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 in 2013, at the head of the Lausanne institution, she emphasized the enhancement of the museum’s collections, creating the Art Brut Biennials – thematic exhibitions presenting exclusively works from the museum’s holdings – and a new bilingual editorial series entitled 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 Almanach de l’Art Brut (2016) – an editorial project initiated by Jean Dubuffet in 1948 – which is a key work in the history of Art Brut, and the Albums photographiques de Jean Dubuffet (2017). As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary (2026), she is curator of the exhibition Art Brut en Suisse. Des origines de la collection à aujourd’hui, director of the accompanying catalogue and produced the catalogue 50 ans d’affiches de la Collection de l’Art Brut in tribute to the graphic work of Werner Jeker.
