The article showcases the 12 finalists of the Beaker Street science photography prize, featuring images of blue bioluminescent seas, shy tree canopies, native wasps, and glowing mushrooms. The photographs will be exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery during the Beaker Street festival from August 6 to 17.
Woody De Othello presents 'coming forth by day', an immersive solo exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) featuring ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a monumental bronze installation. The Miami-born artist transforms everyday objects like mirrors, clocks, and telephones into anthropomorphic forms that carry emotional residue and draw on diasporic African spiritual traditions, including the concept of nkisi. The exhibition's title references the ancient Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Day, and the show runs until 28 June 2026.
Jutta Koether's exhibition at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong presents a series of new paintings and works on paper that continue her exploration of abstraction, gesture, and materiality. The show features densely layered canvases and intimate works on paper, often incorporating text, collage, and painterly marks that oscillate between control and spontaneity. The gallery's raw, industrial space provides a stark backdrop for Koether's visceral, process-driven practice.
The Musée de Cluny in Paris is hosting a new exhibition titled "Licornes !" from March 10 to July 12, 2026, eight years after its previous show "Magiques licornes." The exhibition centers on the famous "Dame à la licorne" tapestry series (circa 1500), tracing its creation and rediscovery around 1840 before its acquisition by the museum in 1882. It expands the scope to cover representations of unicorns from antiquity to the present day, including non-European civilizations—such as an Indus Valley ceramic seal from circa 2000 BCE—and a contemporary section upstairs. The show was originally conceived by the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, which hosted the first iteration from October to February, preceded by an international symposium in June 2024.
Artist Eliza Douglas opened her first solo show in New York, titled “GHOSTS,” at Gagosian’s Park & 75 location on the same day her Paris gallery, Air de Paris, announced its closure. The exhibition features reworked paintings from the past decade, combining existing compositions with manipulated photographs taken by her aunt, journalist Leslie Kean, who reports on UFOs. Curated by Francesco Bonami, the show is the first in a series aimed at presenting innovative work by younger or less established artists not necessarily represented by the mega-gallery. Douglas, known for collaborations with designer Demna and performance artist Anne Imhof, also discussed her studio practices in an interview, including her ritual of writing detailed show proposals and working without pants.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) presents 'Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing', the most comprehensive retrospective of the American artist's career, spanning over five decades. The exhibition features sculpture, performance, installation, and moving-image works that explore themes of transformation, care, and interconnectedness, using materials such as wire rope, tree branches, newspapers, and plastic bags. It includes key works from the 1970s to the present, with performances, workshops, and recreations of ephemeral installations, on view until 29 November 2026.
New York-based artist Eric N. Mack has transformed the Speed Art Museum's Gheens Court into an immersive textile-based installation titled 'RARE ESSENCE'. The exhibition, presented as part of the museum's Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program, features found fabrics, garments, and everyday materials that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, architecture, and fashion. Mack's work activates the museum space through color, texture, and drape, creating a dynamic environment that invites visitors to navigate shifting relationships between body, space, and material.
Milan's Art Week and Fuorisalone feature a standout exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Milano titled "Dialogues are Mostly Fried Snowballs," which stages a conceptual confrontation between Marcel Duchamp and Sturtevant. The show juxtaposes Duchamp's iconic readymades—such as *Fountain* and *Porte-bouteilles*—with Sturtevant's replicas, exploring the tension between original and copy, authorship and duplication. The exhibition's title quotes Sturtevant's quip that dialogues are "fried snowballs," suggesting something impossible yet real.
The 16th Gwangju Biennial, scheduled for September 5 to November 15, 2026, in South Korea, has announced its artist list featuring over 40 artists and groups. Curated by Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, the biennial is titled "You Must Change Your Life," a line from Rainer Maria Rilke's sonnet "Archaic Torso of Apollo." Ho, who represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale and organized the 2019 Asian Art Biennial, is working with assistant curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, Brian Kuan Wood, Lee Yein, and Koyuri Sato.
