CARRE D’ART DE NIMES, FRANCEFrom 13/10/2017 to 31/12/2017
The exhibition Supports/Surfaces: the Beginning, 1966–1970 shows which process took over the course of the 1960s up to the creation of the group. In order to gain an understanding of the short-lived but important Supports/Surfaces movement, one must plunge oneself into the years of research, confrontations and oppositions that led up to it. These four years were a time of intense and wonderful artistic effervescence in the midst of a period marked by the social and political upheavals of the events of May 1968. An examination of this history from its origins enables us to gain a new perspective on the movement by focusing on these years marked by the jubilation of artists in the midst of reinventing their work from the ground up.
The exhibition brings together major works of this period, some which have not been shown since that time, and provides insight into the profound questioning that lay behind the creations over the course of these key years: the deconstruction of painting, confrontation with Nouveau Réalisme (“New Realism”) and the certain death of painting, external exhibition, the placement of works in space, the importance of the object and its manipulation.
With Avec André-Pierre Arnal, Vincent Bioulès, Louis Cane, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, Toni Grand, Bernard Pagès, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, André Valensi et Claude Viallat.
NIKOLAIKIRCHE, BERLINFrom 29/09/17 to 10/11/17
Chiharu Shiota presents a major new site specific installation in Berlin’s oldest church, Nikolaikirche, ’Lost Words’, relating to the 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation and commissioned by the capital’s museum Stadtmuseumberlin
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BORDEAUX, FRANCEFrom 28/09/2017 to 07/01/18
As part of the season « Paysage Bordeaux 2017 », the musée des Beaux-Arts organizes temporary exhibitions to reveal the interest of its collections. This third exhibition is confronting Albert Marquet’s fragile works on paper to Supports/Surfaces French pionneer Daniel Dezeuze’s drawings never shown until now.
Zeitz MOCAA, South AfricaFrom 22/09/2017
American artist Kehinde Wiley is part of the inaugural collection at the newly opened Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa) in Cape Town, the biggest museum in Africa.
HOLSTEBRO KUNSTMUSEUM, DenmarkFrom 16/09/2017 to 7/01/2018
Three international heavyweights in contemporary painting will join forces when Danish Tal R and his two German colleagues and friends, Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter, hold a joint exhibition at Holstebro Kunstmuseum, under the title ‘The Men Who Fell from Earth’. In recent decades, with an almost unrestrained energy, these three artists have made a name for themselves as significant innovators of the painting tradition. Their inspiration is often drawn from the borderline of what is generally acceptable, and the result is fabulous imagery that demonstrates great colouristic and expressive strength. Although there is sometimes a lot of humour present, the subjects addressed by Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter and Tal R are both serious and urgent. Photo © Hanna Putz
SKULPTURENHALLE, Thomas Schütte Stiftung, Holtzheim, GermanyFrom 10/09/2017 to 17/12/2017
The Skulpturenhall presents a comprehensive show dedicated to Sir Anthony Caro’s work, including models of this sculptures, curated Dieter Schwarz.
GAASBEEK CASTLEFrom 7/11/17 to 11/5/17
Knights appeal to everyone’s imagination. What does this iconic symbol stand for? Do the knightly codes and values still have meaning today? Curator Joanna De Vos investigated and now creates in Gaasbeek Castle an international group exhibition of modern artistry as a ‘legacy’ of knightly ideals. With works by Marina Abramović, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Horia Damian, Robert Devriendt, Davide Dormino, Jan Fabre, Laurent Grasso, Phil Griffin, Oda Jaune, Kubra Khademi, Meiro Koizumi, Pere Llobera, Barbara Kruger, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese, Fabien Mérelle, Benjamin Moravec, Eleni Mylonas, Luigi Ontani, Antonis Pittas, Quiet Ensemble, Gabriel Roca, Rob Scholte, Adeela Suleman, Hannelore Van Dijck, Hans Van Houwelingen, Marko Velk, Antonello Viola, voorforvaast fanclub and Andy Wauman
CAC MEYMAC, FRANCEFrom 7/9/17 to 10/15/17
LEOPOLD MUSEUM, VIENNA, AUSTRIAFrom 7/7/17 to 8/27/17
Jan Fabre. STIGMATA is a voyage into the memory of one of the biggest contemporary artists through drawings, photographs, sculptures, costumes, texts quotes, archival documents and study models – which Fabre refers to as “Thinking Models” – and filmic documentations of his performance and poetic actions, from the second half of the 1970s to the present. Curator Germano Celant.
VILLA RUFOLO, RAVELLO, ITALYFrom 6/07/17 to 30/09/17
This year, the Ravello festival – a renowned celebration of classical music and the arts – program includes the exhibition Standing with Truth by Francesco Clemente featuring a tent from Clemente’s Encampment series.