NEWS
Marina Gioti @CentreWallonie-Bruxelles / Paris
DEEP FIELDS
🔥Opening: January, 23 | 6.30 pm
📅 January, 23 - March, 24
From January 23 at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles / Paris, the exhibition Deep Fields brings together artists who explore deep fields, from distant desert landscapes to unstable, mobile fields of particles. The show invites us to traverse the territories of contemporary physics and investigate the margins of the visible, encouraging us to step outside the spaces of control.
Among them, Marina Gioti presents her works KATŌ KO∑MO∑ (Kato Kosmos) – Underworld, the result of an underwater exploration conducted in the Bay of Eleusis (Greece).
📍Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles | 127-129 rue Saint-Martin 75004 Paris
📅 January, 23 - March, 24 | Monday-Saturday 11 am-7pm & Thursday 2-9 pm
Vivian Van Blerk @Louvre-Lens / last days
Gothiques
📅 until January, 26 2026
Louvre-Lens dedicates, for the first time, a major exhibition to the Gothic movement, from the 12th to the 21st century, highlighting its evolution and diversity. Within this context, Vivian Van Blerk’s Hyacinth Vase is on display until January 26 alongside works from the Louvre’s collections and by contemporary artists, underscoring the dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation.
https://www.louvrelens.fr/en/exhibition/gothicisms/
Rut Blees Luxemburg @ Al Riwaq Art Space
Manama, Bahreïn
November-December 2025
Rut Blees Luxemburg’s video work London Winterreise is presented at Al Riwaq Art Space in Manama, Bahreïn, as part of the exhibition In the Lapse of Tides, curated by Effat Abdullah Fadag.
Behind the Lens: interview with Nicola Lo Calzo
Harper's Bazaar Italia
by Carolina Davalli, December 16, 2025
On the occasion of the release of his new photography books, Tragèdia and Brigantinas (published by L’Artiere), Nicola Lo Calzo was interviewed by Harper’s Bazaar Italia.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/it/cultura/fotografia/a69675775/nicola-lo-calzo-fotografo-intervista/
RUT BLESS LUXEMBURG / JIMEI x ARLES International Photo Festival
Xiamen, China
November 29, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Rut Blees Luxemburg, together with Harriet Min Zhang (MA Curating Contemporary Art), co-curated the exhibition From Allegory to Algorithm for the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, presenting works by 18 alumni of the Royal College of Art’s Photography programme in London.
NICOLA LO CALZO
Harmattan / Togo Photo Festival / Lomé
December 12-30, 2025
Directors and Founders Ako Atikossie & Giulia Brivio
Harmattan / Togo Photo Festival aims to stimulate imagination and visual research through photography, which becomes a means of charting new paths in the imagination that characterises West Africa, initiating new dialogues between ancient traditions and future visions, and interacting with an increasingly vibrant art scene. Among the 15 Togolese and international artists, Nicola Lo Calzo is participating in the festival with his series TCHAMBA, created in Togo in 2017.
The festival will take place in Lomé from 12 to 30 December at the Agnassan – Paul Ahyi Museum, the Artemis Gallery, the Edith Equagoo Garden and the Palais de Lomé. In 2026, the exhibition will become itinerant and will be presented from February to April 2026 in Lugano/Paradiso, Switzerland, at Focus Artphilein, then in Milan, Italy, at Loro Milano in May 2026.
📍Togo, Lomé. Agnassan - Musée Paul Ahyi | Galerie Artemis | Jardin Edith Equagoo | Palais de Lomé
📅 December 12-30, 2025
📍Switzerland, Lugano/Paradiso. Focus Artphilein
📅 February - April 2026
📍Italy, Milano. Loro Milano
📅 May 2026
Nicola Lo Calzo / Nego Fugido, mémoires quilombolas
MAFRA Museu Afro Brasileiro - UFBA Salvador de Bahia
November 6, 2025 - February 6, 2026
As part of the Brazil-France Season 2025, Nego Fugido by Nicola Lo Calzo is a travelling monographic exhibition presented at the Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Centre in Aubervilliers, the Alliance Française in Brasilia, the Photo Rio festival and now at MAFRA in Salvador de Bahia. The exhibition offers a sensitive immersion in a celebration of freedom, where images become a means of resistance and reappropriation. Produced in the Quilombola community of Acupe, in Bahia, Brazil, the annual staging of Nego Fugido combines ritual and performance to reconstruct, from the perspective of the descendants of slaves, the struggle for black emancipation.
Chantal Regnault / Queer Lens. A History of Photography
J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles
June 17 - September 28, 2025
Chantal Regnault's works are on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as part of Queer Lens: A History of Photography, an exploration of the history of photography through a resolutely queer lens. The exhibition brings together a selection of works highlighting artists and subjects from the LGBTQ+ community, in order to give visibility to those who have shaped art and culture through the practice of photography, and to demonstrate that photography has been, and remains, a powerful tool for representing queer experiences.