French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952) will inaugurate the Fonds Bustamante in Arles on July 9, 2026. The foundation, dedicated to contemporary art, is housed in the former Sainte-Croix church, renovated by architect Charles Zana. Its opening coincides with the Rencontres d'Arles festival and features the inaugural exhibition "Bustamante en miroirs." The facade will display an enameled lava frieze by Bustamante and a monumental sculpture by Cristina Iglesias. The project is overseen by a supervisory board and scientific committee, joining Arles' major institutions such as LUMA Arles, Lee Ufan Arles, and the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh.
SLQS Gallery, founded in 2024 by Sarah Le Quang Sang in Shoreditch, London, focuses on female and queer artists and challenges traditional career classifications like "emerging" and "mid-career." The gallery has hosted ten shows, including Hoa Dung Clerget's exploration of Vietnamese diaspora through nail art, Damaris Athena's "undercurrents," and Diana Taylor's blending of digital and analogue painting. The current exhibition features Beverley Duckworth, who uses an irrigation system to grow seeds in the gallery, creating evolving artworks about networking and resistance.
Oriol Vilanova, the artist representing Spain at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026), will present an installation titled *Los restos* based on his long-running postcard collection. In an interview with ArtReview, he describes working with fragments from flea markets and everyday visual culture, which he believes will resonate in Venice. The Spanish pavilion is located in the Giardini, and Vilanova notes that his presentation does not engage with national identity, instead emphasizing how postcards easily cross borders. He also acknowledges the legacy of previous Spanish pavilion artists such as Antoni Muntadas, Esther Ferrer, and Santiago Sierra.
RojoNegro, the artist duo María Sosa and Noé Martínez, will represent Mexico at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 with an installation titled *Invisible Acts to Sustain the Universe*. Their pavilion in the Arsenale features a video, paintings made with natural dyes, ceramics, a clay-and-salt sculpture built in situ, and a sound work commissioned from artist Alberto Rubí. The project draws on over a decade of collaborative research, engaging with Indigenous knowledge systems, resistance, and ecological stewardship, inspired by anthropologists, choreographers, and filmmakers.
This article from Artribune surveys a series of exhibitions and events featuring Italian artists abroad in late spring 2026. It highlights several shows: Rosa Barba's solo exhibition "Thick Harmonies" at Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, awarded the Zurich Art Prize 2026; Michelangelo Consani's "My Favorite Spring" at Gallery Side 2 in Tokyo; Luca Ceccherini's debut French solo show "Grammelot" at Galerie Dina Vierny in Paris; the major retrospective "No Place Like Home" of Italian photography since the 1980s at Schauwerk Sindelfingen in Germany; and the group show "Pittura italiana oggi. Una nuova scena" at the Polo Culturale ItaliaNoRio in Rio de Janeiro, organized by Artnoble Triennale Milano, the Consulate General of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Rio de Janeiro.
Hanna Hur is the subject of a solo exhibition at Antenna Space, as documented by Contemporary Art Daily. The page features 28 images of the exhibition, with no videos or text descriptions accompanying the visual documentation.
The article reviews "Gordon Parks: The South in Color," an exhibition at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta curated by photographer Dawoud Bey. The show features over forty images from Parks' 1956 Segregation Story series, captured in Alabama during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Bey's selection emphasizes dignity and intimacy, presenting unpublished portraits and scenes of Black Southern life under Jim Crow, including images of children, families, and elders like Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr. The exhibition runs through July 11, 2026, and commemorates the 70th anniversary of the original LIFE story and the 20th anniversary of the Gordon Parks Foundation.
