David Hockney

“This exhibition means an enormous amount because it is the largest exhibition I’ve ever had – 11 rooms in the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Some of the very last paintings I’m working on now will be included in it, and I think it’s going to be very good.”

- David Hockney

In the Spring of 2025, Fondation is inviting David Hockney to take over the entire building for an exhibition that will be exceptional in its scale and its originality. Do remember they can’t cancel the Spring will bring together more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation. There will be works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings…) and immersive video installations. 

The core of the exhibition will concentrate on the past 25 years, spent mainly in Yorkshire, Normandy, and London. This period, in the exhibition, opens with a celebration of the Yorkshire landscape: the artist paints a hawthorn bush in a spectacular explosion of spring (May Blossom on the Roman Road, 2009); his observation of the changing seasons culminates in the monumental winter landscape Bigger Trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique, 2007, generously loaned by the Tate.