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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 29, 2026 visibility 37 link 6 artists, 4 galleries

East Africa meets Western Europe as Michael Armitage takes on Venice's Palazzo Grassi

The artist Michael Armitage opens a monographic exhibition titled 'The Promise of Change' at Venice's Palazzo Grassi, featuring 46 large paintings and nearly 100 sketches that survey his past decade of work. At 42, Armitage is the youngest artist to receive a solo show at the palazzo, which is owned by François Pinault and has previously hosted Albert Oehlen, Luc Tuymans, and Marlene Dumas. The exhibition highlights Armitage's fusion of East African and Western European artistic influences, drawing on his upbringing in Kenya and his training at London's Byam Shaw School of Art, the Slade, and the Royal Academy.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 7 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

City Gallery back with a bang

City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi has announced a major retrospective of British artist Cornelia Parker, set to open on 10 October 2026 and run through 7 March 2027. The exhibition, which director Charlotte Davy describes as a lifelong ambition, will feature Parker's large-scale immersive installations known for themes of destruction, reconstruction, and transformation—including works that involve exploded and suspended objects. The show follows the gallery's history of presenting landmark exhibitions by female artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, and Hilma af Klint. The exhibition is curated by City Gallery Wellington's Senior Curator Aaron Lister and UK-based Andrea Schlieker, former Director of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Britain and Director at White Cube London.

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article news schedule Sep 30, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 2 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

cai guo qiang fireworks protester white cube london 1234754637

Protests erupted outside White Cube's London gallery last Thursday over a fireworks piece by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The artwork, titled *The Rising Dragon*, was staged on September 19 at a high-altitude plateau in Shigatse, Tibet, and sparked online backlash over environmental concerns. Two UK-based groups, Tibetan Community in Britain and Free Tibet, led the protest, accusing Cai of committing "cultural violence." White Cube acknowledged the groups' concerns but continues to host Cai's exhibition, which opened in June and runs through early November.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 8 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

painting unfolds across earth, canvas, and space in katharina grosse’s london exhibition

Katharina Grosse's exhibition 'I Set Out, I Walked Fast' at White Cube London presents a continuous environment where painting extends beyond the canvas into space. The show features new works, archival material, and a large in-situ installation that combines mounds of earth, a partially submerged canvas, and a bronze-cast sculpture into a single painted field. Grosse uses an industrial spray gun to apply acrylic pigments, creating works that blur boundaries between surface, site, and viewer. The exhibition avoids chronological order, instead connecting pieces from different periods to form a spatial network where individual works function as nodes.

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