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Omar Ba
OMAR BA, SAME DREAM – SOLO SHOW
MBAM, MONTREAL, CANADA From 30/05/2019 to 10/11/2019
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting the first Canadian monographic exhibition dedicated to Omar Ba, one of the most influential artists of his generation. Omar Ba : same Dream showcases a selection of Ba’s major works from different periods in his career. In addition, the artist is creating a large-scale mural for the Montreal public, directly on one of the gallery walls. Ba’s work is at once a bold critique of tyranny, a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and an ode to the resilience of the world’s youth.
Oda Jaune
HANDS – SOLO SHOW
SEEN, ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 23/05/2019 to 13/07/2019
Oda Jaune’s installation Hands created especially for SEEN shows a symbiosis of light and shadow, confronting the viewers with the question of their own existence. Under the candle flame, the sculpture becomes animated: shadows start to dance, candles melt away. The installation functions as a memento, created through life and death. SEEN is a new project space curated by Joanna De Vos. The concept is simple: one room, one previously unseen artwork, one artist.
Claude Viallat
Daniel Dezeuze
MOUVEMENT SUPPORTS/SURFACES : RETROUVER L’éCONOMIE DES GESTES SIMPLES – GROUP SHOW
FESTIVAL CROISEMENT, BEIJING, CHINA From 21/05/2019 to 20/08/2019
As part of the Croisements 2019 Festival organized by the French Institute in Beijing, the Meymac Center for Contemporary Art presents the first exhibition of the Supports / Surfaces movement in China. This group of artists, who emerged in France in the mid-1960s, revolutionized the visual arts through a new use of materials. Their project: to free the pictorial art from the historical and cultural straitjacket represented by the canvas.
James Casebere
MODEL NATURES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM HAUS LUDWIG, SARRELOIS, ALLEMAGNE From 19/05/2019 to 25/08/2019
The international group exhibition “Model Natures” is dedicated to a fascinating area of contemporary photography: Iandscape. The exhibition presents impressive landscapes. But on closer inspection, it turns out that these are not photographs of actual landscapes, but deceptively real images of models.
Franz Ackermann
ÉTé POURRI, PEINTURE FRAICHE – GROUP SHOW
FRAC CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 17/05/2019 to 15/09/2019
The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection includes a series of remarkable paintings that, without retracing the entire history of this medium, highlight high-quality individual practices. “Eté pourri fresh paint” (rotten Summer, fresh paint) is the title of a series of drawings by Robert Malaval (FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection) whose work, mixing rock, pop aesthetic, the end of the world, the festive and the tragic participated in the decompartmentalization of artistic practices. Painting, sculpture, performance and music were intertwined by Robert Malaval, whose practice has inspired many artists. A discrete tribute to this total and excessive commitment, the exhibition brings together artists whose approach is free from the weight of the millennial history of painting to reinvent it, to divert it, to imagine new rules.
Claude Viallat
PATTERN, CRIME & DECORATION – GROUP SHOW
LE CONSORTIUM, DIJON, FRANCEFrom 16/05/2019 to 20/10/2019
Le Consortium examines in this large group exhibition the “Pattern & Decoration” movement, formed in the 1970s and that enjoyed international success in the 1980s. Most of the artists involved were reacting against the dominance of abstract schools in the Post-War era, with a particular opposition to Minimal and Conceptual art. The group organized around “pattern and decoration” reconnected with what was widely perceived as “minor” art forms and asserted decoration as the true repressed of modernity. The exhibition, co-organized with MAMCO in Geneva, also includes several pieces by artists associated with the Supports/Surfaces group: Noël Dolla and Claude Viallat.
Jitish Kallat
OUR TIME FOR A FUTURE CARING – INDIAN PAVILLON – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIA PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
We are honoured to announce that Jitish Kallat is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
Atul Dodiya
OUR TIME FOR A FUTURE CARING – INDIAN PAVILLON – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIAN PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Atul Dodiya is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
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.
