A site-specific commission by Ulla von Brandenburg presented in dialogue with The Bass’ recently acquired mural by Etel Adnan (1925-2021) and Sonia Delaunay’s pioneering explorations in color theory (1885-1979). Through film, watercolor, and sculpture, the exhibition will be exploring the cross-generational aesthetic interests in abstraction.
The exhibition Vicious Circles will be the first museum retrospective held outside of Europe dedicated to the work of artist Jacqueline de Jong, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The exhibition will consider the continuous theme of war and protest throughout the artist’s oeuvre, ranging from her paintings dedicated the rebellious spirit of rock ‘n’ roll to the visceral portrayals of the ongoing war in Ukraine. During the week of Art Basel, Jacqueline de Jong will be present for the exhibition’s formal reception. Vicious Circles will be accompanied by an artist’s monograph published by Skira, reproducing previously unpublished ephemera within De Jong’s archive.
As the third solo museum presentation in the US for the artist, the exhibition will feature new commissions that reflect upon Humeau’s previous work of Land Art, Orisons, in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. The gallery space will be conceived as an immersive environment, incorporating sound components with a new video work, three large sculptures displayed on the floor, and some blown-glass sculptures suspended from the ceiling.
The Bell will host the US presentation of Creuzet’s 2024 French pavilion in Venice, an immersive installation curated by Kopp and London-based Cindy Sissokho. Curator Kate Kraczon is working closely with Kopp to develop a multi-venue North American tour following its presentation at The Bell. The project will be accompanied by a major symposium co-organized with faculty and organizations across the region, a bilingual catalog, and a commissioned performance program in Brown’s new Lindemann Performing Arts Center.
The exhibition will feature Barontini’s immersive and colorful fabric and textile-based work, paying homage to the legacies set by figures of historical movements for liberation. Welcoming Raphaël’s work to Atlanta Contemporary presents an opportunity to reflect the current Atlanta ecosystem and engage with multiple diaspora communities—African and French.
Sophie Calle: Overshare will bethe first North Americanexhibition to explore the full range of the artist’s practice across the past five decades, featuring photography, text-based works, video, and installations. Through examples of major bodies of work as well as lesser-known pieces, the exhibition captures the ways in which Calle’s early work anticipated the rise of social media as a space to shape and present lived experience. Alongside the exhibition, the Walker will also present several performing arts experiences inspired by the work of Sophie Calle.
Opened in June 2019, the Plinth is the first space on the High Line—and one of the only sites in New York City—dedicated solely to a rotating series of new, monumental, contemporary art commissions. In October 2024, the fourth Plinth commission will be Dinosaur: a colossal, hyper-realistic pigeon cast in aluminum, hand-painted, and amplified to the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex, rising 21 ft (6.4 m) above the Spur. This humorous sculpture by Ivan Argote challenges the grandeur of traditional monuments, as well as the banality projected onto the iconic New York City street bird.
Leccia is interested in creating a new film in Ukraine in November 2024 about the current war and its impact on society, not only in Ukraine but also in France. The film would be screened as a large-scale video installation at The Ukrainan Museum along with two older war themed films – ‘Visage Hermès’ (2018) and ‘Ô Superman’ (2016) – which have never been exhibited in the USA before. The Ukrainian Museum is also in dialogue with Times Square Arts to showcase the newly commissioned film during the run of the exhibition.
The upcoming exhibition and live programs “HOMO SARGASSUM” will feature the work of 30 artists, including 13 French nationals. The exhibition & programs aim at raising awareness about the ecological, anthropological, cultural and political impacts of the proliferation of the Sargassum seaweed on Caribbean and American coasts in postcolonial contexts. The exhibition is part of a multi-year and multidimensional project which started in 2020.
Like Water is the second exhibition in a four-part series entitled The Weather Inside, considering landscape as a material, physical condition and an interior, emotional state. Like Water’s multimedia presentation of Fattal’s work will include ceramic and bronze sculptures, drawings, and collages. Importantly, some of Fattal’s first ceramic sculptures made in California will be presented publicly for the first time in decades. Fattal will travel to St. Louis to oversee the installation of her work and to be present for the exhibition’s free opening festivities.
As an artist interested in public space, Marie Lorenz has been exploring urban waterfronts in NYC and other industrial waterways for many years. Combining printmaking, sculpture, video, sound, and relational artwork, the multimedia exhibition will draw a parallel between the Allan river valley around Montbéliard and Newton Creek in New York, two sites historically impacted by industrial development. Marie Lorenz’s project is part of Pays de Montbéliard Capitale Française de la Culture 2024.
Anthony Cudahy’s monographic exhibition Di/Nocturnal will be his first solo show in an art center in France. The exhibition is co-produced with Semiose gallery, the main partner on this project. All of the works presented for the exhibition will be specifically produced for the show and the art center will support the artist all along his production process. The exhibition will be on view from September 17th until the end of November 2024, coinciding with the opening of The Lyon Biennale.
Since 1984, the Frac has been inviting 4 or 5 artists every year for two months to the “Ateliers Internationaux”. For Word is round, four international artists are invited to think about the Polyspheres, an extension of Marie de Brugerolle’s research called “Post-Performance Future”, and to dialogue with the collection of the Frac. Anna Wittenberg will present for the first time the last part of her trilogy, exploring through video the origin of words. Kirsten Mosher will produce a body of new paintings.
The research trip to Paris on November 4-11, 2024, is organized in preparation for the salon-style exhibition Expand and Contract 2025 at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, opening in April 2025. Seeking to address disparities experienced by photographers internationally and locally, the curated exhibition will include projects by galleries and unrepresented artists from Paris and Los Angeles, and will focus on experimental photographic practice.
The fellowship will allow Rozenthal to go back to Paris and connect further with artists I am considering inviting to Los Angeles in 2025, including Thomas Paquet and Guillaume Chamahian, in addition to meeting Genuardi and her team in person again, as well as Thierry Bigaignon.
In February 2022, ozenthal was appointed Executive Director and Chief Curator of LACP, a non-profit dedicated to enhancing the future and present of visual storytelling through exhibitions, public programs, classes and independent initiatives.
This research trip will focus on the political dimensions of scénographie and its renewed relevance as a nuanced method of exhibition contextualization for the increasingly complex nature of contemporary art. Park Myers will explore how scénographie is embedded in the practices of a preliminary selection of French artists and institutions :
Gaillard&Claude, Nicholas Vargelis, Valérian Goalec, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kévin Blinderman, Futbol Club, Amaury Daurel and Victor Delestre (Deborah Bowmann), deborahbowmann.com, L’association DOC, Musée Transitoire, Bagnoler, Treize, Tonus, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, CNEAI, cneai.com.
Myers has organized exhibitions, performances, and public projects at 1708 Gallery and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Knockdown Center, New York; Actual Size, Los Angeles; Tamanoir, Brussels; Komplot, Brussels; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; the Judd Foundation, New York; Copenhagen Art Festival; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; and Steamboat Springs Arts Council (SSAC), Steamboat, CO. Myers co-founded the online journal aCCeSsions and, with Xavi Acarín, established XP, a dialogical exhibitions platform.
Olivier Le Falher Program Officer visualarts@albertinefoundation.org