Jan Fabre. Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo

10.11.2011 - 31.01.2012 | Magazzino d'arte moderna, Rome, Italy

Informations:
+39 (0)66875951
info@magazzinoartemoderna.com

Opening hours:
tuesday - friday 11amp-3pm and 4pm-8pm
saturday 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm
closed sunday, monday

Magazzino d'arte moderna
via dei prefetti 17
00186 Rome

http://www.magazzinoartemoderna.com

3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. Brain models and drawings by Jan Fabre

18.09.2011 - 18.12.2011 | Thessaloniki Concert Hall-Building M2, Greece

Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Building M2
25 Martiou Street & Paralia
54646 Thessaloniki

Informations:
(+30) 2310 895 800
info@tch.gr

(+30) 2310 589152
pr@greekstatemuseum.com

http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr

PIETAS ∣ Jan Fabre

01.06.2011 - 16.10.2011 | Nuova Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia, Venice, Italy

Organised to coincide with the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale, the exhibition entitled PIETAS will feature five large marble sculptures by the Flemish artist Jan Fabre, including an unprecedented reinterpretation of Michelangelo's Pietà.

Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and by Katerina Koshina and promoted by the GAMeC - Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, and by the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.


Informations:
info@janfabre.be

Exhibition Press Office:
CLP Relazioni Pubbliche
tel. +39 02 433403 / +39 02 36571438
press@clponline.it
www.clponline.it

GAMeC Press Office:
Manuela Blasi
Tel. +39 035 270272
manuela.blasi@gamec.it
www.gamec.it


Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm
Closed on Mondays

Nuova Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia
Sestiere Cannaregio 3599
Fondamenta della Misericordia
Venice

PUBLICATIONS > PIETAS | Jan Fabre

http://www.janfabre.be

Jan Fabre. Art kept me out of jail

17.06.2011 - 02.10.2011 | Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland

Opening hours:
tuesday 10am-6pm
wednesday-sunday 12am-8pm

Informations:
(00 48 42) 634 39 48

Muzeum Sztuki Lodz
Ogrodowa 19
91-065 Lodz
Poland

http://www.msl.org.pl

Jan Fabre. The Jewels of Death - Bic Blue Drawings

05.05.2011 - 10.09.2011 | Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art VIENNA, Austria

http://www.galerie-mam.com

Hortus / Corpus. Jan Fabre in the Kröller-Müller Museum

10.04.2011 - 04.09.2011 | KMM, Otterlo, The Netherlands

In the coming spring, a major exhibition on and with Belgian artist Jan Fabre (Antwerp 1958) is on display in the Kröller-Müller Museum. The title, which consists of the simple words, garden (hortus) and body (corpus), derives from the universe of Jan Fabre. The insect, the human, the angel and the blue of the perpetually recurring moment at which night becomes day and life awakens, play an important role therein. They are the four basic elements with which Fabre composes and reveals to us, in ever-altering arrays, his thoughts on life and death, beauty and disgust, vulnerability and violence, mortality and eternity.

With his sculptures, videos and drawings in the exhibition spaces and corridors and with no fewer than five installations in the sculpture garden, Jan Fabre briefly makes the Kröller-Müller Museum his own personal domain. The emphasis here is on the human body; on the physical and the capacity for depleting and recharging energies. The man who measures the clouds (1998) is the first sculpture by Fabre that visitors to the exhibition encounter, while walking on the path through the front garden of the museum towards the entrance. On the right, a human figure stands on a small stepladder, perched on the edge of the museum’s roof. The man measures the clouds with a ruler. For Fabre, he symbolizes that which an artist does: balancing on the border between the possible and impossible.

Jan Fabre is internationally renowned as one of today’s most original and versatile artists. He has been making his name as a groundbreaking performance artist for over 25 years already. This basis provides the source for his plays and operas on the one hand, and his sculptural work on the other. The Kröller-Müller Museum is hosting Jan Fabre as a visual artist.

Opening by invitation: April 9th, 2 p.m.
Press officer: sylvia@kmm.nl

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The sculpture garden closes at 4.30 p.m.

Informations:
+31 318 591 241
info@kmm.nl

Kröller-Müller Museum
Houtkampweg 6
6731 AW Otterlo

PUBLICATIONS > Jan Fabre. Hortus / Corpus

http://www.kmm.nl

Jan Fabre. The Years of the Hour Blue

04.05.2011 - 28.08.2011 | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The Picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum will host an exhibition comprising 40 historical works by the internationally renowned Belgian artist, Jan Fabre (born 1958 in Antwerp). These works belong to his series "The Hour Blue", and most of them were created between 1986 and 1990. Executed with a blue Bic ballpoint pen, these drawings focus on metamorphosis and rebirth. The drawings – and a selection of three-dimensional objects with surfaces also covered with ballpoint drawings - will be placed in a number of galleries and rooms of the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, entering into a dialogue with masterpieces in the KHM’s permanent collection such as Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders, Caravaggio’s Man holding Tortoises, and Rubens’ Feast of Venus. In addition, important sculptures by the artist will be displayed in the Entrance Hall and – visible from Maria-Theresien-Square – on the roof of the museum, initiating a fascinating dialogue between the contemporary and the historical, the transient and the eternal.

