The exhibition comprises photography, drawing and sculpture along with two large-scale installations, created specifically by Chiharu Shiota for the Gothenburg Museum of Art. The exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art coincides with a presentation of Chiharu Shiota at the Wanås sculpture park in Skåne. Altogether, the two exhibitions offer a unique insight into the work of a highly relevant artist.Shiota’s artistry is presented in a comprehensive museum exhibition for the first time in Sweden.

GOTHENBURG MUSEUM OF ART, GOTEBORG, SWEDEN
From 21/04/2018 to 30/09/2018

With “My Queens”, Fabre honours the important women in his life while simultaneously creating a dialogue with the Flemish artistic tradition within the historic setting of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Amongst the works of baroque master Jacques Jordaens, Fabre presents eight monumental marble bas-reliefs of women close to him. Their regal profile contrasts with their paper party hats. These pieces represent the noble character of the artist’s friendships and the festive atmosphere connected with it.

In the centre of the room, the work “My Future Queen” can be found: a white marble sculpture of Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, also wearing a party hat. The statue of the Crown Princess is at the centre of different artistic dialogues in the space and stands right between the present and the past, looking towards the future.

MUSEES ROYAUX DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
From 20/04/2018 to 19/08/2018

'LaChapelle: Good News for Modern Man' will feature an expansive survey of work by David LaChapelle, offering over 70 pieces from various periods of the artist's career. As a part of the opening night events,  renowned ballet dancer Sergei Polunin will give a performance in the Martini Church in Groningen.

His first large-scale solo museum show in the Netherlands will highlight areas of the artist’s oeuvre, from portraiture, still life, landscapes and tableaux. This comprehensive survey also introduces LaChapelle’s latest series, New World, in which he attempts to photograph the unphotographable - in a future quest for paradise.

Opening April 20th, 2018 from 8 to 10pm. 

GRONINGER MUSEUM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
From 20/04/2018 to 28/10/2018

BIC, a family company and world leader in the areas of stationery, lighters and razors, unveils for its first time its contemporary art collection. It was started in 1998 on the occasion of an exhibition in Italy that had associated artists to the celebration of the magnificent adventure of Marcel Bich, creator of the company.

Objects accessible to all, the BIC® products, like the BIC® Cristal pen, lighters or razors, are fixed in our collective memory and have become icons. They have inspired many artists throughout the world and BIC wished to develop a collection where each of its iconic products has become a medium for artistic creation.

Public opening Saturday, April 14th from 2PM.

CENTQUATRE-PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE
From 14/04/2018 to 13/05/2018

Acclaimed installation and performance artist Chiharu Shiota will create an awe-inspiring, site-specific installation of thread within the beautiful 18th-century Chapel in spring 2018. Embracing all who enter within an extraordinary experience, Shiota’s project will reference the Chapel’s rich history and years of human presence, dating back to 1744, making poignant allusion to the bells that were rung, the songs that were sung, and the lives that revolved around it, from cradle to grave.

CHAPEL FUTURE, YORKSKHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, WAKEFIELD, UK
From 30/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

‘Stigmata’ focuses on Jan Fabre’s actions and performances since 1976. A journey around the memory of Jan Fabre, involving 40 years of creation, it has the merit of interrogating, not the action or the performance, but the way to exhibit it, the way to present it.

The mise en scene by Jan Fabre and Germano Celant, an overview of all performances and actions, gathers glass trays, objects, drawings, photographs, artefacts, costumes, models which he calls “thought models”, films, works in blue ballpoint pen, and more.

CAAC SEVILLA (CENTRO ANDALUZ DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO), SEVILLA, SPAIN
From 23/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

From March 15 to April 15, Gérard Garouste will be investing the outstanding glass-in atrium of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a series of monumental installations and theatrical devices. Fake tapestries, labyrinths, oculi, anamorphoses will invite the visitor to enter this Grand Oeuvre Drolatique, mixing hidden significations and fantasies, references to the sacred and religious texts as well as evocations of Rabelais and Dante.
The exhibition unveils a more confidential aspect of the artist’s work through 4 large installations created in between 1987 and 2003 : Les Indiennes, La Dive Bacbuc, Ellipse et Les Saintes Ellipses. Never reunited before, they will be shown for the first time in Paris in 15 years.

BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE
From 15/03/2018 to 15/04/2018

On the occasion of the Paris Reconnaissance show dedicated to Jim Dine’s substantial donation to Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, the american artist will be presenting ‘House of Words’, a reading and performance accompagnied with bassist Daniele Roccato and pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci, at Centre Pompidou. 

Now world famous as a poet and artist, Jim Dine (b. Cincinatti, 1935) moved to New York in 1958. After making a name for himself with his happenings, he then turned to paintings that combined Abstract Expressionism with Pop images to novel effect. In painting and sculpture, prints and drawings of great diversity, Dine has developed over the last sixty years an intensely personal iconography, a highly distinctive voice.

