Iván Navarro
GROUP SHOW – INTERPLAY

SITE Santa Fe, USA
Through February 13, 2023

The exhibition INTERPLAY opened its doors in SITE Santa Fe, featuring Iván Navarro’s “Reality Show (Black)”. Although they have only stepped into a simple telephone booth with glass and mirrors, “Reality Show” allows the viewers to feel the mind-bending illusion and sensation of stepping into infinity. 

Chiharu Shiota
SOLO SHOW – SILENT WORD

Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany
Through October 8, 2023

Chiharu Shiota has designed an installation made of interwoven threads especially for her new solo exhibition “Silent Words” at Schauwerk Sindelfingen in Germany. The installation with the same name fills the space with letters floating from a centered desk and chair into the sky, stretching over black ropes. The letters expand into the space like a universe of thoughts and emotions, but no one can hear them.

Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – DE LA NATURE

Musée de Grenoble
From October 22, 2022 to March 19, 2023

The Musée de Grenoble invites Philippe Cognée, beside Cristina Iglesias, Wolfgang Laib and Giuseppe Penonefour, whose practices are deeply rooted to the ratio between human and nature. For Philippe Cognée, the only painter selected, landscape apears in his work as a couterpoint to his famous urban views, expressing an ordered chaos, both original and vital ; wild and threatening.  

Abdelkader Benchamma
INSTALLATION – BIENNALE ARCIPELAGO MEDETERRANEO

Church of SS. Eunio e Giulano - Palermo 
From October 22 to November 27, 2022

As part of the Sete-Palermo Festival, Abdelkader Benchamma’s solo exhibition Cosma will open on October 22, 2022, with the support of Palazzo Butera and the French Institute of Palermo. This exhibition curated by Federica Fruttero gathers works produced during the artistic residency of the artist in the Palazzo Butera in June 2022.

Jitish Kallat
INSTALLATION – BANGKOK ART BIENNALE

Museum Siam, Bangkok
From October 22, 2022 to February 23, 2023

Jitish Kallat presents the sculptural installation Untitled (Two Minutes to Midnight). This large installation draws together two carefully chosen pointers, one from our prehistoric past and the other pointing to a prophesied future. The sculptures are placed on a plinth that echoes the contours of the iconic “Doomsday Clock”, which since 1947 pictures a hypothetical human-made global catastrophe as “midnight”. Additionally, he also features a site specific, wallpaper installation titled Integer Studies (Drawing from Life) comprising 365 drawings, produced daily during the pandemic year of 2021.

Chiharu Shiota
GROUP SHOW – BANGKOK ART BIENNALE

Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok
From October 22, 2022 to February 13, 2023

As part of the Bangkok Art Biennale, Chiharu Shiota is exhibiting her installation Eye of the Storm until February 13, 2023.

Kehinde Wiley
MENTORSHIP EXHIBITION – ALEXANDRE DIOP & KEHINDE WILEY

Acacias Art Center, Paris
From October 19 to November 19, 2022

Kehinde Wiley becomes Alexandre Diop’s mentor for the next exhibition resulting from the 2022 mentorship at the Acacias Art Center during Paris + by Art Basel. As part of the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship, he will accompany the young French-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop for several months. This collaboration will result in an exhibition at the Acacias Art Center – Reiffers Art Initiatives from October 19 to November 19, 2022, during the week of Paris+ by Art Basel.

Jeanne Vicerial
GROUP SHOW – LES MILITANTES

Maison Guerlain, Paris
From October 19 to November 14, 2022

On the occasion of the exhibition “Les Militantes”, Jeanne Vicerial will present her artwork Vénus ouverte #1, on view from October 19, 2022 onwards, at the Maison Guerlain.   The exhibition, dedicated to feminine commitment, brings together some fifteen established and emerging artists from the contemporary scene in collaboration with Paris+ by Art Basel.

David LaChapelle
GROUP SHOW – THIERRY MUGLER : COUTURISSIME 

Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States.
From November 18, 2022 to May 7, 2023

Opening on November 18, the exhibition “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime”⁠ will present photographies by David LaChapelle. Already seen by more than one million visitors in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and France since its launch in 2019, the exhibition is about to conclude its world tour in Brooklyn.

