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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
ESCLAVAGE, MÉMOIRES NORMANDES. ROUEN, L’ENVERS D’UNE PROSPÉRITÉ
A selection of photographs from the research KAM by Nicola Lo Calzo is presented at Corderie Vallois in Rouen as part of the exhibition, « Esclavage, Mémoires normandes » a first major exhibition in the process of recognizing the history and memory of slavery in Normandy. Prints from the series AYITI, REGLA, AGOUDA are presented along with works by artists Emmanuelle Gall, Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque, Elisa Moris Vai between others.
The exhibition on the memory of slavery will open on May 10, 2023, at the end of a collegial process involving the towns of Honfleur, Le Havre and the Rouen Normandy Metropolis, as well as various museums, municipal and departmental archives and the "Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire" label…
The aim?
To shed light on Normandy's involvement in the triangular trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, by comparing objects in collections and contemporary accounts. Bordeaux, Nantes and La Rochelle have been the focus of much research, and are now taking responsibility for their role in the slave trade and the ensuing trade in Western Europe through various cultural and commemorative events. Until now, Normandy has remained somewhat on the sidelines of this general movement in favor of greater transparency in local - town, regional -, individual and collective history. In fact, it is the responsibility of Europeans, and in particular of these coastal towns, in the crime against humanity that was slavery (law no. 2001-434 of May 21, 2001). The Rouen-Le Havre-Honfleur conglomerate, however, had a weight comparable to that of Bordeaux or Nantes... It was absolutely necessary to revisit this history, not only from an ethical point of view, but also in view of its medium- and long-term consequences for the region and its development.
Tracing history
The ship-owning families - in other words, those who financed the boat trips in order to make a profit from them - were mostly from Rouen. However, as the boats left from Le Havre and, to a lesser extent, Honfleur, it was long claimed that the triangular trade did not concern Rouen, despite the fact that it was heavily involved in financing this commercial eco-system…
Genesis
Long before the 18th century, Normans were accustomed to transatlantic travel. The ember trade in Brazil and attempts at colonization in New France took them to the Americas, while the first Norman trading posts were opened in West Africa as early as the 17th century. A number of objects document this way of life and, in particular, the environment of Norman navigation: a beautiful astrolabe, maps and ivory objects, whose very material bears witness to early links with the African continent. A yoyo from the collections of the Musée de la Ferronnerie Le Secq des Tournelles is particularly emblematic, illustrating the ambivalence of the period.
A very present past
While the exhibition at Corderie Vallois brings to light certain elements of the past, what is perhaps most interesting is the echo that this effort to elucidate it finds in some of our contemporary issues. At a time when clothing is being manufactured in India, for example, at a human cost...
Textile fiber and cotton fabric production was one of Rouen's most important sectors in the triangular trade. The factories in the Cailly valley were particularly involved in the production of indiennes, a type of painted or printed cotton canvas. But it's not just about documenting the past for its own sake, as the exhibition questions our post-industrial era in the light of it.
Exhibition curator
Mathilde Schneider, Director of Musée Beauvoisine, Chief Curator of Heritage
Isabelle Gard, Project Manager, Public Services
Bruno Varin, assistant curator and cultural mediator
Scientific assistance: Simon Jean-Nebbache, PhD in museology
Practical information
From May 10, 2023 to September 17, 2023
Musée Industriel de la Corderie Vallois, Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville
Open daily from 1.30 pm to 6 pm
Admission: €4
Access
from Paris by train > Rouen - Rouen Rive-Droite stop
from Rouen with the T2 astuce network > Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville - Mairie V. stop Schoelcher
from Hameau de Frévaux with the F4 network >Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville - André Gide stop
Recognized as an exhibition of national interest by the French Ministry of Culture, it receives exceptional financial support from the French government.
The virtual exhibition, soon to go online, receives special support from FRAME
*One ticket for one of the three tours entitles the holder to reduced rates for the other two.
Fortunes and servitudes at Hôtel Dubocage de Bléville, 1 rue Jéröme Bellarmato, Le Havre. Exhibition from May 10 to November 10, 2023. Full price: €5 / concessions: 3€
D'une terre à l'autre at the Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur. Exhibition from May 10 to November 10, 2023. Full price: €8 / Reduced: €6.50