Events / January 2010

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Invitation Thonik

THONIK IN PARIS - THONIK 1/3

until saturday march 20 2010
du mardi au samedi de 14h00 à 19h00
Galerie Anatome
Un espace graphique à Paris
T : +33 (0)1 48 06 98 81
38, rue Sedaine
75011 Paris
France

contact@galerie-anatome.com
www.galerie-anatome.com

contact presse
Nawal Bakouri
T : +33 (0)1 48 06 98 81
n.bakouri@galerie-anatome.com

First exhibition in France on the graphic design agency THONIK. At the same time, the Dutch Institute invites the agency for an exhibition in two parts which gives priority to its conceptual and three-dimensional works.


VIA

VIA DESIGN 2010

until sunday march 21 2010
10h - 19h
VIA
T : +33 (0) 1 46 28 11 11
29-35, avenue Daumesnil
75012 Paris
France

Directeur
Gérard Laizé
via@mobilier.com
www.via.fr

Contact Presse
Pauline Lacoste
lacoste@mobilier.com

Cocktail january 21, from 7pm. Invitation only.

Via design 2010 presents :
1 carte blanche 2010 to Faltazi : Victor Massip/Laurent Lebot for the projet Ekokook
6 developping creation 2010 : Itamar Burstein (en charge de 2 projets)Emilie Colin GarrosAntoine Fritsch et Vivien DurisottiStéphane MaupinRichard Perron

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Artists in focus

ARTISTS IN FOCUS: #7 LIAM GILLICK - EXECUTIVE TWO LITRE GXL

until sunday march 21 2010
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art
T : +43 1 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

office@mak.at
www.mak.at

press office
T : +43 1 711 36-229
presse@mak.at

In the role of communicator, Liam Gillick examines existing processes and produces new structures. He considers the design and structural aspects of society and places them in a framework for discussion at the interface of analysis and fictional narration.

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live forever

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton

until sunday march 21 2010
Bonnefantenmuseum
T : +31 (0)43 3290190
Avenue Ceramique 250
NL-6221 KX Maastricht
The Netherlands

press@bonnefanten.nl
www.bonnefanten.nl/

The museum is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Peyton's oeuvre in the Netherlands, mounted by the New Museum in New York, comprising work of the past eighteen years, beginning with a small-scale portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte and going up to one of fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
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Cathédrale de Laon

La maquette de la cathédrale de Laon - De l'ombre à la lumière

until monday march 22 2010
Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine au Palais de Chaillot
Niveau 2 / galerie des peintures murales et des vitraux / coupole de Cahors
T : +33 (0)1 58 51 52 00
1 place du Trocadéro
75016 Paris
France

com@citechaillot.fr
www.citechaillot.fr

Le musée de la Cité accueille une exceptionnelle maquette de la cathédrale de Laon et des bâtiments environnants, conçue à partir des plans de la restauration du XIXe siècle. À l’occasion de cette exposition, le 5 janvier 2010, à 19h30, récital exceptionnel dans les galeries du musée par François-René Duchâble (piano) et Marielle Nordmann (harpe), Alain Carré, comédien-metteur en scène, lira quelques textes tirés de Huysmans à propos des cathédrales.


MYLOU OORD- IT WOULD BE SO NICE

MYLOU OORD- IT WOULD BE SO NICE

until wednesday march 24 2010
Foam Fotographiemuseum Amsterdam
T : +31 (0)20 551 6500
Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS Am Amsterdam
The Netherlands

info@foam.nl
www.foam.nl/

Press information
foam@foam.nl

Concurring with the Amsterdam International Fashionweek Foam shows the work of young fashion and portrait photographer Mylou Oord. The exhibition is based on the series of pictures portraying Amsterdam-based fashion journalist and style icon Aynouk Tan.



Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg

until friday march 26 2010
10am - 7pm
act2galerie
T : 01 42 89 50 05
75008 Paris
France

Act 2 Galerie
www.acte2photo.com

acte2galerie is pleased to announce ”Monkey Portraits “ and “End Times “ by Jill Greenberg, the artist’s first solo show in Paris.

