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Chiharu Shiota
“TRISTAN UND ISOLDE”, WAGNERSTAGE DESIGN BY CHIHARU SHIOTA
KIEL OPERA HOUSE, VIENNE
Saturday January 25, 2014, 5 pm is the premiere of the opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’, directed by Daniel Karasek at Oper Kiel.
Additional performances in 2014: February 02, March 03 and 23, April 18, May 24, June 09
Artist Talk at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
In addition, an artist talk will take place together with opera director Daniel Karasek:
Sunday, January 26, 3 pm at Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 1, 24105 Kiel).
Joel Shapiro
FESTIVAL SAINT-ETIENNE NOUVEAU SIèCLE – THE NEW-YORK MOMENT
Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
From January 18 to May 18 2014 Dans la salle centrale du Musée, Joel SHAPIRO déploie deux sculptures monumentales en acier. Les morceaux de métal s’articulent entre eux pour donner à cette forme apparemment abstraite les contours d’une figure ou d’un objet sur le point de se mouvoir dans l’espace. Ce sculpteur américain (né en 1941), largement reconnu aux États-Unis et présent dans les collections des plus grands musées américains, il est connu pour ses oeuvres aux formes simplifiées et géométriques. Celles-ci contiennent pourtant toute la force du mouvement et expriment une grande vitalité notamment grâce à la couleur. Il appartient à la génération d’artistes qui a refusé la rigueur de l’art minimal en recherchant notamment des liens avec les activités humaines. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
CHIHARU SHIOTA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
From January 17th to March 30st 2014 Chiharu Shiota frequently uses found objects within her sculptural installations, particularly those that resonate with personal and emotional histories. Doors and windows from demolished and derelict buildings, clothing, shoes, old furniture and vintage suitcases are frequent motifs within her work. Such objects evoke powerful and emotive human stories of journeys, of migration, of love and loss. (…)
Jonathan Meese
MALERMEESE – MEESERMALER
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
From November 16th 2013 to March 09th 2014 The exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg aims to provide, for the first time, a survey of the most extensive complex of his œuvre: painting. This was not Meese’s first medium, but came second to drawing, long before he turned to installation and the stage. His first oil paintings date from 1993/4 – the period immediately preceding his academic training. After an interval of several years, during which he devoted himself exclusively to performance and installation, he returned to painting with increased attention. From then on, he transferred his fundamental idea of the stage as a counter-world, and the element of staging, on to large-scale historical paintings. The expressive power of the original, unmistakable painterly language he developed over twenty years has attained a unique status in the contemporary art world.(…)
Atul Dodiya
EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH: ATUL DODIYAWORKS 1981-2013
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
From Novembre 15th to Decmeber 29th 2013 Curated by Ranjit Hoskote The exhibition, Experiments with Truth: Atul Dodiya, Works 1981-2013, offers viewers an extensive survey of the career of one of India’s most significant contemporary artists. Curated by cultural theorist and poet Ranjit Hoskote, this exhibition brings together more than 80 works by Dodiya, spanning a versatile artistic practice that includes paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour, mixed-media works, sculpture-installations, assemblages and photography.(…)
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE / ILLUMINATIONS / ENLUMINURES – TRéSORS ENLUMINéS DES MUSéES DE FRANCE
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
From November 8th 2013 to February 10th 2014 En partenariat avec l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille présente une centaine des plus remarquables manuscrits et feuillets enluminés conservés dans les musées et sociétés savantes du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais, de Picardie et de Champagne-Ardenne. Simultanément, le musée des Augustins de Toulouse et le musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers présentent les collections d’enluminures conservées dans le Centre et le Sud de la France. Ces livres et feuillets enluminés sont accompagnés d’objets d’art du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance issus des collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, où se mêlent imagerie médiévale et enchantement allégorique, ainsi que de sculptures en bronze de l’artiste contemporain Jan Fabre. (…)
Jan Fabre
STIGMATA.ACTIONS & PERFORMANCES 1976- 2013
MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti des XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Du 16 octobre 2013 au 16 février 2014 Commissaire: Germano Celant The exhibition is a voyage into the memory of this Flemish artist through drawings, photographs, study models – which Fabre refers to as “thinking models” – and filmic documentations of his performances, from the second half of the 1970s to the present. Visitors are greeted by a labyrinth of tables introducing the artist’s philosophies. This tool serves to understand his ideas, his memories, his art, profoundly inspired by the traditions of Flemish painting and focused on the study and use of the body.(…)
2013 CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL(GROUP SHOW)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
From October 5th 2013 to March 16th 2014
The preeminent exhibition of new international art in the United States brings together 35 artists from 19 countries, including a series of large-scale new commissions—presenting a broad spectrum of artworks and attitudes.