The artist has always been fascinated by the interaction in between words and images, and he has been been publishing poetry since 1969. First written and reworked on the walls, his poems transform writing into a physical experience.

Curators : Sophie Duplaix (MNAM) - Cristina Agostinelli. The ‘In Vivo’ cycle is dedicated to performative practices.

CENTRE POMPIDOU, CINEMA 2, PARIS, FRANCE
On 15/03/2018 at 7PM

Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

For his exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (March 13 – July 1), Gérard Garouste has taken a close interest in the myth of Diana and Actaeon, one of the most beautiful tales recounted by the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) in his Metamorphoses: The myth, that examines perception, desire and capture, offered the perfect subject for Gérard Garouste. The result, going far beyond simply fulfilling a first 2015 commission awarded by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, was a series of studies, drawings and canvasses all based on the theme ; providing an echo of older works illustrating the same theme and forming part of the permanent collections.

MUSEE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE, PARIS, FRANCE
From 13/03/2018 to 01/07/2018

Back in the eighties, Jean-Luc Monterosso traveled to New York where he met MoMA’s photography collection curator. When he asked about his opinion on Contemporary French Photography, the curator simply replied : « It doesn’t exist ». Thirty years later, on the occasion of his departure from the MEP, Jean-Luc Monterosso answers back with an extensive exhibition dedicated to French Photography from the eighties to nowadays under the forms of a really personal and subjective narrative.

Exibition curator: Jean Luc Monterosso, Maison Européenne de la Photographie Director

With artworks by Jean-Christophe Ballot, François-Marie Banier, Bruno Barbey, Martine Barrat, Valérie Belin, Rossella Bellusci, Philippe Bordas, Martial Cherrier, Thierry Cohen, Stéphane Couturier, Martin d’Orgeval, Raphaël Dallaporta, Denis Darzacq, Marie-Laure de Decker, Raymond Depardon, Bernard Faucon, Alain Fleischer, Jean Gaumy, Pierre Gonnord, Hervé Guibert, Françoise Huguier, Dominique Issermann, Michel Journiac, JR, Pascal Kern, François Méchain, Minot-Gormezano, Sarah Moon, Bruno Mouron et Pascal Rostain, ORLAN, Mathieu Pernot, Philippe Perrin, Pierre et Gilles, Bernard Plossu, Philippe Ramette, Bettina Rheims, Sophie Ristelhueber, Denis Roche, Gérard Rondeau, Georges Rousse, Sebastião Salgado, Klavdij Sluban, Christine Spengler, Keiichi Tahara, Patrick Tosani, Gérard Uféras, Laurent Van der Stockt.

MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS, FRANCE
From 07/03/2018 to 20/05/2018

From 14 February to 23 April 2018, the Centre Pompidou is exhibiting the remarkable donation Jim Dine recently made to the Musée National d’Art Moderne: 28 paintings and sculptures produced between 1961 and 2016. A gift through which, as the artist puts it, he wanted to «pay back a cultural and personal debt to France» – namely the many years spent in Paris, which introduced him to «an aesthetic» that has enlightened his artistic decisions. In acclaiming this gesture, the exhibition strikingly retraces a unique career that is still as productive as ever.

CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE
From 14/02/2018 to 23/04/2018

As part of the AFROPOLITAN 2018 FESTIVAL, BOZAR (Brussels) welcomes five stained glass pieces by Afro-american artist Kehinde Wiley, from February 7 to May 5, 2018.

By combining the traditional medium of stained glass, its light manifesting a divine presence, with contemporary images anchored in American culture, Kehinde Wiley raises a whole host of highly topical questions, both cultural and political, about our models of society, identity and gender.

Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, Kehinde Wiley lives and works between New York and Beijing. Kehinde Wiley has recently been chosen by former President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.

Free entrance

BOZAR/PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
From 07/02/2018 to 05/05/2018

Book signing of the catalogue of the exhibition "Imaginary Time" by Pierre et Gilles. 

LIBRAIRIE FLAMMARION, CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE
On 08/02/2018 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

With a two-day programme of debates, conversations and poignant reflections around the gallery sector, the Barcelona Symposium gathers together key art world figures to discuss current issues, share experiences and rethink models relevant to the gallery practice. 

The symposium will count on the great contribution of Daniel Templon, one of the most established contemporary art gallerists in Europe and keynote speaker at this year's edition. In the wake of previous participation of influential figures like Thaddaeus Ropac (2017) and Marc Spiegler (2015), Daniel Templon will talk about his 50-year-long experience in the art world. 

MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA (MACBA), BARCELONA, SPAIN
From 22/01/2018 to 23/01/2018

Chiharu Shiota, The Butterfly Dream is featured in group show "Kyoto Art for Tomorrow" at the Museum of Kyoto.

MUSEUM OF KYOTO, KYOTO, JAPAN
From 20/01/2018 to 04/02/2018