Late September, Kehinde Wiley has unveiled a bronze sculpture of an African American man riding a horse in the center of Times Square at Broadway Plaza . Titled Rumors of War, the statue references controversial Confederate War monuments that still stand in Richmond, Virginia, over a century after they were erected.

TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, USA September 27 – December 1, 2019

Talented Chiharu Shiota laid her artistic web entitled ‘Counting memories’ in a polish museum, in Katowice.
The immersive works gives a tangible perception of the universe, as the artist explains : “With this installation, I want to visualize the universe within this space. A massive cloud of intertwined lines fills the room; it floats above a collection of nine tables and chairs. The network holds hundreds of white numbers like stars in the night sky.”

From September 7, 2019 to October 4, 2020

Muzeum Slaskie, Dobrowolskiego 1 40-205 Katowice, Poland

The autumn of 2019 will mark the thirty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It became the political symbol of a political world order that has endured since the end of the second world war. The exhibition examines what took place in the visual culture in the broadest sense in this radical historical period, associating popular culture and high culture.

NATIONAL MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM, SWEDENFrom 05/09/2019 to 12/01/2020

Oda Jaune is presenting a new artistic project travelling through the remote, unspoiled landscapes of Bulgaria.

Her sculpture The Caress, created in summer 2018, has been on the move since September, following a secret itinerary that will conclude near Sofia in spring 2019. The sculpture, first installed on the rocky shores of the Black Sea in Varvara, currently overlooks the Kaolin quarries in Vetovo, close to the Danube.

Oda Jaune’s dream was to rise to the challenge of creating an encounter, where a subtle work, open to interpretation, meets nature and local people. Her Caress, with its delicate and sensual draping, evokes the Pietà artistic tradition. The work is unsettling, questioning the concept of fusion and the nature of the love that binds the protagonists: are they mother and son, lovers, twins?

The reactions of local residents and passers-by to this enigmatic work, displayed far from a museum setting, are an integral part of the project.

TRAVELLING PROJECT, BULGARIAFrom September 2018 to May 2019

As our first full-fledged exhibition featuring contemporary art, Syncopation will present a wide range of works of art from the Pola Museum of Art collection, including paintings, sculptures, and Oriental ceramics, along with works by artists active on the front lines of contemporary expression. Here various works by contemporary artists, including installations filling entire rooms, sound art, video art, and a piece exhibited outdoors, are shedding new light on works by the modern masters, encouraging multifaceted interpretation.

POLA MUSEUM OF ART, KANAGAWA, JAPONFrom 10/08/2019 to 01/12/2019

All life on earth – humans, other animals, plants and even bacteria – carry out biological processes to a 24-hour pattern of activity that mirrors the length of the earth day. Such processes are said to be subject to certain rhythms as they oscillate at different points during the 24-hour cycle, always following the same pattern of activity. Circadian Rhythms presents the work of Irish and international artists who explore these invisible forces through reflections on time, the cadence of working life, sleeping patterns, as well as through the impact of modern technologies that disrupt the natural world. 

THE LEWIS GLUCKSMAN GALLERY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELANDFrom 01/08/2019 to 03/11/2019

Art history is making a comeback in the visual arts. Artists not only copy and appropriate paintings from bygone eras, but also respond more freely and playfully to the “mnemic energies” (Aby Warburg) stored in ancient works. More and more frequently, they try to summon up the collective heritage through performative strategies as well as through photographic and cinematic media.

KUNSTHALLE TÜBINGEN, TÜBIGEN, GERMANYFrom 20/07/2019 to 10/11/2019

The show is dedicated to artistic comments on the moon landing and to the moon as a symbol of human dreams, desires, and speculation. Featured in it are works from the time when the race to the moon started in the 1950s, direct reactions to the moon landing after 1969, and also very recent positions of younger artists. 

KUNSTHALLE KREMS, KREMS, GERMANYFrom 14/07/2019 to 03/11/2019

The Center Pompidou Málaga presents the exceptional donation made by Jim Dine in 2017-2018 to the Musée National d’Art Moderne and which includes works from the period 1961 to 2016. It is a coherent set of paintings and sculptures that reveal his incessant autobiographical exploration through his recurring motifs: tools, hearts, bathrobes, venuses, pinocchios … With this donation, Jim Dine wanted to thank France for having inspired an aesthetic that has fueled his work.

CENTRE POMPIDOU/MALAGA, SPAINFrom 10/07/2019 to 7/10/2019

This Summer, Gérard Garouste has expressed the wish to install some of his works in the new rooms of the Remembrance Place of Chambon sur Lignon. Familiar with the Talmud, the artist wanted to know more about these young Jews, who in the darkest hours of Nazism had reflected on the revival of Jewish thought by calling themselves, with a touch of provocation, the School of prophets.

Gérard Garouste’s painting draws its inspiration from the Talmudic tradition, the horror of the Shoah and its personal history. The exhibition offers a journey between painting and biblical texts, between art and history, around a selection of paintings that resonate with the reflections of this group of thinkers.

LIEU DE MEMOIRE, CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON, FRANCEFrom 05/07/2019 to 29/09/2019

M9 – The Museum of the 20th Century presents the Tattoo Exhibition, Stories on skin, organized in collaboration with Fondazione Torino Musei. The exhibition explores the worldwide and creative dimension of tattoos from an anthropological, historical, artistic and social point of view.