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ANSELMO

GIOVANNI ANSELMO

until saturday march 27 2010
Marian Goodman Gallery
T : +33 (0)1 48 04 70 52
79 rue du Temple
75003 Paris
France

parisgallery@mariangoodman.com
www.mariangoodman.com/

La Galerie Marian Goodman est heureuse de présenter pour la première fois dans son espace parisien le travail de Giovanni Anselmo.
Nous montrerons quatre œuvres, "quatre moments simultanés", quatre suggestions d'espaces au-delà de l'exposition.
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Moaï 2 Ionna Vautrin

MOAÏS - IONNA VAUTRIN

until saturday march 27 2010
ToolsGalerie
T : +33 (0)1 42 77 35 80
119, rue vieille du temple
75003 Paris
France

press@toolsgalerie.com
www.toolsgalerie.com

ionnavautrin@hotmail.com
www.ionnavautrin.com

La galerie Tools présente l'édition Moaïs de Ionna Vautrin. Il s'agit de pièces uniques de luminaires édités par la galerie. Vernissage le jeudi 28 janvier de 18h30 à 21h30

Luminaire Moaïs 2, Ionna Vautrin pour Tools, image de synthèse


cristian boltanski

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, APRÈS

until sunday march 28 2010
Vernissage le 14 janvier à partir de 18h30
MAC/VAL
T : +33 (0)1 43 91 64 20
Place de la libération
94 404 Vitry-sur-Seine
France

Contact presse
Christelle de Bernède
christelle.debernede@annesamson.com
www.macval.fr/

Le MAC/VAL accueille dès janvier 2010, l'un des artistes français les plus connus de la scène internationale, Christian Boltanski qui présentera le deuxième volet de son exposition-événement de la rentrée artistique 2010.
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anish kapoor

Anish Kapoor: Memory

until sunday march 28 2010
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
T : +1 (212) 423 3500
1071 Fifth Avenue
NY 10128 New York
United States

Director, Media and Public Relations
Betsy Ennis
T : +1 (212) 423 3840
pressoffice@guggenheim.org
www.guggenheim.org/

Memory (2008) is a site-specific work that was conceived to engage two different exhibition locations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin and New York. Utilizing Cor-Ten steel for the first time, the sculpture represents a milestone in Kapoor’s career.
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undeliably me

Undeniably me. 1309 Faces

until sunday march 28 2010
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
T : +49 (0) 5361 26690
Hollerplatz 1
38440 Wolfsburg
Germany

Contact presse
media@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/

This exhibition features works by ten artists who explore themes of identity. Expressing confidence and doubt, self-control and disclosure, familiarity and alienation, remembering and forgetting, the more than 1300 faces on display reveal the complex personality possessed by every single human being.
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isabel levenez

Isabelle Lévénez, Portraits fragmentés

until sunday march 28 2010
Musée des Beaux-Arts
T : +33 (0)2 41 05 38 00
14, rue du musée
49100 Angers
France

Contact presse
Corine Busson-Benhammou
T : +33 (0)2 41 05 40 33
corine.busson-benhammou@ville.angers.fr
musees.angers.fr/

Le musée des Beaux-Arts présente le travail de l’artiste Isabelle Lévénez dans l’exposition Portraits fragmentés, vidéos/dessins. Pour la première fois au musée, l'oeuvre d'une artiste contemporaine est étroitement mêlée à celle d'un artiste renommé du siècle précédent -en l'occurence Rodin- auquel le musée des Beaux-Arts consacre l''exposition La fabrique du portrait, Rodin face à ses modèles. Face au "monument" Rodin, Lévénez répond par ses vidéos, dessins et mur d'écriture dans et autour de l'exposition.
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Chawan

CHAWAN - TEABOWLS

until sunday march 28 2010
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
MAK Permanent Collection Asia
T : +43 1 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

office@mak.at
www.mak.at

press office
T : +43 1 711 36-229
presse@mak.at

The history of tea is directly linked to the history of the tea-cup becoming an aesthetic object. Ceramics from the twelfth to the twenty-first century – tea-cups from the MAK Collection from China, Korea, Japan as well as loans from private collections – demonstrate that diversity was discovered in the reduction of form to its essentials. This idea is taken up in the installation “ Door of Eternity” by Heinz Frank, which can be seen in the center of the room.


le corps comme sculpture

THE BODY AS SCULPTURE : VIDEO-PERFORMANCES. BRUCE NAUMAN / VITO ACCONCI / SANJA IVEKOVIC

until sunday march 28 2010
Musée Rodin
T : +33 (0)1 44 18 61 10
79 rue de Varenne
75007 Paris
France

Contact presse
Sandrine Mahaut
sandrine@claudinecolin.com
www.musee-rodin.fr/

As part of its contemporary art programme and in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the Musée Rodin opens a presentation cycle that will cover three years, devoted to the video artist who, between 1960 and 1970, sought to emphasize the relation to the body in their artistic practice, particulary through performance. The first session will be presented at the Hôtel Biron from January 5th through March 28th, 2010. One by one, four filmed works by an artist whose approach contributed to the bases of “historic contemporary art” will be presented.

