Jan Fabre
MY QUEENS – SOLO SHOW

MUSEES ROYAUX DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 20/04/2018 to 19/08/2018

With “My Queens”, Fabre honours the important women in his life while simultaneously creating a dialogue with the Flemish artistic tradition within the historic setting of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Amongst the works of baroque master Jacques Jordaens, Fabre presents eight monumental marble bas-reliefs of women close to him. Their regal profile contrasts with their paper party hats. These pieces represent the noble character of the artist’s friendships and the festive atmosphere connected with it. In the centre of the room, the work “My Future Queen” can be found: a white marble sculpture of Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, also wearing a party hat. The statue of the Crown Princess is at the centre of different artistic dialogues in the space and stands right between the present and the past, looking towards the future.

David LaChapelle
GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN – SOLO SHOW

GRONINGER MUSEUM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS From 20/04/2018 to 28/10/2018

‘LaChapelle: Good News for Modern Man’ will feature an expansive survey of work by David LaChapelle, offering over 70 pieces from various periods of the artist’s career. As a part of the opening night events,  renowned ballet dancer Sergei Polunin will give a performance in the Martini Church in Groningen. His first large-scale solo museum show in the Netherlands will highlight areas of the artist’s oeuvre, from portraiture, still life, landscapes and tableaux. This comprehensive survey also introduces LaChapelle’s latest series, New World, in which he attempts to photograph the unphotographable – in a future quest for paradise. Opening April 20th, 2018 from 8 to 10pm. 

Jan Fabre
LA COLLECTION BIC – GROUP SHOW

CENTQUATRE-PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE From 14/04/2018 to 13/05/2018

BIC, a family company and world leader in the areas of stationery, lighters and razors, unveils for its first time its contemporary art collection. It was started in 1998 on the occasion of an exhibition in Italy that had associated artists to the celebration of the magnificent adventure of Marcel Bich, creator of the company. Objects accessible to all, the BIC® products, like the BIC® Cristal pen, lighters or razors, are fixed in our collective memory and have become icons. They have inspired many artists throughout the world and BIC wished to develop a collection where each of its iconic products has become a medium for artistic creation. Public opening Saturday, April 14th from 2PM.

Chiharu Shiota
CHIHARU SHIOTA: BEYOND TIME – SOLO SHOW

CHAPEL FUTURE, YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, WAKEFIELD, UK From 30/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

Acclaimed installation and performance artist Chiharu Shiota will create an awe-inspiring, site-specific installation of thread within the beautiful 18th-century Chapel in spring 2018. Embracing all who enter within an extraordinary experience, Shiota’s project will reference the Chapel’s rich history and years of human presence, dating back to 1744, making poignant allusion to the bells that were rung, the songs that were sung, and the lives that revolved around it, from cradle to grave.

Claude Viallat
DANS LE SECRET DES OEUVRES D’ART – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE FABRE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 24/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE. STIGMATA. ACTIONS & PERFORMANCES 1976 – SOLO SHOW

CAAC SEVILLA (CENTRO ANDALUZ DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO), SEVILLA, SPAIN From 23/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

‘Stigmata’ focuses on Jan Fabre’s actions and performances since 1976. A journey around the memory of Jan Fabre, involving 40 years of creation, it has the merit of interrogating, not the action or the performance, but the way to exhibit it, the way to present it. The mise en scene by Jan Fabre and Germano Celant, an overview of all performances and actions, gathers glass trays, objects, drawings, photographs, artefacts, costumes, models which he calls “thought models”, films, works in blue ballpoint pen, and more.

Gérard Garouste
ZEUGMA. LE GRAND OEUVRE DROLATIQUE – SOLO SHOW

BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE From 15/03/2018 to 15/04/2018

Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. From March 15 to April 15, Gérard Garouste will be investing the outstanding glass-in atrium of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a series of monumental installations and theatrical devices. Fake tapestries, labyrinths, oculi, anamorphoses will invite the visitor to enter this Grand Oeuvre Drolatique, mixing hidden significations and fantasies, references to the sacred and religious texts as well as evocations of Rabelais and Dante.
The exhibition unveils a more confidential aspect of the artist’s work through 4 large installations created in between 1987 and 2003 : Les Indiennes, La Dive Bacbuc, Ellipse et Les Saintes Ellipses. Never reunited before, they will be shown for the first time in Paris in 15 years.

