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Sudarshan Shetty
Chiharu Shiota
20TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAFrom 03/18/2016 to 06/05/2016
Titled ‘The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’, the 20th Biennale will be gathering 83 artists from 35 countries, presented across 19 locations including the city’s major art institutions and Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.
More than 200 works spanning all mediums – with a focus on performance – will be presented free of charge to the public.
The 20th Biennale is curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, associated with an advisory group of 13 international curators, writers and theorists.
Anthony Caro
NEW MUSIC IN NEW CASKS – SOLO SHOW
CVNE, HARO, SPAINFrom 03/16/2016 to 10/16/2016
Leading family-owned Rioja winery, Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana, is to host an exhibition by British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro at its Cune Winery in Haro this year. The exhibition, entitled New Music in New Casks, will feature 23 of Caro’s sculptures.
Caro, who died in 2013, is widely regarded as one of the greatest British sculptors of the 20th century. He began his career working with Henry Moore, and was knighted for his contribution to the arts in 1987.
Jim Dine
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
INTRIGANTES INCERTITUDES, DESSIN CONTEMPORAIN – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN, ST ETIENNE, FRANCEFrom 03/05/2016 to 06/05/2016
In the spring of 2016, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporaine de Saint-Étienne Métropole is opening “Intriguing Uncertainties”, an exhibition which has been orchestrated by the Museum’s Director Lóránd Hegyi. Both intimate and universal this exhibition invites the visitor to explore the world of contemporary drawing. Bringing together well-known artists from Europe, Africa and North & South America this exhibition delves into the cultural heritage of our societies, from the Middle Ages to symbolism, from Mannerism to Romanticism, Baroque to Surrealism. The visitor will discover drawings and artwork by Günter Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Jan Fabre and Jim Dine, great figures in the world of contemporary art rubbing shoulders with the youngest artists on the horizon like Pierre Seinturier, Lee Bul, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra and Jana Gunstheimer. Featured artists: Ruth Barabash, Matt Bollinger, Günter Brus, Guglielmo Castelli, Gianni Dessi, Nicolas Dieterlé, Erik Dietman, Jim Dine, Matías Duville, Per Dybvig, Barbara Eichhorn, Jan Fabre, Andrea Fogli, Adrian Ghenie, Ugo Giletta, Erich Gruber, Jana Gunstheimer, Allison Hawkins, Veronika Holcová, Oda Jaune, Marine Joatton, Nina Kovacheva, Juul Kraijer, Lee Bul, Iris Levasseur, Felice Levini, Christian Lhopital, Maude Maris, Peter Martensen, Andreï Molodkin, Alois Mosbacher, Muntean / Rosenblum, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, László László Révész, Pierre Seinturier, Kiki Smith, Barthélémy Toguo, Didier Trenet, Elmar Trenkwalder, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Fabien Verschaere. Curator: Lorand Hegyi, Director of the Museum.
Pierre et Gilles
LES ANNéES 80, L’INSOUTENABLE LéGèRETé – GROUP SHOW
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 02/24/2016 to 05/23/2016
The current exhibition of photographs and films at the Centre Pompidou returns to the 1980s with around sixty works by more than twenty artists, from Karen Knorr to Jean-Paul Goude and from Unglee to Présence Panchounette, taking in Pierre et Gilles, Martin Parr and Helen Carrey on the way.
Jean-Michel Alberola
L’AVENTURE DES DéTAILS – SOLO SHOW
PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 02/18/2016 to 05/16/2016
Jean-Michel Alberola, born in 1953, is at once one of the best-known and most genre-breaking French artists of his generation. Palais de Tokyo is inviting him to put on a large-scale solo show, the first in Paris since his retrospective at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1997. Since the early 80’s, Jean-Michel Alberola seeks to create protean works that move seamlessly between conceptual, abstract and figurative art. Paintings, gouaches, sculptures, artists’ books and films represent the different facets of his quest. Political, poetic, committed and profound, Jean-Michel Alberola’s œuvre develops into philosophical conundrums which question how we see art’s role in society. Jean-Michel Alberola’s solo show at Palais de Tokyo sets out to map the liitle-known diversity of his work, by presenting a large number of original pieces in a dialogue with his previous creations, including is complete Neons, as well as several large murals. The artist, and curator Katell Jaffrès, invite each of us to enter into a ‘poetic, literary and historical game’, and to experience a ‘huge, borderless geographical territory’.
