Tra carte, fotografie e concettualismo. Tutto il programma di mostre da vedere alla GAM di Torino nella seconda metà del 2026

The Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) in Turin has launched "Quarta Risonanza," an exhibition program running from May 21 through November 1, 2026. The program comprises four distinct projects: a major survey of works on paper from the museum's collections titled "Un altro Novecento," curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato; an intervention by artist Pesce Khete as the program's "Intruso"; a photographic series by Lisetta Carmi exploring eroticism and authority at the Staglieno cemetery, presented in dialogue with sculptures; and a centenary exhibition for conceptual artist Vincenzo Agnetti, "Oggi è un secolo," curated by Chiara Bertola and Virginia Lupo, focusing on his Photo-graffi works from 1979–1981.

Clasutta Explores the Dynamics of Love in Solo Exhibition at Whitestone Gallery Singapore

Indonesian artist Clasutta presents a solo exhibition titled "Roommates?" at Whitestone Gallery Singapore, exploring the emotional dynamics of love and relationships through her playful painting style. The exhibition is part of a larger curatorial narrative called "Through Reverie: Love and Memory," which also features a concurrent presentation by Malaysian artist C.K. Koh titled "Folded Glimpses," drawing from his personal photographic archive. Clasutta's works trace the subtle shifts from lighthearted beginnings to spaces shaped by attachment, expectation, and unspoken negotiation, portraying love as fluid and ever-changing.

ARTIndia and Vadehra Art Collaborate for ‘Next/Now’ Exhibition in Delhi

A group exhibition titled 'Next/Now' will open in New Delhi on 29 May 2026, organized by ARTIndia Magazine and Vadehra Art Gallery. The show features 30 emerging artists selected from ARTIndia's '30 Under 30' list, working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media. The opening coincides with Defence Colony Gallery Night, and partial proceeds will support the ARTIndia Care Fund, which provides medical care for young artists.

Hubert Robert & Fragonard. Le sentiment de la nature

The Musée d'art et d'archéologie in Valence, France, is presenting an exhibition titled "Hubert Robert & Fragonard. Le sentiment de la nature" from March 7 to June 21, 2026. The show traces the artistic friendship between Hubert Robert and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who met as young French artists sketching in the ruins of Rome under the guidance of Charles-Joseph Natoire. It features works from the museum's renowned collection of sanguine drawings, notably those from the foundational bequest of Julien Victor Veyrenc (1835-1836), and includes new attributions proposed by curator Sarah Catala, a graduate conservator from the Institut National du Patrimoine.

See Inside the Belarus Free Theatre’s Venice Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism

The Belarus Free Theatre has opened an exhibition titled “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” at La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, marking Belarus's first presence at the Venice Biennale in six years and its first appearance not as a state but as a self-governing cultural body. Curated by Daniella Kaliada, the show features Belarusian artists working across painting, installations, and large-scale sculptures, aiming to make the experience of living under authoritarianism viscerally legible through works that explore surveillance, repression, and bodily experience.

Ex-Votos of Disobedience: Débora Arango in Dialogue with Alfonso Quijano

EXVOTOS DE LA DESOBEDIENCIA: DÉBORA ARANGO EN DIÁLOGO CON ALFONSO QUIJANO

The exhibition "Exvotos de la desobediencia: Débora Arango en diálogo con Alfonso Quijano" at the Claustro de San Agustín of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, curated by María Belén Sáez de Ibarra, brings together paintings and watercolors by Débora Arango (born 1907) alongside woodcuts by Alfonso Quijano (born 1927). The show proposes a dialogue that addresses persistent violence, inequality, and exclusion in contemporary life, with sacred symbols coexisting with bodies marked by desire, guilt, hunger, and resistance. Arango's work is presented as one of the earliest and most radical expressions of feminism in Latin American art, challenging patriarchal structures that have historically marginalized women and their images from public spaces.

Matt Browning at Kunstverein München

Matt Browning presents a solo exhibition at Kunstverein München, featuring a series of new works that explore the intersection of digital imagery and traditional painting techniques. The show includes 27 documented images, with Browning's characteristic blend of abstract forms and figuration, drawing on internet culture and personal memory.

Zheng Zhilin at Linseed Projects

Zheng Zhilin presents a solo exhibition at Linseed Projects, featuring a series of new works that explore themes of memory, materiality, and spatial perception. The show includes paintings and mixed-media installations that engage with the physical and emotional textures of everyday environments, drawing on the artist's personal experiences and cultural references from contemporary Chinese life.

