Exhibitions

SummaryCukrarna in Slovenia is set to open ART VITAL, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Marina Abramović and Ulay's career as an artistic duo.Opening on November 30, the exhibition will feature documentation of seminal performances from the couple's 12-year run, alongside archival materials, letters and personal ephemera.For Marina Abramović and Ulay, their relationship was the medium. In 1988, they ended their personal and professional relationship with a final unforgettable act: walking from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China to meet and part for the last time as a duo. While the end of this era saw a rocky, bittersweet end, the shared spiritual synergy shared between the two continues to redefine the possibilities of contemporary performance art.Their life and legacy...

SummaryOffline positions itself as a response to the limitations of the post-NFT crash art landscapeUnlike typical galleries, Offline does not follow a fixed exhibition calendarSuperRare’s new physical gallery, Offline, has officially opened its doors to the public with Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time, a group show featuring 15 artists working across digital and physical media. Located at 245 Bowery in New York, the exhibition runs through July 25 and marks a sharp shift in how digital art is presented in traditional spaces.Led by curator Mika Bar-On Nesher, Offline positions itself as a response to the limitations of the post-NFT crash art landscape. “Digital art is not a gimmick,” Bar-On Nesher told ARTnews. “It’s part of contemporary culture, and artists using these tools deserv...

SummaryAi Weiwei’s "Zodiac Heads: Gold" is on view at BlackBook, Southampton through Sept 31The series reinterprets looted 18th-century zodiac sculpturesAfter traveling to more than 30 cities worldwide, Ai Weiwei’s "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold" (2010) has returned to New York, the city where it first debuted. The celebrated sculptures are now on view at Mother Nature in the Bardo, a group exhibition presented by BlackBook in Southampton through September 31.Launched at the Pulitzer Fountain in 2011, Ai Weiwei’s largest iteration of the work, entitled Zodiac Heads:Large Bronze, drew acclaim when they were inaugurated by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg alongside key art figures such as Julian Schnabel and Shirin Neshat. At the time, Weiwei himself was unable to attend the debut, as he ...

Pipilotti Rist has spent three decades reworking the relationship between video art and and the human body through hypnotic fields of touch and color. The Swiss artist recently landed at Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Arts, where she unveiled Your Palm is My Universe, her latest immersive solo exhibition.Curated by Yan Fang, the exhibition presents an elaborate showcase of Rist's pioneering practice, from name-making pieces like, “I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much” (1986) and “You Called Me Jacky” (1990) to never-before-seen works, including a new, large-scale video installation — the museum's largest commission to date. With roots in ecological thought and Taoist philosophy, her sensorial works offer poetic alternatives to the algorithmic logic of image culture.Grounding the show i...

SummaryYuan Fang reflects on illness and identity through abstract forms and negative space in 'Spaying'Personal experience and emotional tension drive each paintingSkarstedt Chelsea presents 'Spaying', Yuan Fang’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show draws from Fang’s recent breast cancer diagnosis, using painting to reflect on illness, identity, and the complexity of womanhood. Alongside large-scale canvases, she introduces smaller, intimate works she calls “subplots,” fragments of a broader personal story.The title points to both her medical experience and the physical act of cutting, a key part of her process. Through layering, erasure, and refinement, Fang reveals dominant abstract forms that resemble torsos. These central figures carry a strong, bodily presence, confront...

SummaryFondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has just announced a major forthcoming retrospective dedicated to iconic German painter Gerhard Richter.On view starting October 17, the exhibition chronicles 60 years of artistic excellence in painting and beyond in a sweeping showcase of 270 works.Just ahead of Art Basel Paris this October, Fondation Louis Vuitton will unveil a landmark retrospective dedicated to seminal German artist Gerhard Richter. Spanning the entirety of the institution's 10-gallery space, the eponymous exhibition will mount 270 works across mediums, marking the most comprehensive survey of Richter's career to date.The exhibition builds on Richter’s longstanding relationship with the Fondation, where he was first featured in its inaugural collection showcase in 2014, and now, ...

SummaryAlmine Rech Tribeca is currently hosting Skin of a Storm by French artist Inès Longevial through August 1.The exhibition features oil paintings, drawings and monotype prints that explore human form and the multiplicity of skin.For Inès Longevial, a body is a home. It’s an ethos reflected in her self-portraiture – diaristic captures, rich with washes of crimson, chantilly and ultramarine. Her current solo exhibition at Almine Rech in Tribeca distills this spirit into a sublime study of skin as the French artist takes her portraits to new heights.Pace and process ground Skin of a Storm. Central to the exhibition is a suite of new oil paintings, many of which were completed in a one-sitting “flow-state” as Lynn Maliszewski” describes in a recent press statement. “The female form become...

SummaryPlato Gallery is currently presenting Exaltation, a group exhibition of 18 artists, now through August 16 in New York.The exhibition reimagines mannerist art through a contemporary lens, taking cues from its embrace of excess as a means of survival in a world characterized by social, emotional and cultural upheaval.In response to an era defined by collapse and reinvention, artists are turning up the dial on extravagance and excess. This response is the center focus of Exaltation, a new 18-person group exhibition at New York’s Plato Gallery, now on view through August 16. The show explores what it means to make mannerist art today, framing our moment as a kind of exquisite distortion, one where history loops back on itself and emotional intensity becomes an act of survival.Mannerism ...

SummaryFootball City, Art United, a new group exhibition in Manchester, pairs legendary footballers with 11 contemporary artists to create all-new artworks inspired by their love of the game.Staged at Aviva Studios, the show brings together the efforts of Factory International, alongside Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juan Mata and Josh Wilding as co-curators.While art and sport may move in differently – in the studio and on the field – a shared energy pulses through them; fueled by drive, discipline and instinct, both disciplines not only give us a language for how to understand the world, but how to move through it.For Football City, Art United, a new exhibition in Manchester, international athletes are paired 11 contemporary artists, with each collaboration bringing forth a new artwork that looks ...

In a world that prizes order, Gary Card embraces mess with open arms. The British artist is the latest name to take over Plaster Magazine’s London HQ, transforming the two-floor retail space into a surreal sculptural fever dream. The junk shop-cum-exhibition brings life to Card’s inner world and unrealized projects, rendered through his acclaimed brand of grotesque charm, unapologetic excess and theatrical fantasy. “It’s chaos,” he told Hypeart. “That’s why I like it.”Titled Gathering Dust, the exhibition is a love letter to ’90s London, in all of its eccentricities and oddball arcades. The artist recalls his arrival in the city and the “dilapidated, chockablocks full of stuff” that once ruled Camden — storefronts overflowing with niche splendors of every variety: MAD comics, vintage Japan...

SummaryMontreal-based painter Dre Wilkin showcases inverted paintings that blend figuration and abstractionThe exhibition 'When the Air is Blue' touches on moments of focus and stillnessMontreal-based Foil Gallery recently highlighted the work of emerging contemporary painter, Dre Wilkin. Entitled When the Air is Blue, the presentation featured a bold selection of inverted paintings of everyday scenes.From a mysterious subject petting a dog to a cropped view of an individual breaking a lock, the collection offers a lens through the artist’s personal life rooted in interactions with close friends or passersby caught in “moments of focus or stillness.” The process of inversion is less of a spectacle, rather, the technique plays more into the themes introduced as the artist flips the composit...