Vue de l'exposition
Hannah Collins / Exposition Soy Fuego
Soy Fuego was born out of the artist's personal experiences and her extensive travels throughout Latin America - from the Colombian Amazon to the volcanoes of Michoacán, from the skies of the Atacama Desert to the forests of Veracruz - contexts in which she established close ties with local communities, sharing knowledge and rituals that shape a deeper perception of nature and its cycles.
📅 Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
📍May 8 - July 26, 2025
Chantal Regnault / Publication in the catalogue Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, du Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chantal Regnault’s Avis Pendavis Ball, Red Zone (1990) is featured in the publication accompanying the Met’s latest exhibition
Abstract
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture—from contemporary hip-hop aesthetics and popular street trends, to its use during the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement as a symbol of creativity and political power, and further back to its surprising origins as the mandated attire of domestic workers and enslaved people.
Organized around the key characteristics of dandyism that resonate across time—most notably presence, distinction, disguise, and respectability—this new interpretation of a centuries-old aesthetic draws on the perspectives of leading Black voices in fashion, literature, and art, including Dandy Wellington, Amy Sherald, Iké Udé, and André 3000.
Self-proclaimed dandies and high-fashion models appear in a stunning photographic essay by artist Tyler Mitchell, who also contributes evocative new images of garments designed by contemporary creators such as Virgil Abloh, Pharrell Williams, and Grace Wales Bonner. These works are presented alongside historical ensembles worn by iconic Black figures including Frederick Douglass, Alexandre Dumas père, Muhammad Ali, and André Leon Talley.
Scholar Monica L. Miller situates these objects within their broader cultural context, demonstrating how the evolution of dandy style has inspired new visions of Black masculinity, using the power of dress and attire as a means of self-expression.
Exhibition 02/08/22 - 03/26/22
Febuary Unusual
Vivian VAN BLERK & Pume BYLEX
Vivian VAN BLERK
South African artist, living and working in the Parisian suburb of La Courneuve. Trained as a photographer, at the beginning of his research he built numerous models, often of large dimensions and requiring the use of different mediums such as plastic, plaster, polystyrene or earth.
His photographs were the only trace of the work he was able to carry out; his models, which were too large, were destroyed for obvious logistical reasons.
Although he originally used colour silver photography, later, in order to accentuate the narrative and give a more "pictorial" aspect to these representations, he turned to old techniques such as cyanotype, gum bichromate or even prints on old glass plates.
More recently, the practice of ceramics has enabled him to make his models into works in their own right and no longer a support for photographic work.
Moreover, this material, so concrete, so noble and so fragile at the same time, is an ideal medium to express the precarious beauty of existence. Thus he was able to tackle the theme of "Memento Mori" with a series of human skulls in the tradition of vanities and still lifes. Each piece becomes the support of a unique universe, shown or secretly hidden inside the skulls, representing the particular imaginary world of each person.
His latest works are larger installations that reflect his questioning of our relationship to the world and to nature, at this moment in human history when our activity threatens our environment. They confront us with a post-human world, still haunted by the architectural ruins of abandoned cities, the last evocations of the history of our civilisations, still cluttered with the polluting waste of our devouring consumer societies, but where animal and plant nature are regaining their rights.
A sort of soothed naturalist resurrection but also a worried warning about the future of our society.
Pume BYLEX
Pume Bylex was born in 1968 in Kinshasa, DRC, where he lives and works. He is a poet, architect, engineer and artist who makes his world of tomorrow, the world of his own measure. A sapper, he invented the growing shoe, a utopian, the ear chair.
Born into a family of craftsmen, he attended secondary school and received a diploma as a teacher, a profession he decided not to follow and assumed a different destiny.
Fascinated by science, he observed film projections and eventually acquired one, which set him on the path to creation and he became an artist. All his codes are already defined in a few years in the different works he creates, armchairs, desks, shoes, his manual windows that protect precious objects and colour codes.
Following his first trip to Paris in 1997 for the group exhibition "Suites africaines" at the Couvent des Cordeliers, he participated in a series of prestigious exhibitions including "Partages d'exotsimes" by Jean-Hubert Martin (Lyon Biennale, 2000), Africa Remix at the Centre Pompidou, the Kunst Palace in Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery in London, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and Moderna museet in Stockholm
In 2008, an original exhibition at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Burxelles. The curators put "on stage as much his work as his universe" ("La cité touristique", 2008).
Double exhibition in 2012 at the French Institute of Kinshasa and in Paris (Revue Noire).
In 2017, an entire room was dedicated to him in "Afriques Capitales" at the Grande Halle de la Villette (Proposition by Dominqiue Fiat, curator Simon Njami). Bylex represents the universe he creates and he therefore associates it with his first name Pume.