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Armenian artist Kevork Mourad presents his exhibition Sailing to Nowhere, currently on view at the gallery, to discover on NAM-ArmeNews.
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/: Vivian Van Blerk @LouvreLens / last days
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
Sharing Perama - Sharing Art / ECC Italy / Biennale de Venise
curated by Barbara Polla and Dominique Fiat
until 27th November 2022
The non-profit organisation Sharing Perama has been invited to participate in the European Cultural Centre Biennale 2022, which will open in April 2022 in Venice, alongside the Venice Biennale.
Perama is a neglected and fascinating suburb of Athens, originally created by migrants a century ago: the first settlements followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. Perama is one of the few cities that still remembers that it was created by migrants and, as such, it resembles New York. It also resembles New York in its extraordinary diversity, be it social, industrial or territorial.
Liminal Realities by Marios Fournaris
The exhibition SHARING PERAMA, SHARING ART, will highlight this diversity through the photographs of Marios Fournaris. The artist, born in Perama, obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in the UK and then returned to live and work in Perama, and now photographs Perama on a daily basis, especially when the sky is overcast, as Perama is far from the "white sea blue walls" that one usually imagines when thinking of Greece.
Perama is reflected in the photographs of Marios Fournaris, like a self-portrait. Marios Fournaris' photographs will be printed in large format, on "blue back", to give the viewers the impression that they are really in Perama and that they live here, in the shadow of the steel swans.
A Love Song by Robert Montgomery
In this landscape, poetry is in every street, behind the hills, in the harbour, in the shops, in the memories of the people, in the music of the Rebetiko. Allen Ginsberg was here in 1961, and sang Perama in his poetry. The post-situationist artist and poet Robert Montgomery found Perama to have many similarities with the city where he was born, Glasgow, where his grandfather was a miner. Montgomery knows from the inside the hard times of industrial work and the worst times of unemployment. Before writing and installing his luminous poems in Perama, the artist spent a lot of time in the city, to get a feel for its atmosphere. His first poem is entitled THE BEGINNING OF HOPE. The exhibition SHARING PERAMA, SHARING ART will feature photographs (by Marios Fournaris and Robert Montgomery himself) of this luminous poem and of the next work to be installed in the public space of Perama: A LOVE SONG.
Dreaming Perama by Christos PANAGOS & Charalambos MARGARITIS
Along with words, moving images best capture and convey the soul and memories of a place. Filmmaker Christos Panagos, a connoisseur of Perama, spent time with Barbara Polla, the founder of SHARING PERAMA, walking around the town in search of her memories. Together with Charalambos Margaritis, a specialist in video/film animation, Christos Panagos conceived the medium-length film DREAMING PERAMA, a docu-fiction mixing real images and animation, past and present, beauty and loss, fear and love. Viewers become like sleepwalkers while watching this immersive and hypnotic film, and can retrieve the memories of others for themselves: Perama belongs to everyone. The film (work in progress) and its storyboard will be presented, together with Robert Montgomery's poetry, with the images of Perama for a total immersion of the spectators in the space.
Curators
Barbara Polla, founder of Analix Forever Gallery, Switzerland, and president of the Sharing Perama Foundation. As an independent curator, she has organised numerous exhibitions on the theme of imprisonment, video, and created Video Forever in collaboration with Paul Ardenne. She is currently preparing a book on Perama, with photographs by Marios Fournaris.
Dominique Fiat, founder of the Galerie Dominique Fiat, France, located in the Marais district of Paris since the early 2000s, is also an independent curator creating artistic projects.
Her approach is characterized by a transdisciplinary vision, the discovery of young talents such as Camille Henrot or Hicham Berrada, and the importance she gives to the "Global South" and particularly to Africa and the Mediterranean.
The SHARING PERAMA - SHARING ART project is driven by ecological values and reflections on environmental issues which are addressed through the artworks themselves which are presented in a unique way by the artists.