LE BAL is very glad to present from February 16th to May 21st, 2023the first Parisian large-scale exhibition of Joanna Piotrowska, a young Polish artist based in London and one of the leading voices of the contemporary photographic scene. In her work,she examines human behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships, exploring themes of intimacy, oppression, control and self-protection in the domestic sphere and more broadly within society. Her works and series, radical in their form and disturbing in their psychological charge, are halfway between photography and sculpture.

This invitation takes place within the context of the reopening of this major institution, and the inauguration of its renewed artistic project. With this new commission le Magasin CNAC wishes to support Rebecca Bellantoni (and her collaborator Rowdy SS) in the next step of her current research project titled C.R.Y. "The Postures I, II, III" (working title) is a performance that pivots around three recurring postures in Rebecca Bellantoni's performance practice. These postures have been developed while thinking through the part of her practice, that she has named C.R.Y: Concrete Regenerative Yearnings, her growing philosophy, which reimagines the city, its materials, psyche, soul, landscape, as an optimum space in which to regenerate.

Character is a multi-media art project through which the artist Paul Heintz went to meet the English namesakes of Winston Smith, hero of George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. Poetic, intimate and political, this art piece asks the question : Is there an unspeakable link between them and Orwell's hero? Character’s project takes various forms: a film, an installation, happening, collages and a book.

The FRAC opens its 40th anniversary with an exhibition devoted to a major artist on the international art scene. Since the early 1970s, he has made several hundred walks over thousands of kilometres, which alone constitute the whole of his work.Presenting the work of Hamish Fulton today, who has been politically and ecologically engaged for more than fifty years, is all the more important and relevant as it reflects on critical environmental issues challenging our societies today. Hamish Fulton’s pioneering work has been nurturing a whole generation of artists interested in landscape and environmental issues.

The project is based on the relationship Clémentine Bedos maintains with their grandmother, the ‘outsider’ artist Jeanne Durand. Jeanne communicated with her daughters and granddaughters through thousands of letters and daily flower drawings, which Clémentine has collected. By spending an entire month in near total isolation at historic building, Van Gogh House London, Clémentine's intention is to get as close to their grandmother's creative process as possible in order to create a performance and a site-specific installation.

The exhibition, ASensitiv by artist Rebecca Warren at the Institut Giacometti, Paris, examines her search for some revealing, and possibly hallucinatory, affinities with Giacometti's art and personality. Warren's method is like Giacometti: working slowly, almost in the dark, through trial and error, looking for a beginning that might lead somewhere unexpected and good. Giacometti and Warren are both engaged in a struggle to bring strange, independent beings to life, and the core of Warren's show is to have some of them meet and, for a time, cohabit and conspire.

Mostyn will present the first solo UK institutional exhibition by the French artist Diane Dal-Pra, an ascending art star of contemporary painting, from 27th May to 8th October, 2023. Dal-Pra’s work seduces and disquiets the viewer with its ambiguous composition and detailing. The central theme of her works is the duality of our relationship with possessions. Rituals and superstitions around objects give a sense of stability and permanence, and in turn, the objects we own engulf us and our identities as well as being a source of comfort.

Lorraine Turci's photographic installation explores what’s at stake in the relationship between human beings, society, nature and the environment. Her work is inspired by her years working as an on-board photographer on luxury cruise ships bound for the Antarctic. During this time she witnessed and documented how human interactions with the environment and wildlife of the Antarctic is primarily negotiated and understood through and by photography.

Liverpool Biennial will present the work of Benoît Piéron, Ranti Bam and Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu at Liverpool Biennial 2023: ‘uMoya. The Sacred Return of Lost Things’. Although working across three very different practices and experiences, the artists are united in their examinations of care and healing practices. Liverpool Biennial 2023, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, will examine threads between Catastrophe and Aliveness, inviting artists and audiences to consider how different ways of living and being are possible.

Artists: Roger Ackling, Liliane Lijn, Laure Vigna, Rose Wylie, Yemi Awosile, Pablo Bronstein, Rob Crosse, Julie Freeman, Jean-François Krebs, Trevor Mathison, Hugh Nicholson, Uriel Orlow, Susan Schuppli & Sara Trillo.

Initiated in Dunkirk in 2019, the Triennale ART & INDUSTRIE is a one-of-a-kind collective initiative on the territory of the Hauts-de-France, in Dunkirk: the creation of a new art and design triennial in Europe. Entitled «Chaleur humaine», "Human Heat", ART & INDUSTRIE 2023 will focus on energies, by approaching most particularly the questions of access to natural resources, those of the recycling and the durability of materials, the transformations of landscapes and our relationship to the sensitive/visible, the data circulation and energy flows.

The retrospective exhibition project of Jeremy Deller, winner of the Turner Prize in 2004, What were you thinking! aims to provide a broad overview of the artist’s work from the 1990s to the present day based on around fifteen major projects and installations. The exhibition at the Criée CAC will be mainly marked by the presentation of the installation Warning Graphic Content (2021). Moreover, structured around the installation Folk Archive (2005 with Alan Kane), the journey through the spaces of Frac Bretagne aims to present how Jeremy Deller claims to be one of the great observers of vernacular culture in the United Kingdom. Finally, the Musée des Beaux-arts de Rennes has chosen to present a large body of works by the artist, whether long-term projects or more limited proposals.

With the working title of ‘Fondant’, Williams uses a word that draws associations with sweet confections, glistening icing, and soft melting interiors. Taken from the Middle French fondre "to melt, cast", Williams is interested in playing with the connotations that the word Fondant draws with both sugary decorative exteriors and of melting or of a sweet soft interior. The images of this sugary miasma or crust sets the visual/material tone for the show –utilising motifs often present in the artists practice around ideas of eroticism, taste and ‘excess’ to the point of disgust.