Romane de Watteville “I’ll miss you when I scroll away” at Istituto Svizzero, Milan

Romane de Watteville's exhibition "I'll miss you when I scroll away" opens at Istituto Svizzero in Milan, featuring an environmental installation designed specifically for the venue. Her figurative paintings explore the tension between aesthetic saturation and the disorienting experience of digital consumption, drawing from online imagery and personal archives.

L’artista multidisciplinare Francesco Impellizeri protagonista di un nuovo appuntamento de I Martedì Critici. Il video

Francesco Impellizeri, a multidisciplinary artist born in Trapani in 1958, is the subject of the third seasonal appointment of "I Martedì Critici," a series of meetings curated by Alberto Dambruoso and Loredana Rea. The article explores Impellizeri's career, which began in the mid-1980s and blends painting, music, photography, and performance into a distinctive, eccentric language. His work often uses paradox and sarcasm to critique contemporary stereotypes, as seen in performances like "Desfilè: mannequin per nient" and his series of "Pensierini"—childlike notebook pages that address political and social themes. His exhibitions span from the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice to the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Museo del Barrio in New York.

Tattoo artists bring fine art, live tattooing to Carbondale Arts Gallery

Carbondale Arts Gallery in Colorado opens “Visceral Alchemy: Fine Art + Tattoo,” an exhibition featuring over 20 tattoo artists from across the United States. Curated by Sarah Overbeck, the gallery’s marketing director, and local tattoo artist Matt Hays, the show highlights the dual creative practices of tattoo artists, showcasing their personal fine art in mediums such as wood carving, ceramics, painting, and drawing alongside their commercial tattoo work. A live-tattoo event at Carbondale’s Launchpad accompanies the exhibition, allowing visitors to observe artists working on clients in real time.

Meet the artists behind the women’s Western art exhibition at Southwest Art Gallery and Science Center

The Southwest Art Gallery and Science Center in Dickinson, North Dakota, hosted a public artist reception on May 14 for its women’s Western art exhibition, featuring regional female artists whose work depicts the landscapes, wildlife, and culture of the Northern Plains and American West. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works centered on ranching, farming, and rural life, and will remain on display through June 12. Featured artists include Daphne Clark, Afton Ray Rossol, Barb Kalenze Kraft, Oksana Zvyagelskiy, Trish Stevenson, and Kelsey Jacobson, each sharing personal stories of how art became a creative outlet and source of healing.

Between memory and myth: inside WITH MY ROOTS Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale

The sixth edition of the Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale, titled WITH MY ROOTS, has opened at Mall Galleries in London, featuring works by Iranian and diaspora artists across painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and video. The exhibition explores themes of identity, displacement, and cultural continuity against a backdrop of ongoing conflict and political uncertainty, with standout pieces by Soheila Golestani, Paria Shahverdi, Sahaar (Sahar-Khosrojerdi), Negin Baghery, Mohammaz Reza Zabihi, and Dina Abdose.

Fourth-floor exhibits at Yale Art Gallery are separate and independent but line up beautifully

The Yale Art Gallery's fourth floor is hosting five concurrent exhibitions running through June, including solo shows by John Coplans, August Sander, Jes Fan, and Hans Hofmann, alongside a group exhibition of American Impressionism featuring artists like Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Childe Hassam. The displays range from Coplans' intimate black-and-white self-portraits to Sander's sprawling photographic catalog of 20th-century German society, and from Fan's modern sculptures to Hofmann's bold abstract paintings.

In Milan there is an exhibition where color fascinates because it is mystical and changeable

A Milano c’è una mostra dove il colore affascina perché è mistico e mutevole

The article reports on Jason Martin's second solo exhibition at Christian Stein gallery in Milan, titled "Vertex," curated by Sergio Risaliti. Eight new large-scale works fill the Palazzo Cicogna space, showcasing Martin's signature thick oil paint surfaces that shift in color and texture, evoking the changing appearance of a wheat field. The exhibition runs until May 23, 2025.

