Chiharu Shiota
LIFELINES – SOLO SHOW

CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - January 27, 2020

Chiharu Shiota’s body of work is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition Linhas da Vida (Lifelines), on view this fall at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo.
The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist, including The Key in the Hand (2015) and the brand new work Além da Memória (2019), inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP.

Francesco Clemente
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: WORKS 1978–2018 – SOLO SHOW

THE BRANT FOUNDATION ART STUDY CENTER, NEW YORK, USA From 12/11/2018 to 01/04/2019

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is pleased to announce a survey of works by Francesco Clemente, on view from November 12, 2018 through March 2019. The exhibition brings together a concise but comprehensive selection spanning 40 years of the artist’s work including self-portraits and portraits, works on paper, frescoes, monumental oil and watercolor paintings, and one of the artist’s notable hand painted tents. Executed in Rome, New York, Taos, Varanasi, Jodhpur, Orissa, Pondicherry, and Madras, the works have traveled far and been dispersed among museum collections and art patrons. They now come together for Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018, each with its own story to tell. Non-chronological in nature, the exhibition interweaves threads that have been a constant in Clemente’s long-spanning oeuvre, and presents ideas and questions that persist throughout his various transformations in medium.

Julião Sarmento
WITHOUT – SOLO SHOW

CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CORUNA, SPAINFrom 09/11/2018 to 02/02/2019

The work of Julião Sarmento is shaped from the borderline. Many of his works contain images of images which, while inter-related, also function independently, embracing the ambiguity of their meaning. They are microstories that take on the multiple potential of cinema, somewhere between the explicit and secret; between what is personal and what is alien. They also share a kind of suspended duration. Julião Sarmento’s entire body of work projects this cinematographic sensation because when we look at his works we always get the feeling that there is something else there that is absent, something kept offstage. The exhibition at the CGAC is a panoramic view including works that reflect this feeling that cuts across his whole trajectory: cinematographic expression. It is not so much a question of highlighting a literal relationship—which is evident in many cases—but rather we seek to project how Sarmento has always explored this intermediate space between suspension and desire, in an interstitial space where the spectator becomes immersed, treading disturbing terrain like an foreigner, like a spectator. Curators: Santiago Olmo, David Barro

Norbert Bisky
POMPA AND RANT – SOLO SHOWS

RANT – Solo show VILLA SCHÖNINGEN, POTSDAM, GERMANY From 9 November, 2019 to 23 February, 2020 POMPA- Solo show ST. MATTHÄUS-KIRCHE, BERLIN, GERMANY From 10 November 2019 to16 February, 2020

“I would never have been an artist without the fall of the Wall.” In November 2019, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, painter Norbert Bisky reflects on the end of the GDR, the chaos of the post-reunification era and his personal experience with two parallel exhibitions, POMPA and RANT, in Berlin and Potsdam.

Kehinde Wiley
ICONS: WORSHIP AND ADORATION / 30 AMERICANS / AFROCOSMOLOGIES: AMERICAN REFLECTIONS – GROUP SHOW

Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany October 19, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA From October 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA From October 19, 2019 – January 20, 2020

Kehinde Wiley is currently taking part in three group exhibitions in different parts of the world. In the United States with American Reflections at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut ; 30 Americans at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia; and in Germany with Icons – Worship and Adoration at the Kunsthalle in Bremen. https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/en/view/exhibitions/exb-page/icons https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/30-americans https://www.thewadsworth.org/afrocosmologies-american-reflections/

Abdelkader Benchamma
FATA BROMOSA – SOLO SHOW

MUSÉE RÉGIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN OCCITANIE /PYRÉNÉES - MÉDITERRANÉE, SÉRIGNAN, FRANCEDu 23 /11/2019 au 20/09/2020

For his first solo exhibition in a French museum, Abdelkader Benchamma invests three rooms at Mrac Occitanie with an immersive installation drawing inspiration from his residence at Villa Médicis in autumn 2018. In Rome, Abdelkader Benchamma is fascinated by the richness of church decorations, in particular by the representation of marbles in the works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico. The Old Master’s depictions render the illusion of precious stones by playing on symmetry of veins, thus creating spiritually charged abstract forms. The title of the exhibition, Fata Bromosa, (literally Fairy of the Mists) refers to that blurring of perception dear to Fra Angelico. The term indicates an optical phenomenon observed by navigators in the Middle Ages which gives the impression of a bright-rimmed fog perceptible on the horizon. To depict without representing seems to be the artist’s ambition: drawing become an emanation of nature, but of a different kind, intimate and unfathomable.

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY: SAINT LOUIS – SOLO SHOW

SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM, SAINT LOUIS, USA From 19/10/2018 to 10/02/2019

The Saint Louis Art Museum is proud to present Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis, an exhibition that is deeply connected to this city and informed by visits Wiley made in 2017. Through a process of street casting, he invited strangers he met in neighborhoods in north St. Louis and Ferguson to pose for his paintings. Wiley then created eleven original portraits that are inspired by carefully chosen artworks in the Museum’s collection. Curators: Simon Kelly, Hannah Klemm, Molly Moog

Prune Nourry
SERENDIPITY, A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY PRUNE NOURRY, SOON IN CINEMAS

PRUNE NOURRYOctober – November 2019, Serendipity - Documentary

Prune Nourry’s documentary film Serendipity will soon be in cinemas in France and the United States. Serendipity, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, was also presented at MoMa Doc Fortnight, at TriBeca Film Festival and ArtBasel – Film Section 2019. The film has received the support of notable women who have faced severe diseases, including Angelina Jolie who acts as Executive Producer. Serendipity is about random coincidences that started to coalesce in Prune Nourry’s art and life. While Prune Nourry has spent her entire working life exploring issues around the human body, she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31. She turns then her medical odyssey into an epic artistic adventure.

