Gérard Garouste
GOLEM! – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE DU JUDAISME, PARIS, FRANCE From 3/8/2017 to 7/16/2017

With 136 works from 28 institutions and private lender, this exhibiton at the MAHJ explores the rich future of the Golem’s figure in the visual arts, through a journey mixing painting, drawing, photography, theatre, cinema, literature, comic and video games. From the presentation of a remarkable Sefer Yetsirah (“Book of Creation”) printed in Mantua in 1612 to the movie clip from Terminator 2, through works of Boris Aronson, Christian Boltanski, Gérard Garouste, Antony Gormley, Philip Guston, Amos Gitaï, R.B. Kitaj or Anselm Kiefer, the exhibition reveals how this medieval Jewish legend still effects today in a globalized imaginary world.  

ANTHONY CARO & SHEILA GIRLINGINTERTWINED PERSPECTIVES

CIAC, BOURBOURG, FRANCEFrom 3/8/2017 to 8/27/2017

CIAC (Interpretation Center Art and Culture) Bourbourg closely with Barford Sculptures Ltd. of London, offers a principle route to discover the works of British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and the English painter Sheila Girling, also the wife of the artist in various places in the North of France.
Remarkable pieces of these two artists will be presented at the Augustins Museum of Hazebrouck and the Musée Benoît de Puydt in Bailleul within the museums collections. An exhibition will be dedicated to both Sir Caro and Sheila Girling in the different spaces of the CIAC Art center in Bourbourg – where some can resonate with the  light Choir created by Anthony Caro in 2008, in the Saint John the Baptist church in the city.   

Pierre et Gilles
L’ESPRIT FRANCAIS CONTRE-CULTURES – 1969-1989 – GROUP SHOW

LA MAISON ROUGE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 2/24/2017 to 5/21/2017

From Narrative Figuration to the hardcore graphics of Bazooka, from Les Editions Champ Libre to the first «radios libres» (a form of pirate radio), from Hara-Kiri to Bérurier Noir, the exhibition looks at the formation of a critical, irreverent, dissenting «French spirit» by proposing a multitude of crossovers and affinities. Through some sixty artists and over seven hundred works and documents, spanning newspapers, flyers, posters, and extracts from films, videos and television shows, it purposely looks to other creative «genres» than those generally in the spotlight of contemporary art.

Pierre et Gilles
CLAIR-OBSCUR – SOLO SHOW

MUSEE D'IXELLES, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 2/16/2017 to 5/14/2017

Pierre et Gilles embody a highly sophisticated art of the portrait, somewhere between photography and painting. They infuse a touch of humanity to the artificial beauty of celebrity, glorify ordinary people and enchant the world with superheroes plucked from mythology, the Bible or fairy tales. Nourished by art, film and all forms of popular culture, these painted photographs fit perfectly into the contemporary world. Curator: Sophie Duplaix, Centre Pompidou
 

Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES ’40 YEARS’ – PUBLICATION

Already 40 years: It was in 1976 when the photographer Pierre Commoy met Gilles Blanchard, a painter from Beaux-Art in Paris, and when they start their four-handed oeuvre on the boarders between painting and photography. Under the name of Pierre and Gilles, art cannot be dissociated from personal issues or intimacy. In order to celebrate this anniversary, the artistes chose to publish a book presenting year by year like in an album. Published in October by Flammarion, the book offers 350 illustrations, including never published photographs and a sophisticated text by Éric Troncy. It’s all in one : An anniversary, a tribute, a discovery.   Pierre et Gilles – 40 years, artist monograph published by Flammarion, Available in bookstores on October 18, 2016

Jonathan Meese
DR. MERLIN DE LARGE (MARQUIS ZED DE BABY-EXCALIBUR) – SOLO SHOW

CARRE SAINTE-ANNE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCEFrom 2/15/2017 to 4/30/2017

From February 15 to April 30, 2017, the Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier presents “Dr. Merlin de Large, Marquis Zed de Baby-excalibur”, an exhibition by the Berlin artist Jonathan Meese. Blending references to history, legends and science fiction, for the last fifteen years, Jonathan Meese has been juxtaposing different personalities from various modes of expression such as film, opera, video or live performances. The expressionist forms and colours of his paintings are characterised by bold brush strokes and spontaneous scripts on a black background, completed with objects that are glued on. The artist develops his installations out of various items that he has collected. The exhibition refers to the mythical legends of Arthur, as well as to the works of Stanley Kubrik, John Boorman and the Marquis de Sade. It consists of a series of paintings on canvas and ephemeral works created directly on the mouldings of the former church.  

