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Prune Nourry
LE VOYAGE à NANTES
Group show
Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes
From June 28 to August 31, 2025
Le Voyage à Nantes invites Prune Nourry to take over the place Graslin from June 28, 2025, with her brand-new work Mothership, a nearly 17m-long sculpture in the shape of upturned boat hulls. Made of metallic structures, the frameworks of these hulls trace skeletal lines that appear simultaneously human, animal, and naval, in keeping with her interest in hybridizing living forms.
Alioune Diagne
GéEJU NEEFARE – PLASTIC SEA
Permanent Collection
Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller
Alioune Diagne’s Géeju Neefare – Plastic Sea has joined the Fondation François Schneider’s permanent collection, following its selection as laureate of the 14th Talents Contemporains competition.
Kehinde Wiley
FLOURISH
Solo Show
Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam
From May 29 to August 31, 2025
From May 29, 2025, Museum Van Loon is dedicating his very first solo show to Kehinde Wiley in the Netherlands. For the occasion, the artist has created a brand-new series of portraits, establishing a parallel with the museum’s collection of portraits and historic interiors.
Chiharu Shiota
HOME LESS HOME – ICA BOSTON
Solo Show
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
From May 22 to September 1, 2025
Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art dedicates her first solo show in New England to Chiharu Shiota, as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial 2025, from May 22, 2025. The exhibition will include two site-specific installations, Accumulation – Searching for the Destination(2014/2025) and a brand-new installation, Home Less Home (2025).
Chiharu Shiota
FABRICATED IMAGINARIES: CRAFTING ART
Group show
Rose Art Museum, Waltham
From August 20 to May 31, 2026
On the occasion of the group show Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art, curated by Gannit Ankori, Chiharu Shiota exhibits her works State of Being (Mask) and State of Being (Diary) at the Rose Art Museum in the USA from August 20, 2025. The exhibition presents artworks that occupy a liminal space where art intertwines with craft traditions, design, and unconventional modes of creativity.
Abdelkader Benchamma
APOCALYPSE, HIER ET DEMAIN
Group show
BnF, Paris
From February 4 to June 8, 2025
On the occasion of the group show Apocalypse, Hier et demain, curated by Jeanne Brun and Pauline Créteur, Abdelkader Benchamma is exhibiting his works at the Bibliothèque nationale de France from February 4, 2025. The exhibition features a range of contemporary works, including monumental ones that depict the day after, marked by the “wrath” of God or the elements.
Valerio Adami
VALERIO ADAMI. LABORATORIO
Solo Show
Fondazione Marconi, Milan
March 2025 to May 2025
The Fondazione Marconi is dedicating a solo show to Valerio Adami in Milan through May 2025. A presentation of the extended reprint of the book Valerio Adami – Sinopie Luoghi Confessioni will take place on Saturday May 24, 2025 at 4pm, accompanied by a dialogue between Valeria Cantoni Mamiani, President of the Valerio Adami Archives, and philosopher Maurizio Ferraris, followed by a reading by actress Anna Nogara.
Abdelkader Benchamma
LIRE LE CIEL
Group show
Mucem, Marseille
From July 9, 2025 to January 5, 2026
On the occasion of the group show Lire le ciel, Abdelkader Benchamma exhibits six works curated by Juliette Bessette and Enguerrand Lascols from July 9, 2025 at the Mucem. Through this dialogue between the arts and sciences, the exhibition aims to question our current relationship with the starry sky.
Jean-Michel Alberola
LA RUCHE – CITE D’ARTISTES MYTHIQUE: 28 ARTISTES DE LA RUCHE ESSAIMENT à PERPIGNAN
Group show
Acentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan
From May 17 to July 31, 2025
On the occasion of the exhibition LA RUCHE – CITE D’ARTISTES MYTHIQUE: 28 artistes de la Ruche essaiment à Perpignan, in collaboration with the Galerie municipale Julio Gonzalez in Arcueil, Jean-Michel Alberola exhibits his works Japanese Folk Song and La pensée de Chico Marx en 2020 curated by André Siegel at the Centre d’art contemporain Acentmètresducentredumonde.
Léonard Martin
LACOSTE
Installation
Shangri-La, Paris
From April 30 to October 15, 2025
On the occasion of the collaboration between Lacoste and the Shangri-La Paris, Léonard Martin has realized an installation in the Lacoste Pavilion, on view until October 15, 2025.
