The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection
The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection is a private collection created in 1989 by Italian business man Jean Pigozzi. It includes several thousand artworks featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations and videos from contemporary artists living in 22 sub-Saharan African countries. Curated up to 2008 by André Magnin, now an independent curator and art dealer, the Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art is regularly acquiring new pieces, adding new artists and lending works to major art institutions and museums around the world.
In 2019 Jean Pigozzi donated 45 artworks to the MoMA in New York.
The collection is currently based in Geneva, and does not yet have a permanent exhibition venue.
This website presents a selection of artists and works in the collection, it does not feature the whole collection. works to the MoMA in New York.
In 2008, Jean Pigozzi also started collecting contemporary Japanese art, the collection is presented on japigozzicollection.com .
Current Exhibitions
Cité internationale de la langue française, château de Villers-Cotterêts, France
from 20/11/2023 to 20/11/2033
Barthélémy Toguo – Musée de la BnF, Richelieu, Paris
from 21/09/2024 to 07/09/2025
« Le monde pour horizon », Musée de la BnF, – Artiste invité : Barthélémy Toguo, Paris, France
from 21/09/2024 to 07/09/2025
When We See Us A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
from 07/02/2025 to 17/08/2025
Un autre Mali dans un autre Monde par Françoise Huguier – Quai de la Photo – Paris, France
from 07/03/2025 to 01/06/2025
Sensibilités Vaudou – Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
from 03/04/2025 to 20/09/2025
Upcoming Exhibitions
Ba’zinzile: A Rehearsal for Breathing, Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa
from 19/09/2025 to 30/04/2025