Omar Ba
AFROPOLITAN – GROUP SHOW

FESTIVAL AFROPOLITAN, BOZAR, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 2/03/2017 to 2/05/2017

The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners, with honorary guest artists Fredy Massamba, the great voice of Afro-soul, and Tatiana Silva, television presenter. Some thirty multidisciplinary events with over 70 artists and cultural players from Belgium, the two Congos, Ghana and Europe are articulated around three themes: the Belgian Congolese diaspora, Afropolitans of Europe, and bridges between Sub-Saharans and North Africans. The majority of the events are free.

Jitish Kallat
HERE AFTER HERE – SOLO SHOW

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, NEW DELHI, INDIAFrom 1/15/2017 to 3/14/2017

A major solo exhibition of works by Jitish Kallat titled Here After Here, curated by internationally renowned curator Catherine David will open at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi on 15 January 2017.
Here After Here brings together Jitish Kallat’s vast œuvre spanning painting, photography, drawing, video and sculptural installations with some works dating back as far as 1992. The exhibition is spread across two buildings of the NGMA – the ornate Jaipur House, originally built as the residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur in 1936, and the museum’s new wing constructed in 2009.
Here After Here is the largest and most wide-ranging exhibition of Kallat’s work to date. To commemorate this significant juncture, a specially commissioned monograph published by the National Gallery of Modern Art will also serve as an anthology of essays on Kallat’s works.

Chiharu Shiota
WHERE ARE WE GOING ? – SOLO SHOW

LE BON MARCHE RIVE GAUCHE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 1/14/2017 to 4/02/2017 

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche is honoured to be welcoming Chiharu Shiota and her outstanding exhibition in the heart of the department store. Famed for her vast in situ installations in wool thread and the evocative impact of her works, the artist has exploited her carte blanche with the intensity you would expect. “Where are we going?” invites us to be amazed, but also to question an intrinsic element of Chiharu Shiota’s work. In this new installation, Chiharu Shiota establishes an analogy between human life and travel : people set off for an unknown destination, crossing an ocean of experiences, emotions, encounters and memories. At the suggestion of le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Chiharu Shiota has used white-coloured yarn for the very first time in an installation. The artist evokes the purity of a fresh start, while keeping the itineraries open: “Life is a voyage with no destination”.

Jitish Kallat
Julião Sarmento
ONE MINUTE IN ART

ETOILE CINEMAS or INDEPENDENT MOVIE THEATERS, PARIS, FRANCEstarting Septmeber 30, 2016 

Initiated by conceptual artists Stephan Breuer and Charles de Meaux, along with Lea Marchetti, One Minute In Art (OMIA) introduces in the Etoile Cinémas’ movie theaters One Minute of Video Art before each movie, made and/or directed by a contemporary artist.
The new edition was launched on September 30 in the Cinema Etoile Saint Germain with a selection of French and international artists like Brice Dellsperger, Anthony McCall, François Curlet, Julião Sarmento or Jitish Kallat.
The OMIA program aims to pull video art out of the museums and galleries and penetrate the public space, freely offering this ‘minute’ to the audience. Each work starts its voyage in the movie theater Etoile Saint Germain for two weeks and will travels to the other movie theaters, thus offering 6 weeks of exhibition all over Paris.

Chiharu Shiota
PIRANESI – GROUP SHOW

TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART, TEL AVIV, ISRAELFrom 12/16/2016 to 05/06/2017

The exhibition juxtaposes Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s series of prints “Carceri d’invenzione,” from ca. 1761, with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s 2012 installation Stairway: a web of black threads featuring a staircase. Shiota’s heaped yarns create hatches and spaces reminiscent of etching and of Piranesi’s architectural fantasy spaces. The culture-dependent prisons of passion and nightmares exist in the artists’ imagination and incarcerate dreams and memories.
  Curator : Emanuela Calò  

Pierre et Gilles
PAROLES – TALK WITH THE ARTISTS

PETITE SALLE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE December 9, 2016 at 7pm (duration 1 ½ h) 