Tattooing is a practice which has accompanied humanity since the dawn of time to the point that we find examples in mummified bodies in Europe, Asia and Africa. It is a means of expression which has never been abandoned, although its meaning has changed throughout the centuries: the intense tangle of contaminations and exchanges among different cultures, between East and West, which has always characterized the history of tattooing, goes on today with greater force amid a globalized world where cultural and commercial exchanges are intense and continuous. It has always been a phenomenon connected to forms of social marginality – according to Genesis, the first person tattooed in history is Cain – but at the same time is a form of art and a big mass phenomenon.

The exhibition also displays numerous works by international contemporary artists: Wim Delvoye, Santiago Serra, Dr. Lakra, Mary Coble Fabio Viale. Photographs by Pierre et Gilles, Catherine Opie, Tobias Zielony, Sergei Vasiliev Plinio Martelliand Oliviero Toscani.

MUSEO DEL'900, VENICE, ITALYFrom 05/07/2019 to 17/11/2019

Château Malromé is pleased to welcome in its walls, during this summer 2019, about twenty works of Prune Nourry previously exhibited from Spring to Autumn 2017 at the Guimet Museum (Paris). In this series of works, Prune Nourry has seized upon a problem particular to Indian and Chinese societies, the disappearance of a whole age-class of little girls caused by the use of prenatal predictive medical techniques in favor of boys. These sculptures, in a new scenography of Benjamin Gabrié, find new echoes in Malromé, family home of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Curator : Richard Leydier

CHÂTEAU MALROMÉ, SAINT-ANDRÉ-DU-BOIS, FRANCE, FRANCE From 29/06/2019 to 10/11/2019

This major feminist exhibition dedicated to the women artists favors a thematic approach over a long period, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The exhibition brings together more than 80 works highlighting the emancipatory function of art, like Niki de Saint Phalle who gave power to the “Nanas”, her majestic female figures.

MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, RENNES, FRANCE From 28/06/2019 to 29/09/2019

IncarNations is an exhibition designed by South African artist Kendell Geers in dialogue with Congolese collector Sindika Dokolo. An exciting initiative that reflects the diversity of African aesthetic heritage, stripped of any Eurocentric prism and including the influence of diasporas, slave routes, colonialism or independence movements. From the impressive collection of Sindika Dokolo, the productions of African artists resonate with those of the diaspora while contemporary works of art will be presented alongside classical works, finally opening the way to the unveiling of African art, understood as a living philosophical practice.

PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 28/06/2019 to 06/10/2019

How much do the spaces we inhabit say about us? What forms do such spaces take? In what way do they reflect our lifestyle? If the home is the border limit between outside and inside, public and private, safety and uncertainty, “home” is also the projection of our own body (and in particular our mind) as a kind of microcosm which with to dispute the immensity of the universe. In the context of this exhibition, we conceive of home as a space-time where we unfurl the experience of inhabitation, anchoring men and women’s primary desire to occupy a place in the world, which is also the springboard for imagination to take flight.  

AMBASSADE DU BRESIL-PALAIS PEREDA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA From 26/06/2019 to 30/10/2019

The Lagrasse Abbey, located in the Corbières massif in the Orbieu Valley, is considered one of the most important Benedictine settlements in the Aude region.For IN SITU Patrimoine et art contemporain, Abdelkader Benchamma has made a large mural of nearly 40 square meters facing the Renaissance fireplace of the ceremonial hall of the Abbey.

ABBAYE DE LAGRASSE, LAGRASSE, FRANCE From 26/06/2019 to 01/09/2019

Serge Lasvignes, André Djaoui, Daniel Templon, are pleased to invite you to the screening of Garouste’s film “En Chemin”. A film written by Stéphane Miquel and directed by Vivien Desouches. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Gérard Garouste and Olivier Kaeppelin.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 7 pm, Center Pompidou – Cinema 1

Reservation recommended: Matthieu Durand: rsvp@templon.com Tel. 01 85 76 55 55

CENTRE POMPIDOU, CINEMA 1, PARIS, FRANCE25/06/2019 at 7:00 pm

ARRONDISSEMENT TOWN HALL, PARIS, FRANCE From 24/06/2019 to 2/07/2019

The exhibtion The Soul trembles will be the largest-ever solo exhibition by Chiharu Shiota. This will be the first opportunity to experience in detail twenty-five years of Shiota’s oeuvre; primarily in six large installations, plus sculptural works, video footage of performances, photographs, drawings, performing arts-related material, etc.

MORI ART MUSEUM, TOKYO, JAPAN From 20/06/2019 to 27/10/2019

While so many points bring them together, and they are important references for the current generation of artists and commentators, Jean-Michel Alberola and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux have, inexplicably, never been exhibited together.

In the imposing setting of the Convent of the Minimes, seven secular« chapels » will host, like so many chapters of a book, the recent productions of the two artists, in a telescoping worthy of a synchrocyclotron of thought and art. This visual and mental bombardment should allow the viewer to “see”, that is to say to access, even incompletely, even imperfectly, the energetic poetic and political charge lurking in the heart of these works .

(Stéphane Corréard)

LE COUVENT DES MINIMES, PERPIGNAN, FRANCE From 20/06/2019 to 21/07/2019