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Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Hans Op De Beeck
THE SENSATION OF THE SEA. IN HONOUR OF BAS JAN ADER – GROUP SHOW
MESDAG COLLECTION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS From 14/09/2018 to 06/01/2019
From 14 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour of Bas Jan Ader is presented at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. For this exhibition, guest curator Joanna De Vos has invited several international artists to engage in a dialogue with The Mesdag Collection. These contemporary artists are captivated by the grandeur and tempestuousness of the ocean. The attraction of the sea is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for them, a ‘battery for the imagination’. Odes to the performance In Search of the Miraculous by the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) form the exhibition’s connecting thread. Ader disappeared in 1975 as he attempted to sail across the Atlantic. His soul became one with the untameable power of the sea. The tributes to Ader’s artistic practice highlight the enticement and mystery of the ocean. Visitors are encouraged to discover how the contemporary artworks integrate into the nineteenth-century museum and to prepare themselves for a series of surprising and special ‘encounters’.
Chiharu Shiota
EMBODIED – SOLO SHOW
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUTRALIA, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA From 24/08/2018 to 28/10/2018
The solo exhibition features recent drawings and sculptures as well as photographs and videos of early performance work. In addition, the site-specific installation “Absence Embodied”, which has been acquired by the Gallery, is displayed at the Melrose Wing of European Art along with the installation “Internal” which is suspended from the galleries facade, allowing a glimpse of what lies inside.
Oda Jaune
MADEMOISELLE – GROUP SHOW
CRAC, SETE, FRANCE From 21/07/2018 to 06/01/2019
MADEMOISELLE, is a group exhibition that brings together a generation of international women artists exploring the issues and paradoxes of being a young woman today, through a variety of mediums and a broad range of subjects. Referencing France’s recent ban on the title ‘Mademoiselle’ and drawing upon the past years’ global interest in women’s rights, best characterized as the #MeToo phenomenon, the exhibition exposes the manifold heritage, expansion and evolution of feminist art strategies and theories today. With among others Oda Jaune, Laure Prouvost, Mai-Thu Perret, Pilar Corrias, Anna Uddenberg, Mimosa Echard, Gery Georgevia
Chiharu Shiota
WATER AND LAND – NIIGATA ART FESTIVAL 2018 – GROUP SHOW
NIIGATA CITY, JAPAN From 14/07/2018 to 08/10/2018
From ancient times, Niigata has had a strong connection with water and land as a port town and a major river town. This connection is the theme for the Water and Land Art Festival. Artists from around the world will display their artwork in the lower Shinano River area in the heart of Niigata City. With among others Jaume Plensa, Yoichi Takada, Chiharu Shiota.
Chiharu Shiota
DE FILS OU DE FIBRES – GROUP SHOW
ABBAYE SAINT ANDRE CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, MEYMAC, FRANCEFrom 08/07/2018 to 14/10/2018
Many artists today reappropriate, explore, or rework artisanal techniques that were long ignored: from yarn and weaving to knitting, patchwork, and even embroidery. The return to textiles goes far beyond the femininity with which it was traditionally associated. The experimentation leads to abundant artistic practices from protean installations to the object. The exhibition brings together the works of artists who use as their material yarn, rope, string, and even iron or plastic wire so long as these materials are shaped, knotted, or woven. Also featured are canvas, veil, felt … All of which is on show across the five floors of the abbey. With among others Chiharu Shiota, Mona Hatoum, Kapwani Kiwanga, Claire Morgan
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE : ECSTASY & ORACLES – SOLO SHOW
CATTEDRALE DI MONREALE, PALERMO, ITALYFrom 06/07/2018 to 04/11/2018
For the first time in Europe Jan Fabre presents Ecstasy and Oracles for the occasion of Manifesta12 organised by Mondo Mostre, Palermo Capitale della Cultura 2018, Regione Siciliana. The scarab, ancient symbol of metamorphosis and an early alter-ego of artist Jan Fabre – the holy dung beetle of Antwerp – is central to the exhibition in Monreale. Small bronzes refer to the vital quest of the artist while the life-size bronze sculpture, The man who bears the cross, balances the limits of faith. A cycle of large mosaics made with jewel beetle wing-cases explores the eternal cycle of life and death, reoccurring in Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. Curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi. Monday to Saturday, 9.00 – 19.00, Holidays, 9.00 – 13.30
Jan Fabre
THE OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF JAN FABRE’S NEWLY CREATED PERMANENT ALTARPIECES FOR AMUZ – PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
SAINT AUGUSTIN CHURCH OF ANTWERP (AMUZ), ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 02/07/2018
In 1628, the Antwerp trinity of Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received the assignment from the Augustinian monks to make altarpieces for their cloister church in the Kammenstraat. This year, Jan Fabre is receiving the same honour upon the occasion of Antwerp Baroque 2018. He translates – or rather ‘re-tells’ – the altarpieces of Jordaens, Van Dyck and Rubens in the language of 2018 and frames them in their contemporary context.
Prune Nourry
LA DESTRUCTION N’EST PAS UNE FIN EN SOI – SOLO SHOW
MAGASIN ELECTRIQUE, ARLES, FRANCE From 02/07/2018 to 23/09/2018
Young French artist Prune Nourry has been invited by publisher Actes Sud to take part for the first time in the Arles Rencontres Photographiques festival. She will be presenting a series of works in a former SNCF workshop featuring photographs and sculptures as well as the giant Buddha she recently created for the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques (Guimet) in Paris. Prune Nourry’s photographs narrate the long-term projects she has undertaken in China and India on the theme of the gender selection of children. With these travel tales and unexpected encounters orchestrated between her hybrid creatures and passers-by in the streets of Delhi, she captures and highlights the creative process as a participant in its own right, the images revealing the underlying matter, from earth to milk. She creates a dialogue between her sculptures – the Holy Daughters, half girls, half holy cows – and the photographs, or “sculpted images”, which extend her probing of women’s status and the misuse of science while questioning their medium. Prune Nourry, Men Without Women, Holy Daughter, New Delhi, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Associated programme, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 2018. Venue: Magasin Electrique – Opening hours: 10 am – 7.30 pm
Jan Fabre
MA NATION : L’IMAGINATION – SOLO SHOW
FONDATION MARGUERITE ET AIME MAEGHT, SAINT-PAUL, FRANCE From 30/06/2018 to 11/11/2018
From June 30 to November 11, 2018, the Maeght Foundation will welcome Belgian artist Jan Fabre. This “customized” exhibition, designed for the Fondation, will be devoted to his sculptures and drawings – many of them brand new – dealing with the mind, the body, our dreams and especially our imagination, in conversation with scientific discoveries and art history. Fabre wanted this exhibition to be spiritual in every sense of the word, at once dreamlike and serious but with the irony of games and a humor in the style of James Ensor. The mind and the brain become a source, a land, a character whose adventures we can experience through the show. Sometimes considered provocative and iconoclastic, the “contemporary mystic” Jan Fabre keeps in mind the memory of the Flemish Primitives and the old masters of Flemish Baroque and builds on the tradition to daringly plunge into the unknown: “The brain represents, to me, a metaphor for the terra incognita. Dealing with art and beauty is to always walk along the path of this terra incognita“. Like science which relies on knowledge to initiate discovery, the notion of experience, through the study and observation of things, makes up one of the foundations of Fabre’s work and his approach. Cerveau de Janus (Yeux verts) 2012. Silicon, paint and glass, synthetic lashes, wooden base. Photo Pat Verbruggen © Angelos bvba
Julião Sarmento
LEOPARD IN A CAGE – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DAS ARTES JOSE DE GUIMARAES, GUIMARAES, PORTUGAL From 29/06/2018 to 07/10/2018
This exhibition is dedicated solely to bringing together unique works by Julião Sarmento – never before seen or never before produced pieces – which cover the career of one of the most prominent Portuguese artists, with these works related to certain periods and various areas which we paradoxically have little record of. The exhibition curators have collaborated with the artist to bring this exercise of reconstitution to fruition. Curated by Nuno Faria and Filipa Oliveira
