Art

For Qualeasha Wood, a glitch can be good. In her latest solo show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the Philly-based artist delves into the glitch as aesthetic and a language for moving through a world where selfhood is constantly mediated and warped. Balancing digital disenchantment with an optimistic eye, Wood puts a spin on body horror conventions in her latest body of work, composed of tapestries, tuftings and video.In Malware, jacquard tapestries turn digital pixels into hand-stitched poetry. Lit by the white-blue glow of a computer screen, Wood emblazons her signature webcam self-portraits with confessions of burnout and online overexposure, taking the form of Python and Java script. Her videos give this code a second life, using it to pixelate and datamosh her body out of recognition.Mo...

Where one sees a typical highway bridge, a street lamp or a road sign, Mark Leckey sees something extraordinary – a gateway into the ecstatic, transcendence beyond the self. Working across video, sculpture, and performance, the British artist transforms the mundane into magic, linking music, dance and the pulse of a city to the sublime.In Paris, Lafayette Anticipations presents As Above So Below, Leckey’s latest solo exhibition. Spanning from the late 1990s to today, audiences will see from the cult-classic British youth film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) to more recent works like Mercy I Cry City (2024), and 20 some works in between. Centered on the theme of ecstasy and the ecstatic, the show makes sense of the artist's own disorienting experiences – moments of overwhelming emotion tha...

An Oscar-winning star with the mystique of a cult icon, Tilda Swinton’s cross-creative career is one that defines convention. From her debut in Derek Jarman’s 1986 Caravaggio biopic to playing an eccentric art critic in Julio Torres’ Problemista, her ties to the art world run deep, blurring the lines between mainstream success and the avant-garde every step of the way.This September, the performer, fashion icon and art darling will head to the Eye Filmmuseum for the occassion of Tilda Swinton – Ongoing, a retrospective exhibition tracing through her career and collaborations, curated by Swinton herself.“With the honour of this extraordinary invitation, Eye has given me the opportunity to reflect on the mechanics of my working practice over the past forty years,” Swinton expressed in a rece...

Italy’s first major graffiti exhibition has arrived at the Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano. Curated by Leonie Radine and Ned Vena, Graffiti brings together a constellation of 60 pioneering voices working within and beyond the medium, including Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones and Shaun Crawford.Spanning 1,500 square meters across two floors, the exhibition explores how the raw, expressive energy of street art made its way into the studio.  Beginning with pre-graffiti spray paintings of the 1950s, Graffiti traces through notable graffiti names of the 1980s and lands with contemporary artists who incorporate elements of the medium into their practices.“Graffiti was how I found my way into being an artist, but it is also how I see thin...

Some artists look to break boundaries; Dozie Kanu prefers to dismantle them and see what's left standing. Working at the intersection of fine art, design and social critique, Kanu’s practice culls from personal histories and the weight of the everyday world only to emerge as something entirely new – part relic, part provocation and part poetic sleight of hand.For his latest solo exhibition at Federico Vavassori in Milan, not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour, Kanu gives a new life industrial remnants and found materials – car rims, chain links, shattered ceramics – reconsidering the idea of worth, function and utility. Through these interventions, the artist expands on his sculptural alchemy, a critical aspect of his ongoing dialogue with mass media, pop culture and...

In Ed Atkins’ world, bodies are restless, weightless and deeply confused. They float, moan, glitch, laugh and sometimes fall apart entirely, moving through the world as if constantly reminded of their own existence. Hyper-present yet simultaneously estranged, Atkins' bodies – like our own, at times – are vessels for feeling that don't quite know what to do with themselves.Tate Britain has just opened the doors to the UK’s largest survey of Atkins' work. A knack for the intimate and absurd has led him to become one of the biggest names in British digital art, and rightly so. Known for his computer-generated animations, the uncanny is his strength, reworking contemporary technologies only for something startlingly human to emerge: love, longing and grief, finished in pixel perfection.The epo...

FUTURA 2000’s latest solo exhibition, The Mechanical Age, is set to open at V1 Gallery's Copenhagen space with a bold pairing: Sister and Brother, two large-scale works in red, white, and black created with aerosol on primed canvas. Painted in 2025, the works introduce the show’s focus on motion, repetition and interconnection.The artist continues this exploration with Husband and Wife. These atom-like compositions also use aerosol on canvas, imbuing a pulse and rhythm that feels both unified and untethered. Together, the pieces evoke a sense of community and cyclical exchange, where relationships mirror the push and pull of a shared world.Throughout the exhibition, FUTURA invites viewers into a layered, cosmic environment. Forms shift in and out of focus, hovering between the permanent an...

Kennedy Yanko’s sculptures are relics of control and surrender. Working mostly with found metal and paint skins, she coaxes the two into an uneasy alliance until they drape and fold like fabric. The artist is just days away from opening a New York doubleheader at Salon 94 and James Cohan Gallery, who are teaming up to present two solo exhibitions, staged at each respective gallery, marking a pivotal moment in Yanko’s artistic dialogue of material and meaning.Starting in Tribeca, Epithets takes shape at James Cohan, mining the psychological terrain of color and form. Working with obsidian blacks, reflective chromes and aged metals, the works, seemingly unearthed from the subconscious, serve as as raw testimonies to the untamed elements. “For the first time in a long time, the work is guttur...

At the heart of JR’s practice is a call to social transformation. Whether its creating a Louvre-based optical illusion or a muralist intervention at California's high-security Tehachapi prison, the French artist spotlights spaces of collective significance with the faces of those who inhabit them, looking to scale as his weapon of choice.Now, JR is making his Lisbon debut with Through My Window, his latest solo exhibition at Underdogs Gallery, helmed by Alexandre Farto better known as Vhils. Running through April 19, the retrospective-style show brings together 36 lithographs from the artist's own collection, chronicling his past large-scale installations.A self-described “photograffeur” – a portmanteau of "photographer" and “graffiti artist” in French – JR has spent the last several years...