Scottish artist Andrew Cranston has opened a new solo exhibition titled 'I’m going in a field' at Modern Art gallery in London. The show features eleven paintings that blend landscape, memory, and domestic scenes, drawing inspiration from the artist's childhood in Hawick, Scotland, and his reflections on activities like golf, which he views as a form of landscape experience.
Photographic artist Clara Chiu is presenting her debut solo exhibition, 'Water's Awakening,' at Gallery Lane Cove. The show, curated by Miguel Olmo, features abstract photographic works focused on water, exploring its fleeting forms and movement to question perception and offer contemplative sanctuary. The exhibition runs from May 13 to June 6, 2026.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) has acquired a significant work by artist and former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, Warrington Colescott. The museum will present a solo exhibition of Colescott's work in the fall of 2025, featuring the newly acquired piece alongside other works from its collection.
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University has opened the exhibition 'Silvia Heyden: Weaving Notes & Nature,' celebrating the rhythmic tapestries of Swiss-born artist Silvia Heyden (1927–2015). The show features works from her first solo exhibition at Duke over five decades ago, alongside key experimental pieces from the 1960s and 70s, reconnecting her legacy to the Durham campus that shaped her artistic voice.
Marian Goodman Gallery is suspending operations at its Los Angeles location after two and a half years, following the conclusion of Tacita Dean's solo show on April 25. The gallery's partners announced a consolidation of programming to its historic homes in New York and Paris, stating they will evaluate the space's future while maintaining an LA presence through art fairs, special projects, and museum exhibitions.
Nigerian artist Damola Adepoju has opened his third solo exhibition, titled 'Light', at Mydrim Gallery in Lagos. The show, curated by Idowu Bankole to commemorate Adepoju's 50th birthday, features 30 paintings and mixed-media works created between 2015 and the present, focusing on Lagos cityscapes and employing his signature technique of newspaper prints, acrylic, and soft gold on a grey palette.
Cosa sono questi “art club” che Alessandro Benetton sta aprendo in giro per l’Italia? Il racconto
21Art, a company founded by Alessandro Benetton based on a project by entrepreneur Davide Vanin, is expanding its network of gallery spaces and affiliated 'Art Clubs' across Italy and into Monaco. This spring, a new location in Montecarlo will join existing galleries in Rome, Padua, and Treviso, with plans for further openings in Milan, Cortina, and Jesolo by 2027. The expansion is accompanied by a spring 2026 exhibition program featuring shows by Mario Ceroli in Treviso, Ahmet Güneştekin in Rome, and Jan Fabre in Montecarlo.
Indonesian artist Dini Nur Aghnia presents her solo exhibition 'What Gathers, What Holds' at Gajah Gallery in Yogyakarta, opening April 25, 2026. The exhibition features a new body of work exploring landscape through layered compositions of clay, resin, and patchwork textiles, moving away from a totalized vista to focus on fragments and accumulative change.
Alex Thake presents a solo exhibition titled "I Know This Much is True" at Triangolo gallery in Cremona. The show features new works by the artist, continuing his exploration of material and conceptual themes.
Hannah Black presents her first solo exhibition, "Harsh Muting," at the zaza' gallery in Naples. The show features five circular oil paintings that draw inspiration from the rotating word-play disks in Marcel Duchamp's surrealist film *Anemic Cinema*.
Silvestre Pestana, a Portuguese artist and poet, is presenting a solo exhibition of his LED text-based works at Galeria Quadrado Azul in Porto. The show, titled 'Silvestre Pestana: The Light of Words', features his pioneering 'Poemas Pornográficos' (Pornographic Poems) from the 1980s and newer LED pieces that transform language into pulsating, illuminated objects.
Congolese artist Jean Katambayi Mukendi has opened a solo exhibition titled "RATIO" at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The show features works that interrogate fundamental dualities such as the natural versus the artificial, growth versus destruction, and the dynamics between resources and power.
Swedish artist Klara Lidén has opened a major solo exhibition, "Kunstwerke," at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The show features a new, site-specific architectural installation that reconfigures the gallery's main hall, alongside a selection of her existing video and sculptural works that explore urban space and the body's relationship to it.
Korean artist Ha Chong-hyun, a pioneer of the dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) movement, will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition, "Ha Chong-hyun: Retrospective," will feature approximately 50 works spanning his 60-year career, including his signature "Conjunction" series and early informal experiments.
Ha Chong-Hyun, a leading figure of the Korean Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) movement, will receive his first North American museum retrospective at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The exhibition, titled 'Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective,' opens on September 25 and will feature approximately 50 paintings spanning over 60 years of his career, including new works and pieces showcasing his signature 'Back Pressure Technique.'
