LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut

The Museum of Modern Art Lille reopened late September 2010 under a new identity: the LaM - Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art. Expanded and modernized, located in a sculpture park, it is the only museum in France and Northern Europe to offer a variety of paths in art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Opened in November 1983 and registered with the additional inventory of historical monuments since 2000, LaM brings together more than 4500 works.

It houses a collection of modern art of international standard established by the donation of a large northern industrial family, Masurel, Lille Métropole Urban Community in 1979. This collection includes Cubist masterpieces by Georges Braque, Henri Laurens and Pablo Picasso, as well as significant series of works by Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Amedeo Modigliani. Fauvism, Surrealism, the School of Montparnasse, the School of Paris, naive art and northern artists of France are also represented.

For over 25 years, the museum has an active policy of exhibitions and acquisitions in contemporary art, allowing him to have a collection in this rich field of nearly 400 works signed by more than 180 artists: Art & Language, Martin Barré, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon, Robert Filliou, Barry Flanagan, Bertrand Lavier, Allan McCollum, Pierre Mercier, Annette Messager, Dennis Oppenheim, Michel Parmentier, Mimmo Rotella, Pierre Soulages or Jacques Villéglé ...

In 1999, the collections were enriched from the largest collection of art brut in France, after the donation made by the association L'Aracine association of artists and collectors of Art Brut chaired by Madeleine Lommel. The biggest names in art brut are represented: Aloise Corbaz, Fleury Joseph Crépin, Henry Darger, Auguste Forestier, Madge Gill, Jules Leclercq, Augustin Lesage, Adolf Wölfli and Carlo Zinelli ...

Sheltered by the museum works echo the exceptional single monumental sculpture park in France (Calder, Lipchitz, Picasso ...), in which fits the building.