The exhibition “Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin”shows for the first time the long-term loan from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation to the Neue Nationalgalerie (1 Apr 2023 — 1 Sep 2026). The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed with charcoal and oil paint to four canvases before gradually painting over them abstractly. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the original drawing disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection.

Poetic and spectacular, Chiharu Shiota's immense swarms of tangled threads have made her famous the world over. The Grand Palais presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to this Japanese artist, born in 1972: “Chiharu Shiota. The Soul Trembles” (December 11 2024 - March 19 2025). Over 1,200 m² of exhibition space is devoted to monumental works and little-known pieces. Far from remaining on the (very Instagrammable) surface of her installations, the exhibition plunges us into the multiple ramifications of her universe.

William Kentridge is internationally recognised for his drawings, films, and theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music and theatre to create works of art based on politics, science, literature and history while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. (...) William Kentridge: "More Sweetly Play the Dance" installation which is part of the collection of Fundació Sorigué, will be shown at the Museo Picasso Málaga as an Invited Work from 21 November to 27 April next year.

Published in 1929 after a stay in a sanatorium, "L'Amour la poésie" is undoubtedly the most famous collection by the poet who, five years earlier, had taken part with André Breton in the founding of Surrealism. American artist Kiki Smith has taken up the challenge of the Grande Blanche illustrée collection, where artists confront the greatest authors of literature, to give these fiery poems a new flavor. Her ink drawings on Nepalese paper, where a bird's tail can turn into a rosebush, where sequins become stars at the end of eyelashes, accompany Éluard's poetry of ashes and diamonds, just as the fragile, quivering birds do when they fly around the trees singing. In this way, Paul Éluard's words are given a new life, sensual and shivering, with a flavor as blue as an orange. The poet had warned us: his book is endless.

Shilpa Gupta, who lives and works in Mumbai, India, has won the Possehl Prize for International Art 2025. She will receive €25,000, while a solo exhibition of her work at Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck will open on 27 September 2025.Gupta is the third artist to win the prize, which is awarded every three years, following Doris Salcedo and Matt Mullican. For over two decades she has explored religion, censorship, freedom of expression in her multidsciplinary work, looking in particular at state boundaries, geographic and psychological borders, and questions of national identity. The jury highlighted her sensitive handling of political issues, as well as her use of the wide range of media in her practice, which spans sound-based works, video projections, drawings, interactive digital installations and performances.

Kiki Smith, a renowned contemporary artist whose work explores the fundamental themes of human existence, natural cycles and mythological structures, continuously pushes the boundaries of contemporary visual art. Her exhibition "Woven Worlds" (Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, 21/11/2024 - 21/02/2025) represents a specific artistic narrative in which material and immaterial, historical and contemporary, body and universe intertwine. Through carefully designed compositions, techniques and motifs, Smith builds a complex artistic space, inviting the viewer to think about the relationships between nature, the human body and the collective imagination.

Watching William Kentridge’s film Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is like being submerged inside his mind, inside the coffee pot maybe. There’s so much going on both visually and intellectually that there’s no room at all for a viewer’s own feeble thoughts. Superficially, the film is a look inside the South African artist’s studio and an invitation to watch him work. Over four-and-a-half hours and nine themed episodes you see him making his familiar expressive drawings in charcoal and ink, but this studio is also a stage; there’s dance, puppetry, dips into history, astronomy, philosophy. ‘I wanted to try and make something that was not a documentary and that wasn’t fiction,’ he says, and he has. It’s utterly absorbing – and also funny.

The Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is somewhere between sculpture and performance. Since the 2015 Venice Biennale, her popularity has only grown. On December 11, she will be the first artist to grace the renovated Grand Palais. Portrait of a strong woman with a sensitive soul.