Les Lalanne: A Living Landscape

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce Les Lalanne: A Living Landscape, a comprehensive exhibition of the celebrated artistic duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, presented at the Hong Kong gallery in conjunction with Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. Conceived as an imagined garden – an enigmatic, contemplative environment inspired by the philosophy and spatial poetics of the Japanese Zen garden – the exhibition invites viewers into a slowed, reflective encounter with the sculptural world of Les Lalanne.

The exhibition draws directly from the Lalannes’ environment. Their home in Ury, France, was a place of constant activity, where family life, animals and craftsmen shared the courtyard and art was inseparable from everyday existence. The house functioned as a working studio, while the surrounding gardens became a living museum. Gardens were particularly central to Claude’s practice – carefully shaped spaces of controlled wildness, where vegetation was allowed to flourish freely yet deliberately, animated her sculpture. This fusion of nature and art, cultivation and imagination forms the conceptual core of A Living Landscape.