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Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY, GO – PERMANENTE INSTALLATION
The Moynihan Train Hall, Penn Station, New York
From January 1, 2021
The new Moynihan train hall (New York, USA) features three ambitious site-specific permanent installations by artists Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. On view on the 33rd Street mid-block entryway ceiling, Wiley’s site-specific installation Go (2020), covers the ceiling of the train hall’s with a backlit, hand-painted, stained-glass triptych that recalls the grandeur of decorative Renaissance and Baroque painting.
David LaChapelle
“THIERRY MUGLER: COUTURISSIME” – GROUP SHOW
Until April 18, 2021
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Theatinerstrasse 8, Munich, Germany
The exhibition “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime” presents 150 haute-couture and prêt-à-porter outfits by a visionary couturier, director, photographer, perfumer and dancer – almost none of which have ever been exhibited – in addition to accessories, stage costumes, videos, rarely seen sketches, and archival material. Numerous art prints by leading fashion photographers, from Helmut Newton to David LaChapelle, round out the show.
Valerio Adami
FIGUREZ-VOUS… ADAMI, ERRO, GUYOMARD, KLASEN – GROUP SHOW
From December 12, 2020 to March 7, 2021,Palais des Arts et du Festival, 2 Boulevard Wilson, 35800 Dinard, France
The exhibition is dedicated to the artistic movement of Narrative Figuration. It brings together four masters of contemporary art, Adami, Erró, Guyomard and Klasen, whose works are preserved in hundreds of museums around the world and by great collectors.
Chiharu Shiota
CHIHARU SHIOTA: THE WEB OF TIME – SOLO SHOW
Starting December 12, 2020
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
The web of time, an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, is part of Te Papa’s permanent collection. This installation creates a vision of a night sky studded with constellations of numbers representing significant dates in history, both collective and personal.
ROBIN KID
THE KID : THE FUTURE IS OLD – SOLO SHOW
Opening November 19, 2020
Moco Museum, Honthorststraat 20 (Museumplein), 1071 DE Amsterdam
MOCO Museum in Amsterdam will premiere the first solo exhibition in a Dutch museum of International contemporary artist THE KID. The exhibition will focus at looking where contemporary art enlightens humanism in the social crisis and democratic decay of our 21st century. It will push boundaries, wake up humanity and shake up Museum Square in Amsterdam. I Saw The Sun Begin To Dim, 2018-2019 by THE KID on MOCO Museum ©THE KID
Julião Sarmento
ESTUDOS DE LUZ – INDÍCIOS, REFLEXOS E SOMBRAS NA COLEÇÃO DE SERRALVES – GROUP SHOW
From November 19, 2020 to January 17, 2021
Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Vila Nova de Gaia, Rua D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto Portugal
The exhibition presents the work of several artists taking part of the Coleção de Serralves which explores the different potentialities of light. The artists represented in “Estudos de Luz” manage, whatever the variety of means, materials and processes, to put their research at the service of the visual representation of light.
Julião Sarmento
MAIS NADA SE MOVE EN CIMA DO PAPEL – GROUP SHOW
From November 14, 2020 to April 21, 2021
CAA Centro de Artes de Águeda, Rua Joaquim Valente Almeida, nº 30, 3750-154 Águeda, Portugal
Framed in the cycle O Desenho como Pensamento do CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda, the exhibition takes up the first line of a poem by Al Berto for its title and brings together works by artists who over the years have worked on drawing as an undisciplined register, sometimes transversal to their practices.The works on display show that the drawing is not very tangible, comparable to a thought, gaining body and acquiring sculptural, sound, atmospheric and spatial formulations.
Jan Fabre
“L’HOMME GRIS” – GROUP SHOW
Casino Luxembourg, 41 Rue Notre Dame, 2240 Luxembourg
Until June 6, 2021
The exhibition L’homme gris explores non-archetypal representations of the Devil in contemporary art. Far from disappearing, his image has simply mutated, showing again his fascinating ability to adapt which has allowed him to pass through art history – and mankind – unabated. While the way in which he slips away, transforms, infiltrates allows him to claim an all-the-more dangerous, powerful, or liberating position, it offers artists two possible paths to explore. Their choice sways between the empty shell, the costume to don, the pure image, and an elusive and constant metamorphosis. This exciting alternative evokes, or perhaps, invokes, reflective illusions or the use of anonymity as strategic weapons; reveals the evil internalisation in man, and his unbearable banality; questions the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, disguise and mass; and aspires to rekindle a dark flamboyance. Creation leans, therefore, to span philosophical, economic, political, aesthetic, and moral fields.
Chiharu Shiota
SLEEPING: LIFE WITH ART – FROM GOYA AND RUBENS TO CHIHARU SHIOTA – GROUP SHOW
From November 25, 2020 to February 23, 2021
The National Museum of Modern Art, 3-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322, Japan
The exhibition presents about 120 works by 33 artists from many different times and places, and a wide range of genres, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, and video. The spectator is invited to question the way in which each work highlights the theme of sleeping.
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.
Julião Sarmento
THE INVISIBLE SHOW – GROUP SHOW
From September 26, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Edifício-sede da, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Rua Arco do Cego, 50 , 1000–300 Lisbon, Portugal
The Invisible Show seeks to map these situations, based on the project with the same title presented by the curator Delfim Sardo in Spain and Israel, in 2007, only now in an enlarged version. Taking us back to modernist artists such as Raoul Hausmann, Luigi Russolo, Marinetti or Kurt Schwitters, the exhibition includes works by António Dias, James Lee Byars, Bruce Nauman, Luisa Cunha, Joan Jonas, Gonçalo Barreiros, Michael Snow, Julião Sarmento, Juan Muñoz and Gavin Bryars, Ricardo Jacinto, among many others.
