
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
Städtisches Museum Zwickau, Germany
Kultum, Graz, Austria
Salzburg Museum, Austria
Stift Admont, Austria
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France
Château de Chambord, France
Muba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France
Private (selection)
Collection Leonardo di Caprio, USA
Collection Chinh Chu, USA
Collection Steve Cohen, USA
Collection Loic Gouzer, USA
Collection Sandy Heller, USA
Collection Dominique Levy, USA
Collection Richard Prince, USA
Collection Ethan Suplee, USA
Collection Svetlana Uspenskaya, Russia
Collection Alex Waislitz, Australia
Collection Maja Hoffmann, Switzerland
Collection Cristina and Thomas Bechtler, Switzerland
Collection Anton Corbijn, Netherlands
Collection Prof. Dr. Monika Grütters, Germany
Collection Heiner Wemhöner, Germany
Collection Prof. Dr. Helmut Zambo, Germany
Collection Margot und Roman Fuchs, Austria
Collection Gilles Fuchs, France
Collection Simon de Pury, Monaco