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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Holding the Stone, Holding the Memory

Rosalind Nashashibi's exhibition 'Get Me A Stone' at Artium Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, presents paintings from 2021 to 2026 and her new film 'Occupation of The Inner Life' (2026). The show centers on stones as recurring motifs, symbolizing resistance, memory, and endurance, with hands clutching stones evoking defiance and grounding the works in Palestinian life and struggle. Rather than depicting violence directly, Nashashibi uses poetic and affective imagery to create contemplative spaces where personal memory and collective history converge.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Creative Assembly 2026 to 2027: Community-Centred Residency at the New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) has announced an open call for its Creative Assembly 2026-2027 Residency Program, a year-long residency supporting artists who engage communities through creative practice and public programming. Housed within NOMA’s Department of Learning and Engagement, the program offers selected artists a $4,000 stipend, professional development opportunities, a profile on the museum’s website, and a two-year membership. In this cycle, the Darryl Chappell Foundation will support two artists who self-identify as Afrodescendant. Applications are open to artists from all disciplines legally eligible to work in the United States, with a deadline of 10 July 2026.

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Create, Experiment, Produce: Studio Opportunities at Sharjah’s Al Hamriyah Studios

Sharjah Art Foundation is inviting applications from UAE-based artists and creative practitioners for studio leases at Al Hamriyah Studios, a multidisciplinary arts complex in the coastal town of Al Hamriyah, Sharjah. Established in 2017 on the site of a former souq, the studios offer affordable spaces for artistic research, experimentation, and production, with lease options ranging from three months to one year. Available studios include large (110 m² for AED 2,500/month), medium (80 m² for AED 2,000/month), and small (32 m² for AED 1,000/month) units, along with shared project spaces, a courtyard, and gardens. Applications close on 11 July 2026.

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RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2026: Mentorship Opportunity for Emerging African Curators

Applications are now open for the RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2026, a mentorship programme for early-career curators across Africa. Now in its fifth year, the programme will select ten participants for a facilitated online residency offering one-on-one mentorship, professional development, peer networking, and the chance to conceptualize an exhibition project. The initiative is run by Latitudes in partnership with Art School Africa, with a deadline of 10 July 2026.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Geneva of The Mind

Janiva Ellis presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, 'Geneva', at Kunsthalle Basel. The show features a new body of paintings that draw from popular culture, art-historical traditions, and collective memory, exploring themes of visibility, disappearance, and the instability of meaning. The exhibition runs until 9 August 2026.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Conjugating Humanity in Santiago

The itinerant program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, titled 'Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice', opens at Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile, in July 2026. Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and André Pitol, the exhibition features 19 artists from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, including Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ernest Cole, Myrlande Constant, Malika Agueznay, Julianknxx, and Théodore Diouf, working across photography, installation, textile, film, and archival practices to explore themes of displacement, erasure, and resistance.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Brave Beauty Arrives in Rio

Zanele Muholi's landmark survey 'Beleza Valente' has opened at the Rio Art Museum (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro on 12 June 2026, following a critically acclaimed presentation at IMS Paulista. Curated by Daniele Queiroz, Thyago Nogueira, and Ana Paula Vitorio, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works spanning Muholi's career, focusing on documenting and celebrating Black LGBTQIAPN+ communities through portraiture and visual activism. The opening includes a seminar on LGBTQI+ culture in the visual arts and a performance by singer Azula.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Rogue Agents of History: Ghosts of the Future

Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour presents her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, 'Rogue Agents of History,' at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. The show features a constellation of film, installation, photography, personal artifacts, and historical objects, including the newly commissioned film 'A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed.' Sansour uses science fiction, myth, and speculative storytelling to explore Palestinian histories, memory, and identity, weaving together narratives from the Ottoman era to contemporary occupation and imagined futures.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Pour Noubia: Holding space for Personal histories.

French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa presents 'Pour Noubia' at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, an exhibition centered on the story of his aunt Noubia. Through photography, film, installation, and collaborative practice, Bourouissa explores themes of visibility, migration, and collective memory, intertwining fiction and documentary to challenge dominant historical and media narratives.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

‘Ancestral Echoes’ – Beading Memory, Reclaiming Lineage

Demetri Broxton presents his first solo museum exhibition, 'Ancestral Echoes – Crops of Empire,' at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. The show combines textile, beadwork, archival photography, and ritual materials to reimagine African American ancestral figures as symbols of dignity and resilience, using materials like sequins, cowrie shells, and tobacco to link diasporic traditions with Southern and Creole heritage.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2026

Blessed by the Bees: The Many Lives of Zakes Mda

An exhibition titled 'Blessed by the Bees' at Springs Art Gallery showcases the paintings of Zakes Mda, a celebrated South African novelist, playwright, and thinker. Curated by Chepape Makgato and Thabo Sekoaila, the show features works that explore memory, storytelling, and identity through layered surfaces, collaged materials, and motifs like bees and self-portraits, drawing on Basotho mural traditions and modernist experimentation.

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