Alain Huck. Breathe every other time

The exhibition spotlights the work of Alain Huck and surveys almost thirty years of his practice, from his earliest works on canvas and the monumental charcoal pieces that first brought him recognition to his most recent drawings.

This exhibition, produced in close collaboration with the artist, centres on what for Huck is a fundamental question: texts and their relationship to images, language and its representation, what can and cannot be said, what makes memory and what makes history. Just as in his practice meanings arise from a montage of texts and images, the superimposition of different images and the uncertainty of the images themselves, this exhibition is organized through association of ideas. Here Huck has set up dialogues between works of different periods and very different kinds. Pieces from major drawing series stand side by side with those produced on media as diverse as tarpaulins, jute sacks, plants and neon lights, in a non-chronological, meaning-generating itinerary.

Exhibition curator: Nicole Schweizer, curator of contemporary art, MCBA

Publications:
Nicole Schweizer (ed.)

Alain Huck. Postanimal Beauty, with reproductions of all the drawings in the title series, a co-edition of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and art & fiction publications, Lausanne, 2025, 184 p.

Alain Huck. Respirer une fois sur deux, with texts by Sophie Ballmer, Christian Cuenoud, Célia Houdard, Robert Ireland, Julie Lang, David Lemaire, Alessandro Mercuri, Federico Nicolao, Guillaume Pilet, Christophe Rey, Carina Roth, Laurence Schmidlin, Jacques Sprunger, Katja Schwerzmann and Stéphane Zaech, published in conjunction with this exhibition, a co-edition of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and art & fiction publications, Lausanne, 2025, 44 pp.