Informations:
+43 1 525 24 -4025
info.pr@khm.at

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10am -6pm
Thursday: 10am-9pm (Coin cabinet closes at 6pm)

Kunsthistorisches Museum
Picture Gallery
Maria Theresien-Platz
1010 Vienna

PUBLICATIONS > Jan Fabre. Die Jahre der Blauen Stunde_The Years of the Hour Blue

http://www.khm.at

The healing room

18.04.2011 - 25.05.2011 | inner room, fusi&fusi, Siena, Italy

Opening hours:
9.30-10.30am, 3.30-7pm

Informations:
+39 0577 43160

inner room - fusi & fusi
via delle terme 86
53100 Siena
Italy

http://www.fusiefusi.it/

Chimères & Portrait d'un artiste en évasion

14.04.2011 - 21.05.2011 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

Chimères
Galerie Daniel Templon
30 rue Beaubourg 
75003 Paris
+33 1 42 72 14 10

Portrait d'un artiste en évasion
Galerie Daniel Templon
Impasse Beaubourg 
75003 Paris
+33 1 48 04 86 36

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am to 7pm

Informations:
victoire@danieltemplon.com

http://www.danieltemplon.com

Jan Fabre in Ljubljana

19.03.2011 - 24.04.2011 | Mestna galerija; Galerija 001; Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Borrowed Time. Mestna galerija Ljubljana

Umbraculum. Galerija 001

The Carnival of the Dead Streetdogs & The Catacombs of the Dead Streetdogs. Galerija Vžigalica

Mestna galerija Ljubljana
Mestni trg 5 1000 Ljubljana Slovenija

Galerija 001 Kulturni center Tobačna 001
Tobačna Ljubljana 1000 Ljubljana Slovenija


Opening hours:
Thursday-Sat. 11am-7pm, Sundays 11am-3pm, 
Closed on Mondays and public holidays

Informations:
+ 386 (0) 1 2411 770
mestna.galerija@mgml.si

Galerija Vžigalica
Trg francoske revolucije 7 1000 Ljubljana Slovenija

Opening hours:
Thursdays-Sundays 10am-6pm
Closed on Mondays


Informations:
+ 386 (0) 1 2412 590
glalerija.vzigalica@mgml.si

http://www.mestna-galerija.si
http://www.mestnimuzej.si

Jan Fabre. Art Basel - Miami Beach

02.12.2010 - 05.12.2010 | Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida, U.S.A.

Jan Fabre presents new work on Art Basel - Miami Beach
Booth J12 / Magazzino

Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33139

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/

ISTANBUL |20|10| PROJE | Jan Fabre. Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?

05.10.2010 - 30.10.2010 | Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

Opening hours:
9am - 4pm
closed on Monday and Thursday

Informations:
e.hoorne@belgacom.net

Topkapi-paleis
sogukçesme sokak

http://www.galeriartist.com
http://www.topkapisarayi.gov.tr

UMBRACULUM para SAO PAULO, um lugar na sombra para pensar e trabajar

13.08.2010 - 10.10.2010 | Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Brasil, South-America

An Umbraculum for São Paulo  (A place in the shadow to work and think) is the first solo exhibition of Jan Fabre in Brasil. The Instituto Tomie Ohtake has invited the artist to make an exhibition which forms an introduction to the universe of his work. There has been made a selection of works starting at the early days of Fabre’s career.

The intention of the museum is to show the full range of Fabre's oeuvre by bringing together the different themes and materials in his work.

Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Sundays 11am to 8pm

Informations:
+55 11 2245 1900

Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Av. Faria Lima 201
entrada pela Rua Coropés, Pinheiros
São Paulo

http://www.institutotomieohtake.org.br

Art kept me out of jail. Performance installations by Jan Fabre 2001-2004-2008

19.03.2010 - 19.09.2010 | M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

In 2008 Jan Fabre mounted his exhibition L’ange de la métamorphose at the Louvre. He also performed Art kept me out of jail, a performance inspired by the story of the French gangster Jacques Mesrine. He recently donated the video recordings of this performance to the M HKA. This new installation will be shown together with installations from two other memorable performances, Virgin/Warrior (2004) and Sanguis/Mantis (2001).

Opening hours:
From Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On Mondays, 1st January, 1st May, Ascension Day, 25th December

Informations:
+32 (0)3 260 99 99
info@muhka.be

M HKA
Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

http://www.muhka.be

Jan Fabre. As time goes by ...

22.06.2010 - 11.09.2010 | Rode Zeven, Antwerpen, Belgium

Opening hours:
tuesday - friday 2 - 8 pm
saturday 6 - 8 pm

Informations:
+32 3 232 46 99

Rode Zeven
Sint-Jansplein 7
2060 Antwerpen

http://www.rode7.be

The borrowed time

06.06.2010 - 29.08.2010 | Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

The borrowed time provides a unique view of the sensually stimulating universe of the Flemish artist and theatre-maker Jan Fabre. The exhibition consists of approximately 130 drawings and conceptual models created by Fabre, as well as around 200 photos of his theatre, dance and opera productions taken by renowned photographers. The borrowed time is one of the many activities that will take place around Jan Fabre in Zwolle this summer. For example from 18 to 27 June he will be the main guest at Festival ZwArt where Fabre's complete Trilogie van de schoonheid (Trilogy of Beauty) will be performed for the first time in the Netherlands, and actors such as Hans Kesting, Kitty Courbois and Roeland Fernhout will give readings from their favourite passages in Fabre's theatre work. The entire programme can be consulted at www.janfabrezwolle.nl.


