ENTROPY – GROUP SHOW

FONDATION FAURSCHOU, VENICE, ITALYFrom 10/05/2018 to 01/09/2019

Faurschou Foundation is a privately-owned contemporary art institution, committed to presenting seminal public exhibitions globally. With the core desire of introducing visitors to the most acclaimed artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Faurschou Foundation utilizes its sizeable and continuously growing art collection, and creates both solo and thematic group shows. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation has permanent exhibition venues in Beijing’s 798 Art District and Copenhagen’s North Harbor. Since 2015, Faurschou Foundation has been organizing exhibitions in Venice as a parallel program during the Venice Art Biennale. For the 2019 edition of Venice art Biennale, Faurschou is showing Entropy, a group exhibition that brings together works by He An, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Sun Xun, Zhao Zhao, Yu Ji, Chen Tianzhuo.

Prune Nourry
Jan Fabre
Sudarshan Shetty
GLASSTRESS – GROUP SHOW

FONDAZIONE BERENGO, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019

On the occasion of the 58th Biennale di Venezia, Jan Fabre, Prune Nourry, Sundarshan Shetty is participating in Glasstress 2019, show curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen. The sixth edition of Glasstress brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. Glasstress is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to supporting his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass. Since its debut in 2009 as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Glasstress has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers and has since become an unparalleled platform showcasing ground-breaking new works in glass.    

Julião Sarmento
EXPANDED – GROUP SHOW

FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019

Julião Sarmento is participating in Expanded, the new exhibition of First Stone, an experimental international research programme that explores the potential of Portuguese Stone. Expanded features original works by Marina Abramović, Carsten Holler et Julião Sarmento. Produced in Portuguese stone, a million-year-old natural resource, they share this unifying element that bestows them with a deep timelessness and resilience, somewhat contradicting the chaos and superficiality of the contemporary world. Placed within the gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, immersed in nature and displayed together, these pieces provide visitors with moments of experimentation and confrontation, underlining the value of art and culture in public spaces.

Jan Fabre
THE MAN WHO MEASURES THE CLOUDS – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

GARDEN OF PALAZZO BALBI VALIER, VENICE, ITALYFrom 6/05/2019 to 24/11/2019

On the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Jan Fabre returns to the Lagoon with the presentation of a special public art project. Installed inside the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier and visible from the Grand Canal, the monumenal sculpture in gold leaf “The Man who Measures the Clouds (Monument to the Measure of the Immeasurable)”, stands nine meters high . Designed specifically for Venice, it recalls a deep bond with this city, established over the past decades. Leaning over the arch leading to the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier from the Grand Canal, this imposing man of gold reflects not only the drift of the artist and humanity, but also the meaning and historical values of this mythical floating city.  

Claude Viallat
GIGANTISME – ARTS & INDUSTRIE – GROUP SHOW

FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS DE FRANCE, DUNKERQUE, FRANCEFrom 4/05/2019 to 5/01/2020 

GIGANTISM – ART & INDUSTRIE is an original collective initiative on the territory of Hauts-de-France, in Dunkerque: the creation of a new triennial art and design in Europe.
 
From May 4, 2019, an exhibition of off-scale installations created for the occasion, of in situ works, sculptures, paintings, films and performances will embody encounters between artists, engineers, designers and architects. It will unfold on different exhibition venues and urban and port sites. An original journey that rethinks at the level of the landscape of Dunkerque a history of European modernity from 1947 to the present day; between living heritage and contemporary creation.

Abdelkader Benchamma
ELDORAMA, LILLE 3000 – GROUP SHOW

TRIPOSTAL, LILLE, FRANCEFrom 27/04/2019 to 01/10/2019

The Tripostal unfolds the great Eldorado story through a myriad of contemporary works of art borrowed from all over the world. In three chapters, corresponding to the three floors of the building: 1. The dreamed worlds, 2. The rush, 3. An endless Eldorado, the exhibition stages the universal adventure of all the eldorados who spur individuals and people to move
and relocate. Curators: Jérôme Sans, Jean-Max Colard, with the collaboration of Isabelle Bernini.

