Exhibitions

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Fresh off his sold-out run at Zona Maco last February, Mexico City-based artist Rodrigo Ramírez is heading to New York to make his U.S. solo debut at Swivel Gallery. Titled While Being Plastic Membranes, the exhibition explores the visceral tension between body and psyche, pushing the boundaries of embodiment through a suite of dreamlike paintings and sculptures.Taking cues from Baroque religious iconography, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch and Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago, Ramírez delves into the idea of “cultural cannibalism” with play and intensity in hand. Just as societies absorb and reconfigure subcultures, his figures consume and mutate, existing in a liminal state of perpetual flux.A knack for the unsettling sings through Ramírez’s flesh-colored fo...