The pavilion 9A of the Mattatoio, will host the first exhibition in Europe by the Chinese painter Lu Song (Beijing, 1982), curated by Ludovico Pratesi. Lu Song’s works are figurative canvases that are inspired by an observant and poignant analysis of European art history, focusing in particular on the notion of landscape that the artist transforms into evocative sceneries, blending the surreal and the fantastic with the factual and logical. The large-scale canvases in the exhibition are almost homage to German romanticism and the works of great masters of the time such as Caspar David Friedrich and Arnold Bocklin – whom lived in Rome and interpreted the world of ancient roman classicism with a hint of demure and nostalgic northern soul.

www.mattatoioroma.it

The frac île-de-france presents at le Plateau the first exhibition of Elad Lassry in France where the artist presents a new series of photographs and sculptures. In thi exhibition Lassry combines analogue technology with the dematerialisation of the image, an anxiety-provoking phenomenon whereby the image is deprived of its physical qualities and becomes omnipresent in the form of data.

www.fraciledefrance.com

Museion opens the new season with a solo show by John Armleder 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la même has chosen' (the more things change, the more the same). In his paintings, sculptures, environmental installations, performances, video art, editorial and curatorial projects, he reinvents the notions of artwork and exhibition, bringing together elements like random chance and design, high-brow culture and entertainment, unsettling irony and conceptual analysis. For Museion the artist will create a special project, on show on the fourth floor.

www.museion.it

This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of their emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale installation that meditates on the fate of civic space.

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From May 31 until stocks are exhausted, the Accademia di Francia in Rome - Villa Medici is pleased to present Take Me (I'm yours), a collective and participatory exhibition that brings together the works of the 15 retirees of Villa Medici alongside numerous international artists, for a total of 89 artists.

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During the cultural festival of the city 'Antwerp baroque 2018. Rubens inspires', Luc Tuymans faces the genius of the Baroque masters with the vision of the best contemporary artists. The exhibition "Sanguine | Bloedrood", conceived by the artist for M HKA (Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp) and Fondazione Prada, is a visually opulent and stimulating exhibition that brings the old masters into the experimental spaces of contemporary art.

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In collaboration with Massimo De Carlo, Art Projects Ibiza and Lune Rouge will exhibit for the summer of 2018 a group of works by American artist Tony Lewis (Chicago, 1986), created and specifically selected for this exhibition. Lewis' work is based on the relation between language and drawing, understood as the primary exercise of an artist but also as a cohesive element in contemporary art.

www.artprojectsibiza.com

PLAY is a headstrong city festival organised from 23 June till 11 November 2018 that will take over the centre of Kortrijk with contemporary artworks where you can immerse yourself in the unique world of national and international visual art at diverse indoor and outdoor locations in the city.

www.playkortrijk.be

The exhibition, inspired by Ovid's poetry, specifically to the ancient myth of Niobe, proposes a visual, literary, imaginary path that engages the viewer inside ancient structures, now destined for exhibitions, that will come back to life through the re-evocation of the myth.

This landmark exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media. Curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition will open in the summer of 2018 to coincide with what would have been Michael Jackson’s 60th birthday (on August 29, 2018).

www.npg.org.uk

Developed in collaboration with Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno 1924), the exhibition retraces the pursuit of an artist who ventured beyond the traditional confines of art, questioning cultural systems and conventions. An experimenter in techniques and idioms, Baruchello began his quest rethinking the pictorial medium, practicing juxtaposition, assemblage, writing, and reductions of scale.

www.mart.tn.it

Raymond is a project conceived as a homage to the figure of Raymond Roussel with the aim of triggering a series of events, happenings and artworks in the spaces of the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes of Palermo, the place in which the French writer died on July 14, 1933, on the day of the Celebrations for S. Rosalia, patron saint of the city.

www.raymond2018.com

“The Feeling of Things” is the most extensive exhibition in Italy by Matt Mullican (born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California) and his major retrospective ever.
For Pirelli HangarBicocca the artist has designed a massive sculptural structure that takes its shape from his most iconic five-color-cosmologies, occupying nearly the entire 5,000 square meter exhibition space. Visitors are invited to enter the structure to discover thousands of meticulously arranged works and objects.

www.hangarbicocca.org

‘Dancing with Myself’ faces the primordial importance of the artist’s role as actor and material of his own creations, from the 1970s to today.

www.palazzograssi.it

Anthology 2014–2016 is an installation of thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirety, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely source—Calvin and Hobbes comic books.

www.hirshhorn.si

Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis (b. 1986) will create a new, site-specific drawing for the outward-facing wall of the Rose Art Museum's Lois Foster Wing, extending his ongoing investigations of the relationships between drawing, abstraction, and language.

www.brandeis.edu