Art Basel Paris, Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce, Pop & Psy Festival… Our 5 Cultural Must-Sees

Art Basel Paris. Paris, capital of art

Name change. “Paris + Art Basel” becomes simply “Art Basel Paris”. Change of place. the event returns to the Grand Palais. The 2024 edition is structured around three sectors: “Galleries” bringing together established galleries, “Emergence” dedicated to emerging artists and “Premise”., a new section that brings together nine galleries with atypical curatorial proposals, a more comprehensive re-reading of art history. A dialogue is shown between the lesser-known photographic works of two German masters, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, or the work of Juliette Roche (1884-1980) about marginalized minorities, especially black or gay… A new initiative called “O! La La”. will allow galleries to turn off the phone or allow the public to show rarely exhibited works. Add to this the cultural events of the capital, such as Olga de Amaral at the Fondation Cartier or the retrospective exhibition of Tom Wesselmann at the Fondation Louis Vuitton… All this makes Paris the cornerstone of the world art market.

Art Basel Paris. October 18 to 20 at artbasel.com

“Arte Povera” with majesty at the Bourse de Commerce

A magnificent exhibition organized by Karolin Hristov-Bakargiev, which will be a landmark. But what is Arte Povera? This name was given in the late 1960s to describe the work of a group of Italian artists. This is a new concept of artwork related to the question of energy. Their installations use living beings like Yannis Kounelis’s parrot and natural materials: soil, potatoes, lettuce, water, coal, trees… This living creature with a non-urban memory marks the birth of ecological thinking in art. . A very poetic Penone tree greets us in the square. For the first time, the space of the Rotond is allocated not to one artist, but to the 13 who make up this movement with their early works. Next to the first stands the first tree sculpted by Giuseppe Penone Igloo By Mario Mertz. Pier Paolo Calzzolari’s first refrigerator sculpture dialogues with the former Direction: By Giovanni Anselmo. there is the Alighero Boetti Autotritto fountain and Lo Spirito By Luciano Fabbro. Beware, masterpieces!

Arte Povera, October 9, 2024 to January 20, 2025, pinaultcollection.com

Corita Kent. his first exhibition in France

Bernardine College Illustrated salutes Corita Kent (1918-1986), an American artist known as Sister Mary Corita. “Corita Kent. Happy revolution!, Several decades pass before our eyes, from the 1950s to the 1980s. Photographs, screen prints (his favorite medium), installation… In other words, 30 works that reveal his audacity and activism. Through images taken from advertising and newspapers mixed with slogans, she talks about feminist movements, artistic counterculture, consumer society, but also poverty, racism, war and social injustices.

Corita Kent, Happy Revolution, until December 21, 2024, collegedesbernardins.fr

“Delicate situation”. vaudeville revised

Misunderstandings, misunderstandings and improbable situations, the plot is effective. destination Bures-sur-Yvet, in a bucolic setting where Nicolas, played by Max Bublil, is an awkward lover. His relationship with Julie, played by Elsa Rosenknop, is touching. But the beauty has a lover whom she is going to leave. Philippe, played by Gérard Darmont, makes a slightly cynical, but surprising, shock couple with Clotilde Cura, who is perfect as the wife. The pace of the performance is furious, the strange situations follow one another and there is a cascade of laughter. The alchemy between the actors is palpable with a special mention for the duo of Gérard Darmont and Max Bublil. In a couple, love, loyalty, lies are treated delicately and with humor. And it works. A pure moment of pleasure.

A delicate situationtheatredesnouveautes.fr/

Pop & Psy Festival. liberating people to talk about mental health

While Michel Barnier has made mental health the big national cause of 2025, the Pop et Psy festival, whose 3rd edition will be held from October 11 to 13 at Ground Control in Paris, has moved on. For two days, conferences, performances and concerts follow one another for freedom of speech around diseases that are still taboo, but also to educate and de-dramatize disorders that are often too stigmatized. In the program: conversations with Judith Godrech and Isilde Le Besco on violence in the film world, roundtables on the increasingly researched use of psychoactive substances in psychiatry or the inclusion of people on the autism spectrum. But also workshops led by health professionals are designed to answer all questions about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and ADHD. Unforgettable evenings: Solann, Thx4crying or Joanna concerts, MM’X or Powerpouf DJ sets, Madame Arthur cabaret show. To become better, now and in the future.

Pop & Psy Festival, October 11th to 13th Ground Control, 81 rue du Charolais, 75012 Paris.