Omar Ba
EN TOUTE MODESTIE, ARCHIPEL DI ROSA – GROUP SHOW

MIAM SETE, SETE, FRANCE From 02/02/2017 to 9/17/2017

The Exhibition En toute modestie – Archipel Di Rosa portrays this artiste from Sete, Hervé Di Rosa, through his influences, preferences and commitments. By bringing together 70 artistes, the exhibition explores the theme from contemporary art to pop arts, referring also to Outsider art, religious art and craft industry. Curator: Julie Crenn   With: ACM – Kwame Akoto / Almighty God – Pilar Albarracin – Elodie Antoine – Pierre Ardouvin – Marion Auburtin & Benjamin L. Aman – Omar Ba – Enrico Baj – Rina Banerjee – Raphael Barontini – Zoulikha Bouabdellah – Thérèse Bonnelalbay – Anne Brégeaut – Bernard Buffet – Marcos Carrasquer – Henri Darger – Hélène Delprat – Mathilde Denize – Dewar & Gicquel – Hervé Di Rosa – Jean Dubuffet – Christelle Familiari – Richard Fauguet – Harald Fernagu – Aurélie Ferruel & Florentine Guédon – Charles Fréger – Vidya Gastaldon – Romuald Hazoumé – Hippolyte Hentgen – David Hockney – Benoit Huot – Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel – Milan Kunc – Yayoi Kusama – Carlos Kusnir – Charles Lapicque – Francisco Larios – Léa Le Bricomte – Mélanie Lecointe – Fernand Léger – Eugène Leroy – Natacha Lesueur – Aurélie William Levaux – Pascal Lièvre – Myriam Mechita – Elena Moaty – Pierre Molinier – Lucien Murat – Hassan Musa – Otobong Nkanga – ORLAN – Régis Perray – Guillaume Pinard – Agathe Pitié – Raphaëlle Ricol – Athi Patra Ruga – Lionel Sabatté – Peter Saul – Judith Scott – Sarah Tschann – Sarah Tritz – Willem Van Genk – Alan Vega – Erwan Venn – Marion Verboom – Adrien Vermont – Jean-Luc Verna – Gretel Weyer – Maria Jeona Zoleta – Unica Zurn.

David LaChapelle
Pierre et Gilles
BLING BLING BABY ! – GROUP SHOW

NRW FORUM, DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY From 11/19/2016 to 1/15/2017

New trends in photography: the exhibition “Bling Bling Baby” will present the new, colourful world of photography. From Glam Fashion to nature poems, from the ironic representation to pop portraits – the past few years have seen the emergence of a fascinating canon of images  which celebrate the artificial and do not shy away from kitsch. David LaChapelle and Pierre et Gilles successfully continued this flirt with pop. The international group exhibition, curated by Nadine Barth, combines the most interesting new approaches from the field of photography, it introduces new and familiar names and carries us off to a sweet, surreal, glittering and incredibly fresh cosmos.    

Jan Fabre
KNIGHT OF DESPAIR/WARRIOR OF BEAUTY – SOLO SHOW

HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIAFrom 10/21/2016 to 4/9/2017 

Belgian artist Jan Fabre has been invited by the St Petersbourg Hermitage to create an extensive exhibition circuit at the museum, to include both new and existing works.
This outstanding new presentation at the State Hermitage commences in the Apollo Room. Fabre will also be integrating his drawings, sculptures and installations into the rooms of the Old Hermitage (with its collection of Southern Netherlands Renaissance painting), Catherine the Great’s Winter Garden, the Flemish rooms in the New Hermitage (Snyders Room, Van Dyck Room, Rubens Room, Jordaens Room), the Twelve-Column Hall and the Knights’ Room. The exhibition continues on the other side of the museum square in the recently installed rooms of the General Staff Building, once the Russian tsars’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The final part of the exhibition is the performance film ‘Love is the Power Supreme’ (2016) which will be made in St Petersburg. Curator Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov

Kehinde Wiley
LAMENTATION – SOLO SHOW

PETIT PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 10/20/2016 to 1/15/2017

The Museum Petit Palais presents the first solo show of afro-American artist Kehinde Wiley in France. This will be the occasion to discover his latest series, Lamentation. Inspired by religious paintings, the artist presents stained-glass windows and monumental paintings in the middle of the permanent collection of the museum. The artist finds inspiration in the classical paintings of masters like Titian, Van Dyck, Ingres or David for his with color and ornamentations filled paintings of young black or mixed-race persons. The artist establishes collisions between art history and popular culture.