Kehinde Wiley
ICONS: WORSHIP AND ADORATION – GROUP SHOW 30 AMERICANS – GROUP SHOW AFROCOSMOLOGIES: AMERICAN REFLECTIONS – GROUP SHOW

Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany October 19, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA From October 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA From October 19, 2019 – January 20, 2020

Kehinde Wiley is currently taking part in three group exhibitions in different parts of the world. In the United States with American Reflections at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut ; 30 Americans at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia; and in Germany with Icons – Worship and Adoration at the Kunsthalle in Bremen.

Jan Van Imschoot
SANGUINE. LUC TUYMANS ON BAROQUE – GROUP SHOW

FONDAZIONE PRADA, MILAN, ITALYFrom 18/10/2018 to 25/02/2019

Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition “Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque”, curated by Luc Tuymans, in its Milan venue from 18 October 2018 to 25 February 2019. Organized with M KHA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp) and KMSKA (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and the City of Antwerp, the project will be featured in Milan in a new and more extensive version, following its first presentation in the Belgian city from June to September 2018. Luc Tuymans conceived an intense visual experience presenting more than 80 works by 63 international artists, including 25 exhibited exclusively at Fondazione Prada.

Pierre et Gilles
MARIE-ANTOINETTE. MéTAMORPHOSES D’UNE IMAGE – GROUP SHOW

LA CONCIERGERIE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 16/10/2019 to 26/01/2020

No historical figure has experienced such an abundance of representations, during her lifetime, and especially, after her death, October 16, 1793. It is through nearly 200 works, art objects and archives, film clips , fashion accessories, you will discover the many representations of Marie Antoinette. The exhibition will cover five themes that will allow you to understand the different images of the queen.  

Chiharu Shiota
ME SOMEWHERE ELSE – SOLO SHOW

ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 11/10/2019 to 09/02/2020

Presented in the Bernheim room, Me Somewhere Else (2018), a work of great visual strength, occupies a very special place in the artist’s production. Shiota talks about her fight against her illness, and the certainty that her mind will survive her body.

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY RENCONTRE JACQUES LOUIS DAVID – SOLO SHOW

MUSEE NATIONAL DU CHÂTEAU DE MALMAISON, RUEIL-MALMAISON, FRANCEFrom 09/10/2019 to 06/01/2020

Malmaison Castle and the Brooklyn Museum announce a co curated exhibition of the First Consul crossing the Alps at the Great Saint Bernard Pass, Napoleon’s famous representation of Napoleon painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800, and his contemporary reinterpretation by the American artist Kehinde Wiley.

Pierre et Gilles
DE L’AMOUR – GROUP SHOW

PALAIS DE LA DECOUVERTES, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 08/10/2019 to 30/08/2020

By associating love and science, two seemingly antinomic domains, the exhibition “De l’amour” offers a transdisciplinary exploration of this feeling with many nuances. An exhibition at the crossroads of science, society and art to better understand love and question the place of this feeling in our lives.

Jitish Kallat
WEATHER REPORT – GROUP SHOW

From October 6, 2019 to August 23, 2020
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA

The Weather Report will reveal the sky as a site where the aesthetic, the romantic, the political, the social, and the scientific co-exist and inform one another. The depiction of weather in the visual arts is traditionally linked with either landscape painting or photography, but in the last several decades artists have increasingly turned to other media to explore weather and, by extension, the larger subject of the Earth’s atmosphere. Weather Report presents a group of diverse international artists who reference weather in provocative ways through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and video.

Valerio Adami
CAMILLA & VALERIO ADAMI – GROUP SHOW

ESPACE JACQUES VILLEGLE, SAINT GRATIEN, FRANCEFrom 03/10/2019 to 07/12/2019

Claude Viallat
EAST WEST JAZZ  – GROUP SHOW

THE PUSHKIN STATE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, MOSCOW, RUSSIAFrom 01/10/2019 to 15/11/2019

The exhibition “East West Jazz” displays over 30 unique robes and textiles from Alexander Klyachin’s collection and over two dozens of post-war abstract paintings from the collection of the Gandur Foundation for Art. The scope of the exhibition is widened by works from the collections of The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Centre Pompidou to further reveal the interaction between Eastern and Western cultures, notably 14 rarely displayed sheets from Henri Matisse’s “jazz” graphic series created in 1947 and works by Kandinsky from the Pushkin Museum collection and 14 abstract works from the Centre Pompidou and French private collections. This exhibition will be philosophical, emotional and contemplative, rather than didactic.

Kehinde Wiley
RUMORS OF WAR – KEHINDE WILEY’S INSTALLATION

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

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.

Chiharu Shiota
COUNTING MEMORIES – SOLO SHOW

From September 7, 2019 to October 4, 2020
Muzeum Slaskie, Dobrowolskiego 1 40-205 Katowice, Poland

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.”

Pierre et Gilles
1989 – CULTURE AND POLITICS – GROUP SHOW

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

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.