Opening hours exhibition:
Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm

Informations:
+31 (0)572-388188

Museum de Fundatie
Paleis a/d Blijmarkt
Blijmarkt 20
Zwolle

http://www.museumdefundatie.nl
http://www.janfabrezwolle.nl

Jan Fabre. Brain drawings & models

20.05.2010 - 10.07.2010 | Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

Opening hours:
tuesday to friday 12 - 6.30pm
saturday 12- 3pm

Informations:
+49 (0)211 328020
claramariasels@aol.com

Galerie Clara Maria Sels
Poststr. 3
40213 Düsseldorf

http://www.galerie-claramariasels.de

Jan Fabre. Chapters I-XVIII. Waxes & Bronzes

14.03.2010 - 02.05.2010 | Guy Pieters Gallery Paris, France

Public opening on Saturday March 13 2010 from 4pm on

!presentation of new book

Opening hours:
each day from 10am to 6pm

Informations:
paris@guypietersgallery.com
+33 (0) 1 42 89 26 83

Guy Pieters Gallery Paris
2 Avenue Matignon
F-75008 Paris
France

http://www.guypietersgallery.com

The Borrowed Time

28.10.2009 - 14.02.2010 | Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Italy

This exhibition shows the work of stage director, choreographer and visual artist Jan Fabre, seen through the eyes of famous photographers. In Borrowed time Fabre juxtaposes a selection of his project sketches and drawings executed in Chinese ink or blue ballpoint pen with photographs photographer friends have taken of his theatre productions during rehearsals or during the actual performances. It is as if the director's gaze crosses that of the photographers, resulting in a personal view of Jan Fabre's universe, with a strong visual bias and the standpoint of the 'ideal spectator'.

Born and bred in Antwerp, Jan Fabre is at home in all the art disciplines and moves freely from one to another. In the last 25 years he has produced more than 30 dance, theatre and opera productions in addition to his work as a visual artist. Twelve photographers (Helmut Newton, Carl De Keyzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jorge Molder, Malou Swinnen, Dirk Braeckman, Maarten Vanden Abeele, Wonge Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Stoop, Pierre Coulibeuf, Filip Van Roe and Patrick Selitto) have captured his productions on camera since the 1980s. Each photographer reacts differently to Fabre's work, turning what he sees into his own imagery and thus abandoning the customary documentary approach to theatre photography.

The exhibition comprises a total of approximately 150 works: black & white and colour photographs by the above-mentioned photographers and crayon drawings and maquettes by Jan Fabre.


Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 9am - 7pm
24th and 31st December 9am - 2pm
Closed on Monday, 25th December, 1st January and 1st May

Informations:
+39 06 82059127
museo.bilotti@commune.roma.it

Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese
Viale Fiorello La Guardia
00100 Roma

http://www.museocarlobilotti.it

UMBRACULUM para MEDELLIN, un lugar en la sombra para reflexionar y trabajar

28.11.2009 - 12.02.2010 | MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia

An Umbraculum for Medellin (A place in the shadow to work and think) is the first solo exhibition of Jan Fabre in Colombia. The MAMM has invited the artist to make an exhibition which forms an introduction to the universe of his work. There has been made a selection of works starting at the early days of Fabre’s career.

The intention of the museum is to show the full range of Fabre's oeuvre by bringing together the different themes and materials in his work.

Opening hours:
Mondays to Saturdays 9am to 6pm
Sundays 10am to 4pm

Informations:
+ (574) 230 2622
info@elmamm.org

Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin
Sede Ciudad del Rio
Carrera 44 No. 19A-100
Medellin - Colombia

http://www.elmamm.org/sitio/exposiciones.html

MSU Zagreb - Acquisitions 2004-2009

11.12.2009 - 03.01.2010 | Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia

On Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8.00 p.m. the new building of MSU, located at Dubrovnik Avenue no. 17, will open its gates to distinguished guests invited to the festive inauguration.

The museum will be officially opened by Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and by Milan Bandić, mayor of Zagreb, while Snježana Pintarić, director of MSU, and Božo Biškupić, minister of culture, will welcome the guests.

The events will naturally focus on the Moving Collections, our first permanent exhibition, authored by curators Nada Beroš and Tihomir Milovac. The second major and intriguing exhibition - in which Jan Fabre participates - is that of Acquisitions 2004-2009. The visitors will also be able to see a temporary exhibition entitled Museum before the Museum, a selection of photographs by Jasenko Rasol, who documented the construction of the museum building with his camera.