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Objects of luxury fin

OBJECTS OF LUXURY: FRENCH PORCELAIN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

until tuesday march 30 2010
V&A South Kensington
Room 146
T : +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London
Great Britain

vanda@vam.ac.uk
www.vam.ac.uk

press.office@vam.ac.uk

This display will introduce the major French factories, including the Royal Porcelain Manufacture at Sèvres, and will demonstrate the wide variety of objects they could provide for their fashionable clientele.

Sugar basin and cover, Saint-Cloud, about 1700-20, Museum no. 487-1909

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Bancs d'essai

BANCS D'ESSAI

until wednesday march 31 2010
Cité du design
T : +33 (0)4 77 49 74 70
3, rue Javelin Pagnon
42000 Saint-Etienne
France

info@citedudesign.com
www.citedudesign.com

Contact presse
Pierre-Tristan Mauveaux
Tristan.MAUVEAUX@citedudesign.com

Sur le site de la Cité du design, dans le jardin Michel Olagnier sont exposés cinq éléments de mobilier urbain produits et édités par la Tôlerie Forézienne.

Bancs d'essai. Tôlerie Forézienne, designer Alexandre Moronnoz. © Cité du design

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Laceintranslation

LACE IN TRANSLATION

until saturday april 03 2010
The Design Center at Philadelphia University
Goldie Paley House
T : +1 215 951 2860
4200 Henry Avenue
PA 19144-5 Philadelphia
United States

thedesigncenter@philau.edu
www.philau.edu/designcenter

Press contact
Megan Wendell, Canary Promotion + Design
T : +1 215 242 6393
megan@canarypromo.com
www.laceintranslation.com

Lace in Translation will be the first exhibition produced by The Design Center in conjunction with its new interpretive initiative, The Fabric of Philadelphia. Three contemporary art/design studios, whose works are often inspired by traditional lace imagery, are mining the historic lace collection at The Design Center (TDC) for inspiration. These Dutch and Canadian art/design teams are being commissioned to create new, site-specific works for installation in the Center’s galleries and on its adjoining grounds during the fall and winter of 2009/10.

Tord Boontje – Sofa maquette for Lace in Translation; photo courtesy of Studio Tord Boontje


Design USA

DESIGN USA: CONTEMPORARY INNOVATION

until sunday april 04 2010
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
T : +1 (0)212.849.8400
2 East 91st Street
NY 10128 New York
United States

Press contact
T : +1 (0)212 849 8420
cooperhewittpress@si.edu
www.cooperhewitt.org

Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.

Eva Zeisel. Lomonosov porcelain tea service, 2000–3. Photo: Brent C. Brolin


BAROCK-orlan

BAROCK - ART, SCIENCE, FAITH AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY EGE

until sunday april 04 2010
Museo MADRE
T : +39 081 193 13 016
Via Settembrini 79
80139 Naples
Italy

Contact presse
Costanza Pellegrini
pellegrini@museomadre.it
www.museomadre.it/

In the framework of the events organized by the Campania Region to celebrate the Baroque culture, a big collective exhibition titled BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age, which will run from December 12th to April 5th.
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bjarne maalgard

BJARNE MELGAARD - JEALOUS

until sunday april 04 2010
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Dronningensgate 4
0107 Oslo
Norway

Gunnar B. Kvaran
gb.kvaran@fearnleys.no
afmuseet.no/

The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is honoured to have the privilege and the pleasure to organize the first retrospective exhibition of works by Bjarne Melgaard (b. 1967).
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keren

Keren Cytter

until sunday april 04 2010
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90024 Los Angeles
United States

Contact presse
Morgan Kroll
mkroll@hammer.ucla.edu
hammer.ucla.edu

Born in Tel Aviv and currently living in Berlin, Keren Cytter makes films that portray characters entangled in complicated relationships, simultaneously connected and alienated from one another. Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining a sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.
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cristian marclay

Christian Marclay

until monday april 05 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave
NY 11101 New York
United States

Contact presse
April Hunt
april@ps1.org
ps1.org/

This fall P.S.1 presents 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records by Christian Marclay.
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afro

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

until monday april 05 2010
Tate Liverpool
T : +44 151 702 7400
Albert Dock
L3 4BB Liverpool
Great Britain

