December 2019 Highlights: Boltanski Retrospective, Chicago Survey, Whitney Craft, VR Art, and Emerging Artists
The retrospective of Christian Boltanski at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is available until 16 March 2020, featuring 50 significant pieces from his career, such as Personnes (2010) and Misterios (2017). Judy Chicago's inaugural UK survey at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead runs until 19 April 2020, highlighting 50 years of her work, including The Dinner Party (1979). The Whitney Museum in New York showcases Making Knowing: Craft in Art 1950–2019 until January 2021, displaying 80 works by 60 artists. Other exhibitions include Cadavre exquis at Phi Centre, Montreal, until 19 January 2020, and Nan Goldin's Sirens at Marian Goodman Gallery in London, open until 11 January 2020.
Key facts
- Christian Boltanski's retrospective at Centre Pompidou includes 50 works and runs through 16 March 2020.
- Judy Chicago's UK survey at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art spans 50 years of her career.
- Whitney Museum's Making Knowing exhibition features 80 works by 60 artists from 1950 to 2019.
- Cadavre exquis at Phi Centre showcases VR art by Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, and others.
- Nan Goldin's Sirens at Marian Goodman Gallery includes Memory Lost (2019) and Salome (2019).
- Bamako Encounters biennale in Mali features 85 photographic artists under artistic director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.
- Ernesto Neto's retrospective Soplo at MALBA includes 60 works and collaboration with Huni Kuin peoples.
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries at South London Gallery runs from 5 December 2019 to 24 February 2020.
Entities
Artists
- Christian Boltanski
- Judy Chicago
- Eva Hesse
- Mike Kelley
- Liza Lou
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Shan Goshorn
- Simone Leigh
- Erin Jane Nelson
- Olafur Eliasson
- Antony Gormley
- Paul McCarthy
- Laurie Anderson
- Marina Abramovic
- Koo Jeong A
- Nan Goldin
- Bouchra Khalili
- Guy Woueté
- Badr El Hammami
- Theaster Gates
- The Otolith Group
- Ernesto Neto
- Hélio Oiticica
- Isa Genzken
- Ben Rivers
- Rana Begum
- Sonia Boyce
- Paul Jex
- Jan Agha
- Annie Mackinnon
- Ren Hang
- Ai Weiwei
- Edward Weston
- Anthony Caro
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Abdullah Ibrahim
- Max Roach
Institutions
- Centre Pompidou
- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
- Whitney Museum
- Phi Centre
- Marian Goodman Gallery
- MALBA
- Peder Lund
- South London Gallery
- C/O Berlin
- ArtReview
- Acute Art
- CalArts
- Grand Palais
- Guardian
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Gateshead
- United Kingdom
- New York
- United States
- Montreal
- Canada
- London
- Bamako
- Mali
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Oslo
- Norway
- Berlin
- Germany
- Japan
- Tasmania
- Australia
- Patagonia
- China
- Peru
- Brazil
- Niger River
- Congo River
- Nile River
- Mississippi River