Germaine Richier (1902–1959): Conversations

Germaine Richier (1902–1959): Conversations is a temporary exhibition of the French sculptor’s work held at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Andros, in the Cyclades. It runs from 14 June to 27 September 2026 and occupies the museum’s Old Wing, while maintenance work proceeds in the New Wing.

The museum is the Andros house of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation. It opened on 28 July 1979 in Chora, the island town where Basil P. Goulandris was born, and was the first contemporary art museum in Greece. Its core collection began with works the Andriot sculptor Michalis Tombros bequeathed to his hometown, expanded by the Goulandris private collection. The New Wing was inaugurated on 20 July 1986, its marble and stone construction set to the island landscape. Since 1987 its summer exhibitions have shown Matisse, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Picasso, Braque, Klee, Chagall and Rodin, among others.

Richier was a French sculptor, born at Grans and died at Montpellier, who took the human figure as her essential subject and put it through transformations that fused it with animal and natural forms. The Foundation’s own collection holds sculptures by her, among them the 1946 bronze Spider I, which merges a feminine figure with the shape of a spider, and Don Quixote with Spear. The 2026 exhibition is the museum’s summer offering, the temporary show it mounts each year against its permanent holdings.