Florence and Daniel Guerlain’s Donation and Gifts to Centre Pompidou
From 25 July to 1 November 2026, the left wing galleries of the 2nd floor of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) host the exhibition Contemporary Drawings: Florence and Daniel Guerlain’s Donation and Gifts to Centre Pompidou.
This exhibition is an internationally significant and artistically highly valuable collaboration project between the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) and Centre Pompidou. It presents works from the collection donated by collectors and art patrons Florence and Daniel Guerlain to the French institution over the past twenty years.
The Guerlain collection is thematically diverse and distinctly contemporary in nature. From the donation of nearly 1200 works, a multifaceted selection for the exhibition in Riga has been curated, featuring 98 drawings by 43 artists of different nationalities and spanning the 1970s to 2019. Among them are internationally well-known names such as Tony Cragg, Erik Dietman, Marlene Dumas, Robert Longo, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Kiki Smith, and French artists such as Dove Allouche, Elise Beaucousin, Cathryn Boch, Henri Cueco, Daniel Dezeuze, Vidya Gastaldon, Jean le Gac, Frédérique Loutz, André Raffray, Anne-Marie Schneider, and Gérard Traquandi – most of whom have never been exhibited in Latvia.