Contact presse
Stacey Arnold
T : + 44 (0) 151 702 7444
stacey.arnold@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/

This major exhibition, inspired by Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and intellectuals have played a central role in the formation of Modernism from the early twentieth century to today.
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urs

Urs Lüthi, Just Another Story About Leaving

until monday april 05 2010
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
T : +39 06 6710 70400
via Reggio Emilia, 54
00198 Rome
Italy

Contact presse
Massimiliano Moschetta
T : +39 06 671070443
massimiliano.moschetta@gmail.com
www.macro.roma.museum/

MACRO presents a solo exhibition of works by Urs Lüthi, the Swiss artist famous since the 1970s for his research on the idea of “Self” and on the ambiguities both of the individual and of the objects.

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james turrell

James Turrell. The Wolfsburg Project

until monday april 05 2010
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
T : +49 5361 2669 0
Hollerplatz 1
38440 Wolfsburg
Germany

Contact presse
Rita Werneyer
T : +49 (0)5361 2669 69
media@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/

The primary medium of Californian artist James Turrell is light. Probably the best-known artist in his field, Turrell's entire oeuvre since the 1960s has been devoted to exploring the diverse manifestations of this immaterial medium and working towards a new, space-defining form of light art. While light here refers to nothing beyond itself, it causes surface, colour and space to interact and allows viewers to immerse themselves in a mysterious, painterly world.
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iannis xwnakis

IANNIS XENAKIS: COMPOSER, ARCHITECT, VISIONARY

until thursday april 08 2010
The Drawing Center
T : +1 (21)2 219 2166
35 Wooster Street
10013 New York
United States

Public Relations
Emily Gaynor
egaynor@drawingcenter.org
www.drawingcenter.org

The Drawing Center announces Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, on view in the Main Gallery from January 15 – April 8, 2010. The exhibition will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001).

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Museum at FIT

American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

until saturday april 10 2010
10am - 8pm
The Museum at FIT
T : 212 217.4558
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
10001-5992 New York
United States

fitnyc.edu/

Fashion designed and made in the United States over the past one-hundred years has attained worldwide influence due in large part to the creation and popularization of sportswear, denim, and mass marketing. Yet, contrary to popular belief, America has also produced artistic and innovative clothing that utilized the craft of dressmaking.

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danse le village

Dans le sillage des ballets russes

until saturday april 10 2010
Centre national de la danse
T : +33 (0)1 41 83 98 98
1, rue Victor Hugo - Pantin
93507 Paris
France

www.cnd.fr

Créés à Paris au Théâtre du Châtelet en mai 1909, les Ballets russes disparaissent vingt ans plus tard avec leur fondateur, Serge de Diaghilev. Qu’advient-il de l’héritage de la troupe après sa disparition ? Comment le mythe des Ballets russes s’est-il construit et n’a-t-il cessé de se développer au fil du temps ?
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ciprien gaillard

CYPRIEN GAILLARD: DISQUIETING LANDSCAPES

until sunday april 11 2010
Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 North High Street
43210-139 Columbus
United States

Karen Simonian
ksimonian@wexarts.org
wexarts.org/

Intriguing young French artist Cyprien Gaillard asks viewers to confront the many contradictions of our built environments in his seductive and haunting films and photographs.
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where three

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

until sunday april 11 2010
Whitechapel Gallery
T : +44 (0)20 7522 7888
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
E1 7QX London
Great Britain

Head of Communications
Rachel Mapplebeck
rachelmapplebeck@whitechapelgallery.org
www.whitechapelgallery.org/

This landmark exhibition gives an inside view of how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been shaped through the lens of their photographers.
The exhibition is arranged over five themes with works selected from the last 150 years. The Portrait shows the evolution of self-representation; The Family explores close bonds and relationships through early hand-painted and contemporary portraits; The Body Politic charts political moments, movements and campaigns; The Performance focuses on the golden age of Bollywood, circus performers and artistic practices that engage with masquerade; while The Street looks at the built environment, social documentary and street photography.
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everydays

EVERYDAY(S)

until sunday april 11 2010
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
T : (+352) 22 50 45 5
41, rue Notre-Dame
L-2013 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

contact presse
Marc Clement
marc.clement@casino-luxembourg.lu
www.casino-luxembourg.lu/

Tous les jours, tant de gestes et de paroles – inlassables, réguliers, automatiques et le plus souvent implicites – nous permettent de communiquer, d’agir et d’être.
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australia