Pierre and Gilles (born in 1950 in La Roche-sur-Yon and in 1953 in Le Havre) are once again delighting the world with their superb heroes from mythology, the Bible, or fairy tales. Since 1980 the artist couple is standing for a sophisticated portrait art, situated between photography and painting, and breathing a touch of humanity into celebrities or magnificence into ordinary people. Inspired by the fine arts, cinema, and any kind of pop culture, the works by Pierre and Gilles are an attempt to reconcile different ages, genders and styles. Furthermore, they are justification for a fragile humanity where everyone may be an exceptional being. Directly referring to current world affairs, their works interrogate political issues through perfectly staged compositions as well as our critical thinking.   Curator Mnam/Cci, Sophie Duplaix – Cristina Agostinelli Free entrance, within the limit of the available seats  

Omar Ba
EN TOUTE MODESTIE, ARCHIPEL DI ROSA – GROUP SHOW

MIAM SETE, SETE, FRANCE From 02/02/2017 to 9/17/2017

The Exhibition En toute modestie – Archipel Di Rosa portrays this artiste from Sete, Hervé Di Rosa, through his influences, preferences and commitments. By bringing together 70 artistes, the exhibition explores the theme from contemporary art to pop arts, referring also to Outsider art, religious art and craft industry. Curator: Julie Crenn   With: ACM – Kwame Akoto / Almighty God – Pilar Albarracin – Elodie Antoine – Pierre Ardouvin – Marion Auburtin & Benjamin L. Aman – Omar Ba – Enrico Baj – Rina Banerjee – Raphael Barontini – Zoulikha Bouabdellah – Thérèse Bonnelalbay – Anne Brégeaut – Bernard Buffet – Marcos Carrasquer – Henri Darger – Hélène Delprat – Mathilde Denize – Dewar & Gicquel – Hervé Di Rosa – Jean Dubuffet – Christelle Familiari – Richard Fauguet – Harald Fernagu – Aurélie Ferruel & Florentine Guédon – Charles Fréger – Vidya Gastaldon – Romuald Hazoumé – Hippolyte Hentgen – David Hockney – Benoit Huot – Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel – Milan Kunc – Yayoi Kusama – Carlos Kusnir – Charles Lapicque – Francisco Larios – Léa Le Bricomte – Mélanie Lecointe – Fernand Léger – Eugène Leroy – Natacha Lesueur – Aurélie William Levaux – Pascal Lièvre – Myriam Mechita – Elena Moaty – Pierre Molinier – Lucien Murat – Hassan Musa – Otobong Nkanga – ORLAN – Régis Perray – Guillaume Pinard – Agathe Pitié – Raphaëlle Ricol – Athi Patra Ruga – Lionel Sabatté – Peter Saul – Judith Scott – Sarah Tschann – Sarah Tritz – Willem Van Genk – Alan Vega – Erwan Venn – Marion Verboom – Adrien Vermont – Jean-Luc Verna – Gretel Weyer – Maria Jeona Zoleta – Unica Zurn.

David LaChapelle
Pierre et Gilles
BLING BLING BABY ! – GROUP SHOW

NRW FORUM, DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY From 11/19/2016 to 1/15/2017

New trends in photography: the exhibition “Bling Bling Baby” will present the new, colourful world of photography. From Glam Fashion to nature poems, from the ironic representation to pop portraits – the past few years have seen the emergence of a fascinating canon of images  which celebrate the artificial and do not shy away from kitsch. David LaChapelle and Pierre et Gilles successfully continued this flirt with pop. The international group exhibition, curated by Nadine Barth, combines the most interesting new approaches from the field of photography, it introduces new and familiar names and carries us off to a sweet, surreal, glittering and incredibly fresh cosmos.    