Work from Jan Fabre: Grave of the Unknown Computer(1993), I spit on my tomb (installation, 2007) and Art kept me out of Jail (film, 2008)

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday: 11am - 7pm
Sunday and holidays: 10am - 1pm
closed on Mondays

Informations:
Jadranka Pintarić
+385 1 60 52 736
publicrelations@msu.hr

Museum of Contemporary Art
Avenija Dubrovnik 17
10000 Zagreb, Croatia

http://www.msu.hr

Jan Fabre - Thinking models

30.09.2009 - 28.11.2009 | beaumontpublic, Luxemburg

Book release: Jan Fabre in the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg 1994-2009
with essays by Bart Verschaffel


Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 to 6 pm

Informations:
+352 46 23 43
beaumontpublic@vonet.lu

beaumontpublic
21A, av. Gaston Diderich
L-1240 Luxemburg

http://www.beaumontpublic.com

La metamorfosi dell'artista (Omaggio a Jacques Mesrine)

28.10.2009 - 28.11.2009 | Magazzino, Italy

Opening hours:
Tue-Fri 11am to 3pm and 4pm to 8 pm
Sat: 11am to 1pm and 4pm to 8 pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday

Informations:
+39 06.6875951
info@magazzinoartemoderna.com

Magazzino
via dei Prefetti 17
00186 Roma

http://www.magazzinoartemoderna.com

Jan Fabre. From the Feet to the Brain

06.06.2009 - 20.09.2009 | Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy

The Venice Biennale
53rd International Art Exhibition

A presentation by the Kunsthaus Bregenz in partnership with the GAMeC Bergamo 
Curated by Eckhard Schneider - Inviting curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
An exhibition supported by Linda and Guy Pieters

Opening June 5, 2009

Afterparty at 11 pm
RSVP to venice@janfabre.be to receive
on official invitation

Opening hours:
daily from 11am - 6pm
closed on Tuesdays

Enquiries:
Arsenale Novissimo
Spazio Thetis 107 - 109

http://www.janfabre.be/Pages/index.php

The Borrowed Time

03.07.2009 - 23.08.2009 | Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia

Opening July 3th, 8.30pm

Opening hours:
Each day from 10am to 8pm
Closed on Mondays

Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
Put Frana Supila 23
20 000 Dubrovnik

http://www.ugdubrovnik.hr

UMBRACULUM para LA PAZ Bolivia, un lugar para pensar y escribir

12.06.2009 - 05.07.2009 | Museo Municipal TAMBO QUIRQUINCHO, La Paz, Bolivia

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 9.30am - 12.30pm / 3pm - 7pm
Saturday, Sunday: 9am - 12pm

Informations:
cecibaya@hotmail.com

Museo Municipal Tambo Quirquincho
Plaza Alonso de Mendoza off Evaristo Valle
La Paz Bolivia

Project Mesrine

24.03.2009 - 23.05.2009 | Galerie Bernd Klüser, München, Germany

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday 11am-6pm
Saturday 11am-2pm

Enquiries:
+49 89 384 081-0
info@galerieklueser.com

GALERIE BERND KLÜSER
Georgenstrasse 15
D- 80799 München

http://www.galerieklueser.com

Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?

24.03.2009 - 23.05.2009 | Galerie Klüser 2, München, Germany

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday 11am-6pm
Saturday 11am-2pm

Enquiries:
+49 89 384 081-23
info@galerieklueser.com

GALERIE KLÜSER 2
Türkenstrasse 23
D- 80799 München

http://www.galerieklueser.com

Umbraculum para Santiago de Chile

21.11.2008 - 31.01.2009 | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo/ Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile

An Umbraculum for Santiago de Chile (A place in the shadow to work and think) is the first solo exhibition of Jan Fabre in Chile. The MAC has invited the artist to make an exhibition which forms an introduction to the universe of his work. There has been made a selection of works starting at the early days of Fabre’s career.
The intention of the museum is to show the full range of Fabre's oeuvre by bringing together the different themes and materials in his work. The MAC will be using the main hall, the basement and the 9 rooms in the first floor, in each separate space a different theme will be presented.

Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Saturdays 11am to 7pm
Sundays 11am to 6pm

Informations:
+ (56-2) 9771741
mac@uchile.cl

MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Parque Forestal s/n
Santiago

http://www.mac.uchile.cl

Jan Fabre. From the Cellar to the Attic. From the Feet to the Brain

27.09.2008 - 25.01.2009 | Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

Jan Fabre will be presenting his first large-scale museum exhibition in Austria. He has created five new installations – one for each floor – on the theme of the body, specially for the Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB).

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10am-6pm
Thursday: 10am-9pm
24.12.08: 10am-2pm
25.12.08: closed
26.12.08: 10am-6pm
31.12.08: 10am-2pm
01.01.09: 2pm-9pm

Entrance: between 8 and 1,5 euros Special fees for groups

Informations:
+ 43 5574 4 85 94 0
kub@kunsthaus-bregenz.at

Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl-Tizian-Platz
6900 Bregenz
Austria
http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at

Jan Fabre - Premio Pino Pascali XII ediz. 2008

16.11.2008 - 18.01.2009 | Palazzo Pino Pascali, Polignano A Mare , Italië

On Saturday 16th November, the Premio Pino Pascali 2008 will be awarded to Jan Fabre, for the following reasons:
 
‘Jan Fabre is a total and visionary artist, who presents the absolute themes of life, death, nature, the mystery of the fragile and mortal human being, and the desire to overcome this impermanence. He is considered one of the most important artists of this century and the most suitable heir to the Flemish art tradition. He shows madness, illness, death, the sweetness of sin, and spiritual power. His works – shown in the world’s greatest museums – are universal in their communicative power.’
 