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson

until sunday april 11 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Rocks
T : +612 9241 6634
140 George Street
NSW 2000 Sydney
Australia

directorate@mca.com.au
www.mca.com.au/

Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson is the first full-scale survey of projects by this contemporary Icelandic artist to have been presented in Australia. The exhibition gathers works from major public and private collections worldwide and spans Eliasson’s diverse range of artistic production from 1993 to the present, including installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture, and photography.
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elger esser

Elger Esser. Proper time

until sunday april 11 2010
Kunstmuseum
T : +49 (0) 711 216 21 88
Kleiner Schlossplatz 1
70173 Stuttgart
Germany

press@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/

The photographs of Elger Esser act like a déjà vu: his magic pictures of riverscapes, bridges, villages, and seacoasts awaken vague memories, even if we have never visited any of the places photographed. Consciously drawing on Marcel Proust, the Stuttgart-born artist (b. 1967) repeatedly sets out in »search of lost time« in his poetic, melancholic photographs.
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Frozen in time

FROZEN IN TIME - WIEKI SOMERS

until sunday april 11 2010
Galerie Kreo
T : +33 (0)1 53 10 23 00
31, rue Dauphine
75006 Paris
France

Contact presse
Aurélie Julien
aurelie.julien@galeriekreo.com
www.galeriekreo.com

info@wiekisomers.com
www.wiekisomers.com

Designs for Kreo, by Studio Wieki Somers. Exhibition realized with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation. Studio Wieki Somers is a collaboration between Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg.

© DR. Courtesy Galerie Kreo/Studio Wieki Somers


luc tuymans

Luc Tuymans, Against the day

until sunday april 25 2010
Moderna Museet Malmö
Gasverksgatan 22
SE-211 29 Malmö
Sweden

Communications Officer
Sofia Alsterhag
T : +46 8 5195 6246
s.alsterhag@modernamuseet.se
www.modernamuseet.se/en/

The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is one of the most respected artists of his generation. The exhibition Against the Day presents 20 of his recent paintings. In this new series the focus is on virtual realities, fantasies and illusions.
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felix

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

until sunday april 25 2010
Wiels
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 50
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium

Responsable Presse et communication
Angie Vandycke
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 51
angie.vandycke@wiels.org
www.wiels.org

Wiels présente une rétrospective majeure de l'oeuvre de Felix Gonzalez-Torres, incluant des oeuvres rarement vues et d'autres plus connues, tout en offrant une forme expérimentale à l'exposition, inspirée par la conception radicale de l'oeuvre de l'artiste lui-même.
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tim burton

Tim Burton

until monday april 26 2010
MoMA
T : +1 (212) 708 9400
11 West 53 Street
NY 10019 New York
United States

pressoffice@moma.org
www.moma.org/

This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.
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Une architecture des humeurs

UNE ARCHITECTURE DES HUMEURS

until monday april 26 2010
Le Laboratoire
T : +33 (0)1 78 09 49 50
4, rue du Bouloi
75001 Paris
France

Responsable Relations presse
Valérie Abrial
valerie.abrial@lelaboratoire.org
www.lelaboratoire.org

Une exposition qui présente le travail de l'agence d'architecture R&Sie(n) aidé d'un collectif de dix scientifiques : process mathématiques, physiologiques, robotiques et constructifs pour un habitat collectif auto-organisationnel. Vernissage le 21 janvier à 19h

"Une Architecture des humeurs", (Mood’s architecture)/R&Sie(n)/Le Laboratoire


michael rakowitz

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

until monday may 03 2010
Tate Modern
Level 2 Gallery
Bankside
SE1 9TG London
Great Britain

Contact presse
Daisy Mallabar
daisy.mallabar@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/modern/

Michael Rakowitz works as a cultural archaeologist, uncovering an unexpected network of connections between historical fact and fantasy. The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own traces links between western science fiction and military-industrial activities in Iraq during and after Saddam Hussein's regime.
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IT'S A SMALL WORLD

IT'S A SMALL WORLD

until tuesday may 04 2010
Dansk Design Center
T : +45 3369 3369
HC Andersens Boulevard 27
DK 1553 Co Copenhagen
Denmark

design@ddc.dk
www.ddc.dk

How will future designers work, and how does Danish design address global issues such as sustainability, new technology and consumption? The exhibition it’s a small world challenges the Danish design tradition and explores future design practices in a global perspective.



