The Museum of Art and History Geneva, in collaboration with Fondation Opale, is dedicating an exhibition to the leading female figures in contemporary Aboriginal painting. The exhibition, which runs from December 11, 2025, to April 12, 2026, brings together 65 works from Collection Bérengère Primat, including major pieces by Emily Kam Kngwarray and Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori.
Le Lieu Unique in Nantes is hosting the exhibition DANS LES PLIS DES CARTES (In the folds of maps) from October 25, 2025 to January 11, 2026. Two collaborative paintings from Collection Bérengère Primat are exhibited on this occasion: Manta Mimilpatjara and Tjukurpa Pulka, created by artists from the APY Lands.
From July 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026, Tate is dedicating a major retrospective to the Anmatyerr artist
Emily Kam Kngwarray. In addition to the loan of eight works from the Bérengère Primat Collection, the
exhibition will travel to Lens from June to November 2026.
For the exhibition 65,000 YEARS: A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN ART presented at the Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne from May 30 to November 23, 2025, two works from Collection Bérengère Primat were loaned: Tingari cycle by Pintupi artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, and Water man at Kalipinya by artist Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula.
For the exhibition WOVEN HISTORIES TEXTILES AND MODERN ABSTRACTION, shown from April 20 to September 13 at MoMA in New York, Fondation Opale loaned the work Burial Basket, by Australian artist and weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie, member of Ngarrindjeri people.
From March 15, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the Kluge-Ruhe Museum in Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) is presenting the exhibition IN THE BEGINNING: PAINTINGS BY SENIOR ARTISTS OF THE SPINIFEX ARTS PROJECT. On this occasion, the collaborative painting Palyami Tjungula, from Collection Bérengère Primat and created by men from the Spinifex Arts Project, will be exhibited.
From October 5, 2024 t0 February 16, 2025, two funeral poles from Collection Bérengère Primat were loaned to the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum for the exhibition Sky Gazing. The works are Milniyawuy – Larraktj by Yolŋu artist Naminapu Maymuru-White and Milky Way by Yolŋu artist Ganbilpil White Ganyldjinu.
From September 25 to September 30, Ocean Space hosted the collaborative work Emarr Totol / Emarr the Turtle (2017) as part of a collaboration Fondation Opale x TBA21-Academy during the Venice Biennale.
From July 21st, 2023, to January 28th, 2024, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech presented the exhibition SERPENT, commissioned by Bérengère Primat and Georges Petitjean. The exhibition is based on works from the Collection Bérengère Primat, in which the snake plays a key role.
For the exhibition RAINBOW, presenting the rainbow as a natural, cultural, spiritual and human phenomenon at the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture, Fondation Opale loaned the work Rainbow Serpent (1995) by John Mawurndjul. The exhibition ran from February to July 2023.
The exhibition MAḎAYIN chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement as told from the perspective of the Yolŋu people. Organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in partnership with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, it opened at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth in September 2022 and is currently touring the United States. The work Ganyu by Yolŋu artist Gulumbu Yunupingu, from Collection Bérengère Primat, is shown in the exhibition.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain dedicated an exhibition to artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, from July to November 2022. This exhibition was then presented at the Triennale Milano, from February to May 2023. Fondation Opale loaned two works: Nyinyilki, 2010, and Dibirdibi Country (2010), from the Collection Bérengère Primat.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain dedicated an exhibition to artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, from July to November 2022. This exhibition was then presented at the Triennale Milano, from February to May 2023. Fondation Opale loaned two works: Nyinyilki, 2010, and Dibirdibi Country (2010), from the Collection Bérengère Primat.
Fondation Opale partnered with Palais de Tokyo for the collective exhibition entitled RECLAIM THE EARTH, presented from April 15th to September 4th, 2022. This exhibition was dedicated to a selection of international Indigenous artists who work differently with so-called “natural” matter.
The first exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art presented at Fondation Opale from June 2019 to March 2020, BEFORE TIME BEGAN, has been shown in the Royal Museums of Art and History of Belgium from October 22th, 2021 until May 29th, 2022
Fondation Opale loaned a monumental collective work to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in May 2021 for the exhibition WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION / ELLES FONT L’ABSTRACTION, which was held from May 19th to August 23th, 2021. It was then shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao from October 22nd, 2021 to February 27th, 2022
Fondation Opale loaned a monumental collective work to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in May 2021 for the exhibition WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION / ELLES FONT L’ABSTRACTION, which was held from May 19th to August 23th, 2021. It was then shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao from October 22nd, 2021 to February 27th, 2022
In May 2021, Fondation Opale loaned four works in GhostNets to the Muséum du Havre in Normandy for the exhibition AUSTRALIA LE HAVRE – L’intimité d’un lien, from June 5th to November 7th, 2021.
Fondation Opale has worked closely with the 22nd edition of the Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN, from March 14th to November 15th, 2020. It supported several artistic projects and loaned a selection of the archives of Swiss curator Bernhard Lüthi, of which it is the depositary. This 22nd biennial is the first edition under the direction of an Aboriginal artist: Brook Andrew
For its first exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art, the Menil Collection has chosen to display over 100 works from Australia’s most isolated communities, all on loan from Fondation Opale. Named “best exhibition of the year” by the Houston Chronicle, MAPA WIYA took place from September 12th, 2019 to January 26th, 2020.
For the exhibition THE FACES BEHIND FOOD shown at the Alimentarium in Vevey in 2019, Fondation Opale has loaned a set of six Ghostnets works, including the work Reef for sale: going, going, gone… (2016) by Marion Gaemers, made of a rescued shopping trolley, recycled ghost nets and beach rope.
