This landmark exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media. Curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition will open in the summer of 2018 to coincide with what would have been Michael Jackson’s 60th birthday (on August 29, 2018).

With among others Andy Warhol, David Hammons, David LaChapelle, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, UK From 28/06/2018 to 21/10/2018

Labyrinths are based on complex systems that challenge our orientation in a playful way. In a globalized world they become symbolic signs that give the growing feeling of confusion a tangible form. The motif of the labyrinth has also gained new significance in art. The room structures, many of which were developed especially for the exhibition, invite you to lose your way with passion, and to experience the search for orientation as a productive force.

Artists: Anne Hardy, Peter Kogler, Christian Odzuck, Royden Rabinowitch, Chiharu Shiota, Song Dong

MARTA HERFORD, MUSEUM FOR ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, HERFORD, GERMANY From 23/06/2018 to 23/09/2018

French artist Prune Nourry’s Amazon is to be installed and unveiled on the Standard High Line Plaza. A13 feet tall Amazonian woman with a wounded breast, the sculpture was inspired by Greek mythology and a marble statue on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

On June 21 this contemporary urban warrior made of winterstone will be celebrated in a musical incense ceremony and live performance by the artist accompanied by Jon Batiste on solo piano at The Standard Plaza. 

Rooted in her intimate experience of breast cancer, and echoing a once claimed tradition that the Amazons cut off their right breast to be more competent archers, Prune Nourry will later on break one of the breasts from The Amazon’s bust in a cathartic gesture, during a secret ceremony.

Similar to Destruction Is Not The End – a ruined, fragmented monumental Buddha created by Prune Nourry for the Museum of National Asian Arts in Paris – The Amazon is partly covered with red incense sticks, recalling both acupuncture needles and ex-votos. She evokes a deity calling for care and healing – her gaze is iridescent, her glass eyes making her feel alive. The concrete woman aims to deliver a message to all women, warriors and survivors. 

Nourry’s Amazon will be on display in The Plaza at The Standard, High Line until the end of June. Following the installation’s residency at The Standard, the sculpture will be sold at auction; part of the proceeds will be donated toward education regarding cancer-preventative lifestyles, wellness, and support for women living with cancer.

INAUGURATION June 21 – Performance by the artist pomptly at 9 pm – arrival time 8:45 pm suggested

STANDARD PLAZA NYC, NEW YORK, USAJune 21, until end of June 2018

The artist duo Pierre et Gilles will be present at the 8th edition of the International Festival of Art books and Film, to unveil a never seen before exhibition and a public meet-up.

The exhibition dedicated to the theme of sacred, will be on show from the 20th until the 31st of July at the « Chapelle Basse » of the Couvent des Minimes.

COUVENT DES MINIMES, PERPIGNAN, FRANCE From 20/06/2018 to 31/07/2018 

For the launch of their first cultural season, The Magasins généraux are pleased to propose an exhibition and performances exploring the links between art, football and society from 1988 to 2018.

With, among others :  Neil Beloufa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Guillaume Bresson, Taro Izumi, Claude Lévêque, Melik Ohanian, Pierre et Gilles, Juergen Teller, Kehinde Wiley, Erwin Wurm etc.

Image: Kehinde Wiley, Idrissa Ndiaye, 2012, oil on canvas, 244 x 213,5 cm

MAGASINS GENERAUX, PANTIN, FRANCE From 09/06/2018 to 05/08/2018 

Museum Jean Cocteau in Menton presents a major exhibition of Valerio Adami, gathering  a body of paintings, drawings and photographs from the late 1960s until today.

Born in Bologna in 1935, Adami is a painter, a drawer and a printmaker. After his first solo exhibition in Milano (1957) when he was still very largely influenced by Roberto Matta’s surrealism, the artist soon followed the  path of European New Figuration and Narrative Figuration

Oscillating in between line and colour as well as in between drawing and painting, Valerio Adami’s work  can be perceived as a kind of writing in itself,  an exploration through mythology, poetry and the intimacy of an artist. The museum Jean Cocteau / collection Séverin Wunderman, proposes a journey through the artist’s half a century creation.

MUSEE JEAN COCTEAU, MENTON, FRANCE From 02/06/2018 to 05/11/2018 

FONDATION FERNET-BRANCA, SAINT-LOUIS, FRANCE From 27/05/2018 to 30/09/2018 

Created in 2014 by Marion Papillon, CHOICES organises Paris Gallery Weekend, which is now established as a major art event in spring. In 2018, the event will bring together more than forty modern and contemporary art galleries on May 26 and 27; two unique and bubbly days of art where artists, collectors, professionals and art lovers meet in the galleries for vernissages and Rendez-Vous—performances, talks, brunches…

GALERIE TEMPLON, PARIS, FRANCE From 26/05/2018 to 27/05/2018 

In French, the expression “Quel Amour!? [What Love!?] is an existential exhortation that raises questions about the universal nature of love as well as its ever-changing manifestations across generations, cultures, civilizations, and even within the arc of a single relationship.This eponymous exhibition brings together the work of acclaimed contemporary artists from around the world that bears witness to the permanent role love plays in artistic creation.

MAC (MUSEE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN), MARSEILLE, FRANCE From 10/05/2018 to 02/09/2018

Located within William the Conqueror’s fortress walls,  le musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen evokes the theme of  ‘the wall’ through its artistic representations.  The exhibition gathers more than 80  works, ancient or contemporary, mixing all media – painting, sculpture, in situ installation, drawing, photography and video. 

With Jean-Michel Alberola, Dieter Appelt, Guillaume Bodinier, Brassaï, Samuel Buckman, Pierre Buraglio, Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny, Léon Cogniet, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, François Curlet, Maurice Denis, André Devambez, Noël Dolla, Jean Dubuffet, Gisèle Freund, Isa Genzken, Mona Hatoum, Pascal Haüsermann, Jean-Jacques Henner, Thomas Jones, Per Kirkeby, Claude Lévêque, Georges Leroux, Jacques Lizène, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Monnier, Robert Morris, Jean-Luc Moulène, Edgardo Navarro, Daniel Pommereulle, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Samuel Rousseau, Claude Rutault, Jacqueline Salmon, Gregor Schneider, Kurt Schwitters, Sean Scully, Christian Segaud, Léon Spilliaert, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Tal Coat, Antoni Tàpies, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.

MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE CAEN, CAEN, FRANCE From 5/05/2018 to 18/09/2018

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, YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, WAKEFIELD, UK From 30/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

MUSEE FABRE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 24/03/2018 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