Jean-Michel Alberola
LE BLEU DANS LES ARTS DU MOYEN ÂGE à NOS JOURS – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, ARRAS, FRANCE From 10/15/2016 to 2/06/2017

Pierre et Gilles
LOVE STORIES – GROUP SHOW

FESTIVAL PHOTAUMNALES, BEAUVAIS, FRANCEFrom 10/08/2016 to 1/1/2017 

This 2016 edition of the Photaumnales, placed under the sign of love, desires to be generous. Just as love feeds and thrills us, the loves related in “Love Stories” nourish and enliven us. Here, photography is the index of multiple amorous events, of multifarious amours. As you might expect: afterall, love—the archer—is blind. Curator Paul Ardenne With:
Janet Biggs, Morgane Callegari, Enna Chaton, Mat Collishaw, Iris Crey, AlixDelmas, Aurélie Dubois, mounir fatmi, Shaun Gladwell, Lauren Fleishman, Dana Hoey, Sandra Hoyn, Ali Kazma, Adriana Lestido, Tuomo Manninen, Robert Montgomery, Gianni Motti, Mads Nissen, Anders Petersen, Gérard Rancinan, Kiah Reading and Pamela Arce, Olivier Rebufa, Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath, Andres Serrano, Tejal Shah, Malick Sidibé, Mathilde Troussard, Joel-Peter Witkin.  

Iván Navarro
POMMERY EXPERIENCE #13 : GIGANTESQUE ! – GROUP SHOW

DOMAINE POMMERY, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 10/14/2016 to 5/31/2017 

The Estate Pommery, one of the most famous champagne estates worldwide, is showing the exhibition Gigantesque!, in the framework of the 13th edition of Pommery’s Experiences. The exhibition takes place in the 30-meter deep cellars and their breathtaking 18 kilometers long maze. The Pommery Experiences brings together an exceptional heritage and contemporary creation in a unique and fascinating space. More than twenty French and international artistes are reunited for this occasion around the theme “from the infinitely big to the infinitely small”. With: Brook Andrew, Daniel Buren, Lilian Bourgeat, Vincent Carlier, JulianCharrière, Gaëlle Chotard, Michel de Broin, Choi Jeong Hwa, Bertrand Gadenne, Séverine Hubard, Guy Limone, Chaim van Luit, Soundwalk Collective, Pablo Valbuena, Enrique Ramirez, Su-Mei Tse, Iván Navarro, Stéphane Thidet, LeeMingwei…   

Julião Sarmento
EXPENSES – GROUP SHOW

LABANQUE, BETHUNE, FRANCEFrom 10/8/2016 to 2/26/2017

The exhibition Expenses opens on October 8th at Labanque, the production and diffusion center for visual arts recently restructured at Béthune in the spaces of the old Banque de France. The exhibition launches a three-part cycle; conceived like a trilogy by Léa Bismuth and dedicated to Georges Bataille. For its first part, as for the following ones, the curator takes advantage of the 1500 square meters of this extraordinary space and confronts artworks of French and international as well as contemporary and historical artists whereas the majority was conceived especially for this occasion.   

Iván Navarro
Chiharu Shiota
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – GROUP SHOW

MAISON PARTICULIERE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 10/06/2016 to 4/30/2017

From “Where do we come from?” to “Where are we going?” From beginning to end, from origins to eternity, such is the guiding theme and framework of the exhibition, From here to eternity. In his works, guest artist Angelo Musco tirelessly explores the cycles of existence: birth—a recurrent theme in his work; origins and evolution ; the metamorphoses of the human being and nature; mystery; and abysses. Accompanying Angelo Musco on his journey are works, among others from Chiharu Shiota and Ivan Navarro, that encounter his, engaging in a dialogue and free falling weightlessly into an open space with no beginning or end. Existence can therfore be the intertwining of connections and relationships, sometimes due to chance, other times intentional, like the threads that are woven and (out)stretched, as in the work by Chiaru Shiota.