Jean-Michel Alberola
SOUVENIRS DE VOYAGE. LA COLLECTION DE GALBERT – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE DE GRENOBLE, GRENOBLE, FRANCEFrom 27/04/2019 to 28/07/2019

The collection of Antoine de Galbert, “soft and luxurious therapy”, as he says himself, highlights his taste for decompartmentalization while reflecting his deepest obsessions. In contrast with a sometimes austere and sanitized vision of contemporary art, this collection does not hesitate to bring together conceptual art and popular cultures, outsider art and emerging artists. Abolishing boundaries and privileging the mixing of genres, Antoine de Galbert likes to find his way off the beaten track considering that the time in which we live more than ever needs magic, mystery, simplicity and universality.

Francesco Clemente
WATCHTOWERS, KEYS, THREADS, GATES – SOLO SHOW

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, DALLAS, USAFrom 13/04/2019 to 25/08/2019

Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates is a large-scale installation by Francesco Clemente consisting of a site-specific mural and two series of sculptures produced in the artist’s signature dreamlike aesthetic, and which reflect his ongoing exploration into notions of movement, transition, vulnerability, and mythological narratives. Both bodies of sculpture were created over the past five years in collaboration with artisans in Jodhpur, India. This exhibition provides a rare glimpse into Clemente’s forays in sculpture, denoting one of the few occasions in which he has worked in the medium.

Jan Van Imschoot
FEAST OF FOOLS – GROUPS SHOW

KASTEEL VAN GAASBEEK, PAJOTTENLAND, BELGIUMFrom 7/04/2019 to 28/07/2019

Pieter Bruegel is often seen as the embodiment of Flemish identity. Why has that been so since the revival of his work around 1900? How has he grown to become an icon, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a huge cliché? In the exhibition ‘Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered’ the visitor becomes acquainted with a series of key works by modern masters and creations by contemporary artists who ‘have a thing for Bruegel’. They latch onto his themes, reinterpret them, quote him … and thus demonstrate that his work has lost none of its relevance.

Chiharu Shiota
LINE OF THOUGHT – SOLO SHOW

MUSEUM SINCLAIR-HAUS, BAD HOMBURG, GERMANYFrom 31/03/2019 to 16/09/2019

Chiharu Shiota originally studied painting in Kyoto. She completed her studies in Berlin with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn, whose influence is notable particularly in Shiota’s early works. She explores subjects such as memory and forgetting, presence and absence of the body as well as the interwoven and multi-faceted nature of human relationships.
All of her works form poetic, pulsating bodies within space and have a direct connection with her earlier performances. To Shiota, the threads and their interweaving also symbolize the extension of life beyond the body, such as in sleep and dreams, in thought and imagination – invisible connections that her webs make visible. 

Jonathan Meese
DR. ZUHAUSE: K.U.N.S.T (ERZLIEBE) “MOTHER” – “FATHER” – SOLO SHOWS

KUNSTHALLE ST.ANNEN & OVERBECKGELLSCHFT, LÜBECK, GERMANYfrom 31/03/2019 to 04/08/2019

Jonathan Meese carries out in the city of Lübeck , under the title Dr. Zuhause: K.U.N.S.T (Erzliebe), the largest exhibition project of his career presenting a solo exhibition in each of the city’s art institutions, including an extensive retrospective of his work at the Kunsthalle St. Annen. A massive invasion of the city by art.  

Jan Fabre
ORO ROSSO. SCULTURE D’ORO E CORALLO, DISEGNI DI SANGUE – SOLO SHOW

MUSEO E REAL BOSCO DI CAPODIMONTE, NAPLES, ITALYFrom 30/03/2019 to 15/09/2019

The famous Belgian artist Jan Fabre returns to Naples with a new project involving four venues of great prestige: the museum and the Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia, the Madre museum and the Studio Trisorio gallery.
At the Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the artist exhibits a group of works in dialogue with a special selection from the permanent collection of the museum and other Neapolitan museum institutions.
The exhibition features gold sculptures and blood drawings created by the artist from the 70s to the present day, as well as a new and surprising series of red coral sculptures, made especially for Capodimonte.

Claude Viallat
COLLECTION. LA COMPOSANTE PEINTURES – GROUP SHOW

FRAC BRETAGNE, RENNES, FRANCEFrom 30/03/2019 to 26/05/2019

From a selection of paintings from the Frac Bretagne collection, the exhibition creates five connections with no other ambition than to interpret a posteriori and to show the reasons why these works were chosen to appear in one of the important ensembles of the Frac Bretagne.  