Jim Dine
IN VIVO – PERFORMANCE

CENTRE POMPIDOU, CINEMA 2, PARIS, FRANCE On 15/03/2018 at 7PM

On the occasion of the Paris Reconnaissance show dedicated to Jim Dine’s substantial donation to Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, the american artist will be presenting ‘House of Words’, a reading and performance accompagnied with bassist Daniele Roccato and pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci, at Centre Pompidou.  Now world famous as a poet and artist, Jim Dine (b. Cincinatti, 1935) moved to New York in 1958. After making a name for himself with his happenings, he then turned to paintings that combined Abstract Expressionism with Pop images to novel effect. In painting and sculpture, prints and drawings of great diversity, Dine has developed over the last sixty years an intensely personal iconography, a highly distinctive voice. The artist has always been fascinated by the interaction in between words and images, and he has been been publishing poetry since 1969. First written and reworked on the walls, his poems transform writing into a physical experience. Curators : Sophie Duplaix (MNAM) – Cristina Agostinelli. The ‘In Vivo’ cycle is dedicated to performative practices.

Gérard Garouste
DIANE ET ACTAEON – SOLO SHOW

MUSEE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE, PARIS, FRANCE From 13/03/2018 to 01/07/2018

Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. For his exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (March 13 – July 1), Gérard Garouste has taken a close interest in the myth of Diana and Actaeon, one of the most beautiful tales recounted by the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) in his Metamorphoses: The myth, that examines perception, desire and capture, offered the perfect subject for Gérard Garouste. The result, going far beyond simply fulfilling a first 2015 commission awarded by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, was a series of studies, drawings and canvasses all based on the theme ; providing an echo of older works illustrating the same theme and forming part of the permanent collections.    

Pierre et Gilles
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE FRANçAISE EXISTE… JE L’AI RENCONTRéE – GROUP SHOW

MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS, FRANCE From 07/03/2018 to 20/05/2018

Back in the eighties, Jean-Luc Monterosso traveled to New York where he met MoMA’s photography collection curator. When he asked about his opinion on Contemporary French Photography, the curator simply replied : « It doesn’t exist ». Thirty years later, on the occasion of his departure from the MEP, Jean-Luc Monterosso answers back with an extensive exhibition dedicated to French Photography from the eighties to nowadays under the forms of a really personal and subjective narrative. Exibition curator: Jean Luc Monterosso, Maison Européenne de la Photographie Director With artworks by Jean-Christophe Ballot, François-Marie Banier, Bruno Barbey, Martine Barrat, Valérie Belin, Rossella Bellusci, Philippe Bordas, Martial Cherrier, Thierry Cohen, Stéphane Couturier, Martin d’Orgeval, Raphaël Dallaporta, Denis Darzacq, Marie-Laure de Decker, Raymond Depardon, Bernard Faucon, Alain Fleischer, Jean Gaumy, Pierre Gonnord, Hervé Guibert, Françoise Huguier, Dominique Issermann, Michel Journiac, JR, Pascal Kern, François Méchain, Minot-Gormezano, Sarah Moon, Bruno Mouron et Pascal Rostain, ORLAN, Mathieu Pernot, Philippe Perrin, Pierre et Gilles, Bernard Plossu, Philippe Ramette, Bettina Rheims, Sophie Ristelhueber, Denis Roche, Gérard Rondeau, Georges Rousse, Sebastião Salgado, Klavdij Sluban, Christine Spengler, Keiichi Tahara, Patrick Tosani, Gérard Uféras, Laurent Van der Stockt.

Jim Dine
RECONNAISSANCE, THE ARTIST’S GIFT TO THE CENTRE POMPIDOU – SOLO SHOW

CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE From 14/02/2018 to 23/04/2018

From 14 February to 23 April 2018, the Centre Pompidou is exhibiting the remarkable donation Jim Dine recently made to the Musée National d’Art Moderne: 28 paintings and sculptures produced between 1961 and 2016. A gift through which, as the artist puts it, he wanted to «pay back a cultural and personal debt to France» – namely the many years spent in Paris, which introduced him to «an aesthetic» that has enlightened his artistic decisions. In acclaiming this gesture, the exhibition strikingly retraces a unique career that is still as productive as ever.

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY – SOLO SHOW

BOZAR/PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 07/02/2018 to 05/05/2018

As part of the AFROPOLITAN 2018 FESTIVAL, BOZAR (Brussels) welcomes five stained glass pieces by Afro-american artist Kehinde Wiley, from February 7 to May 5, 2018. By combining the traditional medium of stained glass, its light manifesting a divine presence, with contemporary images anchored in American culture, Kehinde Wiley raises a whole host of highly topical questions, both cultural and political, about our models of society, identity and gender. Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, Kehinde Wiley lives and works between New York and Beijing. Kehinde Wiley has recently been chosen by former President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Free entrance

Pierre et Gilles
BOOK SIGNING BY PIERRE ET GILLES

LIBRAIRIE FLAMMARION, CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE On 08/02/2018 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Book signing of the catalogue of the exhibition “Imaginary Time” by Pierre et Gilles. 

