Erik Lindman and Robert Motherwell map the evolution of modernist collage at Almine Rech

Almine Rech Brussels is presenting 'Open Edges: Erik Lindman & Robert Motherwell', a duo show on view from March 11 to April 18, 2026. For the length of the exhibition, the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso loaned two works by Pablo Picasso, which are on view and part of the show, grounding the dialogue in the European Modernism that informed Robert Motherwell and, subsequently, Erik Lindman. "More fundamental is the individual problem, the capacity of an artist to absorb the shocks of reality, whether coming from the internal or external world, and to reassert himself in the face of such shocks, as when a dog shakes off water after emerging from the sea." —Robert Motherwell, 1944 Erik Lindman and Robert Motherwell are two artists who, though born seventy years apart, share an interest in using found materials to generate compositional decisions in their work. This can be traced back to their shared lodestar Picasso,