The choice was made by the academic art committee of the Premio Pino Pascali 2008, which is headed by Rosalba Branà, art director of Museum Pascali, and whose members are Carlo Berardi (curator and member of the Young Collector Council of the Guggenheim Museum in New York), Giusy Caroppo (art critic and curator) and Simonetta Lux (art critic and professor at La Sapienza in Rome).

Catalogue with an article by Achille Bonito Oliva.
The show is curated by Rosalba Branà and Carlo Berardi.
Coordination by Barbara De Coninck
 
The prize will be awarded by Nichi Vendola, President of Regione Puglia
 
Previous winners of the Premio Pascali are Maurizio Mochetti, Vettor Pisani, Vincenzo Agnetti, Luca Patella, Jannis Kounellis, Achille Bonito Oliva, Giovanni Albanese, Marco Giusti, Studio Azzurro, Lida Abdul and Adrian Paci.

Presentation Premio Pino Pascali: 16.11.2008  11am

Opening hours exhibition:
Wednesday to Saturday from 6 to 9pm
Sundays from 11am-1pm and 6 to 9pm

Informations:
+ 39 080 4 249 534
segreteria@palazzopinopascali.it

MUSEO PINO PASCALI
Polignano a Mare (Bari)
Italy

http://www.palazzopinopascali.it

Il Ragazzo con la luna e le stelle sulla testa*

20.12.2008 - 18.01.2009 | Piazza Plebiscito, Napoli, Italy

* The Boy with the Moon and the Stars on his Head


This is now the fourteenth of these prestigious rendezvous with contemporary art on the Piazza del Plebiscito, initiated by the Comune di Napoli and the Regione Campania.

Once again, Naples confirms its status as an international cultural venue and a centre for creative and artistic developments. For the occasion, the Piazza del Plebiscito will be hosting the work of the major Belgian artist Jan Fabre, whose triumphant exhibition at the Louvre in Paris has just come to an end.

In Naples, Fabre will be showing five of his most celebrated bronze sculptures, several of which have previously been shown in public spaces around Europe. The works are De man die vuur geeft (1999), De man die de wolken meet (1998), De man die huilt en lacht (2005), De astronaut die de zee dirigeert (2006) and De man die op het water schrijft (2006). They will be displayed according to the artist’s instructions in the semicircular Piazza del Plebiscito. They will however also occupy the rooms of the Palazzo Reale and the colonnade of the church of San Francesco di Paola. In this way the urban space will be transformed into a large stage on which each sculpture will become a character and take on the role of an actor. The inspiration for the way the works are positioned comes from the stimuli provided by the city of Naples, including the street-performers who stand immobile for hours in the streets of the old city. And also the gilt statues that adorn the roofs of bourgeois palazzi in Flemish cities. Each individual character interprets the role allotted him on the Piazza del Plebiscito.

Jan Fabre (Antwerp, 1958) is the great grandson of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and made his debut as an artist with performances and drawings. In the early eighties he started making theatre productions, and also ballets and operas, whose main themes were life, death, chance, dreams and the human body. He interprets the body as the vital centre of the physical and psychological reality of biological life and of the brain, subjects which are an invitation to constant metamorphosis. In 1984 he was invited to the 41st Venice Biennale and in 1987 to Documenta 8 in Kassel, and since then his work has been part of the artistic canon and is exhibited in major museums all over the world. Fabre is able to tack between several disciplines: the natural sciences, ethics, religion and others. In his sculpture he links the past to the present, the animal to the human, and transforms what is real into a realm of the imagination. He traverses the whole range of means of artistic expression in the search for the most suitable medium for his ideas, and experiments with a variety of materials, from gold to insects, in a quest for a form of symbolic knowledge that is of value to the people of the 21st century.

Informations:

Ufficio Stampa MADRE

Costanza Pellegrini:
0039 (0) 81 199 78024
pellegrini@museomadre.it

Ufficio Stampa Electa

Enrica Steffenini:
0039 (0)2 21563433
elestamp@mondadori.it

Carolina Perreca:
0039 (0)81 4297435
comunicazione.napoli.electa@mondadori.it

http://napoli.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/4115695?ref=rephpsp6
http://www.electaweb.it/mostre/scheda/il-ragazzo-con-la-luna-e-le-stelle-sulla-testa-di-jan-fabre-napoli/it/

The Escape of the Artist

08.11.2008 - 05.12.2008 | Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain

Jan Fabre´s third solo-show at Espacio Minimo Gallery titled The Escape of the Artist is centred around a series of 8 photographs taken during his performance at the Louvre (Hommage aan Jacques Mesrine (Art Kept Me Out of Jail), Louvre, april 22 2008). The show also includes a disquieting sculpture, a new series of drawings, and his latest video work, Art kept me out of jail/ Homage to Jacques Mesrine, which also documents the performance at the Louvre.
The subject of the photographs and the performance are the figure of the famous thief, smuggler, murderer, and above all fugitive Jacques Mesrine, who came to be considered Public Enemy number one of France and was known to the press and public as L’homme aux 100 visages (The Man of a Hundred Faces). Jacques Mesrine became famous, apart from his other crimes, for his incredible and unexplainable escapes.
Mesrine´s personality becomes the artist´s excuse to delve into one of his most prominent obsessions, that of metamorphosis, which he has previously investigated through the ability of transformation that some animals have, becoming and entirely different being during their lifetime.
The sculpture, a disturbing self-portrait with four faces, along with the new series of drawings and the video, are all self portraits in which the artist appears camouflaged, transfigured, and metamorfosed into someone else, always different to himself.

Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am-2pm and 4.30pm-8pm

Informations:
+ 34 91 467 61 56
galeria@espaciominimo.com

GALERÍA ESPACIO MÍNIMO
Doctor Fourquet, 17
28012 Madrid

http://www.espaciominimo.com

Heaven of Delight

25.07.2008 - 07.09.2008 | Koninklijk Paleis, Brussel, Belgium

Every summer the Royal Palace is open to the general public. This is the perfect moment to view the permanent work by Jan Fabre. In 2002, at the invitation of Queen Paola, the artist carried out a highly individual ‘ceiling painting’ in the Hall of Mirrors. The wing-cases of more than a million scarabs were used to create a fairytale heaven.

Opening hours: everyday (except Monday) from 10.30am to 4.30pm

Free entrance

Informations:
+32 (0) 2 513 89 40

Royal Palace
Place des Palais
1000 Brussels

Works in public spaces
http://www.monarchie.be/nl/visit/palace/index.html

La route de la terre vers les étoiles n'est pas lisse.

18.07.2008 - 31.08.2008 | Meisenthal, France

Jan Fabre on invitation of sculptor Stephan Balkenhol (Meisenthal) EXPO Jan Fabre. The road from the earth to the stars is not paved.

A collaboration of Le Cadhame/Meisenthal
and Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, vwith the support of MUHKA, Antwerp

Open from Wednesday to Friday from 10-12 am and 2-6 pm
Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 2-6 pm,
free entrance (groups on appointment)

Associations Cadhame et Eurêka
Halle Verrière
F- 57960 MEISENTHAL
http://www.halle-verriere.fr

Jan Fabre at the Louvre - The Angel of Metamorphosis

11.04.2008 - 07.07.2008 | Louvre, Paris, France

Following upon the successes of the first three editions of Counterpoint, the Louvre continues to pursue its policy of openness to contemporary art and living artists by extending an invitation this spring to Jan Fabre. Within the galleries devoted to the painted works of the Flemish, Dutch and German Schools, visitors are encouraged to rediscover celebrated works by masters such as van Eyck, van der Weyden, Bosch, Metsys and Rubens through the eyes of Jan Fabre.

The itinerary proposed by Jan Fabre through the museum’s collections may be perceived as a “mental drama” featuring the major elements of his own life work and those of the old masters. The artist seeks to connect his universe with the main themes running through the Louvre’s collections: death and resurrection, the vanities of human life, sacrifice, money, madness, carnival, battles, the artist’s studio. Some thirty works—ranging from drawings, sculptures, video and other installations to performance pieces captured on film—thus punctuate the itinerary imagined by the artist.

The continuity of the dialogue between Jan Fabre and the Dutch, Flemish and German old masters, a legacy ever present in the artist’s approach to his work, as well as the types of interventions placed on view, enhance the power and mystery of the works in the Louvre’s collections and endow them with new meanings.


http://www.louvre.fr

Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?

11.05.2008 - 22.06.2008 | DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

Deweer Art Gallery brings the eighth solo show by Jan Fabre at the gallery: Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?, an exhibition with almost exclusively new works. It is the artists first show after the opening of his show at the Louvre.

Deweer website
http://www.deweergallery.com/exhibition.php?id=83

The Borrowed Time

07.03.2008 - 18.05.2008 | BOZAR Brussels, Belgium

This exhibition shows the work of stage director, choreographer and visual artist Jan Fabre, seen through the eyes of famous photographers. In Borrowed time Fabre juxtaposes a selection of his project sketches and drawings executed in Chinese ink or blue ballpoint pen with photographs photographer friends have taken of his theatre productions during rehearsals or during the actual performances. It is as if the director's gaze crosses that of the photographers, resulting in a personal view of Jan Fabre's universe, with a strong visual bias and the standpoint of the 'ideal spectator'.

Born and bred in Antwerp, Jan Fabre is at home in all the art disciplines and moves freely from one to another. In the last 25 years he has produced more than 30 dance, theatre and opera productions in addition to his work as a visual artist. Twelve photographers (Helmut Newton, Carl De Keyzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jorge Molder, Malou Swinnen, Dirk Braeckman, Maarten Vanden Abeele, Wonge Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Stoop, Pierre Coulibeuf, Filip Van Roe and Patrick Selitto) have captured his productions on camera since the 1980s. Each photographer reacts differently to Fabre's work, turning what he sees into his own imagery and thus abandoning the customary documentary approach to theatre photography.

