Ever since his journeys to India as a young man the idea inspired him to see humans as part of a largerwhole. He also follows this way of life in his art. Thereby the artist tracks down the universal, the eternal and works with natural materials such as pollen, rice, milk or bees wax. However, he also finds this holistic understanding in our culture. In the juxtaposition between a small mound of colour-intensive pollen and a eucharist casket Wolfgang Laib creates an astonishing relationship. The presentation is in a laid-out field of thousands of rice mounds. As an important foodstuff rice symbolises vitality and is fundamental for our earthly existence. With the temporary installation the artist manifests the spiritual dimension of art and leads us directly to the source of his poetics.

• Museum of Fine Art
• Bahnhofstrasse 35, CH-7000 Chur
• 19 marzo – 31 luglio 2022

The PinchukArtCentre and Victor Pinchuk Foundation announce a new focus for their official collateral event, This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice, from 23rd of April until 7th of August 2022.

• Scuola Grande della Misericordia
• Venice
• 23 aprile – 7 agosto 2022

Featuring over twenty artists, the special exhibition This Is Not America’s Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the flag of the United States of America, underscoring its vast, divergent, and complex meanings. Titled after Alfredo Jaar’s iconic 1987 work, A Logo for America, This Is Not America’s Flag provides a critical discourse on the symbol’s meaning, the complexity and contradictions of contemporary national identity, and artists as active citizens.

• The Broad
• 221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
• 21 maggio – 25 settembre 2022

Gian Maria Tosatti opens at The Drawing Hall a solo exhibition curated by Andrea Mastrovito, entitled Alcuni Appunti. Disegni 2005-2021 starting June 10 through July 9, 2022. For the first time Tosatti is exhibiting to the public a series of drawings he has made over the years: the exhibition delves into his intimate and unexpected relationship with the practice of drawing that underlies the design of his artistic production. Alcuni Appunti. Disegni 2005-2021 underscores how for Gian Maria Tosatti the drawing, which usually does not represent a completed work in his research, is a first, fundamental planning step preparatory to an installation work, a true project drawing.

• The Drawing Hall
• via Boschetti, 87 – capannone 13B, Grassobbio (BG)
• 10 giugno – 9 luglio 2022

The SprigionArti project brings to life a contemporary art exhibition in the cells of Procida's former prison on the occasion of its year as the Italian Capital of Culture. The exhibition takes place in the large rooms on the first level of the sixteenth-century floor plan of Palazzo d'Avalos, where the third space features William Kentridge's video installation "Zeno writings" (2002), visible from outside the cell through the bars.

• Palazzo d'Avalos
• Via Terra Murata,33
• 27 maggio – 31 dicembre 2022

For the first time in France since 1981, the MAMAC presents a major project dedicated to the Italian art scene between 1960 and 1975. “Vita Nuova. New challenges for art in Italy. 1960-1975” aims to uncover the extraordinary vivacity of artistic creation in Italy between 1960 and 1975, whose diversity remains very little known in France – with the exception of the works of Arte Povera artists.

• Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC)
• Place Yves Klein, 06000 Nice, Francia
• 14 maggio – 2 ottobre 2022