BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIAN PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Atul Dodiya is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
FONDATION FAURSCHOU, VENICE, ITALYFrom 10/05/2018 to 01/09/2019
Faurschou Foundation is a privately-owned contemporary art institution, committed to presenting seminal public exhibitions globally. With the core desire of introducing visitors to the most acclaimed artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Faurschou Foundation utilizes its sizeable and continuously growing art collection, and creates both solo and thematic group shows. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation has permanent exhibition venues in Beijing’s 798 Art District and Copenhagen’s North Harbor. Since 2015, Faurschou Foundation has been organizing exhibitions in Venice as a parallel program during the Venice Art Biennale. For the 2019 edition of Venice art Biennale, Faurschou is showing Entropy, a group exhibition that brings together works by He An, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Sun Xun, Zhao Zhao, Yu Ji, Chen Tianzhuo.
FONDAZIONE BERENGO, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
On the occasion of the 58th Biennale di Venezia, Jan Fabre, Prune Nourry, Sundarshan Shetty is participating in Glasstress 2019, show curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen. The sixth edition of Glasstress brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. Glasstress is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to supporting his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass. Since its debut in 2009 as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Glasstress has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers and has since become an unparalleled platform showcasing ground-breaking new works in glass.
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Julião Sarmento is participating in Expanded, the new exhibition of First Stone, an experimental international research programme that explores the potential of Portuguese Stone. Expanded features original works by Marina Abramović, Carsten Holler et Julião Sarmento. Produced in Portuguese stone, a million-year-old natural resource, they share this unifying element that bestows them with a deep timelessness and resilience, somewhat contradicting the chaos and superficiality of the contemporary world. Placed within the gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, immersed in nature and displayed together, these pieces provide visitors with moments of experimentation and confrontation, underlining the value of art and culture in public spaces.
GARDEN OF PALAZZO BALBI VALIER, VENICE, ITALYFrom 6/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
On the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Jan Fabre returns to the Lagoon with the presentation of a special public art project. Installed inside the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier and visible from the Grand Canal, the monumenal sculpture in gold leaf “The Man who Measures the Clouds (Monument to the Measure of the Immeasurable)”, stands nine meters high . Designed specifically for Venice, it recalls a deep bond with this city, established over the past decades. Leaning over the arch leading to the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier from the Grand Canal, this imposing man of gold reflects not only the drift of the artist and humanity, but also the meaning and historical values of this mythical floating city.
FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS DE FRANCE, DUNKERQUE, FRANCEFrom 4/05/2019 to 5/01/2020
GIGANTISM – ART & INDUSTRIE is an original collective initiative on the territory of Hauts-de-France, in Dunkerque: the creation of a new triennial art and design in Europe.
From May 4, 2019, an exhibition of off-scale installations created for the occasion, of in situ works, sculptures, paintings, films and performances will embody encounters between artists, engineers, designers and architects. It will unfold on different exhibition venues and urban and port sites. An original journey that rethinks at the level of the landscape of Dunkerque a history of European modernity from 1947 to the present day; between living heritage and contemporary creation.
TRIPOSTAL, LILLE, FRANCEFrom 27/04/2019 to 01/10/2019
The Tripostal unfolds the great Eldorado story through a myriad of contemporary works of art borrowed from all over the world. In three chapters, corresponding to the three floors of the building: 1. The dreamed worlds, 2. The rush, 3. An endless Eldorado, the exhibition stages the universal adventure of all the eldorados who spur individuals and people to move
and relocate.
Curators: Jérôme Sans, Jean-Max Colard, with the collaboration of Isabelle Bernini.
MUSEE DE GRENOBLE, GRENOBLE, FRANCEFrom 27/04/2019 to 28/07/2019
The collection of Antoine de Galbert, “soft and luxurious therapy”, as he says himself, highlights his taste for decompartmentalization while reflecting his deepest obsessions. In contrast with a sometimes austere and sanitized vision of contemporary art, this collection does not hesitate to bring together conceptual art and popular cultures, outsider art and emerging artists. Abolishing boundaries and privileging the mixing of genres, Antoine de Galbert likes to find his way off the beaten track considering that the time in which we live more than ever needs magic, mystery, simplicity and universality.
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, DALLAS, USAFrom 13/04/2019 to 25/08/2019
Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates is a large-scale installation by Francesco Clemente consisting of a site-specific mural and two series of sculptures produced in the artist’s signature dreamlike aesthetic, and which reflect his ongoing exploration into notions of movement, transition, vulnerability, and mythological narratives. Both bodies of sculpture were created over the past five years in collaboration with artisans in Jodhpur, India. This exhibition provides a rare glimpse into Clemente’s forays in sculpture, denoting one of the few occasions in which he has worked in the medium.
KASTEEL VAN GAASBEEK, PAJOTTENLAND, BELGIUMFrom 7/04/2019 to 28/07/2019
Pieter Bruegel is often seen as the embodiment of Flemish identity. Why has that been so since the revival of his work around 1900? How has he grown to become an icon, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a huge cliché? In the exhibition ‘Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered’ the visitor becomes acquainted with a series of key works by modern masters and creations by contemporary artists who ‘have a thing for Bruegel’. They latch onto his themes, reinterpret them, quote him … and thus demonstrate that his work has lost none of its relevance.