The Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center is hosting French curator Muriel Enjalran to Chicago for two curatorial visits in 2015, one April 21–29 and a second during EXPO CHICAGO, September 15-20, as part of a yearlong curatorial exchange program between France and the United States in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the Institut français. During her curatorial visits, Enjalran will expand current work on contemporary artists’ changing relationship to public space as well as participate in a series of studio visits with Chicago artists.

Over 60 firms and designers, chosen by co-artistic directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, have been announced for the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial titled The State of the Art of Architecture. The list will grow over the next few months to include an estimated 100 participants. Slated to be North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture, the biennial exhibition will take place October 3, 2015 through January 3, 2016 in the Chicago Cultural Center and other city sites, such Millennium Park, City Gallery, and the Stony Island Arts Bank. 

Currently, the roster includes the follwing architects from France: Didier Faustino, Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Frederic Druot, LIST / Ido Avissar, New-Territories / M4 / François Roche & Camille Lacadee.

International Pop chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970s and specifically,examines work from artists across the globe. It  follows the trajectories of Pop and its critical points of contact with global developments in art such as Nouveau Réalisme (France), Concretism and Neo-Concretism (Brazil), the Art of Things (Argentina), Anti-Art (Japan), Capitalist Realism (Germany), Happenings, and Neo-Dada. This groundbreaking exhibition, one of the Walker Art Center's most ambitious historical shows, includes the works of the followin French artists:  Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean-Pierre Mirouze and Ben Vautier.

Screenings are held in conjunction with the show including films by Jean Luc-Godard, Guy Debord, Alain Resnais, René Viénet and Niki de Saint Phalle.

The Art Institute of Chicago joins forces with The Arts Club of Chicago to host a pair of exhibitions featuring the work of French artist Jean-Luc Mylayne. The shows unite inside and outside, nature and culture, and bring together again two Chicago institutions that have deep historical ties. Further connecting the twin exhibitions is a third element, a public building in Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden featuring a 30-foot-long photographic fresco covering its entire ceiling.

Exhibit at The Arts Club of Chicago

Exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, has been called the Hermit Kingdom, as it is one of the most reclusive states in the world. The exhibition North Korea Perspectives is divided into two main sections: one showing the government’s official version of North Korea and the other one showing a non-controlled stream of images coming out of the country like photographs produced by international photojournalists inside North Korea, Google Earth images analyzed by archivists and researchers, and international artists using photography and video to directly address North Korea including French artists Pierre Bessard, Philippe Chancel and Marie Voignier.

As part of EXPO ART WEEK, the MoCP will host a panel discussion featuring Philippe Chancel in conversation with Europe-based independent curator Marc Prüst on Tuesday, September 15. The panel will consider contemporary visual representations of North Korea by focusing on Chancel’s work—one of few artists allowed access to photograph this isolated nation—and Prüst’s impetus behind the
MoCP’s exhibition.

This multifaceted installation, consisting of video, photographs, and a light box, documents moments of French conceptual artist Sophie Calle's journey to fulfill her mother's unrealized dream to visit North Pole.