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).

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.

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.

http://@togophotofestival

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.

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.

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.