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François Rouan
JOURNAL D’ATELIER
Solo Show
Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
From June 8, 2024 to June 7, 2025
As part of the project for the future stained glass windows in the main refectory of the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, François Rouan is exhibiting his preparatory drawings, paintings and etched glass from June 8, 2024 at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud.
Omar Ba
CLIN D’ŒIL À CHEIKH ANTA DIOP-UN CONTINENT À LA RECHERCHE DE SON HISTOIRE
Solo Show
United Nations Headquarters, New York
From May 7 to May 17, 2024
Omar Ba’s work Clin d’œil à Cheikh Anta Diop-Un continent à la recherche de son histoire is this month on view at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York. This project is presented in collaboration with The French Institute Alliance Française. With this wall-sized painting, the artist pays tribute to Senegalese historian and politician Cheikh Anta Diop. This exhibition highlights the cultural relations between France and Senegal, Francophonie as well as our shared heritage.
Kehinde Wiley
A MAZE OF POWER – DAKAR
Solo Show
Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar
From May 15 to June 30, 2024
The Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar is hosting the exhibition Kehinde Wiley – A maze of power, originally organised by the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. The exhibition, which opens tomorrow, is devoted to a series of eleven portraits of African heads of state – an exploratory project, still in process, around the representation of power, on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.
Chiharu Shiota
BEYOND CONSCIOUSNESS – BIENNALE D’AIX
Solo Show
Biennale d’Aix, France
From May 18 to October 6, 2024
On the occasion of the second edition of the Biennale d’Aix, Chiharu Shiota takes over three of Aix-en-Provence’s heritage sites. The Japanese artist weaves her web and deploys her protean works in the Pavillon de Vendôme museum, the Musée des Tapisseries and the Chapelle de la Visitation.
Jeanne Vicerial
AVANT DE VOIR LE JOUR
Solo Show
Musée du Vieux Nîmes, France
From April 5, 2024 to November 17, 2025
On the occasion of the first edition of Contemporaine de Nîmes, Jeanne Vicerial is exhibiting her works alongside those of Pierre Soulages at the Musée du Vieux Nîmes from April 5, 2024. In this unprecedented face-to-face encounter, Jeanne Vicerial wanted to pay tribute to the master in the city that saw him go. Several of their works will enter into dialogue within a multi-sensory installation that she has created entirely on site.
Valerio Adami
PITTORE D’IDEE
Solo Show
Palazzo Reale, Milan
From July 17 to September 22, 2024
Palazzo Reale presents Pittore d’Idee, Valerio Adami’s solo show curated by Marco Meneguzzo, that celebrates sixty-five years of research. Behind straightforward images is hidden a more complex narrative: the Adami’s artworks are rich in sophisticated visual metaphors, and they include philosophical, literary and mythological concepts, representing the evolution of ideas through the European and Western thought.
Alioune Diagne
60TH BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
Solo Show
Arsenale, Venice
From April 20 to November 24, 2024
For its first participation, Senegal has selected the artist Alioune Diagne to represent his country at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from April 20 to November 24, 2024.
Jim Dine
DOG ON THE FORGE – VENICE
Solo Show
Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, Venice
From April 20 to July 21, 2024
On the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia this April, American painter, sculptor and poet Jim Dine is set to take over the Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù with an ambitious survey exhibition curated by Gerhard Steidl, Founding Director of the Kunsthaus Göttingen. Jim Dine – Dog on the Forge is a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Jim Dine’s show will open to the public on Saturday, 20 April 2024 and will run through 21 July, 2024.
Iván Navarro
SILENT HOMELESS LAMP
Solo Show
8743 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
Through January 31, 2024
As part of Moving Image Media Part, Iván Navarro is presenting his video work Silent Homeless Lamp on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles until January 31, 2024. The artist uses what has become the universal symbol of transience – a shopping cart – to allegorize our collective complicity and the draining of resources that it requires to address something that, if seen, could have been prevented. Navarro’s cart persists, lit with a blinding white glow. A beacon of hope, a lamp, to light the way for all.
Chiharu Shiota
A TIDE OF EMOTIONS
Solo Show
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Vietnam
Until March 31, 2024
On the occasion of her solo show at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art in Vietnam, Chiharu Shiota is presenting her installation A Tide of Emotions until March 31, 2024.