"Seasons and Soliloquies" by Zack Thurmond

Zack Thurmond will present a solo exhibition titled "Seasons and Soliloquies" at Idaho Art Gallery (IAG) in downtown Boise, opening Thursday, May 7, 2026, from 5 to 9 pm. Thurmond, a largely self-taught artist with a BFA from Boise University, creates paintings rooted in direct observation of place, often starting as plein air studies and expanding into larger studio works. His pieces are held in collections across North America and Europe, and he currently serves as Chief Preparator at the Boise Art Museum.

“Quiet Intersections,” June 5 through July 31

Four Chicago-based artists—Allie Kushnir, Shalen Stephenson, Thérèse Mulgrew, and Noel Mercado—will present concurrent solo exhibitions at Dubuque's Voices Studios from June 5 through July 31, under the collective title "Quiet Intersections." Each artist explores themes of memory, materiality, and contemporary life through distinct media: Kushnir's organic paintings, Stephenson's layered abstractions, Mulgrew's figurative works, and Mercado's found-object sculptures. An opening reception with an artist talk is scheduled for June 5.

Blak Douglas is an Archibald winner. He says the art prize needs to change

Blak Douglas, a four-time Archibald Prize finalist and winner of the 2022 competition, has opened a new exhibition titled *Home Flown* at NSW Parliament House. The show challenges perceptions of Aboriginal art by parodying the dominance of dot painting and the co-opting of Aboriginal iconography, such as the boomerang, in Australian commercial culture. Douglas uses roundels, laser-cut boomerangs, and killer boomerangs to critique the tax system, colonial structures, and the pressure on Indigenous artists to produce work that is 'identifiably Aboriginal'.

‘Rooted in Memory’ brings Gullah Geechee culture to Cameron Art Museum

The Cameron Art Museum (CAM) in Wilmington, North Carolina, will open a new exhibition titled "Rooted in Memory: The Gullah Geechee Vision of Jonathan Green" on June 19, 2025, running through January 24, 2027. The show features paintings by artist Jonathan Green alongside traditional Gullah Geechee crafts, exploring themes of heritage, storytelling, and cultural identity. An opening night event is scheduled for June 18, followed by a free community day on June 20.

Yoko Ono finally gets a solo show in Southern California

Yoko Ono finally receives her first solo exhibition in Southern California with "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" opening May 23, 2026 at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. The retrospective spans seven decades of her work as a conceptual artist, peace activist, and musician, featuring instructional pieces like "Painting to Hammer a Nail" (1961/1966), her famous 1964 book "Grapefruit," and a video of her iconic performance "Cut Piece." The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, also includes participatory elements such as "Wish Trees for Los Angeles" (1996/2026) and a series of peace-themed billboards, running through October 11, 2026.

Upstate Art Weekend Founder Helen Toomer Curates “Earthen Plot” in Kingston

Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) founder Helen Toomer has curated her first group exhibition for the event, titled “Earthen Plot,” on view at UAW Headquarters in Kingston through June 29. The show features 37 artists selected from the 200 participants in UAW’s recent Open Studios, presenting works in painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media that explore connections to place. Notable pieces include Manju Shandler’s oversized turtle sculpture *Tiger Woods* (2025) and ceramic works by Kathy Ruttenberg, Ashley Lyon, and others. UAW 2026 runs from June 25 to June 29.

Edinburgh Fine Art Society marks 150 years with landmark exhibition

The Fine Art Society, one of Scotland's oldest commercial galleries, is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a landmark exhibition opening June 13 and running through August 31 at its original Edinburgh location on Dundas Street. The show spans the gallery's entire history, featuring works from Victorian masters to contemporary artists, including early etchings by James McNeill Whistler, a rare landscape by Pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett, and pieces by historically overlooked artists such as Clare Atwood, Phyllis Bone, Anne Redpath, and Ishbel Myerscough. Decorative arts are represented by a Gothic Revival table by Augustus Pugin, a tapestry by Gerald Laing, and a textile by Edmund Dulac, while the exhibition closes with Philip Eglin's ceramic vessel 'Rosso' (2024), shortlisted for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.

Ali Banisadr talks alchemy at MFA St. Petersburg exhibition

The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg has opened a new exhibition titled "Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist," featuring two decades of work by the artist Ali Banisadr. The show runs through July 12, 2026, and includes recurring figures drawn from ancient Egyptian tarot cards and other historical symbols, as well as references to artificial intelligence and a dinosaur-headed self-portrait. Senior curator Stanton Thomas, who typically works with Old Masters, collaborated directly with Banisadr on the exhibition.

