Art
FUTURA 2000 Explores Movement and Connection in ‘The Mechanical Age’
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 Pushes the Limits of Material and Meaning in Upcoming Double Exhibition
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...
Takashi Murakami’s ‘Giant Artificial Ape ZERO’ Takes Over Thailand Toy Expo 2025
Toy enthusiasts, art buyers and especially, Takashi Murakami fans should pay attention to this year’s lineup at Thailand Toy Expo in Bangkok. The annual fair at centralwOrld, which brings hundreds of toy vendors from across the globe, will now include Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery in this year’s list of exhibitors. To celebrate its inaugural appearance at the Expo, the Murakami-led gallery will unveil a series of limited edition toys designed by its roster of artists including Murakami, Shoko Nakazawa, Yusuke Okada and Ohtani Workshop. One of the highlighted collectibles is Murakami’s SUPER COLOSSAL ARTIFICIAL APE BEAST ZERO (2025) which bears an eerily similar appearance similar to the Beast Titan from the hit-anime franchise, Attack On Titan. The ape-like toy is outfitted with a menacin...
JR Makes Lisbon Debut with ‘Through My Window’
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...
Refik Anadol Rewires Frank Gehry’s Legacy With AI at Guggenheim Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao launches its new in situ series with Living Architecture: Gehry, a digital installation by Refik Anadol. Using a custom AI model trained on Frank Gehry’s sketches, photos and blueprints, the work transforms the architect’s designs into shifting audiovisual landscapes. The installation explores the intersection of architecture, technology and machine learning. Developed by Refik Anadol Studio, the Large Architecture Model (LAM) uses generative AI to create new forms inspired by Gehry’s style. The piece unfolds in six chapters, showing the evolution of data into abstract, dreamlike structures. A soundscape by Kerim Karaoglu is also introduced which blends AI-generated audio with recordings from the museum. What's more, the immersive experience is built with ethic...
Butterflies Take Flight in Damien Hirst’s New Print and Painting Series
Damien Hirst is partnering with HENI to unveil The Dreams, a series of 40 original works on canvas and eight limited edition prints, blending butterflies and spin paintings – two of his most iconic motifs.“These dream prints are like capturing a star or a heartbeat,” the artist explained. “It’s the same explosion of color and movement, trapped in time and space.” Navigating the tension between nature, artifice, motion and stillness, a sense of curiosity and childlike play threads throughout the collection.Hirst began his first spin painting experiments in 1992, the same year as his first Turner Prize nomination, a move toward mechanized art and the aesthetics of randomness. Butterflies, on the other hand, act as a "universal trigger" for love, beauty and the ephemerality of life. A recurri...
Arnaud Adami’s ‘Scéne De Genres’ Opens at Paris’ Stems Gallery
French artist Arnaud Adami has opened a new exhibition titled Scéne De Genres at the Stems Gallery in Paris.Per the show's official exhibition, Adami's latest work explores the "paradox of the bodies of sex workers, both visible and invisible, exposed and concealed.""On one hand, the central perspective and theatrical lighting, almost reminiscent of Ribera, emphasize them; on the other hand, the female figure is always absorbed in her reverie or activity (embracing a plush toy, applying makeup, photographing her feet)," the gallery detailed.Adami's paintings encompass the "intimate environment of sex workers." Some canvases spotlight latex, plush, and satin scenes, while others feature neon "Bad Bitch" signs and feather boquets. His intention is not eroticism; instead, Adami's body of work...
Francesco Vezzoli Brings Karl Lagerfeld’s Memphis Vision Back to Life
Karl Lagerfeld, the late fashion icon known for his avant-garde vision, left an indelible mark not only in fashion but also in the realm of design. His fascination with the bold, geometric aesthetics of the Memphis design movement is the focus of an upcoming exhibition at Almine Rech Monaco. Titled Francesco Vezzoli presents: KARL GOES TO MEMPHIS Tribute to a historic encounter in Monte Carlo, the exhibition will showcase Lagerfeld’s extensive collection of Memphis furniture alongside archival imagery and personal artifacts that illuminate his unique aesthetic sensibility.Founded in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass, the Memphis Group disrupted conventional design with its vibrant colors, asymmetrical shapes and playful irreverence. Lagerfeld, captivated by its radical departure from traditionalism,...
Perrotin Hong Kong Presents Emma Webster’s ‘Vapors’ Solo Exhibition
Emma Webster’s solo exhibition, Vapors at Perrotin Hong Kong marks her debut in the city and features 11 ethereal landscape paintings, created during the January wildfires in Los Angeles. Through misty grays and delicate brushstrokes, her work explores themes of impending disaster and aftermath, blending plein-air landscape, still life and virtual reality into a new artistic genre. The title draws on the fleeting nature of vapor itself, symbolizing the transient qualities of change and the collision between the inner and outer worlds.Webster’s artistic process merges traditional methods with advanced technology, combining sculpture studies, virtual reality and digital rendering. She begins by crafting wax and plaster objects, which are scanned and incorporated into digital dioramas to crea...
For ‘The Garage,’ Toxic Arts Embraces the Beauty in London’s Grit and Grime
London-based Toxic Arts is on a mission to shake up the contemporary art experience. Helmed by Harry Barratt and Alex Isthikhar, the online gallery is trading traditional white walls for something grittier, more immersive and delightfully raw. Housed in an old industrial space, just blocks beyond London’s financial district you’ll find their latest group exhibition, The Garage, showcasing an international lineup of 20 emerging voices, each as provocative, thoughtful and electric as the next.Much like their debut show, Public Life, which transformed the former public toilet-turned-nightclub into an exhibition space, The Garage embraces its industrial backdrop — something akin to a "disused Underground station" — as an extension of the work on display. “It’s got a really factory kind of feel...
Lyric Shen Reflects on the Power of Material Memory in ‘There is an occlusion’
For hand papermakers, an “occlusion” describes when strands of hair or flecks of dust find their way onto a sheet, disrupting its otherwise clean existence by an unexpected obstruction. In Lyric Shen’s latest solo presentation at Silke Lindner, the artist delves into this concept as a metaphor for how (often unintended) experiences become embedded in the greater fabric of life, exploring exile and transference through intricate veils of ink and paper.There is an occlusion pairs the ancient craft of porcelain and stoneware with contemporary techniques like inkjet printing and digital media. Underscoring ideas of memory, privacy and the passage of time, the exhibition culminates in the heart of the gallery with a poignant reconstruction of a room from a Japanese colonial house that once belo...
Mastery Collides: Wing Shya Showcases Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Masterpiece Through an Artistic Lens
As an embodiment of curiosity and creativity paired with skills and technology, innovation celebrates the fruition of artistry and mastery. We often forget that the seamless collision of the two is explored in both the arts and the integral foundation of scientific inventions, where theoretical concepts and experiments parallel an artisan’s craftsmanship with the same level of dedication and evolving creative vision. When we photograph an invention and crystallize a scientific transformation into a still frame, we rediscover the often-overlooked liveliness that holds the magic to transcribe each photo from the documentation into an intimate portrait of energy and movement. In this series, “Mastery Collides,” co-curated by Hypebeast and Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation ...