Jan Fabre
STIGMATA, ACTIONS & PERFORMANCES 1976–2013 – SOLO SHOW

MAC LYON, LYON, FRANCEFrom 9/00/2016 to 1/15/2017

In 2016, ‘Stigmata’ presents the totality of 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 87 glass trays, 800 objects, drawings, photographs, artefacts, costumes, models which he calls “thought models”, films, works in blue ballpoint pen, and more.   THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016, 6 PM : NEW PERFORMANCE WITH EDDY MERCKX AND RAYMOND POULIDOR “An attempt to not beat the world hour record set by Eddy Merckx in Mexico City in 1972 (or how to remain a dwarf in a land of giants)”, created for Lyon at the Parc de la Tête d’Or velodrome, with commentary and live filming, in the presence of Eddy Merckx. Jan Fabre pays tribute to the Belgian cyclist. The artist grabs the handlebars and thrusts his feet into the toe clips in an attempt not to beat the world record set in Mexico City in 1972. In a salute to the talent of the man they called “The Cannibal” because of his insatiable hunger after victories, Jan Fabre allows himself to be caught up and swallowed by the beauty of failure.  

Gérard Garouste
À LA CROISéE DES SOURCES  – SOLO SHOW

BEAUX-ARTS MONS, MONS, FRANCE From 9/24/2016 to 1/29/2017

The Museum of Fine Arts in Mons (BAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to French painter Gérard Garouste, gathering over 80 works, some of them monumental in size. This selection will give an original overview of his entire career. The exhibition was mainly and for the first time conceived following the framework of Cervantes novel Don Quixote . Salle Saint-Georges – at a stone’s throw from BAM – will host an installation specially designed by Garouste. It invites visitors to lose themselves among the twists and turns of a labyrinth created out of around 35 monumental canvases – a unique physical and visual experience. This exhibition, curated by Bernard Marcelis and Xavier Roland, BAM’s Director, will also exclusively reveal two of his sketch books – a rare opportunity that allows us to enter the private world of his artistic process. Press visit on Friday, September 23, 2016, 11 a.m. Opening on Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Francesco Clemente
AFTER OMEROS – SOLO SHOW

CORO DELLA MADDALENA, ALBA, ITALY From 9/15/2016 to 11/13/2016

Francesco Clemente this year will be to bring together contemporary art with the marvelous setting of the Baroque Choir. The artist will lead to Alba his recent works never exhibited in Italy. After Omeros will be composed of two installations and forty watercolors inspired by the epic poem Omeros which earned the writer Derek Walcott the Nobel Prize for literature. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of readings, taken from the work of Derek Walcott.  

Ben
IS EVERYTHING ART ? – SOLO SHOW

MUSEE MAILLOL, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 09/14/2016 to 01/15/2017

Museum Maillol presents the first ambitious retrospective in Paris dedicated to, a major figure of the contemporary French art scene. Gathering more than 200 works,  coming from his personal collection as well as from private collections, this exhibition explores the multi faceted work of an irreverent artist fighting against ‘pensée unique’ (forms of unique thought) for 50 years.  

Pierre et Gilles
FESTIVAL IMAGES VEVEY – GROUP SHOW

VEVEY, SWITZERLANDFrom 09/10/2016 to 10/02/2016 

Pierre and Gilles will exhibite two photographs during the Festival Images Vevey which will once again transform the little town of Vevey into the Swiss capital of photography. Visitors will get to discover 75 projects based on the theme of ‘immersion’: large-scale outdoor exhibitions on façades, on the lake, in parks and indoor exhibitions in unusual venues. Opening on September 10 All exhibition open at 11am, free entrance

Gregory Crewdson
GREGORY CREWDSON IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ART HISTORIAN MICHEL POIVERT

