Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop

Exhibitions & Museums

In the spring and summer of 2025, the Josef Albers Museum is bringing color to its exhibition space.

Polly Apfelbaum, Barn Face (Red Nose), 2020© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 - Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Photo:Markus Wörgötter

With Color Everywhere, the museum will show four artistic positions in the expansion building from April 6, 2025, dealing with color, material and space in different ways. Through the work of four artists - Polly Apfelbaum (*1955), Karla Black (*1972), Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019), Christof John (*1984) - color can be experienced not only spatially, but also physically. Movement and color perception are elementary components of Cruz-Diez's work, while John confuses the eye with geometric color form compositions. At the same time, color has different manifestations, as in Black's pastel-colored sculptures or colorful floor works by Apfelbaum. The exhibition runs through Aug. 31, 2025: https://quadrat.bottrop.de/ausstellungen/color_everywhere.php

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie No. 2,210, 1988 © CarlosCruz-Diez/Photo: Peter Gwiazda

Photo below or top right: Christof John, Ohne Titel (Ticket V/1), 2020, © ChristofJohn/Photo: Mareike Tocha