On the Pistoia Apennines, OCA - Oasy Contemporary Art opens the new season with Arne Quinze

OCA - Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture in the Pistoia Apennines has opened its 2026 season, featuring Belgian artist Arne Quinze. Quinze presents the outdoor installation *Ceramorphia* (previously shown at the 2024 Venice Biennale) and the solo exhibition *I'm a Gardener*, which includes paintings and works on canvas. The installation, made of ceramic forms, reinterprets nature rather than copying it, while the exhibition explores the relationship between humans and biodiversity. The season began on April 25, 2026, under the artistic direction of Emanuele Montibeller.

Bonollo Foundation explores the body and mind with two new exhibition projects

The Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art in Thiene, Italy, has launched two new exhibition projects: the group show "Body in Motion" and a solo exhibition titled "Sanatorium" by Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski. Both opened on May 23, 2026, with "Body in Motion" running until November 7 and "Sanatorium" until September 30. "Body in Motion," curated by Chiara Nuzzi, features works from the Bonollo Collection by artists including Monica Bonvicini, Talia Chetrit, Sam Durant, Mona Hatoum, and others, exploring the body as a site of relationship, resistance, and identity. "Sanatorium," curated by Elisa Carollo, presents Kowalski's recent paintings that use the metaphor of a sanatorium to examine perception, memory, and the boundaries between imagination and reality, designed specifically for the foundation's space in a former religious and psychiatric complex.

major exhibition of rare paintings and archives honors zaha hadid ten years after her passing

A major exhibition titled 'I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation' has opened at LUMA Arles, marking the sixth chapter of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Arthur Fouray, the show honors the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid on the tenth anniversary of her passing. It features rarely exhibited paintings, early calligraphic drawings, personal notebooks, and previously unseen video interviews from 2001 to 2013, alongside tribute posters by peers such as Sir Peter Cook, Stefano Boeri, Sumayya Vally, Iwan Baan, and Lina Ghotmeh. The exhibition is presented in the Tower building designed by Frank Gehry and unfolds across the Cherry Tree Gallery and Archives Gallery, with exhibition furniture conceived by Kazuyo Sejima.

Ruggero Baragliu brings the painting of "how much is enough" to Rome

From May 30 to June 30, 2026, Blocco 13 in Rome hosts "Qb," the first Roman solo exhibition of Sardinian artist Ruggero Baragliu (born 1987). Curated by Antonello Cuccu and Chiara Manca, the show presents oils, papers, and bas-reliefs that explore the boundary between painting and sculpture through an essential, layered language. Works include small-format oils on panel such as "Colossus" (2026), the multi-year "Untitled with Checkers" (2019–2024), and the bas-relief "Garbata," which transforms brushstroke into volume. The exhibition is part of Blocco 13's "Guests" section, which has previously hosted artists like Pierluigi Fresia and Alessandro Finocchiaro.

At the GAM in Turin, the Fourth Resonance between drawing, paper and twentieth-century collections

From May 21 to November 1, 2026, the GAM—Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin—launches its new exhibition season titled "Fourth Resonance," a program dedicated to the languages of drawing, sign, and stroke. The season includes multiple exhibitions, notably "Un altro Novecento. Works on Paper from the GAM Collections," curated by Fabio Cafagna and Elena Volpato, which brings together over 600 works on paper spanning the 20th century, from Symbolism to the 1990s. Featured artists include Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Morandi, Filippo de Pisis, Max Beckmann, and many others, with monographic rooms and contemporary interventions woven into the museum's collections.

A&E: Frederick Hammersley painting exhibition at The Fred

Frederick Hammersley, an American artist who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, met Pablo Picasso in occupied Paris while making signs for the war effort. The article announces an exhibition of Hammersley's paintings at The Fred, highlighting this historical connection between the two artists.

World-renowned photographer Roger Ballen will visit Latvia with a lecture at ISSP and a retrospective exhibition at the Mark Rothko Art Centre

World-renowned photographer Roger Ballen will visit Latvia in June 2025 for a public lecture at the contemporary photography platform ISSP in Riga, followed by a major retrospective exhibition titled "The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. Retrospective" at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils. The lecture, held on June 6, offers a rare opportunity to hear Ballen discuss his creative process and over fifty years of work, while the exhibition, running from June 5 to August 30, spans his career from early documentary works to his signature "documentary fiction" and recent color photography.