The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre in Mount Gambier, South Australia, will launch a vibrant winter exhibition season from 20 June to 16 August 2026, featuring four exhibitions: 'Two Laws One Big Spirit' by Peter Adsett and Rusty Peters, 'My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club' by Damien Shen, 'Speak Up!' by Thumbprint Collective, and '50 Years of Deadly NAIDOC Posters'. The program includes a monumental painting collaboration between Gija artist Rusty Peters and New Zealand-born painter Peter Adsett, a moving image card trick performance with tintype photographs by Damien Shen, and local responses to works by Ann Newmarch and Babara Hanrahan. Public events include an opening on 19 June 2026 and 'In Conversation' talks with artists and curators.
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is hosting 'Sediments of Becoming: Fossilised Present, Summoned Pasts,' the first dedicated contemporary Indian art exhibition in its 260-year history. Co-curated by Marina Schulz and New Delhi-based gallerist Tunty Chauhan, and produced with Threshold Art Gallery, the show features eleven Indian artists—including Afrah Shafiq, Manjunath Kamath, Ravinder Reddy, and Sumakshi Singh—with works spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, many created specifically for the exhibition.
The Intuit Art Museum in Chicago is presenting "Cutting and Pasting a World: The Paper Craft of Henry Darger," an exhibition opening June 17, 2026, that explores how the self-taught artist Henry Darger (1892-1973) was influenced by traditional American paper crafts like paper dolls and scrapbooking. Curated by art historian Dr. Mary Trent, the show reframes Darger's large-scale mixed-media narratives as double-sided pages from bound books, tracing their roots in early 20th-century domestic practices. The exhibition is part of the nationwide "Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026" initiative marking the 250th anniversary of American craft, and will run through January 31, 2027.
The Montclair Art Museum presents "Victoria Sambunaris: Transformation of the American Landscape," an exhibition of large-scale photographs by acclaimed American artist Victoria Sambunaris, running from June 26, 2026 to February 21, 2027. For over 25 years, Sambunaris has traveled alone across the United States with a 5×7-inch field camera, documenting places where the natural and manmade converge—rail lines, mines, power plants, and traces of human activity in remote landscapes. The exhibition includes related materials and is curated by Ira Wagner, former Executive Director of the museum.
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) has opened "Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory," the first major retrospective of Oakland-based artist Mildred Howard, running from June 12 to October 11. The exhibition fills the Great Hall with installations, found-object sculptures, archival materials, audio and video recordings, and new works spanning five decades, exploring themes of history, memory, protest, and hope. Howard, born in 1945, grew up surrounded by art and activism in the East Bay, and her career includes a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Art, teaching at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute, and works in permanent collections at OMCA, SFMOMA, and the de Young Museum.
Berlin-based French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière's latest exhibition, *Hard Core*, has opened at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania. Carved into 250-million-year-old sandstone on the Berriedale Peninsula, the show explores humanity's relationship with deep time through works that incorporate glacial erratics, drill cores repaired with metals, and a permanent installation called *Breathe* (2026) that releases oxygen trapped in ancient Pilbara rocks for visitors to inhale. The exhibition also features volcanic lava bombs and mirrored chambers that simulate standing inside a volcano.
Jenny Holzer will present her first solo exhibition in Portugal, titled "Wrong Answers," at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto from June 18 to November 1. The show spans her career, including early works like Inflammatory Essays (1979-82) and Truisms (1978-87), as well as LED poems, stone sculptures, and human bone installations. It also debuts two new collaborative pieces with Porto-based graffiti artist Kilos, blending his graffiti with Holzer's text-based works.
The Acropolis Museum in Athens is celebrating its 17th anniversary with a new exhibition titled "Inspirations. Ancient Greek Art living in Italy," running from June 16 to August 30. The show features 38 rare masterpieces—including ceramics, bronzes, and marbles—on loan from Italian museums, curated into seven thematic sections that trace Greek cultural influence on Italy from the 8th century BCE through the 20th century. Highlights include the Krater of the Amazons, the bronze Zeus of Ugento, and the marble Apollo of Cirò Marina. Admission is free, and the exhibition is presented in Greek, Italian, and English.
Charles Gaines presents his first Paris exhibition, 'Ciphering African Acacias and Supreme Court Decisions', opening June 10, 2026, at Hauser & Wirth Paris. The show features new works from his 'Numbers and Trees' series—nine Plexiglas pieces based on acacia trees photographed in Tanzania in 2023—alongside 'Manifestos 7' (2026), a musical and video installation that translates U.S. Supreme Court rulings into musical notation. The exhibition continues Gaines' decades-long conceptual practice of using rule-based systems to explore perception, identity, and social structures.
Frieze Seoul will return to COEX in Gangnam from September 2–5, 2026, with over 125 galleries from 30 countries, marking its fifth edition. The fair introduces two new curated sections—Material Practice, focusing on craft and design, and Spotlight, dedicated to overlooked 20th-century artists—alongside the returning Focus section. More than 70% of participating galleries are based in Asia-Pacific, and over 50 have permanent spaces in Seoul. The event is organized in partnership with Kiaf SEOUL and includes a city-wide Frieze Week programme with exhibitions at major institutions like Leeum Museum of Art and MMCA Seoul.
Art institutions across the United States are launching exhibitions and programs that explore the intersection of sports and art, timed to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In New York, the Guggenheim Museum will livestream World Cup matches and present Zidane, a 21st century portrait, a video work featuring French soccer star Zinédine Zidane. In Texas, museums in Dallas, Denton, Arlington, and Fort Worth are staging exhibitions such as More Than a Match at the Arlington Museum of Art, Game Changer: United By Sports at the George W. Bush Presidential Museum, and Soccer: More Than A Game at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. The Pérez Art Museum Miami opened Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, and in Mexico, curator Guillermo Santamarina is organizing Fútbol y Arte with 100 works by 60 artists at an unnamed museum.
Danielle Mezh has curated 'Invasive Species,' a multisensory exhibition featuring 15 women artists at Hypha Studios in London, running from June 5 to July 11, 2026. The show spans painting, installation, moving image, scent, sound, sculpture, and gastronomy, exploring themes of psychological and material invasion, inspired by Surrealism, mysticism, and psycho-sensory experience. Artists include Saelia Aparicio, Abigail Norris, Frances Pinnock, Efrat Merin, Beverley Duckworth, Camila Barvo, Abigail Booth, Françoise, Rebecca Hazard, Jennifer Lewandowska, Katarina Lukina, Misia-O’, Rita Osipova, Soraya Schulthess, and Adriana Wynne-Ronson.
The T.NUA collective, founded by artist Tao Kulczycki with Ornaghi & Prestinari and curator Lindsay Aveilhé, opens its second exhibition, “A T.NUA Exhibition 02,” in Milan on June 9, 2026. The show presents outcomes of programs developed in 2025 and 2026 between Italy and Nepal, including a capsule collection by designer Mauro Simionato (Vitelli) created through the Craftsmanship Program, and one of two traveling architectural sculptures from the “The Travelling Chautaris” project, developed with the Siddhartha Arts Foundation, Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute, and Nepalese artist Sneha Shrestha. The collective operates an independent, self-funded space in Milan that houses a collaboration program, a craftsmanship program, a magazine, and exhibitions.
La più grande manifestazione sull’artigianato contemporaneo arriva a Venezia. Ecco come sarà Homo Faber 2026
The fourth edition of Homo Faber, the biennial of high craftsmanship organized by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, will take place from September 1 to 30, 2026, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. Under the artistic direction of British artist and set designer Es Devlin, the event—titled "An Island of Light"—will feature 15 immersive installations showcasing over 800 objects made by 400 artisans from more than 70 countries, with 85 artisans exhibiting for the first time. Highlights include a kinetic mirror, a ceiling of paper lanterns inspired by Venetian lagoon birds, and a crescent structure rising from a pool.