Galerie Templon announces the representation of international artist Robin Kid a.k.a. THE KID.
Born in 1991, THE KID is a self-educated multi-disciplinary artist with Dutch and Brazilian roots and a true citizen of the world. His work restlessly questions the notions of social determinism and the thin frontier between innocence and corruption for today’s youth in the polarized world of 21st century.
Through photo-realistic and thought-provoking wall size paintings as well as life size sculptures, THE KID has gathered in only a few years as much attention of an informed public as well as of collectors and institutions in Paris, Basel or Miami.
The gallery shall present an important new piece at FIAC in October 2020. The artist will have a major solo show in May 2021 at the gallery, in the space of rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare.

THE KID in front of Not Normal, 2019 © THE KID

Le Musée de la Vie romantique presents a selection of around 40 art works by thirty contemporary artists on the representation of heart as an expression of the feeling of love, echoing one of the main themes of Romanticism.
This exhibition aims to open the cultural program of the museum beyond the nineteenth century by exploring the continuation of Romanticism in contemporary art, in resonance with the museum’s collections. The heart as an organ, motif and symbol is presented here through various techniques: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, neon and photography.
In addition to the emblematic figures of Niki de Saint Phalle, Jim Dine, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Pierre and Gilles, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Françoise Pétrovitch, visitors will be able to discover about twenty other artists in this exhibition. 

Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France

February 14 - July 12, 2020

On the occasion of the opening celebration for Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, Kehinde Wiley will be the protagonist of an intimate ceremony where he will be presented with the insignia of Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Brooklyn Museum, New York, US

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Photo © Tony Powell

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni presents the work of one of the greatest American artists, a man whose radical and innovative oeuvre had a major impact on contemporary visual culture, particularly on the Italian visual culture of the 1960s.

The exhibition showcases over 60 works dated 1959 to 2016, coming from public and private collections both in Europe and in the United States. An exhaustive iconographical apparatus on the famous Happenings accompanied by a narrative in Jim Dine’s own voice. And a selection of video interviews will allow visitors to draw closer to the figure of this great artist.

From February 11 to June 2, 2020

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

For the first time in Europe: 100 years of African American art based on storytelling. The exhibition explores the visual richness of black culture in Kunsthal KAdE through the works of 50 African American artists, such as popular Kehinde Wiley.
 
Tell Me Your Story focuses on five chronological periods: the Harlem Renaissance, Post Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, Black Renaissance and the Bloom Generation. The artists in each of these distinct periods shared one common characteristic: the need to express themselves and safeguard the vital African tradition of storytelling.

From February 8 to August 30, 2020

Kunsthal KAdE, Eemplein 77, 3812 EA, Amersfoort, Dutchland

A person can never perceive truth and fiction at the same time. But there is such a thing as ‘poetic faith’ or the ‘suspension of disbelief’. While reading a novel or watching a film, we ‘believe’ in the story, however implausible it might seem. ‘Poetic faith’ is considered an essential ingredient for storytelling of any kind.

The exhibition ‘Poetic Faith’ can be seen as a tribute to the power of, and belief in, the imagination. With work by Jan Van Imschoot, Shikh Sabbir Alam, Marie Cloquet, Leo Copers, Hanne Darboven, Markus Degerman, Joseph Grigely, Jorge Macchi, Bruce Nauman, Navid Nuur, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Mandla Reuter, Jason Rhoades, Gil Shachar, Nedko Solakov, Birde Vanheerswynghels, Tamara Van San and Philippe Van Snick.

From February 8 to May 3, 2020

S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

Alpha Crucis exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet gathers seventeen artists from seven African countries – a constellation of artists from the South, brought into northern sight—among which, Billie Zangewa, from Malawi.
The seventeen artists gathered here originate from numerous countries, belong to different generations and have diverse practices. But what they all have in common is that, living in Africa, they are all able to see Alpha Crucis. Can this be seen as a symbol of hope for a pan-African utopia, in which, despite antagonisms, all African countries look in the same direction towards the same guiding light, and do not need to look north when making their art?

ASTRUP FEARNLEY MUSEET, OSLO, NORWAY

From 31 January to 17 May, 2020

Under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the French Institute and with the support of private sponsors, Gérard Garouste’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi will be an unparalleled opportunity to discover the artist’s imaginary and historical repertoire – which includes, among its sources of inspiration, myths and legends, religion and folklore. The exhibition will feature over sixty paintings covering 40 years of creation, from 1980 to 2019.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, NEW DELHI, INDIA

From 28/01/2020 to 30/04/2020

Featuring artwork by Africans, African-Americans, and other international artists the diaspora, the pieces on display in Queen are drawn from the personal collection of award-winning actress, CCH Pounder. Featuring sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works by such luminaries as Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar and countless others. Pounder’s robust collection now exhibited in the Charles H.Wright Museum of African American history, celebrates black ‘feminine beauty, identity, and power,’.

From January 28 to August 2, 2020

315 East Warren St Detroit, MI 48201, United-States

Musée Royal of Mariemont presents ‘Bye, Bye Future ! L’art de voyager dans le temps’. The exhibition deals with evolutions of the future and the need for humans to control time, while emphasizing on digital creations and animated images. Bye Bye Future gathers works from international artist such as Jim Dine and Pierre et Gilles, who undertook at some point the ancestral voyage through space and time.

