Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Bill Viola: A Retrospective

30 June – 9 November 2017

A comprehensive overview of the career of this pioneer in the development of video art, this ambitious exhibition offers a thematic and chronological survey of Viola’s oeuvre and the evolution of media art as an art form.

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Beirut Art Fair

8th Edition

21 – 24 September 2017

Following the success of the 2016 edition, BEIRUT ART FAIR 2017 will feature a centerpiece exhibition curated by Rose Issa, an expanded REVEALING by SGBL section, the 6th edition of the BYBLOS BANK AWARD, the VIDEO BOX space presented by the MACAM, and a VIP program that gives exclusive access to the best Lebanese art collections.

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1st Edition of BEIRUT DESIGN FAIR

Beirut International
Exhibition & Leisure Center

20 – 24 September 2017

A unique and creative design scene, an exciting, entrepreneurial spirit, a cosmopolitan crossroads, and a culture of exceptional craftsmanship: these qualities and others will be on display to the world during the first edition of BEIRUT DESIGN FAIR, set to take place in the Lebanese capital in September 2017.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

20th Anniversary

This year, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao celebrates its 20th Anniversary, two decades after it first opened its doors to the public on October 19, 1997. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has been, from its inception, an exceptional project for its singularity, international scope, and artistic and educational ambition.

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LAB’BEL
LAËTITIA BADAUT HAUSSMANN
AT THE MAISON LOUIS CARRÉ

Bazoches-sur-Guyonne France

25 June – 3 September 2017

For the summer of 2017, Lab’Bel, the artistic laboratory of the Bel Group, has invited French artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann to create a site specific project in the spaces of the Maison Louis Carré, conceived by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Paris, Fin de Siècle:
Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec
and Their Contemporaries

12 May – 17 September 2017

Focusing on the radical innovations of the Neo-Impressionists, Symbolists, and the Nabis, and the revival of printmaking in the 1890s, Paris Fin de Siècle includes rarely seen works by artists such as Paul Signac, Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Tate Modern

Alberto Giacometti

10 May – 10 September 2017

The UK’s first major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) in 20 years, this ambitious exhibition will reassert the artist’s place alongside Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the 20th century.

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Resistance and Deportation
History Centre – Lyon, France

Les Jours Sans

13 April 2017 – 28 January 2018

From 1939 to 1949, the French were subjected to a rationing program that would profoundly impact their relationship to food. Organized at the initiative of the CHRD Lyon, the exhibition LES JOURS SANS plunges visitors in the daily lives of the French during and after the Second World War.

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Tate Modern

Wolfgang Tillmans

15 February – 11 June 2017

Since his rise to prominence in the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has gone on to work in an ever greater range of media, while taking an increasingly innovative approach to staging exhibitions. This show will bring these aspects to the fore, encompassing Tillmans’ photographs, video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Abstract Expressionism

3 February – 4 June 2017

With its exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offers a new look at this varied, complex and multifaceted movement that radically altered New York’s painting scene in the 1940s.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf

11 November 2016 – 23 April 2017

This exhibition brings together 70 works by key artists in the history of art during the first half of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, and Vasily Kandinsky, in dialogue with works by contemporary artists dating from the second half of the 20th century until today.

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Alliance Française

Launch of the “One Million Friends
for the Alliance Française” challenge

8 November 2016

For the first time, the 816 satellites of the Alliance Française – the largest cultural network in the world – are coordinating their efforts to use bring together 1 million French speakers from around the world, by means of a new digital platform.

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Lab’Bel and the Bel Group

The Laughing Cow®
collector’s edition box
by Jonathan Monk

The Laughing Cow® continues to prepare for its 100th anniversary in 2021 with a third collector’s edition box designed by British conceptual artist Jonathan Monk.

