Jan Fabre
PIETAS L JAN FABRE

Park Spoor Noord, Anvers, Belgique

From May 25th to September 23th 2012 From 25 May until 23 September 2012, the city of Antwerp will present the exhibition PIETAS JAN FABRE. Created by Jan Fabre in 2011, this marble sculptural suite was featured for the first time during the 54th Venice Biennale, where it occupied the prestigious Nuova Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia. In the artist’s home city of Antwerp, PIETAS will be the first exhibition to be held in the renovated Parkloods in Park Spoor Noord. (…)  

Jean-Michel Alberola
ÉLCIARAGE EN GROUPE

FRAC Picardie, Amiens

From May 24th to October 6th 2012 Après la divulgation de l’ensemble des dessins dédiés au Gilles de Watteau « Qu’y a-t-il dans les poches du Gilles » en 1996, l’installation de seize peintures murales « il parle, je peins » en 1998, puis les affiches conçues en 1999 pour Weimar – capitale européenne de la culture, le fonds régional d’art contemporain de picardie accueille à nouveau Jean-Michel Alberola pour un projet rétrospectif co produit avec la Maison de la Culture d’Amiens : celui du rassemblement de ses néons réalisés de 1995 à aujourd’hui. (…)

Chiharu Shiota
THE FIRST KYIV INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE, ARSENALE 2012(GROUP SHOW)

Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine

From May 24th to July 31th 2012 THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES – REBIRTH AND APOCALYPSE IN CONTEMPORARY ART Echoing the first words of A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens’ famous novel set at the time of the French Revolution, this exhibition jumps forward to the present to consider how contemporary art and aesthetics use the past to express the future. The ideals of Human Rights developed during 18th Century European Enlightenment found their first political expression in the American and French Revolutions. Combining ideology with action, these initiated a continuing wave of national uprisings that still continue to form the world. Yet in spite of good intentions Human Rights have been constricted and each revolution has contained at its core the worst as well as the best of human thought and action. This exhibition reflects on utopian dreams of freedom, equality, and security that are very much at the heart of our lives today, as well as on their opposite: terror, inequity and war. It is the destructive forces of both man and nature that seem to make a more ideal life impossible. (…)

Norbert Bisky
LABORATORIES OF THE SENSES(GROUP SHOW)

Marta Herford, Garmany

From May 12th to September 16th 2012 This top-class exhibition developed at Marta Herford addresses the diverse relationship between two creative production centres: the artist’s studio and the kitchen. Connected by the pleasurable use of new materials and ingredients as well as the close involvement of the senses, both these rooms have also undergone a process of transformation over the centuries. Artists’ studios have developed from master craftsmen’s workshops into mysterious studios of brilliant creators and later factory-like studios or multimedia laboratories. And a parallel path has been charted by the kitchen, which has evolved from an archaic fireplace into a rural kitchen-cum-living-room, the small kitchens found in blocks of flats, and modern open high-tech units. (…)

Iván Navarro
James Casebere
FRAGMENTS D’UN DISCOURS ONIRIQUE(GROUP SHOW)

Domaine National, Chambord

From May 12th to October 7th 2012 Du 12 mai au 7 octobre Chambord vous propose un parcours d’art contemporain initié par les Frac Centre, Poitou-Charentes et Pays de la Loire. Sont exposées certaines des oeuvres de Christian Boltanski, Mircea Cantor, Alain Fleischer, Pierre Ardouvin, Marie-Céline Delibiot, James Casebere et Philippe Oudard. (…)

Iván Navarro
HAVANA BIENNIAL

La Havane, Cuba

From May 11th to June 11th 2012 “Artistic practices and social imaginaries“

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY – MONOGRAPH

May 2012 – Publication of a new monograph of Kehinde Wiley, Rizzoli Editions

Chiharu Shiota
LABYRINTH OF MEMORY

La Sucrière, Lyon

From May 4th to July 31th 2012 Pour ce premier événement culturel produit par La Sucrière l’artiste réalise une installation monumentale dans une totale intégration de l’architecture du bâtiment. 16 robes blanches, suspendues au plafond dans un réseau de corde noire qui nécessiteront environ 1000 mètres de coton satin et un camion de laine noire (600km de laine). Chaque robe est réalisée par le créateur Mongi Guibane. (…)

WHO IS ALONE NOW WILL STAY ALONE FOREVER

TOP Contemporary Art Space, Shangai, Chine

From April 26th to May 25th 2012 This exhibition shall present a site-specific project by He An that explores urban memory and the scars of time.

Jean-Michel Alberola
LA CHAMBRE DES INSTRUCTIONS

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

From April 21th 2012 Constatant l’impossibilité de formuler aujourd’hui toute aspiration utopique, Jean-Michel Alberola conçoit La Chambre des instructions, une salle d’attente, un espace pour reprendre une conversation conjuguée au temps présent, pour le régénérer. Jean-Michel Alberola y déploie des couleurs intenses, un chant coloré, des silhouettes empruntées à la presse écrite ou encore des phrases comme autant d’injonctions lisibles d’un point de vue personnel, philosophique ou souvent même politique. (…)

Norbert Bisky
I AM A BERLINER(GROUP SHOW)

Museo dell’arte del novecento e del contemporaneo – Covento del Carmelo, Sassari, Italy

From April 13th to June 13th 2012 What does it mean to speak of “the persistence of painting”? In Berlin today, this expression represents a remarkable diversity of practices ranging from abstraction and realism to highly expressive, narrative, and post-narrative painting. These distinct painterly positions, which are represented by the 18 artists featured in this exhibitions, all involve a self-reflexive investigation of the painterly process and of the nature of contemporary painting. (…)

Iván Navarro
MOUVEMENT ET LUMIèRE(GROUP SHOW)

Villa Datris, L'Isle sur la Sorgue

From April 6th to November 4th 2012 L’exposition « Mouvement et Lumière » est un voyage dans l’histoire de l’art cinétique et optique.
Au total 85 œuvres illustrent le thème du mouvement et de la lumière que Tinguely définissait par cette phrase « l’unique chose stable, c’est le mouvement partout et toujours ».
Qu’il s’agisse d’un mouvement réel créé par le moteur ou la lumière ou d’un mouvement virtuel créé par l’illusion optique, toutes les sculptures exposées font appel à la participation du public invité à faire partie intégrante de l’oeuvre en jouant avec celle-ci. (…)

Jim Dine
SCULPTURE / JIM DINE / PINOCCHIO

Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, USA

From March 31th to July 8th 2012 Within the galleries and on the sculpture grounds, this exhibition highlights Jim Dine’s recent sculptural works. Sculpture / Jim Dine / Pinocchio will be on view from March 31 through July 8, 2012. The museum’s main galleries will be devoted to several themes – the artist’s Heart and Venus works, Gardening and Carpentry Tool imagery, and recent Pinocchio sculptures. Several major sculptural works will be installed outdoors on the museum’s expansive 145-acre sculpture park and nature preserve, including The Mountains in the Distance of 1987-88. This iconic bronze work places the Venus de Milo form on its side, abstracting the vertical of the figure to evoke a horizontal of a landscape. (…)

Anthony Caro
CARO AT CHATSWORTH

Chatsworth, United Kingdom

From March 28th to Jully 1st 2012 The Chatsworth House Trust and the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, are proud to present ‘Caro at Chatsworth’. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to the work of a single artist to be held in the garden at Chatsworth and will comprise 15 sculptures by Sir Anthony Caro sited around the famous Emperor Fountain, in front of the south façade at Chatsworth. (…)

Chiharu Shiota
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan

From March 18th to July 1st 2012 An exhibition devoted to Chiharu Shiota, an artist of rapidly growing reputation based in Berlin. Shiota embodies in art the memories we impart to objects and places, our sense of a presence made stronger by absence, and the anxieties and fears we encounter in daily life. (…)

Oda Jaune
ÊTRE CHAIRS (ODA JAUNE WITH SANDRA VASQUEZ DE LA HORRA)

Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, Belgium

From March 17th to April 29 th 2012 Cette exposition associe les univers plastiques d’Oda Jaune et de Sandra Vásquez de la Horra dans une manifestation en forme de dialogue.
Envisagée sur les trois espaces de la Maison de la Culture (Hall, Espace Meuse, Espace Sambre), cette manifestation fait coexister deux expositions personnelles avec un projet de rencontre qui s’élaborera in situ et en collaboration avec les artistes. (…)

Anthony Caro
ANTHONY CARO: WORKS FROM THE HOUSE SERIES

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom

From March 17th to July 1st 2012 YSP is showing a selection of never seen before small bronze sculptures from the House series, in the YSP Centre to celebrate the major exhibition of work by one of Britain’s leading sculptors at Chatsworth from 28 March to 1 July 2012. (…)

Kehinde Wiley
THE WORLD STAGE: ISRAEL

The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Du 9 mars au 29 juillet 2012 One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large-scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting. (…)

Jan Fabre
THE YEARS OF THE HOUR BLUE. DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES, 1977-1992

Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne

From February 25th to May 28th 2012 The Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne Métropole organizes from February 25th till May 28th, 2012 an exhibition dedicated to the work of Jan Fabre concentrating on his Bic ballpoint pen works.
We invite you to enter the poetic and sensitive universe of an exceptional creator. (..)

Iván Navarro
Jean-Michel Alberola

NéON, WHO’S AFRAID OF RED, YELLOW AND BLUE ?(GROUP SHOW)

La Maison Rouge, Antoine de Galbert Foundation, Paris

From February 17th to May 20th 2012 From February 17th 2012, la maison rouge will stage the first major international exhibition of neon art from the 1940s to the present day. Some one hundred works will be presented in all, many of historical significance, many being shown for the first time. They will include pieces by such pioneers as Lucio Fontana from the early 1950s, François Morellet, Bruce Nauman, Stephen Antonakos, Joseph Kosuth and Mario Merz from the 1960s, and some of the many contemporary artists working in this medium, such as Jason Rhoades, Sylvie Fleury and Claude Lévêque. (…)