Le Portique presents the exhibition Blue Oyster Cult…

If the title is a reference to the legendary 70s American band, also known by the acronym BÖC, it also evokes one of Richard Fauguet’s favorite materials… the oyster shell. The artist’s work is expressed in a variety of media: drawings, collages, rubbings, sculptures and more. Nourished by art history and subculture, his work delights in mixing references borrowed from various worlds, creating a singular and often offbeat dialogue. His vast and original output is reflected in this exhibition in Le Havre.

“I start from the familiar to move things around and produce rapid associations that give rise to collages. This produces pieces, sculptures, drawings or a collection of things that may seem formally quite different from one another, but in reality are not so different.”

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Viaje a la luna (A trip to the moon) is a group exhibition inspired by the only film script written by the renowned Spanish Surrealist poet, playwright, and artist Federico García Lorca. Featuring both national and international artists, the exhibition builds upon themes explored in the script, as well as the social and political context of its creation in the late 1920s. The exhibition draws a parallel to the present, the 2020s, with politically far-right nationalist movements and fascist ideologies once again on the rise, causing the world to become more insular and uncertain.

Exhibiting artists: Emilio Amero, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Nina Canell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Ajit Chauhan, Federico García Lorca, Rosalind Nashashibi, Francesco Pedraglio, Tania Pérez Córdova, Álvaro Urbano, Danh Vo

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In their time, modern artists have found in the circus world a space of freedom conducive to their pictorial experimentation. They drew on an abundant repertoire of motifs, forms and figures to replay and reinvent in order to deconstruct the social, ideological and cultural norms of their time. This fascinating show – sometimes corrosive, sometimes poetic – which has the singularity of exulting life as much as it exalts the senses, has captured the most innovative artistic currents. But what about contemporary creation? In what ways is this synesthesia of the senses and this space of freedom being replayed by the visual arts today?

With works by: Jean-Luc Blanc, Rebecca Brodskis, Nina Childress, Mathis Collins, Florent Dubois, Rudy Dumas, Romuald Jandolo, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Aurore-Caroline Marty, Zélie Nguyen, Chloé Quenum, Stefan Rinck, Elsa Sahal, Marnie Weber

With the support of Frac Normandie and the galleries Art : Concept, By Lara Sedbon, Crèvecoeur, Loevenbruck, Papillon and Semiose

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For the second chapter of its program, PALAZZOIRREALE presents an exhibition project by Giuseppe Gabellone, conceived specifically for the company’s premises and the historic cellars—now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The intervention unfolds as a visual narrative through light, sculpture, and photography, in which each trace, carefully placed throughout the space, converges toward a single objective: to reveal a horizon—understood as a line, a destination, or a mysterious apparition—capable of engaging the viewer on an experiential level while gradually unveiling the historic production spaces of the Bosca winery.

The exhibition brings together a selection of earlier works—on loan from private collections or from the artist’s studio—and a group of new productions, including the central piece Tramonto scivola (2025). This work acts as the conceptual and chromatic fulcrum of the entire project, setting the tone, rhythm, and emotional register for the surrounding pieces, ultimately offering the visitor an intricate and immersive landscape.

Commissioned by: Bosca S.p.A.
Head of creative: Diana Berti
Curated by: Giorgio Galotti
Main Sponsor: Banca Passadore & C.
With the patronage by: Provincia di Asti, Comune di Canelli, Associazione per il patrimonio dei paesaggi vitivinicoli di Langhe-Roero e Monferrato UNESCO, Ente del turismo Langhe-Monferrato e Roero.

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Barakat Contemporary presents Shadows under water, the first-ever solo exhibition of works by German artist Ulla von Brandenburg to come to Korea.

Shadows under water consists of works by the artist that directly explore the show’s central themes—water and shadow—with great depth. Evoking the relationship between the fluid, transparent nature of water and the shadows cast beneath its surface, the exhibition title itself asks: how do we ourselves reflect upon reality and ultimately produce images that may be distorted? Here, water functions not just as a straightforwardly material entity but through its metaphorical properties, serving as a key medium that symbolizes transformation and transmutation, as well as psychological depth. In setting out to explore this hidden realm of the unconscious, tracing this boundary between the watery depths and the real world, Von Brandenburg prompts the viewer to embark upon an inward exploration of their own, embracing yet another mysterious world hidden under the surface.

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This exhibition at the Château – Centre d’Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d’Aubenas – is the first solo show devoted to the artist in a French institution.

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For the first time, Frac Picardie is taking part in the lille3000 adventure.

Frac Picardie has invited artist Ulla von Brandenburg to take over Le Colysée in Lambersart. Her works, in dialogue with a selection of artists from the Frac’s collection, explore the world of carnival not as the subject of an exhibition, but rather as a proposition that has been built up from it.

Drawing on the rich corpus of the Frac Picardie and the singular architecture of the Colysée, Ulla von Brandenburg and Julia Mossé let themselves be guided by this carnivalesque framework, operating by free associations, purely visual or conceptual, to unfold their project in four parts: reversal; the parade of colors and forms; death, metamorphosis and derision; the double, between the true and the false.

Opening on Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 1pm to 6pm.

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