Born in Taiwan in 1961 and settled in Auvers-sur-Oise since 1991, Alixe Fu 傅慶豊 has been exhibiting for more than forty years, from Taipei to New York, from Paris to Beijing. LabMusée was born of his work.
Alixe Fu is a French-Taiwanese visual artist. Born in Taiwan in 1961, he held his first solo exhibition in Taipei in 1983 and graduated in fine arts from the Chinese Culture University in 1985. From the opening of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1983, he took part in the major exhibitions the museum devoted to young Taiwanese artists.
He settled in France in 1987. In 1991 the Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, granted him a studio at the Cité Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise. He has never left the village: the wheat fields, the church and the painters' paths entered his painting, and stayed there.
In forty years he has held more than forty solo exhibitions, in New York, Paris, Carcassonne, Blois, Nagoya, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and Taichung. He was invited to the exhibition “N'oubliez pas Tian'anmen” at the Centre Pompidou and has shown at the Grand Palais salons: Automne, Mai, Jeune Peinture, Indépendants, Comparaisons.
He is also a sculptor. His public artworks stand in France and in Taiwan; his “Giant Foot”, at Pingbei High School, is featured in the book “500 x Art in Public” (Braun, 2011). In 2007 he opened a studio in Beijing while working in Paris on the travelling project “Sign Me”, the Signature of the World: seventeen monumental sculptures that everyone is invited to sign, shown from 2008 to 2019 from Auvers to Place Sainte-Catherine in Paris, Beijing and Taipei.
In 2022–2023 the Wei Gallery in Hong Kong staged his first retrospective at Chatham Maison, “The Murmur of the Wheat Fields”, covering forty years of work. In 2025 he was the guest artist of the cultural season and of the 44th Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise: his canvases entered the church painted by Van Gogh, his sculptures took their place in the Parc Van Gogh and in the garden of the Musée Daubigny. On 12 September 2025 he inaugurated LabMusée, in an 1893 villa in the heart of the village.
At auction, and sometimes at flea markets, he acquires 18th- and 19th-century canvases, torn, flaking, often anonymous. He cleans them, re-stretches them, fills their losses, and then paints on them: a mask, a landscape in a tear, a balloon in the sky. The old portrait remains, but it looks at our own time.
Seventeen monumental white sculptures that you touch and sign. Born in Auvers in 2008, they travelled to Place Sainte-Catherine in Paris, to Beijing and to Taipei, stages in a search the artist calls “A Sign of Hope”. They have come back to the garden of LabMusée, where the museum breaks its first rule: do not touch.
“The wheat field is not necessarily a real place”: it may be a landscape, a longing for freedom, a destiny. Under this title the town of Auvers invited him in 2025 for its cultural season and the 44th Festival: his canvases in the church, his drawings at the media library, “Encore un verre” in the Parc Van Gogh, “Un brave” at Daubigny's. A tribute to France and to the village that welcomed him.
A glass table, eight painted chairs, faces on either side. The work is to be looked at and lived in: you sit down to tea, surrounded by the large face-landscapes painted by the artist.
After thirty years at the Cité des artistes, Alixe Fu was looking for a place to create and exhibit. It became Dr Le Queignec's 1893 villa, in the heart of the village, acquired with his patron Amanda Wei and extended with a contemporary exhibition space. A laboratory open to other artists, to every generation and every culture.
On view
The restoration of 18th- and 19th-century works becomes an act of painting: Alixe Fu repairs the broken link between the classical sacred and the contemporary absurd.
On view
Sculptures you touch, sign and inhabit. They have travelled from the United States to China, from Taiwan to Paris — and settle here.