The exhibition comprises a total of approximately 150 works: black & white and colour photographs by the above-mentioned photographers and crayon drawings and maquettes by Jan Fabre. The most recent relate to Fabre's -Requiem für eine Metamorphose', created for the Salzburger Festspiele in the summer of 2007.
http://www.fundaciononce.es/

Who Shall Speak My thoughts (Of My Body)

30.11.2007 - 28.02.2008 | Gallery Alpha Delta, Athens, Greece

http://www.adgallery.gr

I Spit On My Grave (A Thinking Model)

13.09.2007 - 10.11.2007 | MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Vienna, Austria

http://www.galerie-mam.com

Die Verliehene Zeit. Drawings for the podium works by Jan Fabre

27.07.2007 - 28.10.2007 | Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria

Pictures on Fabre’s theatre work by : Helmut Newton, Carl De Keyzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jorge Molder, Malou Swinnen, Dirk Braeckman, Maarten Vanden Abeele, Wonge Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Stoop, Pierre Coulibeuf, Filip Van Roe
http://www.museumdermoderne.at

Jan Fabre, Anthropology of a planet.

08.06.2007 - 23.09.2007 | Palazzo Benzon, Venice, Italy

GAMeC (Galleria d' Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo) 'moves' to Venice for the Biennale. Exhibition curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/

Jan Fabre. Showcases and Thought Models

26.07.2007 - 01.09.2007 | Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

http://www.galerie-mam.com

Jan Fabre. Tivoliproject for Salzburg

26.07.2007 - 01.09.2007 | Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

http://www.galerie-mam.com

THE BRAINS OF MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER

10.02.2007 - 10.03.2007 | Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan

The Most sexy part of the body (Brain Drawings and Models)
http://www.shugoarts.com

MESSENGERS OF DEATH DECAPITATED

19.01.2007 - 24.02.2007 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

http://www.danieltemplon.com

Lancelot

11.11.2006 - 31.01.2007 | Gijon, Spain

The Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Gallery won first price in the gallery section of the Gijon International Festival of Video Art in Spain. The Gallery won the prize for it's production of 'Lancelot', a film by Jan Fabre
http://www.opticafestival.com

L' home que escriu sobre l' aigua

28.10.2006 - 07.01.2007 | Sala d' Exposicions de la Rambla, Girona, Spain

http://www.ajuntament.gi/ccm

JE ME VIDE DE MOI-MEME

14.09.2006 - 04.11.2006 | Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.bartschi.ch

LANDSCAPES AND TURTLES

09.09.2006 - 22.10.2006 | DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

http://www.deweergallery.com

AN UMBRACULUM FOR DUBROVNIK

08.07.2006 - 15.09.2006 | Dubrovnik Galerija Umjetnicka, Croatia

http://www.ugdubrovnik.hr

Jan Fabre. Homo Faber

12.05.2006 - 03.09.2006 | Antwerp, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art; The Royal Museum of Arts; The City Library of Antwerp; Rode Zeven, Rossaert, Belgium

http://museum.antwerpen.be/kmska/

Jan Fabre. Turtles, Carpets, Landscapes.

02.07.2006 - 02.09.2006 | Istanbul, Galeri Artist, , Turkey

http://www.galeriartist.com/

Showcases and Thought Models 1977-2005

01.02.2006 - 31.07.2006 | Brussels, Vlaams Parlement, Lokettenzaal , Belgium

Jan Fabre. Mis gotas de sangre, mis huellas de sangre.

27.01.2005 - 05.03.2005 | Madrid, Espacio Minimo, Spain

http://www.espaciominimo.com

Jan Fabre. The problem.

01.01.2004 - 01.12.2004 | Athens, Alpha Delta Gallery, Greece

Film installation featuring Jan Fabre, Dietmar Kamper and Peter Sloterdijk

Jan Fabre. Gaude succurrere vitae (Réjouissez-vous de venir au secours de la vie).

01.01.2004 - 01.12.2004 | Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain, France

Drawings and films by Jan Fabre from 1978 until 2002
http://www.moca-lyon.org

Jan Fabre. Gaude succurrere vitae (Rallegratevi di soccorrere la vita).

01.01.2003 - 01.12.2003 | Bergamo, GAMEC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Italy

Drawings and films by Jan Fabre from 1978 until 2002
http://www.gamec.it

Jan Fabre. Gaude succurrere vitae (Verheug u ter hulp te komen aan het leven).

01.01.2002 - 31.12.2002 | Gent, S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium

Drawings and films by Jan Fabre from 1978 until 2002
http://www.smak.be

Umbraculum . Un posto ombreggiato dove pensare e lavorare lontano dalla vita quotidiana.

02.10.2001 - 31.12.2001 | Roma, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Italy

http://www.comune.roma.it

Jan Fabre. Umbraculum. A place in the shadow where one thinks and works, far away from oridanry life.

01.01.2001 - 01.12.2001 | Otegem, DEWEER Gallery, Belgium

http://www.deweergallery.com

Jan Fabre. Umbraculum. A place in the shadow where one thinks and works, far away from oridanry life.

01.06.2001 - 01.10.2001 | Avignon, Chapelle Saint-Charles, France

Jan Fabre. Passage

01.01.1998 - 01.12.1998 | Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, USA

Jan Fabre

01.01.1998 - 01.12.1998 | Tokyo, Satani Gallery, Japan

Jan Fabre. Passage.