Philippe Cognée
DANS LE FLOU, UNE AUTRE VISION DE L’ART DE 1945 à NOS JOURS
Group show
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
From April 30 to August 18, 2025
On the occasion of the group show Dans le Flou, une autre vision de l’art de 1945 à nos jours, curated by Claire Bernardi and Emilia Philippot, Philippe Cognée exhibits his work at the Musée de l’Orangerie from April 30, 2025. This exhibition deliberately uses blurriness as a key to open up a new reading of a whole area of modern and contemporary art.
Pierre et Gilles
MONDES MARINS – LES FRANCISCAINES
Solo Show
Les Franciscaines, Deauville
From May 24, 2025 to January 4, 2026
Les Franciscaines is dedicating a solo show to Pierre et Gilles, curated by Annie Madet-Vache and the artists, from May 24, 2025 in Deauville. The exhibition, entitled Mondes marins, focuses on the maritime theme, and includes iconic works as well as four works specially produced for the show. A screening of Chantal Lasbats’ documentary Dans une photo de Pierre et Gilles, followed by a conversation with the artists, will take place on Saturday May 24 from 4pm to 5:30pm
Kehinde Wiley
A MAZE OF POWER – MOROCCO
Solo Show
Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat
From April 2 to June 15, 2025
The Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is devoting a solo show to Kehinde Wiley until June 15, 2025. Originally organised by the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, the exhibition A Maze of Power presents a series of eleven portraits of African heads of states, in which the artist goes beyond the simple contours of figuration to explore more deeply the notion of power and its representation.
Chiharu Shiota
AT THE EDGE OF FATE – SHENZHEN
Solo Show
Jupiter Art Museum, Shenzhen
Through June 22, 2025
The Jupiter Art Museum is devoting a solo show to Chiharu Shiota through June 22, 2025 in Shenzhen, China. This immersive exhibition includes installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures, and explores the profound forces that shape human existence.
Jonathan Meese
GESAMTKUNSTWERK “ERZBUCH”! (BUCH DER BÜCHER)
Solo Show
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
From November 15, 2025 to April 6, 2026
The Wilhelm Hack Museum dedicates a solo show to Jonathan Meese, curated by Dr. Robert Eikmeyer and Dr. Astrid Ihle, from November 15, 2025 in Germany. For the first time, a complete selection of artists’ books will be on show, in the form of installations, portfolios, books and booklets.
Chiharu Shiota
SILENT EMPTINESS
Solo Show
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
From March 22 to August 31, 2025
The Red Brick Art Museum is dedicating a solo show to Chiharu Shiota, curated by Yan Shijie, until August 31, 2025 in Beijing. The exhibition features a series of site-specific installations created for the museum.
Nazanin Pouyandeh
LE MYSTèRE CLéOPâTRE
Group show
Institut du monde arabe, Paris
From June 11, 2025 to January 11, 2026
On the occasion of the group show Le mystère Cléopâtre, Nazanin Pouyandeh exhibits her work La mort de Cléopâtre from June 11, 2025 at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris.
Jitish Kallat
COVERING LETTER (TERRANUM NUNCIUS) – THE KENNEDY CENTER
Solo Show
The Kennedy Center, Washington
From March 28 to April 13, 2025
The Kennedy Center welcomes Jitish Kallat’s installation Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius) in Washington until April 13, 2025. The work animates space with sounds and images taken from a planetary message intended for extraterrestrial life in interstellar space. The installation is an immersive meditation on humanity’s shared future and place in the universe.
Philippe Cognée
L’œUVRE DU TEMPS
Solo Show
Musée Paul Valéry, Sète
From June 21 to November 2, 2025
The Musée Paul Valéry in Sète is dedicating a solo show to Philippe Cognée, focusing on his approach to time. Works from the 1980s to the present day will be on display from June 21, 2025.
Jean-Michel Alberola
Nazanin Pouyandeh
LE TEMPS DE LA PEINTURE FACE AU FLUX DES IMAGES ACTUELLES
Artist talk
Grand Palais, Paris
Stand B0, 6pm to 7.30pm
On the occasion of Art Paris 2025 and its programme Immortelle : un regard sur la peinture figurative en France, a round-table discussion moderated by Amélie Adamo with the artists Jean-Michel Alberola, Marcos Carrasquer, Julien Des Monstiers and Nazanin Pouyandeh will take place on Saturday 5 April 2025 from 6pm to 7.30pm on booth B0.
