EAC – Espace de l’Art Concret

Amitié choisie : François Morellet et la collection Albers-Honegger

June 6 to November 22, 2026

Curation: Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of François Morellet (1926–2016), a series of events pays tribute to this major artist across French institutions connected to his work.

The exhibition Amitié choisie : François Morellet et la collection Albers-Honegger, presented at the eac., sheds light on the intellectual, artistic, and personal bonds that united the artist with the collector couple Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers, whose commitment profoundly shaped the recognition of concrete abstraction in Europe.

The exhibition at the eac. reveals not only the breadth of François Morellet’s practice — moving with ease between mathematical rigour, visual experimentation, and playful lightness — but also the way in which it is deeply embedded in the history and spirit of the Albers-Honegger collection. It highlights a “chosen friendship” founded on lasting affinities, where collecting amounts to sharing a vision of art: demanding and constructed, yet always open to experimentation and the unexpected.

Absolue de rose

Virginie Barré

June 6 to November 15, 2026

Curation: Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri

Active as an artist since the mid-1990s, Virginie Barré deploys a universe in which theatrical staging plays a central role. Her practice is multidisciplinary, combining drawing, sculpture, and installation, as well as comics and cinema.

Her work explores the themes of dream, danger, and the fragile boundary between reality and fiction. Nourished by historical and artistic references, her approach is distinguished by a subtle irony, giving rise to scenes of suspended tragedy in which death and the grotesque intertwine.

Her work proceeds from a particularly agile and fertile replaying of forms and narratives, in an approach to abstraction that is at once joyful and colourful, always open to new readings and temporalities.

Absolue de rose proposes a blending of genres in which the domestic coexists with art, where everyday life is closely intertwined with artistic practice — particularly when one is an artist, a woman, and a mother. The exhibition thus promises to be a particularly vibrant proposition, rich in new perspectives.

Les résidents de la Fondation Josef & Anni Albers

Dialogue avec la collection Albers-Honegger

March 28 2026, to February 21 2027

Curation: Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri

For this new cycle of re-reading, the eac. invites seven international artists from residencies at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation to enter into dialogue with the works of 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 choices are enriched by their own works, so that a dialogue can be established beyond techniques, mediums, and the barriers of time and space.

Each artist develops a singular approach, constructing a sensitive itinerary in which the historical works of the Albers-Honegger collection become points of anchorage, friction, or inspiration. The exhibition thus invites the public into an experience of circulation between the works, where references, formal correspondences, and personal intuitions intersect. By encouraging these connections, the eac. continues its reflection on the activation of the Albers-Honegger collection and its capacity to generate new narratives and new readings in the light of contemporary creation.

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