Chinese artist Cao Fei has opened a new solo exhibition titled "Dash" at the Fondazione Prada in Milan. The exhibition presents a new body of work, including video installations and sculptures, continuing her exploration of digital realities, urban transformation, and the human condition in a rapidly changing world.
Comedian Jim Moir, best known as Vic Reeves, has opened a solo exhibition titled 'Neo Fauna' at Cartwright Hall in Bradford. The show features his eclectic paintings and drawings, including watercolours of birds and the 'American Couples' series, where he paints over found family portraits. Moir insists his comedy career was an extension of his art practice, stating he is fundamentally 'just a painter.'
American artist Maria Kreyn opened her first solo exhibition in Milan, titled "Continuum," at the gallery Robilant+Voena. The show presents a selection of her new paintings, which are characterized by atmospheric renderings that blend figuration with abstract geometry.
Monochrome painting master Ha Chong-Hyun will have his first North American museum retrospective at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (AAM) from September 25, 2026, to January 25, 2027. The exhibition, titled "Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective," will feature about 50 works spanning over 60 years, including his early Art Informel experiments, his politically charged works, and his iconic "Conjunction" series created with his signature Back Pressure Technique.
David Kordansky Gallery in New York is presenting 'Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs,' a solo exhibition of new work by Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland. This marks his first New York gallery show in nearly a decade. The exhibition features two distinct series, including a significant new body of smaller-format 35mm photographs that represent a major shift in his 30-year practice. The show runs from March 12 to April 25, 2026, at the gallery's West 20th Street location.
French artist Julien Carreyn is preparing his sixth solo exhibition, titled 'Exposition personnelle,' at the Crèvecoeur gallery in Paris. The show will feature a selection of small black-and-white photographs centered on themes of holidays and family, a possible miniature painting, a long, non-linear text, and a series of Polaroids depicting jewelry, installed across the gallery's spaces at 5 and 7 rue de Beaune.
A new solo exhibition titled 'Make Light of It' by artist Anna Simmons opens at The Little Gallery in Marlborough. The show features oil paintings depicting bus stops and escalators, focusing on the interplay of light and darkness in everyday urban settings.
David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles presents 'Hopes and Fears,' a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tristan Unrau from March 19 to April 25, 2026. This is the artist's first show with the gallery and his most ambitious presentation to date, occupying three spaces at the venue.
French-Moroccan artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou opened his first solo exhibition in Singapore and Asia, curated by Virginie Puertolas-Syn. The exhibition, conceptually linked to the 12th-century Sufi poem 'The Conference of the Birds,' uses the palm tree as a central motif to explore themes of displacement, colonial history, and constructed landscapes.
Alzueta Gallery in Barcelona is presenting a solo exhibition by artist Lisa Lundgren from July 9 to 31, 2026. The gallery, founded by Miquel Alzueta, is a significant player in contemporary art with multiple international locations.
Finnish artist Pilvi Takala has opened a solo exhibition titled 'Breaking Ranks' at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway. The show, which runs from February 19 to May 10, 2026, is documented with 28 images and is accompanied by guides in both English and Norwegian.
Marina Abramović has opened a major solo exhibition, "Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition," at Berlin's Gropius Bau, marking her first solo show in the city since the 1990s. The expansive presentation features historical and recent works across film, installation, sculpture, and live performance, focusing on themes of ritual, eroticism, death, and the body as a site of political and spiritual intensity. The opening included a live performance by Svetlana Spajić and a video work, Tito’s Funeral (2025).
CISCO MEREL: LA CHANTIN
Kunsthalle Lissabon in Lisbon, Portugal, is presenting 'La Chantin,' the first solo exhibition in the country by Panamanian artist Cisco Merel. The exhibition features a site-specific installation exploring the house as an open, collective, and evolving system, inspired by the mobile, wooden 'shanty' structures built by the Afro-Caribbean diaspora during the construction of the Panama Canal.
Artist Theaster Gates has gifted a 19th-century vessel by enslaved potter David Drake to Drake's descendants and made this act of restitution the centerpiece of his solo exhibition at Gagosian in New York. The show, titled "Dave: All My Relations," features Gates's own artworks responding to Drake's legacy and the recently transferred pot, highlighting Gates's decades-long engagement with Drake as a foundational figure for his own practice.
Artist Jule Korneffel's solo exhibition 'In Search of Lost Light' is on view at Spencer Brownstone Gallery through May 2. The show features seven paintings from 2023 to the present, including a site-specific wall work, that explore themes of fading light, memory, and melancholia through a nuanced palette of grays and blues.