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Tate Modern

The New Tate Modern

Opens 17 June 2016

The new Tate Modern opens to the public on Friday 17 June 2016. Created by world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, it represents the most important new cultural building to open in the UK for almost twenty years.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Windows on the City:
The School of Paris, 1900–1945

22 April – 23 October 2016

Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900 – 1945 includes some of the most influential paintings and sculptures of the last century, created by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Louise Bourgeois.
Structures of Existence: The Cells

18 March – 4 September 2016

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents this selection of the innovative, sophisticated sculptural works developed by Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) over the course of two decades. The focal point is the Cells: 28 emotionally charged architectural spaces, each an individual microcosm separating the internal from the external world.

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Beirut Art Fair

7th Edition

15 – 18 September 2016

In addition to uncovering the brightest young artistic talents from the ME.NA.SA region (Middle East – North Africa – South Asia), the 2016 BEIRUT ART FAIR (15 – 18 September) will also explore the unique historical trajectory of modernism in the Middle East, all while offering a program rich in visits, encounters and exchanges.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Andy Warhol. Shadows

26 February 2016 – 2 October 2016

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Shadows (1977–78) by Andy Warhol, a monumental artwork of 102 large format, silkscreened panels that reflect some of Warhol’s explorations with abstraction through his signature palette of bright and cheerful hues.

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Lab’Bel and the Bel Group

The Laughing Cow®
collector’s edition box
by Thomas Bayrle

The Laughing Cow® continues to prepare for its 100th anniversary in 2021 with a second collector’s edition box signed by pop artist Thomas Bayrle.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Making Africa
A Continent of Contemporary Design

30 October 2015 – 21 February 2016

This exhibition explores a new approach to the role of contemporary design in Africa in the broadest sense of the term. Design is a fundamental force in the construction of a new, different continent, and this exhibition sheds new light on how design goes along with and even promotes political and economic change, engaging in a close dialogue with other art-related disciplines, such as illustration, film, photography, architecture, and urban planning.

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Tate Modern

Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture

11 November 2015 – 3 April 2016

Tate Modern presents the UK’s largest ever exhibition of Alexander Calder (1898-1976). Calder was one of the truly ground-breaking artists of the 20th century and as a pioneer of kinetic sculpture, played an essential role in shaping the history of modernism. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture will bring together approximately 100 works to reveal how Calder turned sculpture from a static object into a continually changing work to be experienced in real time.

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Tate Modern

The EY Exhibition:
The World Goes Pop

17 September 2015 – 24 January 2016

The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop is a groundbreaking exhibition revealing how artists around the world engaged with the spirit of Pop, from Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle East. At Tate Modern from 17 September 2015, the show will explode the traditional story of Pop art and show how different cultures contributed, re-thought and responded to the movement.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Jean-Michel Basquiat:
Now’s the Time

3 July 2015 – 1 November 2015

The result of a collaboration with the At Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time includes roughly one hundred large-scale paintings organized around the themes that defined Basquiat’s meteoric career, cut short by his tragic death at the age of 27.

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KATRIN FRIDRIKS

PERCEPTION OF THE STENDHAL SYNDROME

9 MAY – 22 NOVEMBER, 2015

PALAZZO BEMBO – VENICE, ITALY

As part of the exhibition Personal Structures – Crossing Borders organized in Venice’s Palazzo Bembo by the European Cultural Centre, Icelandic artist Katrin Fridriks presents Perception of the Stendhal Syndrome (2014/2015), an installation that marks a point of culmination in her œuvre to date.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective

June 9, 2015 – September 27, 2015

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective explores the work of one of the most eminent figures in the art of our time, the inimitable Jeff Koons. This chronological retrospective of Koons’s artistic output has been organized by NewYork’sWhitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Centre National d’Art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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Tate Britain

Barbara Hepworth:
Sculpture for a Modern World

24 June – 25 October 2015

Tate Britain presents the first London museum retrospective in five decades of the work of Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s greatest artists. Hepworth (1903-75) was a leading figure of the international modern art movement in the 1930s, and one of the most successful sculptors in the world during the 1950s and 1960s.

