Exhibitions

SummaryJahan Loh has unveiled The Fortune Trilogy, a new solo exhibition curated by artceo at Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar DistriparkThe show reinterprets the traditional Chinese trinity of Fu Lu Shou (Blessing, Prosperity, and Longevity) through monumental astronaut sculpturesExclusive merchandise accompanies the exhibition, including a bespoke Incense Chamber by Kuumba and gold jewelry by Point JoaillerieSingaporean artist Jahan Loh has officially opened The Fortune Trilogy, a genre-bending exhibition that transports ancient Chinese iconography into a chrome-laden future. Launching today, February 13, at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, the show serves as a cosmic invocation of renewal just in time for the Lunar New Year, reimagining the enduring symbols of Fu Lu Shou—the deities of blessing, pros...

SummaryThe Guggeneheim Museum Bilbao is set to host Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, after stops at MoMA and SFMOMAOpening in March, the exhibition covers six-decades of live and practice, from her upbringing in a Japanese internment camp to works completed in her home-studio in her final yearsWorks on view include nature-inspired tied-wire pieces, clay and bronze casts, paperfolds, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, lithographs and an abundance of her famed looped-wire sculptures“An artist is not special,” the legendary Ruth Asawa once said. “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” Asawa, a West Coast favorite turned canon name, made work that changes the way we look at the elemental world and what it can teach us.Following stops at the Museum of Mode...

SummaryPurgatory opens at GR Gallery from February 20 to March 21, featuring 16 paintings by Jordan Sullivan, Robert Martin, Jacob Rochester and RUMINZThe exhibition explores suburban life and Americana through themes of nostalgia, alienation and redemptionGoing on view at GR Gallery next week is Purgatory, a group exhibition featuring 16 paintings by artists Jordan Sullivan, Robert Martin, Jacob Rochester and RUMINZ. The exhibition creates a cross-cultural dialogue by blending diverse styles influenced by outsider art, rural aesthetics and Americana. Collectively, the works form a contemporary grand tour centered on themes of self‑discovery and revelation, while confronting social realities through raw depictions of suburban and everyday life. The exhibition’s visual language is deliberat...

Summary Christian Rex van Minnen’s Metanoia exhibition explores themes of transformation and the grotesqueNotable works include "Still Life with Octopus in Vase and Upside Down Figure," blending classical still‑life with surreal distortionsOn view at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND until February 21, 2026Christian Rex van Minnen’s solo exhibition Metanoia at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND marks his second major presentation with the gallery following his 2021 debut. Known for his surreal and unsettling imagery, van Minnen introduces new works that continue his exploration of psychological transformation, corporeality and the grotesque.This exhibition represents a significant point in the artist’s career, as indicated by the title Metanoia, which refers to a fundamental change in mind or a spiritual conversion. B...

SummaryThe Julia Stoscheck Foundation reopens Los Angeles' storied Variety Arts Theater for What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, its first major U.S. presentationThe exhibition features 35 artists, ranging from cinema pioneers to today's contemporary artists, including Jon Rafman, Precious Okoyomon, Doug Aitken, Arthur Jafa, Walt Disney and moreVariety Arts Theater, the five-story ex-cinema palace in downtown Los Angeles, has kept its doors shut for decades. Now, the landmark is making a major public comeback, courtesy of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, to stage one of the most ambitious presentations of its kind.Titled What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, the exhibition unfolds as a cross-century encounter of video storytelling. It takes on the form of an art house cinemath...

SummaryConceptual photographer Cho Gi-Seok opens The Coexistence of Imperfection at Fotografiska ShanghaiRunning through March 8, the exhibition features four major series that unpack the beauty of contradiction through themes of nature, technology, humanity and traditionSouth Korean photographer Cho Gi-Seok is one of Asia’s most influential contemporary image-makers, leading the charge on a new visual sensibility characterized by delicate, surreal storytelling. No wonder he’s been tapped to direct music videos for Jennie, XG and Kali Uchis, or lens campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Prada and Cartier — gaze into one of his photographs, any one of them, and you’ll instantly feel the pull of his dreamy scenes.Cho is stepping into the spotlight at Fotografiska Shanghai, which is currently hosting ...