CENTRE POMPIDOU, PETITE SALLE, PARIS, FRANCEFriday, 9/9/2016, 7pm - 8:30pmFree entrance

On the occasion of the two concurrently exhibitions « Cathedral of the Pines » at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris and Brussels, the American artist Gregory Crewdson is presenting his most recent body of work in a talk with Michel Poivert, art historian specialized in photography. In images that recall nineteenth-century painting, Crewdson captures motionless figures in both natural environments and domestic interiors, charged with ambiguity. Ever since his nocturnal Twilight series (1998–2002), Crewdson has worked with a full crew, planning his elaborately staged images in a process similar to that of a movie director. His use of the codes governing the cinema of fantasy films, psychological drama and suspense conjures forebears such as Diane Arbus, Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper. These new works were shot on location in Becket, Massachusetts, where Crewdson retreated, in search of inspiration. ‘It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity,’ he explains.    

Francesco Clemente
A NOMADIC LIFE – SOLO SHOW

SPRING CENTER OF ART, BEIJING, CHINAFrom 9/03/2016 to 10/31/2016

The Springs Center highlights with the solo exhibition « Nomadic Life » the work of the internationally known artist Francesco Clemente. Clemente is considered one of the most representative artists of the Transavantgarde.  For this exhibition, he has spent one month to paint a large mural in the exhibition space, “The Tide of the Ocean of Stories”. His paintings on the wall are visual sediments that embody the deep and profound cultural tones of the two ancient civilizations – India and China. His understanding of the nomadic life is thinking globally and acting locally. The exhibition’s curator Huang Du brings together large–scale artworks, paintings, murals, works on paper as well as Clemente’s equipment, valuable photographs and documentary films.  

Julião Sarmento
AS GOOD AS IT GETS – SOLO SHOW

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ZAGREB, CROATIAFrom 07/15/2016 to 08/20/2016

The exhibition, titled As Good As It Gets in the three exhibition spaces represents 43 works of art in a wide range of media: painting, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, performance, mixed media; created by renowned Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento in the period from 1977 to 2014. A selection of works by the curatorial concept of Portuguese art historian and art critic João Silverio, will enable thorough insight into the creation of one of the most prominent international contemporary Portuguese artists.  

David LaChapelle
GAS STATIONS – SOLO SHOW

EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE ART CENTER, NYACK, NY, USADu 07/09/2016 au 09/11/2016

Renowned photographer David LaChapelle will exhibit six large-scale photographs from his Gas Stations series.  Inspired in part by Edward Hopper’s painting Gas (1940), LaChapelle created scale models using common, found objects, which he then photographed on location in the rainforest of Maui. The natural landscape of the rainforest envelops the fabricated structures of the gas stations, acting at once as a generative force and a destructive one.  The work is a commentary on our reliance on fossil fuels and “the absurdity of our attempts to harness nature.”

Valerio Adami
VALERIO ADAMI – SOLO SHOW

SECESSION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA From 7/01/2016 to 08/28/2016

The illustrator and painter Valerio Adami is widely regarded as an eminent representative of Italian Pop art. His exhibition in the Secession’s Grafisches Kabinett is the artist’s first solo show in Austria and showcases a series of paintings from his less well-known early oeuvre. Created before 1964, these works stand out for the particularly dynamic interplay between expressive abstraction and stylized figuration.    

Jonathan Meese
BETWEEN TWO HORIZONS. GERMAN AND FRENCH AVANT-GARDES FROM THE SAARLANDMUSEUM – GROUP SHOW

CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ, METZ, FRANCE From 06/29/2016 to 01/16/2017

The work «Love like Blood (dein Junker Meese “Babyface”) » by Jonathan Meese can be seen in this exhibition offering a dialogue between the German and the French art scene since impressionism. Pictures by Auguste Renoir stand alongside Max Libermann’s, the “fauve” André Derain faces flamboyant paintings by the expressionists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and works by Aurélie Nemours and Hans Hartung complete the presentation of a common history and present. The masterpieces from both sides of the Rhine testify of mutual influences and the fascination as well as the research and questionning the other.