Exhibitions

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...

SummaryJean Jullien is set to unveil JUJU's Castle at NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE in Shanghai.Opening July 12, the exhibition will present over 80 paintings, sculptures, art objects and installations as viewers embark on an immersive, imaginary quest through the depths of Jullien's pastel maze.In just a few days, French artist Jean Jullien will open JUJU's Castle at Shanghai's NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE, marking his first solo exhibition in China. Equal parts art show and "dungeon crawl," as Jullien describes, the showcase features over 80 new paintings, sculptures, objects and large-scale installations, immersing viewers in the artist's whimsical inner worlds.Staged in a pastel-hued maze, visitors are cast as players in an imaginary quest, starting their journey by selecting one of four original cha...

SummaryLast month, Olympia in New York hosted CAKE, a one-night-only show of edible works.Part fundraiser, exhibition and community event, attendees were invited to indulge in the spread of works, ranging from traditional tears of yellow cakes, massive sculptural displays, vibrant mounds of meringue and frosting-printed poems.As evenings grow balmier, and New York’s art scene eases into its seasonal slowdown, a crowd spills out onto the streets outside of Olympia, fork and plate in-hand, for a CAKE, a special one-night-only exhibition of edible artworks. Taking cues from Marie Antoinette’s infamous – if apocryphal – quip, “Let them eat cake,” the exhibition served up confectionery pieces by over 30 fine artists, transforming the two-floored Lower East side space into a pop-up dessert salon...

SummaryInternationally acclaimed artist KAWS will open a sprawling exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden.Set to open in spring 2027, the showcase will feature a range of large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations against the lush backdrop of the garden's 250-acre site.The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has announced its exhibition lineup for the next few years, and leading the charge is none other than KAWS, who will stage a garden-wide takeover at the Bronx Park gem.Slated to open in spring 2027, the showcase will transform the 250-acre landscape, into a living canvas of KAWS' most notable characters, scattering large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations across its lush terrain. While the featured artworks have yet to be revealed, visitors will be immersed ...