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Abdelkader Benchamma
Jim Dine
Jan Fabre
INAUGURATION DE LA FONDATION HELENIS GGL – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION HELENIS GGL, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
Inauguration - November 2020
For its inauguration, the Helenis GGL Foundation in Montpellier is hosting four personalities from the contemporary art world: Abdelkader Benchamma, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre and Marlène Mocquet. Each of the four artists will present an artwork for the event – which will open the season in what aims to become one of the city’s major cultural centres.
Julião Sarmento
O PEQUENO MUNDO – GROUP SHOW
From November 1st, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Nadir Afonso, Av. 5 de Outubro, 105400-017 Chaves, Portugal
O pequeno mundo is a group exhibition that brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs by 24 Portuguese artists, including many of the major figures from the Portuguese art scene. This exhibition evokes one of the most distinctive features of artistic practice: the possibility or vocation, to create peculiar, in-between or parallel worlds, that question the realities in which we live.
Julião Sarmento
EM PERSPETIVA – COLEÇÃO PORTUGUESA DO MEIAC – GROUP SHOW
From October 31, 2020 to March 31, 2021Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Calle Museo, s/n, 06003 Badajoz, Spain
The collection of the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), includes works by the most emblematic artists of Portuguese contemporary art. Since its inauguration in 1995, it has continued to enrich itself by incorporating new references, giving way to new means of artistic expression such as digital art.
Jean-Michel Alberola
Iván Navarro
THE LIGHT HOUSE – GROUP SHOW
From October 22, 2020 to April 18, 2021
Fondation Boghossian - Villa Empain, Avenue Franklin Rooseveltlaan 67, B - 1050 Brussels
The exhibition The Light House invites the public to experience a succession of personal and collective experiences with light, mostly immersive, through the works of major contemporary artists, spanning nearly 60 years of artistic production. The exhibition revolves around five themes: celestial light, murky light, the experience of colour, the praise of shadow, neon lights and light bulbs.
Omar Ba
SAME DREAM – SOLO SHOW
From September 17, 2020 to January 31, 2021
Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 Street SW, Calgary, Canada
Same Dream brings together several of Ba’s paintings depicting dictators and authority figures, who lead to corrupt and violent regimes across the African continent and in other parts of the world, particularly where the legacies of colonialism persist. At times represented as hybrid beasts—part human, part animal— these despotic warlords are typically enveloped in an abundance of lush flora and fauna. Indeed, nature becomes a recurring force across Ba’s oeuvre.
Julião Sarmento
ARCHITECTURE INTO ART: A DIALOGUE – GROUP SHOW
From October 10, 2020 to March 14, 2021
Fundación Botin, Muelle de Albareda s/n, Jardines de Pereda, 39004 Santander, Spain
This exhibition brings together a selection of works by artists who once directed a Fundación Botín visual arts workshop and exhibited their work in Santander, as well as some by former recipients of the foundation’s visual art grants. It explores the influence of architecture on art, and offers reflections on how architecture also shapes human lives and structures social interaction.
Claude Viallat
« LES MURS RECULENT » – GROUP SHOW
From October 9, 2020 to March 31, 2021
The Musée Matisse, 164 Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez, 06000 Nice
The new exhibition of Matisse Museum in Nice shows the work of Henri Matisse’s posterity in the second half of the XXth century. This new circuit entitled “Les murs reculent” is inspired by a quote of the artist to the critic Georges Duthuit about Fauvism that summarise an essential aspect of his research. American and European Artists are presented in dialogue with the artworks of the museum collection incuding Jean Arp, Joseph Albers, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Shirley Jaffe, Kenneth Noland, Al Held, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Aurélie Nemours, Simon Hantaï, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Claude Viallat, Daniel Buren.
Kehinde Wiley
MEMLING NOW : HANS MEMLING IN CONTEMPORARY ART– GROUP SHOW
From October 1 to February 1, 2021
Sint-Janhospital, Mariastraat 38, Brugge 8000, Belgium
To pay tribute to Belgium artist, Hans Memling, Brudgge Musea organized the first exhibition that highlights his influences. Being one of the most significant painters of the Burgundian Bruges genre, his work inspired a lot of contemporary artists such as African-American painter Kehinde Wiley.
Kehinde Wiley
SHIP OF FOOLS – SOLO SHOW
From September 29, 2020 to January 24, 2021
The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AX
The exhibition Kehinde Wiley: Ship of Fools is curated by The Box in partnership with The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth and Royal Museums Greenwich. Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools), 2017 by Kehinde Wiley is a three-screen digital film projection that produces an immersive experience for the viewer. The film provides a portrait of a group of young black men at sea, struggling to reach the land – a metaphor for both historical and contemporary histories of migration and social dislocation.
Daniel Dezeuze
VUE DE DOS, IMAGES À CONTRE-COURANT – GROUP EXHIBITION
From September 26 to January 3, 2021
Le Delta, Avenue Fernand Golenvaux, 18 - 5000 Namur, Belgium
This exhibition seeks to question the subversive power of anonymity implied by the principle of “anti-portrait” embodied by the representation of someone from behind, “vue de dos”. The exhibition organized by the Namur cultural space, the Delta, takes a look at current phenomena such as “selfies” on social networks, facial recognition on surveillance devices, as well as the very recent wearing of a sanitary mask, that has redefined our perception of public spaces.
