Bernard Joubert is a Paris-based artist born in 1946. In the early 1970s, Bernard Joubert started painting on loose canvases using tubes to draw lines of color directly onto them. He then began integrating the wall itself into his canvases, and in 1973, started a series of ribbons that continued until 1981. These ribbons were painted on cotton and delimit geometric surfaces without closing them. Joubert's first exhibition was in 1974 at the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris, and he had several more exhibitions throughout Europe and the US. In 1974, drawings were purchased by the MOMA in New York, and in the same year, several works entered the Panza di Biumo collection. In parallel with exhibitions in institutional venues, Bernard Joubert, from 1974, photographed his ribbons hung in the street. In 2013, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris included in its collections a major square ribbon painting as well as a series of thirty photographs of this square, taken in the streets of Strasbourg or in private homes. Bernard Joubert then photographed, starting in 1976, the 200×4.5cm rectangle delimited by a white and a black ribbon in the streets of Paris, New York, Brussels and Venice.
His work later expanded, laying touches of color onto engravings or old photographs, overlapping and expanding on the surface regardless of the medium.

SOLO SHOWS

2023 “Le Fixe et du Variable”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”Simultanés”, Castle of Tours, Tours, France
2017 Rencontres d'octobre, Jacqueline Boissier, Paris, France
2016 POCTB, Orléans, France
2016 ”La Pittura al limite”, Gallery Il Ponte, Florence
2015 Œuvres, 1980 1982, Gallery Alain Coulange, Paris
2014 Gallery Flichy, Paris, France
2011 Institut Français de Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2010 Gallery Alain Margaron, Paris, France
2007 ”Peintures de peintures”, Cultural space Martial Taugourdeau, Bonneval Le Colombier, Orléans, France
2005 Gallery Servandoni, Paris
2003 Gallery L’AGART, Amilly
2000 L‘art dans les chapelles, Chapel Saint-Nicodème, Guénin, France

GROUP SHOWS

2025 “Ligne(s) de mire”, off-site exhibition at the Bonisson Art Center, Bigaignon, Rognes, France
2024 Art Brussels, Bigaignon, Belgique
2021 ”L'Entretien de la Peinture”, Espace Art Absolument, Paris
2019 ”Flora Maxima”, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
2019 ”Sillage”, Cheongju, Museum of Art, Corée du sud
2016 ”Musée, même”, DIX291, Paris
2016 ”La Materia della forma”, collection Panza di Biumo, MART, Italie
2015 ”Quand fondra la neige, où ira le blanc”, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
2014 ”Une maison pour la peinture”, Atelier Cantoisel, Joigny
2011 ”Peintures paysage”, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris
2010 Rencontres d’octobre, Jacqueline Boissier, Paris
2009 ”Autour du paysage”, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris
2009 ”Histoires de crânes”, galerie DIX-291, Paris
2008 "André Cadere peinture sans fin", Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2007 ”Surfaces de passage”, Fondation Zervos, Vézelay
2007 ”Orthodoxes- hétérodoxes : choisir sa ligne”, Centre régional d’art Contemporain, Montbéliard
2003 ”Trois!”, Carré Saint-Vincent, Scène nationale, Orléans
2000 ”Rencontres, hommage à Pierre Boissier”, Paris

COLLECTIONS 

Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France
Museum of Modern Art, New-York, United States of America
Collection Panza di Biumo
Museum of Grenoble, France
Museum of Modern Art, Camberra, Australia
Collection Rolf Ricke
MAM of the city of Paris
Museum of Modern Art • LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq
Peinture murale, Institut Français de Bonn, Germany