Melvin Edwards

This “carte blanche” exhibition, curated under the direction of Naomi Beckwith and curated by Amandine Nana and François Piron, traces Edwards’s six-decade career—beginning with his seminal Lynch Fragments series (1963-) and moving through his monumental welded sculptures, barbed-wire installations, and print collaborations. Edwards’s work, deeply rooted in African-American history, industrial materiality, and diasporic resonance, features tribute-sculptures, kinetic steel forms and collaborative print works created in Dakar in the late 1990s. Organised in partnership with the Fridericianum (Kassel) and the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), the exhibition emphasises the global reach of Edwards’s practice and positions him as a foundational figure in contemporary art.