Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

This spring, the Rauschenberg Foundation was delighted to host the first cohort of 2026 Archives Research Residents in New York from across the world: Alinka Echeverría (Mexico/UK), Erëmirë Krasniqi (Kosovo), Raf Wollaert (Belgium), Nadja Abt (Austria), and Evan Garza (USA). Collectively, their research covered Rauschenberg’s life and work from the early 1950s through 1990s, focusing on topics such as the Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI), travels through North Africa and Italy with Cy Twombly, AIDS activism, and performance in pursuit of a possible cinematic imaginary.

We can’t wait to see how these intensive archival investigations inform the residents’ future projects, which include planned exhibitions, publications, and artworks.

Image 1: Erëmirë Krasniqi, Raf Wollaert, and Alinka Echeverría at “Robert Rauschenberg: Important Early Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation,” Gagosian Gallery, 2026

Image 2: Evan Garza and Nadja Abt in the kitchen of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2026

Don't miss Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s presentation of Robert Rauschenberg at Frieze New York this week!

On view is Rauschenberg’s drawing “New York Times Announcement”, first published by the on March 25, 1977 to illustrate John Russell’s article “Art That Sings” and, simultaneously, to broadcast the artist’s then-upcoming retrospective at . Rauschenberg combined solvent transfer imagery of New York City landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center, with pastel toned gouache and watercolor.

“Tropic Warranty” similarly features solvent transfer imagery with the additional incorporation of patterned fabric strips. The work is emblematic of Rauschenberg’s “Slide” series (1979), titled in reference to the intentional shifts and “slides” of the textile pieces that interrupt the pictorial elements.

The vibrantly colored steel ground of the painting “Premonition (Ante de Creer) / ROCI CUBA” (1988)—created for the Cuba iteration of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange project—evokes the iconic pre-1959 American automobiles that populated the streets of Havana. The work even features Rauschenberg’s own black-and-white photography of Havana’s urban landscape as silkscreen imagery.

View these three works at NY, booth A03 , May 13-17, 2026.

Image 1: Robert Rauschenberg, “New York Times Announcement,” 1977

Image 2: Robert Rauschenberg, “Tropic Warranty (Slide),” 1979

Image 3: Robert Rauschenberg, “Premonition (Ante de Creer) / ROCI CUBA,” 1988