01.01.1997 - 01.12.1997 | Antwerpen, MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium

http://www.muhka.be

Jan Fabre. Skeleton + Skin.

01.01.1996 - 01.12.1996 | Tokyo, Satani Gallery, Japan

Jan Fabre. Questa pazzia è fantastica.

01.01.1994 - 01.12.1994 | Prato, Museo Pecci, Italy

http://www.centropecci.it

Jan Fabre

01.01.1989 - 01.12.1989 | New York, Jack Tilton Gallery, USA

http://www.jacktiltongallery.com

The Forgery of the Secret Feast.

01.01.1985 - 01.12.1985 | New York, New Math Gallery, USA

41° Biennale di Venezia. Jan Fabre in Belgian Pavillion.

01.01.1984 - 01.12.1984 | Venezia, Giardini di Biennnale, Belgian Pavillion, Italy

Jan Fabre in Belgian Pavillion.
http://www.labiennale.org

Wunderkammer

08.12.2011 - 29.01.2012 | Botanique, Brussel, Belgium

The Wunderkammer exhibition is fittingly focused on the links between nature and creative activity, discoveries and a new espousal of nature. The collection of works on display, as though in a cabinet, is attuned to the noble principles of unity linking together all manner of things. At the centre of our occupations, contemporary artists tap into an inexhaustible reserve of shapes and colours, materials and objects, furthering their development in the light of achievements that are both unique and part of our heritage. Tattooed skulls, animals stuffed and stretched, human bones wound with red threads as a fine emblem of the relationship between artificialia and naturalia. They might not always be aware of the fact, but these artists are part and parcel of the continuing nature of the history of curiosity. These authentic works are collected together wunderkammer-style, and the same is obviously true of the accompanying texts - everything is true, humankind says so!


Pascal Bernier, Ulrike Bolenz, Charley Case, Eric Croes, Wim Delvoye, Laurence Dervaux, Yves Dethier en Olivia Droeshaut, Jacques Dujardin, Jan Fabre, Alessandro Filippini, Manu Geerinck, Roberto Kusterle, Alexandra Leyre Mein, Jean-Luc Moerman, Michel Mouffe, Vincent Solheid, William Sweetlove, Bénédicte van Caloen, Patrick van Roy, Sofi van Saltbommel

Exhibition curator: Antonio Nardone



Informations:
info@botanique.be
+32 2 218 37 32

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday from noon till 20pm

Le Botanique

Cultural centre of the French Community

Rue Royale, 236

1210 Bruxelles

Belgium

http://www.botanique.be

cycle L'Eternel Détour, séquence automne-hiver 2011-2012

19.10.2011 - 15.01.2012 | MAMCO, Genève, Switzerland

Recent acquisitions: Adel Abdessemed, Jan Fabre, Alain Séchas, Xavier Veilhan, John M Armleder, Silvia Bächli, Francis Baudevin, Guy de Cointet, Silvie Defraoui, Noël Dolla, Philippe Gronon, Bernard Piffaretti, Pascal Pinaud, Didier Ritterner, Patrick Weidmann

Five monographic presentations: Peter Dreher, Romane Holderried Kaesdorf, Anne Marie Jugnet & Alain Clairet, Natacha Lesueur, Moo Chew Wong

Informations:
+41 22 320 61 22

Opening hours:
tuesday-friday 12-6pm
saturday-sunday 11-6pm
every first Wednesday of the month open until 9pm
closed 24-25.12, 31.12, 1.01

MAMCO
10, rue des Vieux-Grenadiers
CH-1205 Genève

http://www.mamco.ch

Memories of the future, the Olbricht collectie

22.10.2011 - 15.01.2012 | la maison rouge, Paris, France

informations:
+33 1 40 01 08 81
info@lamaisonrouge.org

opening hours:
wednesday-sunday 11am-7pm
thursday until 9pm
closed on 25.12, 1.01, 1.05

la maison rouge
10 boulevard de la bastille
f-75012 Paris
France

http://www.lamaisonrouge.org

Le Louvre revisité

08.10.2011 - 31.12.2011 | Lab-Labanque, Béthune, France

Jean-Michel ALBEROLA, Miquel BARCELO, Louise BOURGEOIS, Tony CRAGG, Johan CRETEN, Marcelline DELBECQ, Jan FABRE, Patrick FAIGENBAUM, Nan GOLDIN, Jenny HOLZER, Mimmo JODICE, Olga KISSELEVA, Ange LECCIA, Christian MILOVANOFF, François MORELLET, Robert MORRIS, Jean-Luc MOULENE, Giuseppe PENONE, Benoît PINGEOT, Françoise QUARDON, Antoine ROEGIERS, François ROUAN, José Maria SICILIA, Kiki SMITH

Informations:
+33 1 21 63 04 70
contact@lab-labanque.fr

Opening hours:
monday-friday 12-7pm
weekens, public and school holidays: 10am-7pm
closed on 25.12.2011

Lab-Labanque
44, place Georges Clémenceau
62400 Béthune
France

http://www.lab-labanque.fr/
http://www.bethune2011.fr/blog/evenement/le-louvre-a-bethune/