James Casebere
FUGITIVE – SOLO SHOW
HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH, GERMANYFrom 02/15/2016 to 06/12/2016
With more than 70 works, the exhibition presents images drawn from all periods of the artist’s career. The survey includes recent large multi-panel and single-panel color photographic works; early black-and-white gelatin silverprints, dye destruction prints, waterless lithographs, and Polaroid prints. In addition, for the first time, Casebere shows working notebooks, a series ofcollages, and an extensive collection of never before exhibited Polaroid studies. For the exhibition in Haus der Kunst, Casebere realizes four new site-specific monumental works in the form of friezes in the gallery’s grand staircase.
Kehinde Wiley
A NEW REPUBLIC
SEATTLE MUSEUM, SEATTLE, USAFrom 02/11/2016 to 05/08/2016
The Seattle Art Museum presents Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, an overview highlighting the range of the artist’s prolific 14-year career and comprising approximately 60 works. A New Republic is a touring exhibition, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Following its New York showing, the exhibition traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas, last winter.
Julião Sarmento
LA CHOSE, MêME – THE REAL THING, SOLO SHOW
FONDATION CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 01/20/2016 to 04/17/2016
The exhibition “La chose, même – The real thing” offers a panorama of the work of Julião Sarmento, a major figure of contemporary Portuguese art whose career was international from the outset. The artist began working at the end of the 1970s, when freedom had reemerged due to the end of the Salazar dictatorship. Over the years, Julião Sarmento developed a highly diverse body of work, ranging from photography, drawing, sculpture, video to performance, while maintaining a close connection with text, which he incorporates and assembles in fragments.
Sudarshan Shetty
SHOONYA GAR
NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, NEW DELHIFrom 01/15/2016
Sudarshan Shetty (b. 1961) is a leading contemporary artist living in Bombay. His practice encompasses painting, drawing, installation, video/film and sculpture. He has exhibited widely both in India and internationally. He has been appointed artistic director and curator of the third edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale. The artist lives and works in Mumbai. The exhibition comprises an entirely new body of work in various media: video/film, sculptural installation and photographic images. The work draws on a poetic work by 12th century poet Gorakhnath. These poetic traditions populated their verses with the concrete symbolism of the built world and things within it, with references to nature and the environment as metaphors for the body and its beyond.
Frank Stella
FRANK STELLA : A RETROSPECTIVE
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
Jim Dine
ABOUT THE LOVE OF PRINTING, SOLO SHOW
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.
Ben
BEN, SOLO SHOW, EST-CE QUE TOUT EST ART ?
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.
Iván Navarro
NICE’N LIGHT, GROUP SHOW
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.
Oda Jaune
David LaChapelle
Pierre et Gilles
‘GENRE IDÉAL ?’, COLLECTIVE SHOW
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.
James Casebere
David LaChapelle
“DIMENSIONS VARIABLES. ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTURE” COLLECTIVE SHOW
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
Jitish Kallat
HERE AFTER HERE AFTER HERE, PERMANENT SCULPTURE IN LOWER AUSTRIA
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.
Oda Jaune
‘PEINDRE, DIT-ELLE’, COLLECTIVE SHOW
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
Daniel Dezeuze
DANIEL DEZEUZE, DRAWING ROOM 015
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.
David LaChapelle
FOTOINDUSTRIA
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.
Sudarshan Shetty
APPOINTED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CURATOR OF THE 2016 KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE
KOCHI, KERALA, INDIAFrom 12/01/2015
The Kochi Biennale Foundation announced Sudarshan Shetty as the artistic director and curator of the third edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Shetty, best known for his enigmatic sculptural installations, has long been recognized as one of his generation’s most innovative artists in India. The artist declared he was happy to work towards the vision of a “People’s Biennale”. The first two editions of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, held in 2012 and 2014, had a combined draw of nearly a million visitors. The biennale as a contemporary art project has renewed India’s cultural positioning and has placed Kochi and Kerala on the global cultural map.
