Dialogue with la collection Albers-Honegger
Anni & Josef Albers Foundation

Artists: Annie-Marie Akussah, Marie Hazard, Sumiko Oé-Gottini, Charlotte von Poehl, Vico Persson, Damien Poulain, Enrique Veganzones

Alongside a selection of works by artists from the Albers-Honegger Collection: Josef Albers, Carl André, Robert Barry, Hartmut Böhm, Matti Braun, Marcelle Cahn, Antonio Calderara, Christo, Jean-François Dubreuil, Helmut Federle, Auguste Herbin, Gottfried Honegger, Sol LeWitt, Richard Paul Lohse, Richard Long, Piero Manzoni, Aurélie Nemours, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Niele Toroni

For this new cycle of reinterpretation, the eac. invites seven international artists who have taken part in residencies at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation to engage in dialogue with works from the Albers-Honegger Collection.

The selected artists are invited to immerse themselves in the collection by choosing around ten works with which they feel a sense of “resonance”. These selections are then enriched by their own works, establishing a dialogue that transcends techniques, media, and the boundaries of time and space.

This exhibition is the result of a new partnership between the eac. and the residency programme of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.

The primary missions of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation are to preserve and promote the work of Josef and Anni Albers, as well as to support contemporary creation through its residency programmes in the United States, Ireland, and Senegal.

Within this context, the exhibition highlights contemporary artistic practices informed by a modernist legacy, while revealing the diversity of perspectives brought today to colour, form, perception, and creative processes.

Each artist develops a distinctive approach, constructing a sensitive trajectory in which the historical works from the Albers-Honegger Collection become points of anchorage, friction, or inspiration. The exhibition thus invites visitors to experience a circulation between works, where references, formal correspondences, and personal intuitions intersect. By fostering these connections, the eac. continues its reflection on activating the Albers-Honegger Collection and its capacity to generate new narratives and fresh interpretations in the light of contemporary creation.