From January 25 to October 25, 2020

Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140, Morlanwelz, Belgium

Kehinde Wiley’s triumphant Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005), a hallmark of the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, comes face to face with the nineteenth-century painting on which it is based: Jacques-Louis David’s Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1800–1). Seen together, the works by David and Wiley reveal how race, masculinity, power, and representation layer onto portraiture and shape the writing of history. 

Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States

January 24–May 10, 2020

As part of its artistic and cultural brief, GRAND PARIS EXPRESS has announced that Iván Navarro will be one of its guest artists, working with architect Dominique Perrault (DPA) on the future Villejuif-Institut Gustave Roussy station.

Grand Paris Express is Europe’s largest urban infrastructure project, with 200-km of new automated metro lines and 68 new stations to build by 2030, designed by influential modern architects. As part of this unprecedented urban transformation project, and to promote the emergence of a unified city-wide identity, Société du Grand Paris (SGP) has launched a major arts programme under the direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès.

Each new station will be the setting for a lasting artistic intervention, fruit of the convergence between two creative worlds, architect and artist working in tandem. The programme will lead to the creation of a vast body of multi-disciplinary art, with an impact simultaneously local and city-wide.

Iván Navarro and Dominique Perrault are one of the first architect-artist pairs to be announced. They will work together on the Villejuif Institut-Gustave Roussy station, collaborating on a project focused on sensations of depth and the interplay of light.

FUTUR TRAIN STATION "GARE DE VILLEJUIF"

On December 21, 2019, occurred the inauguration of the four new red coral sculptures that Jan Fabre created for the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, Italy. They will be permanently installed in the church.
The sculptures have as a central element a heart, symbol at the same time physical and spiritual, of compassion and universal love, feeling and thought. Curated by Melania Rossi in collaboration with Studio Trisorio.

CHAPEL OF PIO MONTE DELLA MISERICORDIA, NAPLES, ITALY On December 21, 2019

Sudarshan Shetty will be the curator of the Visual Arts exhibition at Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF), one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts initiatives in the South Asian region. 
His project Look Outside This House aims to present indigenous inventions and informal industries that have origins in catering to real life circumstantial needs with lasting social impact on communities at large. The exhibition will highlight the need to support and nurture various indigenous approaches for the production of knowledge that sit outside the framework of mainstream institutions.

OLD GMC, PANJIM, INDIA From 15 to 22 December 2019

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, and the public.

Curated by Anita Dube

KOCHI, INDIAFrom 12/12/2018 to 29/03/2019

From December 12, 2019 through April 26, 2020, the Art Center La Malmaison in Cannes welcomes the French duo Pierre and Gilles for an exhibition gathering over 40 exceptional pieces exploring their passion for cinema.
“Pierre and Gilles, the Taste of Cinema » explores the many facets of their complex relationship to cinema, whether they choose actors as models, pay homage to their own cosmogony of film references, or simply create atmospheres intrinsically connected to the Seventh art.
For the first time, a part of their creative process will be unveiled with the installation that served as the stage of one their most recent pictures “The Seller of Eiffel Towers”.
Curator: Numa Hambursin
Opening: Wednesday December 11, 6 pm, by invitation only.

CENTRE D'ART LA MALMAISON, CANNES, FRANCEFrom 12/12/2019 to 26/04/2020

Kehinde Wiley’s sculpture Rumors of War was permanently installed on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia’s capital city . The statue dominates the square in front of the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, not far from one of the country’s most prominent displays of Confederate monuments.

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, US From 10 December, 2019

The exhibition attempts to trace textile practices, traditions and histories in Contemporary Indian Art. As a medium, textile has an intrinsic meaning and context.

Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta & Puja Vaish

Participating Artists: Anita Dube, Anju Dodiya, Archana Hande, Desmond Lazaro, Lavanya Mani, Manish Nai, Manisha Parekh, Monali Meher, Nilima Sheikh, Paula Sengupta, Priya Ravish Mehra, Pushpamala N, Rakhi Peswani, Reena Saini Kallat, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Sharmila Samant, Shezad Dawood

DR. BHAU DAJI LAD MUSEUM, MUMBAI, INDIAFrom 02/12/2018 to 17/02/2019

Working together since the 1980s, the artistic duo known as Pierre and Gilles have captured the iconic aura of multiple generations of stars in their photo-paintings. With this exhibition conceived as musical and visual installation, they reveal the secrets of their art of image creation.

CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE - PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS MUSEE DE LA MUSIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE From 20/11/2019 to 23/02/2020

In the Greek saga, the hero Odysseus survives dangerous adventures on his odyssey and completes mysterious tasks – returning home at the end perhaps as a different person. Like a contemporary Odysseus, in this exhibition, the artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970 in Tokyo and based in Berlin) sets off on an imaginary journey, making various stops along the way. In drawings, pictures and sculptures from over 20 years of artistic production, encounters with the most diverse, ambivalent protagonists and situations take place, which the artist approaches in his archaic role as symbolic redeemer and liberator. Visitors to the exhibition get to accompany the plucky, provocative artist on his voyage, but where will it end?

PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, MUNCHEN, GERMANY From 15/11/2018 to 03/03/2019