MIROSLAV TICHY

MIROSLAV TICHY

until sunday may 09 2010
International Center of Photography
T : 212.857.0000
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
NY 10036 New York
United States

info@icp.org
www.icp.org/

This is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy. Now over eighty years old, Tichy is a stubbornly eccentric artist, known as much for his makeshift cardboard cameras as for his haunting and distorted images of women and landscapes, many of them taken surreptitiously.

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night and day

Night & Day

until tuesday may 11 2010
10am - 8pm
The Museum at FIT
T : 212 217.4558
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
10001-5992 New York
United States

fitnyc.edu/

The Museum at FIT presents Night & Day, a new exhibition examining how the rules that dictate appropriate dress for women have changed over the past 250 years.
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CHRISS OFILLI

CHRIS OFILI

until sunday may 16 2010
Tate Britain
Millbank
SW1P 4RG London
Great Britain

Contact presse
Louise Butler
T : + 44 (0) 207 887 8732
louise.butler@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/britain/

Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolours from the mid 1990s to today. One of the most acclaimed British painters of his generation, Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Great Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
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Brave the new world

BRAVE NEW WORLD - From the perspective of Mudam Collection

until sunday may 23 2010
Mudam Luxembourg
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
T : +352 45 37 85 1
3, Park Dräi Eechelen
L-1499l Luxembourg
Luxembourg

info@mudam.lu
www.mudam.lu

What do artists tell us about the world we live in? What image do they show us of our bodies, our land, our towns, our dreams and fears ? The exhibition Brave New World offers an open and surprising reading of the world through a hundred artworks by more than ninety artists from the point of view of the Mudam Collection.

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elle centre pompidou

ELLES@CENTREPOMPIDOU

until monday may 24 2010
Centre Georges Pompidou
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
Place Georges Pompidou
75003 Paris
France

Contact presse
Anne-Marie Pereira
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 40 89
anne-marie.pereira@centrepompidou.fr
www.centrepompidou.fr/

Pour la première fois dans le monde, un musée présente ses collections au féminin. Cette nouvelle présentation des collections du Musée national d'art moderne est entièrement consacrée aux artistes-femmes de notre temps.
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rodney graham

RODNEY GRAHAM

until tuesday may 25 2010
MACBA
T : +34 93 412 08 10
Plaça dels Angels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Spain

Contact presse
press@macba.cat
www.macba.cat/controller.php

This exhibition brings together a hundred or so works by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham done between 1978 and 2008 and taken from public and private collections in Europe and North America.
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

until sunday may 30 2010
Thursday-Sunday from 10.30am to 8.30pm
Triennale di Milano
viale Alemagna, 6
20121 Milan
Italy

info@triennale.it
www.roylichtenstein.it/

Roy Lichtenstein is back in Europe with a big anthological exhibition, one of the biggest art events of 2010.
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sphres

SPHÈRES 2

until sunday may 30 2010
Vernissage le 24 octobre. De midi à 14h30: brunch au bord de la rivière
Galleria Continua / Le Moulin
T : +33 (0)1 64 20 39 50
46 rue de la Ferté Gaucher
77 169 Boissy-le-Châtel
France

Réservation
Silvia Pichini
lemoulin@galleriacontinua.com
www.galleriacontinua.com/

For the second edition, the Spheres project re-involves the participation of several contemporary art galleries of international dimension prompted by one desire: to join their diverse forces and energies to develop a shared exhibition - a new kind of exhibition experience - with no submission to any restricting theme. The Galleries will present artists from the five continents, whose works will be installed in and will relate to various parts of the exceptional complex. In doing so, they will engage with the rich history of the site.
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joan jonas

PERFORMANCE 7: MIRAGE BY JOAN JONAS

until monday may 31 2010
Museum of Modern Art
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor
T : +1 (212) 708 9400
11 West 53rd Street
NY 10019 New York
United States

Chief Communications Officer
Kim Mitchell
kim_mitchell@moma.org
www.moma.org/

Inspired by a trip the artist took to India, Joan Jonas’s Mirage (1976/2005) was originally conceived as a 1976 performance for the screening room of New York’s Anthology Film Archives. In it, Jonas carried out a series of movements, such as running as a form of percussion and as gestural drawing, while interacting with a variety of sculptural components and video projections.
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FoodLab

