Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial
group show

We are pleased to share that Alex Ayed is participating in the inaugural Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: “Public Matter”.
This first edition explores the evolving concept of public space in Abu Dhabi through the lens of four main factors: environment, community, urbanity, and indigeneity.
Untitled (Beit el hmam I) (2023), a monumental sculpture crafted from olive wood, clay, straw, and lime, denotes the vernacular architecture of the southern Mediterranean region. The piece merges past and future, science fiction and reality, functioning as a dovecote (structure that houses pigeons) and converging history and imagination. By using materials tied to the Mediterranean, Ayed highlights the resilience of regional practices amid globalisation. The sculpture gestures towards the continuity and cohabitation between humans, non-humans, and their environments, where birds, traditionally messengers, carry histories and stories across generations.

PAAD, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Suspension of Disbelief
solo show

Simone Fattal’s solo exhibition “Suspension of Disbelief” is on view at IVAM in Valencia, Spain, from December 12, 2024, to June 1, 2025.
Fattal has been awarded the Julio González International Prize 2024 for her contribution to contemporary art. To mark the occasion, IVAM is organizing an exhibition curated by Nuria Enguita and Rafael Barber, which will review the main lines of work of this Franco-Lebanese artist. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, including texts by the curators and contributions from professionals such as Jacqueline Burckhardt and Omar Kholeif.

IVAM, València, Spain

Between Rivers

group show

Between Rivers brings together the practices of contemporary artists who respond to the place of rivers in our lives at a moment when they are being profoundly reshaped by human activity. While rivers have been an important subject for artists since at least the nineteenth century and are at the center of significant developments in fields as varied as sociology, political organization, and the built environment, in recent years they have been discussed with an increasing urgency. Reports of major rivers dropping to their lowest levels on record have appeared alongside accounts of atmosphe­ric rivers causing severe flooding. Systems that are crucial to the functioning of our contemporary world, such as the production of hydroelectricity, food security, and global transportation networks, are being profoundly impacted. Simultaneously, the recognition of indigenous definitions of rivers, and the expansion of scientific and legal ones, are changing what we mean by the term.

The artists included in Between Rivers propose new ways of reading and imagining rivers. While many of the works are characterized by modes of expression that are particular to each artist’s practice—perhaps unsurprising given the challenge of representing a subject that is at once fixed and relentlessly in motion—they are nonetheless related by the image, process, or material of a river.

The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020
group show

Isabelle Cornaro is part of the exhibition The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020. This international exhibition showcases over 60 artists who have redefined painting through emerging technologies, imaging techniques, and their own bodies. By exploring the effects of computers, cameras, television, social media, and automation, the show frames painting as a manual “technology” increasingly distanced from the artist’s hand. This shift has led artists to question the nature of painting and who (or what) can be a painter.
Featuring mediums beyond painting, such as video and performance, these artists challenge painting traditions and the myth of the singular genius, presenting a vibrant portrait of a medium still evolving.

The Living End is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.

Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024
Trienal

Ser Serpas is among the invited artists participating in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024, El Museo del Barrio’s second major survey of Latinx contemporary art, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and guest curator María Elena Ortiz.

The “Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024” exhibition features 33 participating artists working across the United States, Puerto Rico, and—for the first time—extending into new geographies that reflect the complexities of diasporic flows. This edition builds on the framework of the critically acclaimed ”ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21,” the museum’s inaugural survey of Latinx contemporary art, and the first of its kind in the United States.

El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA

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The Restaurant Season 2
with Steffen Jørgensen

For the past eight years Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen have been expanding a series of videos called The Restaurant. Set in the ruins of a Parisian skyscraper surrounded by now dense jungle, human and non-human characters cook, serve, interrogate, fumble for meaning and fail at being productive members of society.

Den Frie
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Portrait of a Collection: Selected Works from the Pinault Collection
group show

With the artists: Lucas Arruda, Miriam Cahn, Xinyi Cheng, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Dominique Gonzalez-Foertser, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Florian Krewer, Julie Mehretu, Antonio Oba, Anri Sala, Ser Serpas, Rudolf Stingel, Pol Taburet, Tatiana Trouvé, Luc Tuymans, Danh Vo, Anicka Yi, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation
Seoul, South Korea

20 03 2024 – 23 11 2024

With My Eyes
curated by Chiara Parisi and Bruno Racine
Vatican’s Holy See Pavilion
60th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2024

The pavilion is located at the Giudecca Women’s Prison
Casa Reclusione Femminile Venezia “Giudecca”
Calle de le Cape, 194

To visit the exhibition it is necessary to make an appointment, please contact the gallery

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09 09 2024 – 24 11 2024

Manifesta 15
The European Nomadic Biennial

The 15th edition of Manifesta has opened in and around the Spanish metropolis, exhibiting work by 92 artists. Simone Fattal’s installation “Adam and Eve” consists of two life-size bronze figures and is displayed at the monastery of Sant Cugat.

Monastery of Sant Cugat
Barcelona, Spain

Studio Visits
group show

Erwan Sene is invited to recreate his studio at the Aranya Art Center in China.

This exhibition explores how artists adapt their conventional relationship with their studios in the context of evolving materiality of art form, of growing uncertainty of global mobility and of rising rental fees due to gentrification. Erwan Sene extends his studio into an urban scene, gathering discarded materials from the streets of Paris, capturing sound recordings, and crafting an imagined urban ecology from fragments of the metropolis.

This exhibition is organized by Aranya Art Center’s exhibition coordinator, wu riyang, and is supported by Ambassade de France en Chine and Japan Foundation, Beijing.

Aranya Art Center, China

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Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
60th Venice Biennale
curated by Adriano Pedrosa

In addition to her sculptures which will be exhibited in various locations of the show, the artist will also perform several times during the opening days.

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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), sculpture for the Venice Biennale

7 04 2023 – 5 01 2025

Amour Systémique
group show

This second collection narrative focuses on the motif of the grid, taken up by artists since the early 20th century.
Curated by Cédric Fauq and Anne Cadenet.

CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France

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11 04 2024 – 02 02 2025

Digital Dairies
group shows

Alex Ayed is part of group show Digital Dairies currently on view at Julia Stoschek Foundation until February 2, 2025. This exhibition explores diaristic forms in video and digital media from the 1970s onward.

Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf

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31 05 2024 – 01 09 2025

Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots
curated by Lorenzo Giusti
South Tyrol, Italy

The exhibition – which has brought international contemporary art to the unique setting of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 2008 – will take place once again in various venues around Ortisei/Urtijëi St. Ulrich as well as expanding into the surrounding areas of Val Gardena/Gherdëina Gröden. The pivotal themes explored by The Parliament of Marmots, are the wild as a creative dimension, multi-speciesism as a trajectory of becoming, and the mountain as a sewing ground and narrative dimension.

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Dolomites, ph: Tiberio Sorvillo