BARCELONA SYMPOSIUM 2018

MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA (MACBA), BARCELONA, SPAIN From 22/01/2018 to 23/01/2018

With a two-day programme of debates, conversations and poignant reflections around the gallery sector, the Barcelona Symposium gathers together key art world figures to discuss current issues, share experiences and rethink models relevant to the gallery practice.  The symposium will count on the great contribution of Daniel Templon, one of the most established contemporary art gallerists in Europe and keynote speaker at this year’s edition. In the wake of previous participation of influential figures like Thaddaeus Ropac (2017) and Marc Spiegler (2015), Daniel Templon will talk about his 50-year-long experience in the art world. 

Chiharu Shiota
KYOTO ART FOR TOMORROW – GROUP SHOW

MUSEUM OF KYOTO, KYOTO, JAPAN From 20/01/2018 to 04/02/2018

Chiharu Shiota, The Butterfly Dream is featured in group show “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow” at the Museum of Kyoto.

Iván Navarro
ART AND SPACE – GROUP SHOW

GUGGENHEIM BILBAO, BILBAO, SPAINFrom 5/12/2017 to 15/04/2018

The point of departure of Art and Space is the collaboration between Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969, which resulted in the publication of an artist book whose title inspired that of this exhibition. By updating and fleshing out concepts and questions embedded in that extraordinary dialogue, this show presents more than 100 works by international artists and offers itself as a reinterpretation of the history of abstraction in the past six decades.

Chiharu Shiota
IN FACT – GROUP SHOW

ELGIZ MUSEUM, ISTANBUL, TURKEY From 5/12/2017 to 30/04/2018

Elgiz Museum presents a new selection from the collection: In Fact. The exhibition focuses on the concepts of representation and the act of referring. In Fact includes works of different media and investigates the models of representation through the referred. How do we re-evaluate the increasingly impossible act of representation in the current post-truth era we face today; through constructed identities and the perception of social identity? The hollow dress titled State of Being by Chiharu Shiota, who represented the Japanese Pavillion at the previous Venice Biennale, bundles up a reality we know that exists, but is indescribable. With : Ragip Basmazolmez, Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Tracey Emın, Ozlem Günyol, Liu Chun Hai, Thomas Houseago, Bengü Karaduman, Ihsan Oturmak, Jım Shaw, Cındy Sherman, Chıharu Shıota, Tunca, Hale Tenger, Gavın Turk, Erwın Wurm, Pan Yue.

Jan Fabre
Jan Van Imschoot
ECCE HOMO – GROUP SHOW

Antwerp, Belgium

ECCE HOMO is based on a strong collaboration of Gallery GEUKENS & DE VIL with MARION DE CANNIÈRE and Belgian art-critic ERIC RINCKHOUT.
ECCE HOMO started several years ago in the mind of art historians Yasmine Geukens & Marie-Paule De Vil as a small group exhibition but evolved today into a grand event that takes place on several locations in the city of Antwerp.

Gregory Crewdson
GREGORY CREWDSON: CATHEDRAL OF THE PINES – SOLO SHOW

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, TORUN, POLAND From 12/11/2017 to 07/02/2018

Camerimage Film Festival and the Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Znaki Czasu’ in Toruń are pleased to present new photographs by Gregory Crewdson, in collaboration with Gagosian New York. The work of the American photographer Gregory Crewdson has gained great acclaim from both critics and art collectors worldwide. His photographs are an embodiment of sophistication: meticulously composed and executed with great attention to detail, they easily engrave themselves in the viewer’s memory. Some of Crewdson’s earlier series had been planned months in advance and created with the help of a team of up to 40 people, which naturally evokes associations with a movie set. During his 20 years of activity as a photographer, his unmistakable style has won him global recognition. His latest project, Cathedral of the Pines, however, is his most intimate endeavour yet. Before coming to the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Cathedral of the Pines was both exhibited at Gagosian in New York, where it was received with great acclaim. Toruń will be the second of two European cities to hold the exhibition, the other being London.  
On Sunday, November 12, the Centre of Contemporary Art will hold a meeting with the artist.

Sudarshan Shetty
SHOONYA GHAR – SOLO SHOW

DR. BHAU DAJI LAD MUMBAI CITY MUSEUM, MUMBAI, INDIAFrom 07/11/2017 to 26/12/2017

‘Shoonya Ghar’ will be on display for the first time in Mumbai. Who is asleep and who is awake in this city, this home, this settlement, and this fortress of nothingness? Sudarshan’s exhibition ‘Shoonya Ghar’ is titled after a poetic work by 12th century poet Gorakhnath who also influenced his celebrated successor Kabir. The exhibition features a large scale multimedia installation piece that draws on sculpture, found objects and film. The sculptural piece in the outdoor plaza is constructed like an architectural set, while the film involves building and construction of the set alongside characters enacting scenes in which dramatic action mobilizes conventions of representing birth, death, dance, play and violence in local traditions of story-telling. Thus the set becomes the mise-en-scene for viewing the film. The film reflects on the construction of the set or the stage, musical score and performance, and the viewer is offered these components in various states of construction and has the opportunity to put these modular pieces together in constructing a narrative that may draw upon their experience, imagination and history.