American artist Kehinde Wiley is part of the inaugural collection at the newly opened  Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa) in Cape Town, the biggest museum in Africa.

Zeitz MOCAA, South AfricaFrom 22/09/2017

Three international heavyweights in contemporary painting will join forces when Danish Tal R and his two German colleagues and friends, Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter, hold a joint exhibition at Holstebro Kunstmuseum, under the title ‘The Men Who Fell from Earth’.

In recent decades, with an almost unrestrained energy, these three artists have made a name for themselves as significant innovators of the painting tradition. Their inspiration is often drawn from the borderline of what is generally acceptable, and the result is fabulous imagery that demonstrates great colouristic and expressive strength. Although there is sometimes a lot of humour present, the subjects addressed by Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter and Tal R are both serious and urgent.

Photo © Hanna Putz

HOLSTEBRO KUNSTMUSEUM, DenmarkFrom 16/09/2017 to 7/01/2018

The Skulpturenhall presents a comprehensive show dedicated to Sir Anthony Caro’s work, including models of this sculptures, curated Dieter Schwarz.

SKULPTURENHALLE, Thomas Schütte Stiftung, Holtzheim, GermanyFrom 10/09/2017 to 17/12/2017

Knights appeal to everyone’s imagination. What does this iconic symbol stand for? Do the knightly codes and values still have meaning today? Curator Joanna De Vos investigated and now creates in Gaasbeek Castle an international group exhibition of modern artistry as a ‘legacy’ of knightly ideals. 

With works by Marina Abramović, Uldus Bakhtiozina, Horia Damian, Robert Devriendt, Davide Dormino, Jan Fabre, Laurent Grasso, Phil Griffin, Oda Jaune, Kubra Khademi, Meiro Koizumi, Pere Llobera, Barbara Kruger, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese, Fabien Mérelle, Benjamin Moravec, Eleni Mylonas, Luigi Ontani, Antonis Pittas, Quiet Ensemble, Gabriel Roca, Rob Scholte, Adeela Suleman, Hannelore Van Dijck, Hans Van Houwelingen, Marko Velk, Antonello Viola, voorforvaast fanclub and Andy Wauman

GAASBEEK CASTLEFrom 7/11/17 to 11/5/17 

CAC MEYMAC, FRANCEFrom 7/9/17 to 10/15/17

Jan Fabre. STIGMATA is a voyage into the memory of one of the biggest contemporary artists through drawings, photographs, sculptures, costumes, texts quotes, archival documents and study models – which Fabre refers to as “Thinking Models” – and filmic documentations of his performance and poetic actions, from the second half of the 1970s to the present. Curator Germano Celant.

LEOPOLD MUSEUM, VIENNA, AUSTRIAFrom 7/7/17 to 8/27/17

This year, the Ravello festival – a renowned celebration of classical music and the arts – program includes the exhibition Standing with Truth by Francesco Clemente featuring a tent from Clemente’s Encampment series.

VILLA RUFOLO, RAVELLO, ITALYFrom 6/07/17 to 30/09/17

MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DU HAVRE (LE HAVRE, FRANCE)From 06/27/17 to 12/31/17

‘The Surface of the East Coast. From Nice to New York’ will be gathering more than 70 works of artists from the Supports/Surfaces movement and from the New York new art scene, aiming to establish a dialogue between two different countries and generations,by showing how they can echo,feed on each other,and today tackle new formal issues and trains of thought.

Curator : Marie Maertens

With Justin Adian – André-Pierre Arnal – Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke – Vincent Bioulès – Anna Betbeze – Joe Bradley – Sarah Braman – Pierre Buraglio – Louis Cane – Marc Devade – Daniel Dezeuze – Noël Dolla – Adam Henry – Jacob Kassay – Lucas Knipscher – Erik Lindman – Landon Metz – Sam Moyer – Bernard Pagès – Jean-Pierre Pincemin – Patrick Saytour – Gedi Sibony – André Valensi – Claude Viallat.

 A bilingual catalogue will be published by Editions cercle d’art on the occasion of the show.

LE 109, NICE, FRANCEFrom 6/23/2017 to 10/15/2017

GALERIE - LIBRAIRIE FILAF, PERPIGNAN, FRANCEFrom 6/19/17 to 7/26/2017

In 2017, Chambord collaborates with the Centre Pompidou, as part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the institution with an exhibition dedicated to Georges Pompidou, the former French president and creator of the Centre Pompidou. The exhibition will bring together more than 90 artworks – rarely displayed – by 67 artists, including Adami, Arman, César.

DOMAINE NATIONAL DE CHAMBORD, FRANCEFrom 6/18/2017 to 11/19/2017

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic presents an overview of the artist’s career. The exhibition highlights the range of Wiley’s production, starting with examples of early paintings executed around the time of his 2001 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem

The exhibition will also include a selection from his ongoing World Stage project, which he initiated in 2006 by establishing a satellite studio in Beijing, China. In addition, the exhibition will include portrait busts, stained glass, as well as female portraiture from Wiley’s recent series An Economy of Grace.

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Oklahoma City will be the final stop on the tour that has included Texas, Washington, Virginia, Arizona, and Ohio.

OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM, OKLAHOMA, ETATS-UNIS,From 6/17/2017 to 9/10/2017

The exhibition Mirror Mirror takes the form of a series of chapters and aims to bridge the microscopic gap separating our image from our being. Our reflection is utterly specific, making it undoubtedly the most complex of all images. In it, recognition and illusion are confused, giving rise to an inner disorder linked to our constant desire to read our identity here. Each chapter tackles a specific theme relating to the mirror or reflections, and presents an array of design objects, complemented by others from the worlds of contemporary art and photography. Artists, whether famous or emerging, offer their take on the idea which, on the frozen surface of the window, now defines our being in the world.