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NEW ZEALAND PAVILION
56th International Art Exhibition of
la Biennale di Venezia

Simon Denny. Secret Power

9 May – 22 November 2015

Simon Denny has been commissioned by Creative New Zealand, Arts Council of New Zealand, to exhibit in the New Zealand pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Niki de Saint Phalle

27 February – 11 June 2015

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is proud to present this complete retrospective of the work of Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1930 – San Diego, California, 2002).

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Michael Staab
Lab’Bel
Concertino Unisono
From 8 May 2015
Piazza San Marco – Venice

During the opening of the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Lab’Bel, the Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group, will present its latest art project in Venice, Italy: part one in a series of 3 Easy Pieces.

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REOPENING MUSEE COGNACQ-JAY, PARIS

LUMIERES :
CARTE BLANCHE À CHRISTIAN LACROIX

19/11/2014 – 19/04/2015

For its reopening, Musée Cognacq-Jay has given “Carte Blanche” to Christian Lacroix.

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO

THE ART OF OUR TIME.
MASTERPIECES FROM THE
GUGGENHEIM COLLECTIONS

23/09/2014 – 25/01/2015 (3rd Floor)
23/10/2014 – 03/05/2015 (1st & 2nd Floors)

This exhibition celebrates 20 years of partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Echoing the museum’s opening exhibition in October 1997, which occupied the entire building, The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections reveals how the collections of the museums in the Guggenheim constellation have grown and flourished over the years, underscores the synergies between them, and shows how their holdings complement each other while retaining their distinctive identities.

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LAB’BEL
ARTISTIC LABORATORY OF THE BEL GROUP

LAB’BEL EXPO:
STORIES WITHOUT WITCHES

21/09/2014 – 8/03/2015

Following REWIND in 2010, Lab’Bel, The Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group, revisits the theme of childhood with Lab’Bel Expo: Stories without witches, a contemporary art exhibition at La Maison de La vache qui rit (Jura, France). The exhibition will transport visitors to the fantastic world of fairy tales via an ensemble of sculptures, installations and video works by Anna Betbeze, Pierre Ardouvin, Virginie Barré, Oliver Beer, Pierre Huyghe, Pierre Joseph, João Pedro Vale and Virginia Yassef.

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TATE BRITAIN

THE EY EXHIBITION:
LATE TURNER – PAINTING SET FREE

10/09/2014 – 25/01/2015

The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free will be the first major exhibition to survey the achievements of JMW Turner (1775–1851) during his final period (1835–50). The exhibition will reassess Turner’s extraordinary body of work during this period, when some of his most celebrated works were created.

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HANS-PETER FELDMANN’S

COLLECTOR’S EDITION
LAUGHING COW PACKAGE

17/11/2014 – 31/12/2014

An exceptional, collector’s edition package designed by a great contemporary artist—that’s how The Laughing Cow ® is already preparing for its 100th anniversary in 2021.

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
GEORGES BRAQUE
13/06/2014 – 21/09/2014

Organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur- Seine, 1882−Paris, 1963), this large retrospective covers all the phases of the career of one of the most important artists of the 20th century. As one of the creators of Cubism, along with Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, and a pioneer of the papiers collés (glued papers), Braque focused his later work on the methodical exploration of still-life and landscape. He was considered the French painter par excellence, inheriting from the classical tradition while also serving as a precursor to the abstraction of the post-war period.

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La Maison de La vache qui rit
DOSSIER DE PRESSE 2014

In 2014, LA MAISON DE LA VACHE QUI RIT in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) celebrates five years of existence and more than 200.000 visitors.

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TATE MODERN
HENRI MATISSE: THE CUT-OUTS
17/04/2014 – 07/09/2014

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the artist’s paper cut-outs made between 1943 and 1954, offering a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse’s colourful and innovative final works. The exhibition will gather around 120 works, many seen together for the first time.

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TATE BRITAIN
NEW PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST COLLECTION OF BRITISH ART
COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 2013

A new Tate Britain will be unveiled during 2013. In May, a new chronological presentation of the world’s greatest collection of British art opens, and in November, the building project by Caruso St John Architects will be completed.