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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
COAL Prize 2022 / Marina Gioti
Marina Gioti was awarded the COAL Prize yesterday for her project Sounding the Silent World. A special jury prize was also awarded to Brandon Ballengée for his project Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf. The awards were presented at a ceremony held at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, in the presence of the nominated artists and members of a jury made up of experts in the fields of art, ecology and research, chaired by Christine Germain-Donnat, Director of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and Bruno David, President of the Natural History Museum.
The COAL Awards ceremony, dedicated in 2022 to the theme of the oceans, took place on 8 June, on the occasion of World Oceans Day.
The Ocean, this geographical, dreamlike and political horizon, cultural heritage as much as natural and breeding ground for the imagination, is at the root of the global phenomena that make our planet habitable. The first carbon sink before the forests, a climate regulator, it constitutes the largest ecosystem on the planet, at the very place where life emerged. It is also the cradle of economic and commercial life, home to the majority of humans in its coastal areas and supporting three billion people who depend directly on marine biodiversity for their livelihood.
The transformation of the oceans in the face of climate change is a real challenge, both in terms of taking action and in terms of raising awareness of processes that are sometimes elusive: ocean warming, rising sea levels, acidification and deoxygenation of the seas, overexploitation of fisheries resources, plastic pollution, degradation of marine habitats, proliferation of invasive species, etc.
The projects of the winners of the COAL 2022 Prize, the Special Jury Prize of the COAL 2022 Prize and the COAL Student Prize - Culture & Diversity 2022 reveal the richness of the oceans to as many people as possible and imagine new concrete actions to revive resilience with the water worlds.
"This prize perfectly illustrates the raison d'être of the François Sommer Foundation", said Alban de Loisy, Managing Director of the François Sommer Foundation.
"It is important that in the artistic field, there are people who stand up, express themselves and show the threats to the ocean. I hope that the winning projects will carry this type of message. Let's protect the ocean also for its beauty and not only for the services it can provide to humanity," said Bruno David, President of the National Museum of Natural History. Marina Gioti, winner of the COAL 2022 PrizeThe jury awarded the COAL 2022 Prize to Marina Gioti for her project Sounding the Silent World, which aspires to explore the past and present state of derelict wrecks and ships, their touching presence and puzzling materiality in order to activate a discourse and speculation on their future. The artist has chosen as a case study the archaeological site of Eleusis, west of Athens. A former sanctuary and ritual centre, home of the eponymous mysteries and entrance to the mythological underworld, the coastal city, now an industrial centre, now hides a veritable marine cemetery in its abyss." You deal with the long time, the distant past, but you also evoke the future of these wrecks; both what comes from very far away and what goes very far away", Olivier Lerude, Senior Official for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Culture, addressed the winner during the award ceremony.
https://www.projetcoal.org/coal/2022/06/09/les-laur%c3%a9at%e2%80%a2es-du-prix-coal-2022/
