Vues de Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette
1. Vue de la tour d'exposition depuis le passage rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie | 2. Vue de la façade du bâtiment du 9, rue du Plâtre 1. © Martin Argyroglo | 2. © Delfino Sisto Legnani et Marco Cappelletti

On Saturday, March 10, 2018, Lafayette Anticipations opens its doors for the inaugural weekend. Free admission. All welcome!

The 9 rue du Plâtre building, renovated by Rem Koolhaas and his agency OMA, welcomes an exhibition by Lutz Bacher – her first in France. After three years of construction, this structure features 875 m2 of exhibition space, production workshops, an area dedicated to artistic practices for all visitors, a café-restaurant and a store. These spaces’ original offer reflect the Fondation’s pioneering nature.


Throughout a career of over 40 years, Lutz Bacher has constructed works that defy all forms of classification.

The American artist, who adopted a masculine pseudonym as of her first pieces, has produced conceptual works by using diverse media. Her photographs, sculptural arrangements, videos, sound pieces and installations gather objects and images inscribed in our collective imaginaries. Featured constitutive elements of Lutz Bacher’s pieces include: pictures of public personalities found in press that, once copied repeatedly, take on a new life, as well as every-day objects, rubbish collected in second-hand stores then integrated into ready-mades installations, used balloons, marble and sand.

Her appropriations recall pop culture, airport novels, pornographic magazines, popular psychology books, paparazzi snapshots and, from time to time, allude to art history. The human body, sexuality, power and violence are key themes in Lutz Bacher’s work, as are the current state of things and beings, and the fine line between public and private spheres.

Recent solo shows: The silence of the sea, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2018), More Than This, Secession, Vienna (2016) Magic Mountain, 356 Mission, Los Angeles (2016) Lutz Bacher, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2014) Into the Dimensional Corridor, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2014 - 2015) Black Beauty, Institute of Contemporary Art, Londres (2013) Snow, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2013) Spill, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2008). 

Lutz Bacher’s pieces are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, namely: Museum of Modern Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Walker Art Center, Minneapolis UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.