SummaryThe Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center team up for joint exhibitions dedicated to Roy LichteinsteinThe exhibitions are anchored by a 50-plus piece gift by the artist’s namesake foundation, featuring prints, drawings, maquettes, prototypes and sculpturesBoth Roy Lichtenstein in Studio exhibitions will be on view until this summerWherever you fall on the art novice-connoisseur spectrum, you know Roy Lichtenstein, the pop art pioneer known for his Ben-Day dot paintings of teary-eyed maidens flanked by an explosive “Whaam!” Courtesy of a landmark gift by the his namesake foundation, in Dallas, the New York artist comes into full focus for a cross-museum showcase.The Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) give the floor(s) to Roy Lichtenstein in Studio, on v...

SummaryThe International Center of Photography in New York presents HARD COPY, a group exhibition curated by Aaron SternOn view until May 4, the show expands on Stern's ongoing project centered on the creative potential of the photocopierThe exhibition features work by 15 artists, including Stephen Shore, Thomas Ruff, Ryan McGinley, Ari Marcopoulos and Shaniqwa JarvisBillions of photos are taken every day. Many are hardly precious and surely most were never meant to be seen again: rogue text screenshots; awkward, aspirational captures; things you forgot you wanted to buy. Faced with our growing pile of “digital detritus,” as Aaron Stern puts it, how do we sort out the good stuff? For Stern, the humble photocopier holds some answers.The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York ...

Summary<The V&A East Museum will host The Music is Black: A British Story, marking its inaugural exhibitionThe show will brings together over 200 artifacts and artworks celebrating 125 years of Black British musicFeatures and appearances include the likes of Little Simz, Jorja Smith, Skepta, Sade and JME, alongside newly commissioned artworks by Frank Bowling and LR VandyFrom jungle and drum and bass to UK garage and grime, Black British music travelled far beyond home shores, making an indelible mark on the global sound stage. With the arrival of the new V&A East in Stratford, the museum’s inaugural exhibition sets out to chart the sounds and scenes that have come to shape this aspect of contemporary British life. Opening on April 18, The Music is Black: A British Story traces ...

SummaryThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will open the first comprehensive showcase dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s depiction of headsFeaturing 45 works, the exhibition centers in on 1981-1983, key years of creation, and offers insight into this prolific motif while unpacking their role in his life and workAfter a childhood car accident left him hospitalized, a seven-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat was gifted a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, a medical reference book, by his mother. Throughout his life and practice, the artist kept a deep fascination with anatomy and science close, so when Basquiat, 22 at the time, was asked how he typically began a painting, his answer was simple: “I suppose I would start with a head.”A new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark puts a spo...

SummaryRenowned artist Ai Weiwei turns his 30-ton button collection into eight massive flags for Button Up!, a new exhibition in ManchesterOpening this summer, the show features “Eight-Nation Alliance Flags,” a new body of textiles, alongside a 2D version of “History of Bombs,” composed of 3.5 million Lego bricksIn 2019, Ai Weiwei bought out the entire stock of A Brown and Co Buttons, a defunct South London textile factory, leaving many to wonder: what was the artist planning to do with 30 tons of buttons? After the standout “F.U.C.K.” installation at Lisson in 2024, Ai’s fascination with the everyday object continues to unravel, and is set to take center stage in the forthcoming, aptly-titled Button Up! exhibition at Manchester’s Factory International come July 2.The ex-warehouse venue wi...

SummaryTino Sehgal opens his first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Museo de Arte de ZapopanThe exhibition features several live works, including the seminal “Kiss,” “Yet Untitled” and “These Associations,” a new work created for the venueTino Sehgal’s works are famously undocumented, save for the odd stray snapshot here and there. While based in sculpture, the Berlin-based artist has built a reputation around what he terms "constructed situations": fleeting encounters shared between visitors and performers; things to be experienced more than witnessed. You just have to be there.Sehgal has landed in Guadalajara for his first-ever solo show Mexico. Staged at the new Estación MAZ at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the eponymous exhibition gives the floor to these ephemeral exchanges in warm-bl...