Direction
Sarah Lombardi, director
Sarah Lombardi, art historian, has been director of the Collection de l’Art Brut since 2013. Previously, she was an associate researcher at the Société des arts indisciplinés de Montréal and worked as an independent exhibition curator, then as a curator at the Collection de l’Art Brut from 2007 to 2011. In 2012, she served as interim director of the museum. Upon her appointment to lead the Lausanne institution, she emphasized enhancing the museum's collections, creating the Art Brut biennales – thematic exhibitions presenting exclusively works from the museum's holdings – and a new bilingual editorial series titled Art Brut, la collection - Art Brut, the collection.
She has curated numerous exhibitions within the institution and internationally and has edited a large number of publications in this field, including the Almanac of Art Brut (2016) – an editorial project initiated by Jean Dubuffet in 1948 – which constitutes a key work in the history of Art Brut, and the Jean Dubuffet Photographic Albums (2017). In the context of the museum's fiftieth anniversary (2026), she is curator of the exhibition Art Brut in Switzerland. From the origins of the collection to today, director of the accompanying catalogue and produced the catalogue 50 years of posters of the Collection de l’Art Brut in tribute to the graphic work of Werner Jeker.
