Centre Pompidou, Paris
September 2021
September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022
Anni et Josef Albers: L’art et la vie marks the first exhibition in France dedicated to the two artists as a couple: to the intimate, empathetic bond that underpinned a lifetime of mutual support and encouragement and an ongoing dialogue founded on shared respect. Not only did they create an oeuvre now considered the basis of modernism, they also passed on their educative values to a whole new generation of artists.
This comprehensive presentation of Anni and Josef Albers’s respective oeuvres includes more than 350 paintings, photographs, furniture, drawings, and textiles. It chronicles the different stages of the artists’ lives, bringing together the rich and varied output from their Bauhaus days (1920–1933) to their later works produced at Black Mountain College. Two other highlights are a selection of Anni’s pictorial weavings and Josef’s Homages to the Square. The exhibition closes with a section devoted to Anni’s graphic work, which she began with Josef in the 1960s and continued until the end of her life.
The exhibition is in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2021. “It is an honor to create an exhibition that continues to bring life and light into their legacy,” says Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and friend of the late artists.