Abdelkader Benchamma
UN AUTRE MONDE///DANS NOTRE MONDE – GROUP SHOW

FRAC PACA, MARSEILLES, FRANCEFrom 23/03/2019 to 02/06/2019

UN AUTRE MONDE///DANS NOTRE MONDE is questioning our relationship with the real world through many sectors of creation and knowledge, on the frontiers of science, tradition, fantasy, sciencefiction and ultimately of the real. UN AUTRE MONDE///DANS NOTRE MONDE is a hybrid event between the itinerant collective exhibition, the symposium and the epistemological experimental laboratory.

Gérard Garouste
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
ART EATS ART

Museum Regards de Provence, Marseille, France

In the framework of the Gastronomic Year in Provence–MPG 2019, the Regards de Provence Museum is showcasing « L’Art Mange l’Art” et “De la table au tableau”, two exhibitions that bring together works of artists from the XIX to XXIst century on the theme of food, its pleasures and the art of the table.

Chiharu Shiota
AND BERLIN WILL ALWAYS NEED YOU. ART, CRAFT AND CONCEPT MADE IN BERLIN -GROUP SHOW

GROPIUS BAU, BERLIN, GERMANYFrom 22/13/2019 to 16/06/2019

The Gropius Bau explores the concept of crafts and handmade processes in Berlin’s contemporary art scene, taking its history as a former museum for decorative arts and educational institution as a starting point.
Multiple aspects come into focus when looking at the selection of works exhibited, ranging from the ornamental and decorative, which is reminiscent of visual motifs found in Eastern religions and Byzantine mosaics, to the history of design in Modernism and the twentieth-century, involving craftsmanship from Berlin to South America. 
The exhibition shows the incredible variety of artistic practices that can be found in Berlin today and demonstrates the Gropius Bau’s commitment to continue to provide a regular platform for Berlin artists.

Chiharu Shiota
HONOLULU BIENNALE 2019

Honolulu Biennale, HONOLULU, HAWAÏFrom 08/03/2019 to 5/05/2019

TO MAKE WRONG / RIGHT / NOW
The title for this year’s Honolulu Biennial is drawn from the poem Manifesto by participating Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) artist ‘Imaikalani Kalahele.
Honolulu Biennial 2019 features 47 artists and artist collectives from Hawai’i and the countries and continents linked by the Pacific.

Pierre et Gilles
THIERRY MUGLER, COUTURISSIME – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS DE MONTREAL, MONTREAL, CANADAFrom 02/03/2019 to 08/09/2019

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the very first exhibition on the work of French creator Thierry Mugler. Initiated, produced and circulated by the MMFA, this retrospective reveals the multiple worlds of this irrepressible artistic figure – at once visionary couturier, director, photographer and perfumer – by revisiting his prêt-à-porter and haute couture creations. Premiering in Montreal, Thierry Mugler: Couturissime brings together more than 150 garments made between 1973 and 2001, most of which are being shown for the first time, as well as a wealth of unpublished archival documents and sketches. One hundred or so photographs by such world-renowned fashion photographers as Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Pierre et Gilles, David LaChapelle, Paolo Roversi, Herb Ritts, Dominique Issermann, Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon, to name a few, round out the show.

James Casebere
MODELL-NATUREN IN DER ZEITGENöSSISCHEN FOTOGRAFIE – GROUP SHOW

KALLMAN-MUSEUM, ISMANING, GERMANYFrom 23/02/2019 to 05/05/2019

Jim Dine
POéSIE DER PFLANZE (POETRY OF PLANTS) – PHOTOS BY KARL BLOSSFELDT AND JIM DINE – GROUP SHOW

DIE PHOTOGRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG/SK STIFUNG KULTUR, KÖLN, GERMANYFrom 22/02/2019 to 21/07/2019

The exhibition “Poesie der Pflanze’ (’Poetry of Plants”) presents Kalr Blossfeldt’s (1865-1932) works in conjunction with around 40 heliogravures by the American artist Jim Dine (1935).  
 Even though the two artists are generations apart and represent very different artistic approaches, their works make it clear that the mystery of nature, its magic as well as its regularity and order, is a never-ending source of creative inspiration.