Carnegie International 2013 presentsnew voices rooted in history, a sense of place, and play. The exhibition isguided by a shared passion for the individual and the exceptional; for art that celebrates dissonance and beauty; and for artworks that stay in touch with the everyday.
Co-curated by Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers, and Tina Kukielski, the 2013 Carnegie International is a conversation among four parts: a major exhibition of new international art, a playground, the Carnegie museum of art’s collection, and an engagement with the city of Pittsburgh. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
AFTER THE DREAM
CARREE SAINT-ANNE, ESPACE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, MONTPELLIER
From october 04st to November 17th 2013 Reprenant le projet de la Maison Rouge et de la Sucrière, Chiharu Shiota nous propose, pour le Carré Sainte-Anne de Montpellier « After the dream 2013 » : une réalisation spécifique à l’architecture du lieu et à son identité, en utilisant le plafond et les piliers comme structures d’environnement immersif. Cinq très longues robes blanches pendues au plafond, entre les piliers, dans tout l’espace. Un fil noir emprisonne les robes dans un tissage complexe évoquant des nids de chenilles ou plus encore des toiles d’araignées.(…)
David LaChapelle
Kehinde Wiley
Pierre et Gilles
MASCULIN / MASCULIN. L’HOMME NU DANS L’ART DE 1800 à NOS JOURS.(GROUP SHOW)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
From Tuesday 24th September to Thursday 2nd January 2014 Alors que le nu féminin s’expose aussi régulièrement que naturellement, le corps masculin n’a pas eu la même faveur. Qu’aucune exposition ne se soit donné pour objet de remettre en perspective la représentation de l’homme nu sur une longue période de l’histoire avant le Leopold Museum de Vienne à l’automne 2012 est plus que significatif. Pourtant, la nudité masculine était pendant longtemps au fondement de la formation académique du XVIIe au XIXe siècles et constitue une ligne de force de la création en Occident. (…)
GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON OPENS IN BRUSSELS
Rue Veydt 13A, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Daniel Templon, now in its forty-seventh year, is opening a new space in Brussels in the fall 2013. The new gallery is located on rue Veydt and offers a 220 square meter space. It will primarily be featuring artists already represented by the Parisian gallery. Young Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born in 1972, lives and works in Berlin) will be inaugurating the Brussels gallery in September with a site specific installation. This inaugural show will be followed by an exhibition by the master of contemporary sculpture, British artist Sir Anthony Caro (born in 1924, lives and works in London). Opening: September 19, 2013 Address: Rue Veydt 13A, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Ulrich Lamsfuss
PAINTING FOREVER!(GROUP SHOW)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
From September 18th to November 10th 2013 Painting Forever! is a cooperation of Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Nationalgalerie -Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. For the launch of this cooperation project, initiated by the Berlin Senate, the four institutions involved have chosen painting as the focal point for the first year of this collaboration, which is to be continued in the future. The title of the project is PAINTING FOREVER! (…)
Chiharu Shiota
TRACE OF MEMORY
The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
From September 12th 2013 to May 31st 2014 The site-specific installation of new works by Shiota will fill the eight rooms in the building at 516 Sampsonia Way—a 19th-century row home with a storied past—which is suited to the artist’s work. Its interior is cosmetically untouched; the raw condition of the building lends itself well to reflections on the past and the conjuring of memories. Learn more about 516 Sampsonia Way from former tenant Richard Morris. (…)
Jan Fabre
LE REGARD EN DEDANS
Royal Staircase, Fine Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Permanant installation in the Royal Staircase in Fine Art Museum in Brussels, Belgium
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Jitish Kallat
AROUND THE TABLE, STAGE ONE: JITISH KALLAT: EPILOGUE
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
