The thematic exhibition “Breathing one’s breath” brings together some twenty artists belonging to distinct artistic movements and generations. Taking its title from the words Vincent van Gogh addressed to Emile Bernard, “[…] the fact is that we are painters in real life, and it’s a matter of breathing one’s breath as long as one has breath,”1 the exhibition takes a transhistoric route as it covers all the spaces within the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles.