WHITNEY MUSEUM, NEW YORK, USA From 10/30/2015 to 02/07/2016
The Whitney Museum will present a career retrospective of Frank Stella (b. 1936), one of the most important living American artists. This survey will be the most comprehensive presentation of Stella’s career to date, showcasing his prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present through approximately 120 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings
MUSEUM FOLKWANG, ESSEN, GERMANY
Museum Folkwang is holding a major exhibition on the graphic work of American artist Jim Dine born in 1935. Dine was one of the most important Pop artists of the 1960s, and won early recognition for his art, not just in the US but internationally. The retrospective coinciding with his eightieth birthday features some 150 works – including woodcuts, lithographs, and etchings – and presents a representative survey of the artist’s work in the graphic medium, spanning more than five decades.
MUSEE TINGUELY, BALE, SWITZERLAND
Museum Tinguely dedicates Ben Vautier’s first comprehensive retrospective in Switzerland. Alongside an overview of the first 20 years of his creativity, Ben sets up in the museum more than 30 rooms as he comments on various social, artistic, and political topics and takes a stance. In total, the show exhibits over 400 works by the artist.
CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
In this thematic exhibition, the visitor is immersed in what light does and means to the human being. Nice ’n light brings together fashion designs, industrial design, visual arts and music videos from different eras and contexts. With Arian Brekveld, Atelier Remy & Veemhuizen, Atelier van Licht, Bastian Visch, Blendid, Chaim van Luit, Chris Kabel, Dawn Shadforth, Dick van Hoff, Dominique Teufen, Erika Hock, FrancisLawrence, Frans van Nieuwenborg, Gabriel Lester, Gerrit Rietveld, Hamish Hamilton, Hella Jongerius, Herman Hermsen, Iván Navarro, Jake Scott, Jan Andriesse, Jan Taminiau, Jan van Munster, Jonas Åkerlund, Krista van der Wilk, Len Lye, Mart van Schijndel, Martí Guixé, Martijn Wegman, Matthijs Munnik, Navid Nuur, Oscar Santillan, Paul Hessels, Peter Hopman, Pieke Bergmans, Roland Schimmel, Spencer Finch, Stéphane Sednaoui, Studio Wieki Somers, Viktor & Rolf en Willem Marijs.
MAISON GUERLAIN, PARISFrom 10/16/2015 to 11/13/2015
Associated with FIAC Parcours Privé, Guerlain focuses its new show at Maison Guerlain on the Champs Elysées in Paris on the gender issues. The selection of works gathered in the exhibition explore this complex notion through symbolical, poetical or intimate approaches. With Vanessa Beecroft, Valérie Belin, Jean Cocteau, Oda Jaune, David LaChapelle,Christopher Makos, Javier Perez, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Elsa Sahal, Claire Tabouret, Agnès Thurnauer, Joana Vasconcelos, Li Yongbin.
PAVILLON DE L'ARSENAL, PARIS, FRANCE
For the first time, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal dedicates all of its exhibition space to contemporary art. Fifty six French and international artists, some renowned and others emerging, put in question and challenge Architecture, its issues and stakes, through one of their works. Artists and Architecture, Variable dimensions, is based on the conviction that artists highlight and reveal potentials capable of enriching and transforming our sharedambitions to build together the world city of tomorrow. With Vito Acconci – Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil – Daniel Arsham – Thomas Bayrle – Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus – Pierre Besson – Julien Bismuth – Mel Bochner – Marie Bovo – Brevet & Rochette – stanley brouwn – Alain Bublex – Heidi Bucher – Daniel Buren – Pedro Cabrita Reis – James Casebere – Jordi Colomer – Stéphane Couturier – François Dallegret – Denicolai & Provoost – Larissa Fassler – Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil – Jean-Pascal Flavien – Zachary Formwalt – Peter Friedl – Carlos Garaicoa – Anne-Valérie Gasc – Liam Gillick – Pierre-Jean Giloux – Geert Goiris – Dan Graham – Carsten Höller with Philippe Parreno – JR – Anish Kapoor – Sabina Lang & Daniel Baumann – Jonier Marin – Matthieu Martin – Gordon Matta-Clark – Rita McBride – Dean Monogenis – Nicolas Moulin – Matt Mullican – Bruce Nauman – Olaf Nicolaï – Julian Opie – Giulio Paolini – Enoc Perez – Alexandre Perigot – Tabor Robak – Yvan Salomone – Peter Scott – Richard Serra – Timothée Talard – Bert Theis – Lawrence Weiner
AUSTRIA
Installed in a large roundabout on an expressway at Stockerau, north of Vienna, Here After Here After Here (2012-2015) takes the form of a mammoth loop made of extended highway signage that seems to continue infinitely and coil within. Kallat draws together a confluence of myriad references to arrive at this compelling form, amongst them the mythic symbol of ouroboros, ancient eternal knots, alchemical diagrams and sacred geometry.
MUSEE DEPARTEMENTAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE ROCHECHOUART, FRANCE
“Paint, She Said”, celebrates the current buoyant state of painting and particularly of painting by women artists living in France. Grouped under this title (reminiscent of Marguerite Duras’ film and book “Destroy She Said”) are a selection of established or up-and-coming artists who have clearly placed themselves in a painterly tradition and contribute to its continuing renewal. With Oda Jaune, Giulia Andreani Farah Atassi, Amélie Bertrand Anne Brégeaut, Marion Charlet Coraline de Chiara, Nina Childress Béatrice Cussol, Hélène Delprat Vanessa Fanuele, Vidya Gastaldon, Maude Maris Elodie Lesourd, Iris Levasseur Eva Nielsen, Laure Prouvost ClaireTabouret, Delphine Trouche
FRAC LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 10/07/2015 to 12/05/2015
One of the founding fathers of the Supports/Surfaces artistic movement, Daniel Dezeuze is well know as one of its major theoricians. Just as his poetry, full of humour and wit, the artist’s drawing practice offers him a way to consider the world with more lightness. Beyond showing how great a drawing artist is Daniel Dezeuze, the new show of the FRAC seeks to highlight the artist’s incredible freedom to think.
PINACOTECA NAZIONALE, BOLOGNA, ITALYFrom 10/03/2015 to 11/01/2015
The FOTOINDUSTRIA industrial photography Biennale in Bologna, presents an outstanding solo show by DavidLaChapelle at Bologna’s iconic Pinacoteca Nazionale, focusing on the American photographer’s industrial lanscapes series.