Jan Fabre
KNIGHT OF DESPAIR/WARRIOR OF BEAUTY – SOLO SHOW

HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIAFrom 10/21/2016 to 4/9/2017 

Belgian artist Jan Fabre has been invited by the St Petersbourg Hermitage to create an extensive exhibition circuit at the museum, to include both new and existing works.
This outstanding new presentation at the State Hermitage commences in the Apollo Room. Fabre will also be integrating his drawings, sculptures and installations into the rooms of the Old Hermitage (with its collection of Southern Netherlands Renaissance painting), Catherine the Great’s Winter Garden, the Flemish rooms in the New Hermitage (Snyders Room, Van Dyck Room, Rubens Room, Jordaens Room), the Twelve-Column Hall and the Knights’ Room. The exhibition continues on the other side of the museum square in the recently installed rooms of the General Staff Building, once the Russian tsars’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The final part of the exhibition is the performance film ‘Love is the Power Supreme’ (2016) which will be made in St Petersburg. Curator Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov

Kehinde Wiley
LAMENTATION – SOLO SHOW

PETIT PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 10/20/2016 to 1/15/2017

The Museum Petit Palais presents the first solo show of afro-American artist Kehinde Wiley in France. This will be the occasion to discover his latest series, Lamentation. Inspired by religious paintings, the artist presents stained-glass windows and monumental paintings in the middle of the permanent collection of the museum. The artist finds inspiration in the classical paintings of masters like Titian, Van Dyck, Ingres or David for his with color and ornamentations filled paintings of young black or mixed-race persons. The artist establishes collisions between art history and popular culture.

Jean-Michel Alberola
LE BLEU DANS LES ARTS DU MOYEN ÂGE à NOS JOURS – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, ARRAS, FRANCE From 10/15/2016 to 2/06/2017

Pierre et Gilles
LOVE STORIES – GROUP SHOW

FESTIVAL PHOTAUMNALES, BEAUVAIS, FRANCEFrom 10/08/2016 to 1/1/2017 

This 2016 edition of the Photaumnales, placed under the sign of love, desires to be generous. Just as love feeds and thrills us, the loves related in “Love Stories” nourish and enliven us. Here, photography is the index of multiple amorous events, of multifarious amours. As you might expect: afterall, love—the archer—is blind. Curator Paul Ardenne With:
Janet Biggs, Morgane Callegari, Enna Chaton, Mat Collishaw, Iris Crey, AlixDelmas, Aurélie Dubois, mounir fatmi, Shaun Gladwell, Lauren Fleishman, Dana Hoey, Sandra Hoyn, Ali Kazma, Adriana Lestido, Tuomo Manninen, Robert Montgomery, Gianni Motti, Mads Nissen, Anders Petersen, Gérard Rancinan, Kiah Reading and Pamela Arce, Olivier Rebufa, Rebecca Russo and Georges H. Rabbath, Andres Serrano, Tejal Shah, Malick Sidibé, Mathilde Troussard, Joel-Peter Witkin.  

Iván Navarro
POMMERY EXPERIENCE #13 : GIGANTESQUE ! – GROUP SHOW

DOMAINE POMMERY, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 10/14/2016 to 5/31/2017 

The Estate Pommery, one of the most famous champagne estates worldwide, is showing the exhibition Gigantesque!, in the framework of the 13th edition of Pommery’s Experiences. The exhibition takes place in the 30-meter deep cellars and their breathtaking 18 kilometers long maze. The Pommery Experiences brings together an exceptional heritage and contemporary creation in a unique and fascinating space. More than twenty French and international artistes are reunited for this occasion around the theme “from the infinitely big to the infinitely small”. With: Brook Andrew, Daniel Buren, Lilian Bourgeat, Vincent Carlier, JulianCharrière, Gaëlle Chotard, Michel de Broin, Choi Jeong Hwa, Bertrand Gadenne, Séverine Hubard, Guy Limone, Chaim van Luit, Soundwalk Collective, Pablo Valbuena, Enrique Ramirez, Su-Mei Tse, Iván Navarro, Stéphane Thidet, LeeMingwei…   

Julião Sarmento
EXPENSES – GROUP SHOW

LABANQUE, BETHUNE, FRANCEFrom 10/8/2016 to 2/26/2017

The exhibition Expenses opens on October 8th at Labanque, the production and diffusion center for visual arts recently restructured at Béthune in the spaces of the old Banque de France. The exhibition launches a three-part cycle; conceived like a trilogy by Léa Bismuth and dedicated to Georges Bataille. For its first part, as for the following ones, the curator takes advantage of the 1500 square meters of this extraordinary space and confronts artworks of French and international as well as contemporary and historical artists whereas the majority was conceived especially for this occasion.