2022 Memphis, Tennessee

Josef Albers: Opening Eyes features works from the Art Museum of the University of Memphis's collection, including three paintings from the artist's Homage to the Square series. Most of AMUM's Albers's works are gifts of professor of architecture William Huff, who knew Albers at Yale and collected directly from the artist. In the 1940s, Josef Albers and his wife, the textile artist Anni Albers, taught at Black Mountain College, an experimental institute in North Carolina. Later, Albers related that on his first day a student asked what he intended to teach. His answer, the first English words he uttered as a professor, was "to open eyes." Albers's work as an artist and a teacher explored the "eye-opening" space between what one sees and what one knows.

2022 Bottrop, Germany

Josef Albers. Huldigung an das Quadrat (Josef Albers: Homage to the Square) is a major exhibition of ninety works dedicated to the extraordinary cycle of Homage paintings that Josef Albers created from 1950 until his death in 1976. Early works from the 1940s provide a context for Albers's first Homage, painted in the summer of 1950, while the Homages of the 1950s and 1960s show Albers's evolving understanding of color. The exhibition is the inaugural show in the museum's new wing and features works from the museum's collection as well as loans from international museums.