FRANCESCA MANTOVANI

until monday may 31 2010
Le Laboratoire
Food Lab
T : +33 (0)1 78 09 49 63
4, rue du Bouloi
75001 Paris
France

foodlab@labogroup.com
www.foodlab.fr

www.lelaboratoire.org

Les pâtisseries imaginaires, une architecture gourmande : Un macaron se désintègre, une religieuse se déforme, des tartes s'envolent ... ces pièces uniques s'emparent de nouvelles figures narratives, et explorent le rapport du réel à l'imaginaire. Deux démonstrations le mardi et mercredi de 12h à 13h et de 13h30 à 14h30

© Francesca Mantovani / TARGET - 2009


sol lewitt

SOL LEWITT, SEVEN WALL DRAWINGS

until wednesday june 02 2010
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Magasin 3, floor 1, elevator 4
T : +46 8 545 680 40
Frihamnen
SE -115 56 Stockholm
Sweden

Contact presse
Tove Schalin
T : +46 8 545 680 40
schalin@magasin3.com
www.magasin3.com/

Sol LeWitt holds a special position within the group of prominent Minimalists and Conceptual artists that were so pioneering at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 70s. He drew directly on a wall for the first time for an exhibition in 1968. For the remainder of his life he continued to work with what he termed wall drawings and investigated every line combination imaginable.
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Playmobil

IL ETAIT UNE FOIS PLAYMOBIL

until wednesday june 09 2010
Les Arts Décoratifs
T : +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France

www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

Il était une fois Playmobil est la première exposition en France de la marque allemande célébrant les trente-cinq ans de ce personnage de 7,5 cm de haut et de ses multiples accessoires.

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collection the first 30 years

COLLECTION: THE FIRST 30 YEARS

until tuesday june 15 2010
MOCA
T : +1 (213) 621 1741
250 South grand Avenue
CA 90012 Los Angeles
United States

Contact presse
Lyn Winter
T : +1 (213) 633 5390
lwinter@moca.org
www.moca.org/museum/

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, MOCA opens Collection: The First 30 Years, a permanent installation of its renowned collection. Comprising nearly 6,000 works dating from 1939 to the present day, MOCA’s collection is internationally regarded as one of the largest and most important collections of postwar art in the world.
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joseph kosuth

Joseph Kosuth : ni apparence ni illusion

until monday june 21 2010
Musée du Louvre
Aile Sully, Louvre médiéval
T : +33 (0)1 40 20 50 50
Palais Royal
75001 Paris
France

Contact presse
Laurence Roussel
T : +33 (0)1 40 20 84 98
laurence.roussel@louvre.fr
www.museedulouvre.fr/

Des phrases en français écrites en néons blancs sont suspendues aux remparts médiévaux. Joseph Kosuth, artiste majeur de la scène contemporaine internationale, investit les espaces historiques du Louvre pour offrir au regard du visiteur une oeuvre dense et lumineuse.


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Logements sociaux fin

NOUVEAUX LOGEMENTS SOCIAUX

until thursday july 01 2010
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine au Palais de Chaillot
Expositions temporaires GAMC
T : +33 (0)1 58 51 52 00
1, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre
75016 Paris
France

com@citechaillot.fr
www.citechaillot.fr

L’exposition explorera les nouvelles typologies en phase avec les modes de vie et l’évolution de la société aux prises avec les questions essentielles de la ville contemporaine ; et si l’on ajoute le paramètre du développement durable en termes de qualité de vie et de justice sociale, le logement est plus que jamais un sujet d’actualité.

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the new photo..

THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY

until monday july 12 2010
MoMA
T : +1 (212) 708 9400
11 West 53 Street
NY 10019 New York
United States

Chief Communications Officer
Kim Mitchell
kim_mitchell@moma.org
www.moma.org/

In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions.
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Moma fin

WHAT WAS GOOD DESIGN ? MoMA'S MESSAGE 1944-56

until saturday july 31 2010
MoMA
Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor
T : +1 212 708-9400
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
NY-10019 New York
United States

info@moma.org
www.moma.org

+1 212 708-9431
pressoffice@moma.org

At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape in the 1930s and emerged with new relevance in the decades following World War II. This installation presents selections from MoMA's design collection that illuminate the primary values of Good Design as promoted (and disputed) by museums, design councils, and department stores.

Charles Eames and Ray Eames. Full Scale Model of Chaise Longue (La Chaise). 1948. Hard rubber foam, plastic, wood, and metal, 32 1/2 x 59 x 24 1/4" (82.5 x 149.8 x 87 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of the designer


Shaping

Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980

until saturday july 31 2010
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor
T : +1 (212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street
NY 10019 New York
United States

T : +1 212 708-9431
pressoffice@moma.org
www.moma.org

The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world.

Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, and Jonathan De Pas. Blow Inflatable Armchair. 1967. PVC plastic. Manufactured by Zanotta S.p.A., Italy


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Brandpuzzle

L'OBJET DU DESIGN

until sunday august 22 2010
10h – 18h. Nocturne le vendredi jusqu’à 21h. Fermé le lundi
Cité du design
T : +33 (0)4 77 49 74 70
3, rue Javelin Pagnon
42000 Saint-Etienne
France

info@citedudesign.com
www.citedudesign.com

Contact presse
Pierre-Tristan Mauveaux
Tristan.MAUVEAUX@citedudesign.com

Commissariat : Les Sismo. Cette exposition propose quatre entrées complémentaires comme autant d’engagements, selon lesquelles un designer peut aborder la création d’objets, l’accompagnement de ses commanditaires et la satisfaction des usagers.

Parce qu'il n'est jamais trop tôt pour apprendre les choses importantes de la vie. Jeu d'encastrement. Bois. 7 pièces. Edition Limitée.

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dan graham

DAN GRAHAM: BEYONG

until monday october 11 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
T : +1 (212) 570 3600
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
NY 10021 New York
United States

press@whitney.org
www.whitney.org/

Dan Graham: Beyond is the first-ever comprehensive museum survey of Graham’s career to be done in the United States. The show is co-curated by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, and Bennett Simpson, MOCA associate curator. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Whitney, it examines Graham’s extensive body of work in photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings, prints, and writings.
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carlos amorales

Carlos Amorales

until tuesday december 14 2010
Kunsthalle Fridericianum
T : T +49 561 707 27 86
Friedrichsplatz 18
34117 Kassel
Germany

Contact presse
Christine Messerschmidt
press@fridericianum-kassel.de
www.fridericianum-kassel.de

The exhibition Nuevos Ricos will present for the first time the entire product range and scope of the art project and record label of the same name by Carlos Amorales. The Kunsthalle Fridericianum will not only provide an overview of the history and social positioning of the project, but above all will reflect the broad artistic spectrum: The abstract ground plan of a concert hall becomes a platform for performances and concerts as well as for discussions about topics such as copyright and piracy.


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Cityscapes

Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection

until friday december 31 2010
National Building Museum
T : +1 202.272.2448
401 F Street NW
20001 Washington DC
United States

Exhibitions Coordinator
Hank Griffith
T : +1 202.272 3700
hgriffith@nbm.org

Visitor services
John Bane
T : +1 202.272 3559
jbane@nbm.org
www.nbm.org

This first-ever retrospective exhibition of the National Building Museum’s unique collection explores quintessentially American, 20th-century buildings from center-city mansions to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers.

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Shrank fin

JOSEPH HOFFMANN: INSPIRATIONS

until friday december 31 2010
Josef Hoffmann Museum
náměstí Svobody 263
58832 Brtnice
Czech Republic

Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagelv
T : (+43-1) 711 36-250
kathrin.pokorny-nagel@mak.at
www.mak.at

In collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the MAK is developing a concept for a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Josef Hoffmann in Austria and the Czech Republic, to be shown in Hoffmann’s birthplace in Brtnice beginning in June 2009. The project encompasses the redesign of the six exhibition rooms in the house.

A propos du Joseph Hoffmann Museum

Joseph Hoffmann: Cabinet, 1899. Paper, pencil, ink, color pencil © MAK/Georg Mayer


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Washington - Symbol City

Washington: Symbol and City

until saturday december 31 2011
National Building Museum
T : +1 202.272.2448
401 F Street NW
20001 Washington DC
United States

Exhibitions Coordinator
Hank Griffith
T : +1 202.272 3700
hgriffith@nbm.org

Visitor services
John Bane
T : +1 202.272 3559
jbane@nbm.org
www.nbm.org

This exhibition explores how residents experience the city and how Washington itself expresses the tension between the demands of a working siege of government and the desire for a national symbol, and the hopes and needs of an evolving city.
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Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni

STUDIO MUSEO ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI

until monday december 31 2012
Monday - friday
Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni
T : + 39 (0)2 805 36 06
Piazza Castello, 27
20121 Milan
Italy

info@achillecastiglioni.it
www.achillecastiglioni.it

www.triennale.it

Free entrance: at 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 with free 60-minute guided tour.School and group bookings.
Since January 2006, the studio museum “Achille Castiglioni”, thanks to an agreement with the “Triennale di Milano”, is open to the public and at the same time, proceeds with archiving and intensive work.