Exhibition

On the occasion of the exhibition Dans l’intimité d’une collection. Donation Decharme au Grand Palais, co-produced by the Centre Pompidou, the Galerie Françoise Livinec is presenting an unprecedented retrospective of Rosemarie Koczÿ from June 6 to August 2, 2025.

An outsider artist haunted by the memory of the Holocaust, she developed a body of work at the intersection of Art Brut and Expressionism. Her series La Condition Humaine (1975–1994), with its intense material density, embodies the weight of human experience. In I Weave You a Shroud(1979–2007), drawn compulsively until her death, ghostly figures emerge from a web of black lines.

Recognized as early as the 1970s by Peggy Guggenheim and selected by Jean Dubuffet to inaugurate the Neuve Inventionwing in Lausanne, her work is marked by dramatic intensity—between suffering and exaltation—in the lineage of Grünewald, Munch, and Kokoschka.

Born in Germany in 1939, she settled in Switzerland in 1961 and later in the United States from 1984. She leaves behind a rare and moving body of work, held in numerous international collections.