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Kevork Mourad, Crossing out of Silence, 2026 (detail), acrylic on ink on cotton and handcut, 124 x 280 x 40 cm

Armenian artist Kevork Mourad presents his exhibition Sailing to Nowhere, currently on view at the gallery, to discover on NAM-ArmeNews.


Marina Gioti, Kato Kosmos, 2023, side-scan sonar plexiglass prints in lightboxes

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

https://cwb.fr/agenda/exposition-collective-deep-fields: Marina Gioti @CentreWallonieBruxelles Paris

Vivian Van Blerk, Hyacinth Vase, 2020, grès, 20x18x20 cm

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, London Winterreise, video

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.


Nicola Lo Calzo, Tragèdia, Sao Tomé, 2019

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, Poudre à feu, Tchamba, 2017

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

http://@togophotofestival


Vue de l'exposition

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.


Willi Ninja, Studio, New York City, June 1989. Gelatin silver Print 35x24 cm
Chantal Regnault, Willi Ninja, Studio New York, 1989

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


2022 - 11 - JUNE - "EUROPA, OXALÁ" /  MALALA ANDRIALAVIDRAZANA

"Europa, Oxalá" / MUCEM, Marseille, France / Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal / Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium

Malala Andrialavidrazana

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1883, Reference Map for Business Men, 2019. Pigment print. 110 x 163 cm
© Malala Andrialavidrazana

After being presented at the MUCEM from 20 October 2021 to 16 January 2022, the exhibition "Europa, Oxalá" has been established since 3 March 2022 until 22 August 2022 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, before finishing its journey in Belgium, at the Africa Museum in Tervuren, from 6 October 2022 to 5 March 2023.

The exhibition "Europa, Oxalá" presents the work of twenty-one European artists and intellectuals whose family origins lie in the former colonies. These 'children of empires', born and raised in a post-colonial context, propose a reflection on their heritage, memory and identity.

Their parents and grandparents were born and lived in Congo, Angola, Guinea, Benin, Algeria and Madagascar, and these artists have inherited not only the voices, sounds and gestures, but also the images and memories of their original cultures, which is the starting point for extensive research in historical archives. As a result, their artistic productions nourish an original reflection on racism, the decolonisation of the arts, and the deconstruction of colonial thought. The way in which some of them combine contemporary languages and traditional processes constitutes an essential contribution to contemporary Europe. The innovative and transnational character of the work of these 'post-mémoire' artists has had a profound impact on the artistic and cultural scene over the last two decades.

The exhibition "Europa, Oxalá" presents about sixty works (paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, photos, installations) by twenty-one artists: Aimé Mpane, Aimé Ntakiyica, Carlos Bunga, Délio Jasse, Djamel Kokene-Dorléans, Fayçal Baghriche, Francisco Vidal, John K. Cobra, Katia Kameli, Mohamed Bourouissa, Josèfa Ntjam, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Márcio Carvalho, Mónica de Miranda, Nú Barreto, Pauliana Valente Pimentel, Pedro A.H. Paixão, Sabrina Belouaar, Sammy Baloji, Sandra Mujinga, Sara Sadik.

Through their work, "Europa, Oxalá" bears witness to the creative power of contemporary European cultural diversity, opening up new perspectives on the notion of Europe.

— Curators : António Pinto Ribeiro, commissaire, université de Coimbra, Katia Kameli, artiste et commissaire, Aimé Mpane, artiste et commissaire
— Set designer : Joris Lipsch, Studio Matters
— Coproduction :
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France
Mucem - Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Marseille / France)
Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale / AfricaMUSEUM (Tervuren / Belgique)
Centre d’études sociales de l’université de Coimbra (CES) à travers son projet européen (ERC) MEMOIRS – Enfants d’empires et post-mémoires européennes (Coimbra / Portugal)
— Itinerancy :
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbonne) : printemps 2022
Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale / AfricaMUSEUM (Tervuren / Belgique) : automne 2022
An event organised in the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union

https://www.mucem.org/programme/exposition-et-temps-forts/europa-oxala

https://gulbenkian.pt/paris/europa-oxala/

https://www.africamuseum.be/fr/see_do/temporary_exhibition/europa_oxala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfrCg6Xzd0w&t=1s
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