MUDAC, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLANDFrom 5/31/2017 to 10/01/2017

In 2017, the Espace Paul Rebeyrolle welcomes Philippe Cognée. Under the direction of curator Philippe Piguet, the exhibition will display a group of forty artworks, paintings and sculptures from the 2000s. The French painter, with his original technique, emphasizes the ambiguity of the visible in luminous, disturbing and blurry representations, where the subject is absorbed into matter to attein a dissolution of the real.

Accompanying this exhibition, a catalogue will be edited by the Espace Paul Rebeyrolle.

ESPACE PAUL REBEYROLLE, EYMOUTIERS, FRANCE From 5/28/2017 to 11/26/2017 

From 27 May to 20 August 2017, the Andre Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa) in Le Havre, where Gilles was born, will be giving carte blanche to Pierre & Gilles for the second stage of a major retrospective held in collaboration with the Museum of Ixelles in Brussels (which will be hosting a Pierre & Gilles exhibition from 16 February to 14 May 2017). MuMa’s exhibition will consist of over 80 works belonging to large museums and prestigious private collections, produced between the late 1970s and the present. Many of the images have acquired iconic status. Grouped by theme, they make up a sumptuous visual corpus.

Pierre & Gilles have also dreamed up an installation especially for the setting of MuMa. It will be based on the beach huts that are a typical feature of Le Havre and will be displayed in the main concourse of the museum. On the ground floor, they will create a new display by delving into the treasure-trove of the museum’s collections. And to highlight the couple’s Le Havre back-story, a “cabinet of curiosities” will present a set of unusual personal objects, juvenile drawings and art works and paintings by local artists, arranged in Pierre & Gilles’ inimitable style.

Exhibition curated by Sophie Duplaix, Chief Curator of Contemporary Collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou–Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

MUSEE ANDRE MALRAUX, LE HAVRE, FRANCEFrom 5/27/2017 to 08/20/2017

“In spring 2017, as Le Havre marks its 500^th anniversary, visual artists, designers, graphic artists, stage directors, novelists, will follow in the wake of Niemeyer and Monet to reinterpret this surprising city.

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has been invited to invest architect Auguste Perret’s famous St Joseph Church. A whirlpool of red threads densely woven, irradiate the church concrete nave . An “Accumulation of power » which, as a black hole, grasps the spiritual powers concentrated in the buildings.

 “A church is a place also for spiritual energy even for people who are not religious. In my mind, every person in life has his/her own place of power. The red whirlpool construction embodies an accumulation of spiritual power.

In this construction, all ideas, thoughts and prayers of people having been in the church are accumulated, like in a storm » the artist explains.

Artistic director of A Summer in Le Havre : Jean Blaise.

EGLISE SAINT JOSEPH, LE HAVRE, FRANCE From 5/27/2017 to 10/08/2017

The FRAC Auvergne devotes an exhibition to the American photographer Gregory Crewdson,  20 May – 17 September 2017.

It is the first exhibition of this major artist, internationally acclaimed, in a French institution. It is accompanied by the publication of the book ‘The Becket Pictures’.

This exhibition will gather the Fireflies (1996) and Cathedral of the Pines (2013-2014) series, both made in the town of Becket, Massachusetts, where the artist spent a part of his childhood.

It will also show a collection of works from the series Beneath the Roses (2003-2008).

FRAC AUVERGNE, CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE From 05/20/2017 to 9/17/2017

The Galleria Nazionale invites ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art to establish a “conversation”, presenting a select group of works under the roof of its classical architecture. This exhibition brings together a dozen works by artists with different poetic voices. The interaction between the works follows a pattern, that established by the basso continuo of the minimalist aesthetic and by the triple relation between architecture, sculpture and the human figure.

Artists : Fernanda Fragateiro, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Juan Muñoz, Joan, Hernández Pijuan, Doris Salcedo, Julião Sarmento, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Jana Sterbak, Antoni Tàpies, Ignacio Uriarte, Rachel Whiteread 

GALERIA NAZIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, ROMA, ITALYFrom 18/05/17 to 17/09/17

Based on the fundamental notion of metamorphosis, this exhibition traces the work of Jan Fabre since its beginning via a spiritual, philosophical and political reflection on the question of life and death. Fascinated by alchemy and memory of materials, Jan Fabre has been using glass and bone since 1977, both in reference to the Flemish masters and the Venice glass tradition.

ABBAZIA DI SAN GREGORIO, VENICE BIENNALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 5/13/2017 to 11/26/2017

»MONDPARSIFAL ALPHA 1-8 (ERZMUTTERZ DER ABWEHRZ)« is the title that Jonathan Meese gave to his outer-space production of an opera by Bernhard Lang, which will premiere at the 2017 Wiener Festwochen festival. As the title suggests, this is a reinterpretation of the subject matter of Richard Wagner’s last opera »Parsifal« (1882).

In the Picture Gallery, he now lands a new group of works, flying in like a spaceship. Four places south of the Alps that were home to schools of painters become associative theatrical venues, in which Meese, like in »MONDPARSIFAL,« explores the significance of art for the future, interrogating the Old Masters. At the same time, he responds to them with his own pictures and a Janusface, »CHEF DER KUNST« (the boss of art).

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM & WIENER FESTWOCHE, VIENNA, AUSTRIAFrom 5/12/2017 to 7/18/2017