The exhibition Disco by Vivian Suter was organised by MAAT, Lisbon and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
It benefits from the support for artistic production and partnership of ArtWorks.
Curator: Hélène Audiffren
Vivian Suter works daily in her garden in Panajachel, Guatemala, where she has lived since the 1980s. She incorporates external factors such as humidity, light, flora and fauna into her painting, thus documenting her living environment. The forces and textures of Guatemala’s lush subtropical nature are recorded in the artist’s gestural and colourful painting.
The works, which are untitled and undated, can then be hung in any direction within proliferating installations. Visitors literally walk through Vivian Suter’s paintings until they are physically immersed in a dense work whose atmosphere is composed of shapes, colours and traces left by the weather.
Carré d’Art – Museum of Contemporary Art will present the exhibition Disco by artist Vivian Suter from 8 November 2025 to 29 March 2026, previously unveiled at MAAT in Lisbon and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. As with each iteration of the exhibition, the hundreds of canvases created in recent years are rearranged in a free and spontaneous manner according to the architecture of the venue. They accumulate and overlap across the entire height of the walls, float in mid-air, are suspended from structures or pile up on the floor. In Nîmes, the canvases interact with Norman Foster’s architecture to offer viewers a new immersive experience.
A series of collages by Elisabeth Wild, the artist’s mother (1922-2020), completes the exhibition.
The exhibition is the subject of a monographic book in four languages, published by JRP éditions.