Mix & Match: Fashion Photography Meets Contemporary Art

’To bring together the worlds of fashion photography and art is to orchestrate a remarkable dialogue that transcends generations and cultures. Captured in these assembled images - seen through a very personal lens and from a unique woman’s perspective - are experiences which reflect all of humanity.’ - Manuela Wirth, President Hauser & Wirth

A dynamic survey of the Nicola Erni Collection, one of the foremost collections of photography and contemporary art.

Over twenty-five years, collector Nicola Erni has acquired artworks that speak to her passion for art, fashion, and social change, amassing one of the largest collections of photography and an extensive collection of contemporary art in private hands.

Mix & Match showcases almost 400 works from the Nicola Erni Collection, bringing together fashion photographs and contemporary artworks in playful pairings where both genres enter a dialogue. In parallel, it offers a journey through one hundred years of fashion photography and shows new ways of exploring this field from the 1930s to the present, organized in twelve thematic sections.

Featured artists and photographers include: Richard Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cecil Beaton, Sylvie Fleury, Keith Haring, Vivian Maier, Cindy Sherman, Tim Walker, Andy Warhol and others.

Nicola Erni’s impressive collection comprises fashion photography from the 1930s to the present day, photography of social change in the 1960s and 70s and an astonishing collection of artwork from visionaries such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, and many others.

Valentina Frutig is the senior collection manager at the Nicola Erni Collection.

Max Hollein is the Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Fabrice Hergott is an art historian and the Director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris.