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Through drawing, music and installation, Rainier Lericolais (born in 1970) composes a work nourished by the historical avant-gardes. His discovery of the painter and decorator Boris Aronson (Kiev, 1899 - New York, 1980), and the sets created by this artist for the Yiddish theater, plunged him into the visual and sound universe of the Dibbuk.

On the occasion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, the controversial exhibition at the BDA Galerie in Berlin presented in 2020, has been invited by the University of Venice (IUAV) to be presented in an expanded and updated version from August 27 to September 24, 2021. Thus, the artistic positions already exhibited in Berlin by Julian Rosefeldt, Lothar Hempel, Farao and Kay Fingerle will be expanded by the current works of Tracey Snelling, Alexis Dworsky and Andreas Fogarasi.

The exhibition "Rêvons à des jours meilleurs !" is an artistic proposal inviting us to get out of the current crisis by drawing on our human resources: to heal, to question, to connect with nature, to choose, to denounce, to give meaning and to look towards the future.

Place, preserve, find, produce, deposit, categorize, handle, assemble, order, care, prepare, produce, clean, repair, collect, secure, transform, package, distribute, show, disassemble or assemble: Things cause actions and they are part of them. Without things, there wouldn't be much to do.


Ideas about the relationship between objects and people vary by time and place. The current rediscovery of things as vehicles of action focuses on their materiality and how this is not only the result of human intention but also guides human action. The exhibition "Zwischen den Dingen" (Between Things) brings together artworks that focus on ordinary, discrete or obsolete everyday objects. Placed in space by artists, these things lose their univocity and raise questions: What do objects mean to us ? How do they shape our daily lives ? And above all, what connects us to them ? What separates us ?

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A new event at the crossroads of art and design: Made In Design, the digital platform is partnering with the contemporary art gallery Bertrand Grimont for a new exhibition on the theme of circularity during the Paris Design Week, from September 9 to 23, 2021.

Their space is thus transformed into a showcase for emerging designers and artists noticed for their innovative, sensitive approach and their concrete actions around circularity and upcycling.

Haus is a collaborative, non-commercial exhibition format that brings together a variety of artistic, curatorial and discursive interventions in an intimate setting. By creating an experimental platform where different exhibition strategies, structures and formats meet, the project is envisioned as a tool to explore new ideas for presenting artworks and accompanying formats.

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Almost nothing is hung on the wall in the exhibition space. Three artists, three works, three different attitudes cohabit there. It is also three commitments that meet there. The exhibition summons a living history of sculpture by inviting three different generations of artists, producing a contemporary landscape of the diverted object.

"Summer rhymes with vacation. It's a time to go out, to walk in nature, to swim in the sea. It's a time to pick fruit, to cultivate your garden, to be with your family and friends, to meet new people. It's camping, swimming, sunbathing on the beach, sailing, surfing, paragliding, discovering new places, traveling. Because of the pandemic we were in danger of forgetting it. Through their works, their installations, the invited artists reactivate the actuality, revive the emotions. "

Text extracted from the website of the Contemporary Art Center of Meymac

The exhibition "Summer 2021" is a first step towards a new modus operandi for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Geneva: based on the idea of an annual meeting, like a biennial, it proposes a meeting between several practices that nothing connects except one essential thing: the interest that the museum has for them.

Around these artists, extensive formats, in collaboration with other structures, punctuate the summer with meetings, performances and off-site experiences.

This proposal is also another way for the museum to encourage itself to reflect on its collection (how it is built, exhibited and communicated), and to offer the opportunity to experiment with the question of the museum as a "factory of experiences" and to rethink the question of emergence, support and collaboration with artists over a period of time that goes beyond that of the simple "exhibition".

"Polyphone" brings together works by international artists that reflect the encounter of multiple sounds and voices through both convergent and divergent sonic constellations. Coming from different historical contexts - from the 1970s to the present - and geographical contexts - including Germany, France, Japan and South Africa - the artists in the exhibition question the effects and power of plural voices and sounds. The installations, performances, drawings and videos, all of which have an important sound dimension, propose to question perceptual modes as well as the social-cultural and even political issues of polyphony."

Text from the French Institute of Thueringe website

"DESPERANTO is an exhibition in the public space. It is a new chapter of the experiment conducted with the exhibition CODE QUANTUM in 2020 which proposed an immersion in a suspended form of time and space, carried by works evoking different perceptions of time, cycles or history. This moment questions our abilities to project ourselves as a social group, to fantasize and construct scenarios mixing personal visions and collective mythologies. "

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The Protestformen festival focuses on the theme of political resistance as an artistic practice, and the question is how the connection between art and courage can play an important role in this field.

For the facade of the Olof Palme Hof, Andreas Fogarasi designed a lighted lettering visible from afar, which takes up the former name of the cultural center with its festival hall, adult education center, library and district museum.

He brings the progressive idea of the egalitarian encounter into the present and illuminates the facade with his typographic-sculptural frame. For his project "Culture and Leisure", which received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2007, Andreas Fogarasi intensively studied the history, the present and the urban presence of socialist cultural buildings in Budapest.

"This exhibition brings together 50 contemporary painters from the French scene, based on a proposal by Thomas Lévy-Lasne. With an assumed look towards Art History, a technical interest for the touch and the surface qualities, a certain coldness in the representation, the variety of the painters of the exhibition is found in their confidence in the medium that is the painting: this immemorial need to represent the unspeakable of appearances by the presence of a painting. "

Text from the Arts and Entertainment website

"Flickering light, mixing sound, broken glass, whistling wheels ... A city that never sleeps, full of surprising encounters, ghosts and lonely souls. The metropolis welcomes foreigners, mixing languages and identities under the pretext of multiculturalism. The bourgeois, tourist and working-class neighborhoods tell the story of the city, how we adapt and how we live between its center and its suburbs. The city is a political and geographical zone that divides the population by nationality and continues to deepen taboos, clichés and bureaucracies. The universal "language" of each place is distinguished and formulated by those who live there, as well as by the visual structure of neon signs and posters, whispering in the noisy streets of the city. [...] In the hypnotic act, colored pigments fall on facades, gestures erase words and things kaleidoscopically through our imaginative navigation of reality.  "A matter of the unknown," a displaced place, a moment from the past frozen in the present and challenging to the future."

Text from the Czech Center website

"The atoms that make up the universe agglomerate, dissociate, and reconcile themselves with force. Long before the idea of time and matter, the universe was born from an explosion into nothingness, and it will exhaust itself in a tearing apart of all imaginable energy. Between the Big Bang and the Big Rip, galaxies, planets and stars are born to be extinguished in a burst of light and particles. Crystals, grains and dust do not care about their state, between liquid, gas or plasma, because they are the ones who shape the immensity. With this carte blanche offered to the duo composed of artist Nelson Pernisco and curator Andy Rankin, the Avalanche project is exposed on the gallery walls. More than 100 artists were invited to entrust them with a work, a fragment or a scrap to be pulverized. This powder is then displayed in ziploc bags."

Text from the Pal Project Gallery website

Thierry Lagalla presents his works at the contemporary drawing fair.

"DRAWING NOW Alternative adapts to guarantee a space of discovery and meetings before the summer around the diversity of contemporary drawing of the last 50 years."

Text from the Drawing now art fair website

"This art project, part of the 40th anniversary celebration of Madame Figaro, aims to highlight women who are resolutely committed to causes or who, in their daily lives, move the world in all sectors. 26 artists will create portraits of 26 exceptional women. The exhibition of these 26 original works will be held in the extraordinary setting of the Monnaie de Paris.

At the end of the exhibition, an auction of the works will be orchestrated by the renowned auction house Artcurial, during an online auction that will take place from June 30 to July 6, 2021. Proceeds from this sale will be donated to the charitable causes supported by the exceptional women. "

Text excerpt from Togeth'her website

"Within the framework of the operation The gallery leaves its walls to settle in the media libraries, place of convergence of knowledge. Olivier Masmonteil proposes one of his paintings famous for the marriage between abstract and figurative lines. The painting presented belongs to the series Hommage à Soulages. "

Text from the Ouest-france website

"Exchange with Olivier Masmonteil and you will enter fully into the art of painting. You will cross the ages (he likes to talk about Lascaux and Mathieu Mercier, passing by Tintoret) and the artist will know how to remind you that a painting has always been both a space of illusion and wonder. Even in the 21st century. A true craftsman, this Corrézien, also a fly fisherman, shares his passions with a warm conviction.

The exhibition brings together small formats, many of which have been painted specifically to fit the scale of the house, imagined as that of a collector. Moving from the hallway to the office, through the dining room and the bedroom hidden behind curtains, you will be immersed in the painting.

Text from the website of La Maison des Arts

Anita likes garbage cans. She is at the same time Glaneuse-objector, Pyromane-casseuse, but also Active-aggressive - as we call roles in a relationship, whether sexual or otherwise -, and Climato-convinced. Each of the objects and materials it diverts has a common sense, intrinsic and readable by all.
But the way it assembles, mistreats and re-forms them, is also eminently significant. Far from aestheticizing them, which would amount to abstracting them from the real, she manages, through her gesture as a sculptor, to reveal the resolutely human dimension, full of living contradictions.

Excerpt from the text "LA GLANEUSE ET LES CASSEURS?, written by Anne Dressen

"With the 5th edition of its event 100% L'EXPO - SORTIES D'ÉCOLES, La Villette continues to offer a faithful and demanding panorama of the best talents of young French and international artistic creation recently graduated. Thought as a real professional springboard, 100% L'EXPO invites this year new Parisian and regional schools to highlight an emerging generation of artists with varied practices."

Text taken from the La villette website

"Following a 3-month residency, Selebe Yoon presents a solo exhibition by French artist Kevin Rouillard on two sites: in the urban space on Avenue Hassan II - one of Dakar's busiest shopping streets - and at the gallery.

For several years, Kevin Rouillard has been flattening, hammering and welding metal cans - the container of goods on which our globalized world is based. In Dakar, the artist discovers materials at the end of their life, eroded and soiled, used almost to exhaustion - a contrast with those used in France. Finding himself at the end of the line with tired materials, the resourcefulness - a mode of operation for most - also becomes so for the artist. Like a worker, Kevin Rouillard repeats the same arduous gesture from piece to piece: cutting, hammering and welding are the operations that make up his mechanical mantra. Through this ritual of labor, in a gesture that borders on the absurd, a meaning unfolds for him. This redistribution of new forms of second-hand materials frees them from their utilitarian functions. Time of stop for these objects of transit. Pure contemplation of form and color for the viewer."

Text excerpt, Selebe Yoon website

Infos : https://francismaerefinearts.be/exhibitions/pierre-clerk-paintings-sculptures

This work by Lisa Beck is included in exhibition « Energy in All Directions », which brings together works of art in dialogue with objects from the Shaker Museum's extensive collections to celebrate the life and legacy of artist and gallerist Hudson (1950?2014). This exhibition highlights Hudson's beliefs, valued acceptance, equality in art on the themes of inclusion, interconnection and innovation, a combination of inventive works that capture the mind and the eye !


Due to this period of health crisis this exhibition will be open to the public until next summer. During the nine months of the exhibition, the members of the Tang Teaching Museum will shoot some works and replace others in different ensembles - using the gallery as a research space. The online version of the exhibition will expand with installations views, oral histories of exhibiting artists, and more, with a calendar of online public programs that will include artist dialogues, curatorial visits and a special commission project for new poetry and music created in response to the exhibition.

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With Sara Anstis, Lucas Arruda, Joseph Dadoune, Marc Desgrandchamps, Mimosa Echard, Vincent Gicquel, Karine Hoffman, Junya Ishigami, Paul Kindersley, Jérémy Liron, Rosilene Luduvico, Dora Maar, Flora Moscovici, Alexandre Benjamin Navet, Lisa Oppenheim, Kim L Pace, Gina Pane, Tere Recarens, Jérôme Robbe, Samuel Trenquier, Natsuko Uchino, Edouard Villemagne, Edouard Wolton, Janna Zhiri.

First major catalogue/monograph on the French artist: an overview of Molinero's dual work, which both reflects on the academic history of sculpture and refers to pop culture, especially science fiction, splatter films, and crime news.

Edited by Paul Bernard.
Texts by Anita Molinero, Paul Bernard, Anne Dressen, Valérie Mavridorakis, Vinciane Despret, with a contribution by Winshluss.

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Published by Galerie Thomas - Cortex Athletico, Paris with the collaboration of Musée des beaux-arts of La-Chaux-de-Fonds, 19 Crac, Montbéliard, l'École municipale des beaux-arts / galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers.

His project entitled "It belongs in a museum" will be produced in Mexico in 2019 and exhibited in 2020 at Palais de Tokyo, along with a monographic catalogue.

Fictional story-installation, this project starts with the rewriting of Christophe Colombus arrival on the American continent. The artist imagine an uchronia where the ratio of power between the West and old Americas would not have existed.