From September 6th 2013 to April 20th 2014 Food punctuates daily life and shapes family traditions. It is a manifestation of commonality and culture. Your childhood may have been nurtured by food memories—of meals and mealtimes, of abundance or want, of family roles and rituals. We each may take our small comforts from Wonder Bread, roti, pita, tortillas, challah, injera, or bánh….(…)
David LaChapelle
FLOWERS AND MUSHROOMS
Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
From Saturday 27th July to Sunday 27th October 2013 The comprehensive exhibition Flowers & Mushrooms presents current positions of contemporary representations of flowers and mushrooms and their newly developing levels of meaning. For some time now, there has been a renaissance of flowers and mushroom themes in fine art. The works of leading “portraitists” of flowers and mushrooms, such as Peter Fischli/David Weiss, David LaChapelle, Marc Quinn, Sylvie Fleury, Nobuyoshi Araki or Carsten Höller, continue the multi-faceted and long pictorial tradition of flowers, which is unparalleled in the history of art. At the same time no other motif is so easily suspected of trivialism. The question arises of how a subject that is frequently accused of being trivial and shallow has been able to gain ground in a field of art that is generally regarded as serious and sophisticated. The picture of a flower is too easily associated with the idea of harmless beauty and the mushroom with cliché-like hallucinogenic states of conscousness. Nevertheless many artists increasingly adopt these motifs, adapt them and find individual ways to put them into the context of sociocritical, feminist, political and media-reflexive art. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
LETTERS OF THANKS
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
From Sunday 7th July to Monday 23th September 2013 Our next exhibition will feature new works by Chiharu Shiota, an artist who is the focus of attention in art circles all over the world. Born in Osaka, Chiharu Shiota is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Deemed a young artistic master with artworks of epic proportions, she actively creates new works in various countries, and her next move constantly attracts much attention. Her roots lie in Kochi’s Ogata Town (current Kuroshio Town)—her parents’ hometown—and her memories of the many childhood summers spent here were the catalyst for her creation of art. (…)
Jan Fabre
Jean-Michel Alberola
Jim Dine
Gérard Garouste
Kehinde Wiley
ADVENTURES OF TRUTHPAINTING AND PHILOSOPHY: A NARRATIVECURATOR : BERNARD HENRI-LéVY(GROUP SHOW)
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
From Saturday 29th June to Monday 11th November 2013 Painters and sculptors collaborated with the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, creating works which were integrated into the building and the surrounding natural environment: the Giacometti courtyard, the Miró labyrinth with its sculptures and ceramics, the mosaic murals of Chagall and Tal Coat, Braque’s pond and stained glass window and Bury’s fountain. Indoor and outdoor spaces link up with each other through the sculpture garden, the courtyards, terraces and patios. The Maeght Foundation is already famous for its architecture and gardens; it is also home to one of Europe’s richest collections of modern and contemporary art. The greenery of its grounds makes the Maeght Foundation the ideal place to discover the great artists of our time. (…)
Kehinde Wiley
THE WORLD STAGE : ISRAEL
Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA
From Saturday 22th June to Sunday 27th November 2013 One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting. The World Stage: Israel is part of the artist’s series exploring the global black diaspora and the international phenomenon of urban youth culture. Paintings in The World Stage: Israel are based on photographs the artist took of men of diverse religions and ethnicities living in Israel. The elaborate decorative backgrounds are based on historical Jewish designs and motifs. The portraits are complemented by a selection of Jewish textiles and works on paper, loaned by Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue in Boise, to provide examples of the types of traditional artifacts that inspired Wiley, including Torah ark curtains and a marriage contract. (…)
Julião Sarmento
INDEX
MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal
From Saturday 22th June to Tuesday 31st December 2013 Opening in June at MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art) will be Julião Sarmento’s solo exhibition INDEX, curated by João Silvério. A catalogue designed by Pedro Falcão, with a text by João Silvério (Portuguese and English), will be published to accompany the exhibition. (…)
