Mennour

24/04/2026

ANISH KAPOOR has been awarded the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize by the City of Duisburg and the Rhineland Regional Council. To mark this occasion, the Lehmbruck Museum is presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Kapoor’s works in Germany in over a decade.

It shows the artist and his work in all its aspects: from early pigment works and fascinating mirror sculptures to monumental installations that connect body, space, and consciousness. Kapoor works with forms, colors, and materials that challenge us sensually and intellectually. They lead us to the question: how can we represent what is intangible, invisible, what constitutes the core of human beings?

Anish Kapoor has created an exhibition for the Lehmbruck Museum that harmonizes the impact of his works with the characteristics of this iconic modernist building. The exhibition focuses on themes that have moved us for centuries: Where do we come from and where are we going? It is about identity, memory, vulnerability, and infinity.

On view until August 30, 2026

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Anish Kapoor, Double S-Curve, 2019, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 , Foto: Dejan Saric

23/04/2026

OUR ARTISTS IN VENICE • The countdown to the Venice Biennale has begun! During the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Mennour is proud to present a selection of projects by its artists across the city.

📍 ANISH KAPOOR
Palazzo Manfrin
May 6 - August 9, 2026

📍LEE UFAN
San Marco Art Centre
Curated by Jessica Morgan
May 9 - November 22, 2026

📍 GEORGES ADÉAGBO
“Resonance”
Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani
Curated by Grace Aneiza Ali & Selene Wendt

May 16 - July 31, 2026
📍CLAIRE FONTAINE
“Don’t have hope, be hope”
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Permanent installation

📍CLAIRE FONTAINE
“Who’s a good boy?”
Contemporary Forces
May 7 - September 27, 2026

📍RYAN GANDER
“Still joy - From Ukraine into the world”
Palazzo Contarini Polignac
May 9 - August 1, 2026
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Photo. DR, Tania Castro, James Thornhill, and Archives Mennour

21/04/2026

CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU is part of “POUR TOUJOURS” curated by Chiara Parisi and Maurizio Cattelan, a unique exhibition of works within the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, conceived in connection with “Endless Sunday” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

He presents a sound piece entitled “Judy Garland: A Biography” (2009) which haunts the space between the domes. The artist superimposes the first and last interpretations of the iconic song “Over the Rainbow” (1939), creating a form of speculative biography of Judy Garland and evoking the political and cultural impact of this song throughout the 20th century.

The superimposition reveals the evolution of the voice and its interpretation, transforming the song into a metaphor for the star’s career and into a chant imbued with incantatory qualities.

On view at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann until April 27, 2026.

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Portrait of Christodoulos Panayiotou by Nikita Shubnyi

20/04/2026

JEAN DEGOTTEX • Now on view: “Au-delà du signe (1957-1964)”, a new exhibition of works by Jean Degottex, at 28 avenue Matignon, Paris.

“At the turn of the Fifties and Sixties, the work of Jean Degottex began to revolve around a radical questioning of the sign, considered not as a medium conveying a message, but as a visual art motif. Though the beginning of his career was influenced by an abstract expressionism close to the post-war lyrical gestural language, Degottex accomplished a decisive reframing: the painting was no longer the place of an emotional display but became the field of an experience with line, rhythm and the void.”
— Christian Alandete, curator of the exhibition

Music : City Pressure / Silver Flaw / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

17/04/2026

MENNOUR EMERGENCE #3 • Now open: “Arcadie” featuring the works of Sila Candansayar, Mariama Conteh, Cléopatra Gones, Anna Kereszty, papiyon and Apolline Regent.

This show is the third edition of Mennour Emergence—a programme initiated by , Global Executive Director of Mennour, and curated by , Scientific Director of Mennour—committed to supporting young artists in the early stages of their careers.

Following the meeting of the selection committee—Elena Filipovic from , from , from , as well as , and chaired by Kamel Mennour himself—the Mennour Institute has brought together six artists who have recently graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy.

They were invited to produce original works presented here for the very first time; for some in the continuity of those made for their degrees, for others, already taking on new directions.

Now on view at Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris, until May 30, 2026

14/04/2026

SIDIVAL FILA • As part of the project with the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan—one of Europe’s oldest cultural institutions and home to an extraordinary artistic and archival heritage—Sidival Fila has been commissioned to create a new artwork using a historically and symbolically significant material: the vegetable-fiber canvas originally applied in the late 18th century to line the preparatory cartoon for Raphael’s “School of Athens”.

This textile, first used during restoration work while the artwork was in Paris at the Louvre and later removed during more recent conservation interventions, is now given a new life through Sidival Fila’s artistic intervention.

The commissioned artwork is displayed in the room housing Raphael’s original cartoon, positioned directly opposite it to foster a dialogue between the historical masterpiece and its contemporary reinterpretation. The work is part of the permanent collection of the Pinacoteca.

10/04/2026

FRANÇOIS MORELLET / SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP • “Au hasard”, curated by Christian Alandete, is now open at 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris and will run through May 30, 2026.

The exhibition brings together two major figures of geometric abstraction, separated by a generation but united by the same desire to reconcile rigor and playfulness. For both Sophie Taeuber-Arp and François Morellet, form arises from the tension between order and chance.

An heir to the Dadaist spirit, Morellet borrows from Taeuber-Arp the notion of chance as a structuring principle, transforming the unexpected into method. Both develop protocols in which randomness becomes a measurable variable, integrated into the composition of serial systems, grids, and modular variations. The exhibition highlights this intellectual and artistic lineage.

This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Fondation Arp-Taeuber, Clamart.

🔳 This exhibition is part of , an event organized to mark the centenary of François Morellet’s birth, at the initiative of the Fonds de dotation Morellet and the Centre Pompidou.

Participating venues:









Galerie de l’Hôtel de Ville, Chinon
musee

10/04/2026

FRANÇOIS MORELLET’s exhibition “Géométrie dans les spasmes”, curated by Christian Alandete, is now open at 6 rue du Pont de Lodi and will run through May 30, 2026.

In François Morellet’s work, geometry is never cold: it vibrates, stretches, and breaks down. Beneath the neutrality of the system, a playful humor makes lines and shapes waver, especially when the canvases mimic positions from the K**a Sutra. With “Géométrie dans les spasmes” the artist introduces eroticism into the rigor of the concrete and creates an inventory of amorous postures using simple forms. After lyrical, geometric, concrete, optical, and kinetic abstraction, Morellet invents X-***ed abstraction.

🔳 This exhibition is part of , an event organized to mark the centenary of François Morellet’s birth, at the initiative of the Fonds de dotation Morellet and the Centre Pompidou.

Participating venues:









Galerie de l’Hôtel de Ville, Chinon
musee

08/04/2026

BOURSE MENNOUR • In its commitment to actively supporting the writing of art history, the Mennour Institute has established a unique research fellowship consisting of two grants of €5,000 each. These grants aim to support key phases of doctoral work, whether this is research in France or abroad, time for writing, or assistance with the publication of the thesis.

For the fellowship’s third installment, the jury reviewed more than fifty applications of a very high standard from twenty-four doctoral schools and universities. From this rich selection, the jury members chose the following two candidates:

• YOURI HAMMACHE-SIGOUR, for his thesis “The Spirit of Panaf: When Algeria Dreamed of Being African. Realities, Myths, and Legacies of the First Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers (July 21–August 1, 1969),” undertaken at the University of Paris Nanterre under the supervision of Maureen Murphy, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Director of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Paris Nanterre, and under the co-supervision of Francesca Gallo, Associate Professor of Art History at Sapienza University of Rome.

• CLÉMENCE RINALDI, for her thesis “Female Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, Unite!: Women Artists’ Collectives and Group Exhibitions (1880–1940),” undertaken at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in affiliation with the HiCSA research laboratory and Doctoral School 441, under the supervision of Pascal Rousseau, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Director of the Doctoral School of Art History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and under the co-supervision of Julie Ramos, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Strasbourg.

The jury congratulates the recipients, welcomes the innovative and stimulating nature of their projects, and wishes them every success in their research.

The following application round for the Mennour Fellowship for Art History Research will open in the fall of 2026.

08/04/2026

FRANÇOIS MORELLET • 2026 marks the centenary of the birth of François Morellet (1926-2016). To commemorate it, the Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a retrospective in 100 works ranging from 1941 to 2016 — the most comprehensive retrospective to date of François Morellet. Curated by Michel Gauthier, in collaboration with Marion Guibert, the show is on view until September 28, 2026 at Centre Pompidou-Metz and at SNCF Technicentre, Metz.

Morellet is unique in that he was both the leading French figure of geometric abstraction and the one who most decisively contributed to destabilising it. Through the selected works, this major retrospective explores the ambivalence between reason and unreason, between the legacy of Francis Picabia and that of Piet Mondrian, whom the artist liked to refer to.

Within the 1,200 square metres of Galerie 3 of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the exhibition offers the public the chance to experience this ambivalence through two chronological paths, from Morellet’s early pictorial experiments from the 1940s, rarely shown until now, to his baroque neon works from the 2010s. The first path reveals Morellet’s work within the prevailing rules and the glories of pictorial materialism. The other path focuses on Morellet’s optical irrationality and Neo-Dadaist distance. One of these two aspects alone would have been sufficient to establish Morellet’s historic grandeur. The Centre Pompidou-Metz therefore offer visitors the chance to see the two sides of Morellet’s greatness.

07/04/2026

SHEN YUAN’s first solo exhibition in South China, “Shen Yuan: JETLAG,” is now open at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shenzhen and will run through July 21.

Featuring 15 installations and sculptures, including three newly commissioned works, the exhibition offers a comprehensive retrospective of the artistic career of one of the most important Chinese female contemporary artists.

03/04/2026