Alioune Diagne
GALLERY TEMPLON ANNOUNCES THE INTERNATIONALE REPRESENTATION OF THE FRENCH-SENEGALESE ARTIST, ALIOUNE DIAGNE

TEMPLON announces the internationale representation of the French-Senegalese artiste, Alioune Diagne. Born in 1985 in Fatick, Senegal, Alioune Diagne lives and works between Dakar and Vienne in Isère, France. Graduated in 2008 from the Beau-Arts of Dakar, he immediatly distinguished himself by founding in 2013 a unique mode of expression : the “figuro-abstro”, a figurative image created from an infinite number of unique elements.

Kehinde Wiley
GROUP SHOW – METAL OF HONOR : GOLD FROM SIMONE MARTINI TO CONTEMPORARY ART

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
From October 13, 2022 to January 16, 2023

Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art explores how four artists, of different times and different places, use gold as an artistic strategy for innovation and honor. For the occasion, Kehinde Wiley presents his artwork The Archangel Gabriel alongside two contemporary painters to elevate and honor the Black men and women they depict.

Michael Ray Charles
BLACK INDIANS DE LA NOUVELLE ORLéAN

Group show

Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum, France
From October 4, 2022 to January 15, 2023

Opening on October 4, the exhibition “Blacks Indians From New Orlean” will present two artworks by afro-american Michael Ray Charles. Via a geographical and chronolical journey featuring interviews, contemporary costumes and traditional works, the exhibition reveals a singular culture, built by more than three centuries of resistance against the assault of social and racial domination.

Prune Nourry
INSTALLATION – NUIT BLANCHE

French National Assembly, Paris
On October 1, 2022

On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche, October 1, 2022, the work Atys #1 by Prune Nourry will be visible in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais-Bourbon of the French National Assembly, from 8pm to 1:30am. Free entrance without registration at 126 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris.

Kehinde Wiley
PERMANENT INSTALLATION – RUMORS OF WAR

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States

Kehinde Wiley’s “Rumors of War”, settled in its permanent home at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Kehinde Wiley’s work is a direct response to Confederate monuments in the United States and explores the politics of representation, race and gender in America.

Chiharu Shiota
SOLO SHOW – CIRCULATING MEMORIES

Beppu Project, Oita, Japan
Through October 16, 2022

Chiharu Shiota’s work is currently displayed in her new exhibition, Circulating Memories, in Oita at Beppu Project, Japan. 

Prune Nourry
INSTALLATION – L’AMAZONE éROGèNE 

Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium
From October 14, 2022 to February 12, 2023

From October onwards, the Great Hall of the Royal Museums will host a monumental work by the multidisciplinary artist Prune Nourry, a rising figure in international contemporary art. L’Amazone érogène, shown for the first time at the Bon Marché rive gauche Paris in 2021, is a work directly linked to her personal fight against breast cancer and is inspired by the mythological figure of the Amazons. 

Chiharu Shiota
INSTALLATION –  STILL ALIVE, AICHI TRIENNALE

Aichi Arts Center, Japan
From July 30 to October 10, 2022

Specimen Room used to be a room for anatomical specimens when this was a nursing school, works by Shiota Chiharu made of glass, thread, and wire are being exhibited along with specimens that remain in their glass cases. 

Chiharu Shiota
INSTALLATION –  MANIFESTA 14

Manifesta 14, Kosovo
From July 22 to October 30, 2022

For this installation, Shiota has chosen to work with red yarn, a colour she associates with blood, the body and human relationships. Into the vast entanglement of her “three-dimensional drawing”, the artist has woven personal stories of birth, childhood, family and country, religion, love and death. Each was written by someone from Kosovo.

Jean-Michel Alberola
SOLO SHOW – GESTALT

àcentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan
Through October 2, 2022

Curated by Marion Bataillard, the new exhibition “Gestalt” at the Centre d’art contemporain, àcentmètresducentredumonde presents works by Jean-Michel Alberola. 

Claude Viallat
SOLO SHOW – FORMES EN VRAC 

Chapelle Sainte-Marie-Claude, Annonay
Through August 19, 2022

Provocative and sumptuous, rigorous and ironic, Claude Viallat’s painting shows the power of color through the repetition of a simple form. At La Chapelle, the artist display a selection of recent, unstructured canvases that respond to the architecture of the place by the audacity of their form and the flamboyance of the color.