The Societe Generale Collection, in partnership with the Backslash gallery, is delighted to present 46 works, selected from French and international private art collections, from 28 September to 25 November 2017 at Societe Generale Headquarters.

 

Société Générale is pleased to announce the sponsorship with the Städel Museum for the exhibition Matisse-Bonnard: “Long live painting!” to be seen in Frankfurt.

 

What do Kader Attia, Julien Prévieux, Laurent Grasso and Mathieu Mercier have in common? The Marcel Duchamp Prize… and the Société Générale Collection! As the contest for the 2017 Marcel Duchamp Prize begins, we pay tribute to the (many) Collection artists who have won this prestigious prize.  Maja Bajević, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Charlotte Moth and Vittorio Santoro. The nominees for the 2017 Marcel Duchamp Prize were announced on February 2nd.

From Orlan at the MEP to David Hockney at the Centre Pompidou and Camille Henrot at the Palais de Tokyo, here's a summary of the contemporary art exhibitions taking place throughout 2017. It's bound to be the most reliable horoscope you’ll come across during this start to the year.

 

OVER THE WALLS is an artistic programme (exhibitions and meetings) that showcases Societe Generale’s contemporary art collection in three exhibitions being held in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.

 

Jean-Michel Alberola (b. 1953) is a kind of mystery man of French painting – which he constantly turns into a dialogue with myriad other media, from film to playing cards. An instructor at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris who entered the Collection Societe Generale in 2000, Alberola tends to shy away from the press; he only rarely gives interviews. So we have to sift through those that he has given even more closely, hoping to find hints that will help us grasp this complex oeuvre which disfigures the face to raise it to the level of idea.

Dedicated exclusively to drawing and works on paper, the Drawing Now exhibition celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. From 30 March to 3 April, it will welcome the very best practitioners of the medium at Carreau du Temple in Paris 3rd district. Five of the artists invited are part of Collection Societe Generale, from the late Gottfried Honegger to Agnès Thurnauer.

Its sights firmly focused on Asia, with a dozen Chinese artists pinned to its wall, the Société Générale Collection has just incorporated the work of South Korean artist Bae Bien-U into its Collection. His photos of “sacred forests” can be viewed this spring at the Art Paris Art Fair, which is dedicated this year to the South Korean scene, as well as on the walls of the prestigious Chambord Castle.

How did Sandro Botticelli, one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance, influence so many generations of artists from the 19th century to the present? Such is the question that the Victoria and Albert Museum in London seeks to answer with its exhibition "Botticelli Reimagined", made possible with the financial support of Societe Generale (major of the museum's principal exhibitions in 2016 and 2017). Visitors can discover his flourishing posterity from 5 March to 3 July 2016.
 

Popularised by the indigenous artist Jivya Soma Mashe (whose work recently joined the Societe Generale Collection in 2015), Warli painting is now spreading beyond the borders of India. A return to a tribal art with its origins in rock painting, its contemporary form allies tradition and innovation, simplicity and virtuosity.