Exhibitions

At 87 years old, timelessly venerated painter David Hockney will undertake one of his biggest exhibitions yet. This spring, the artist will take over the entirety of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building, staging an exhibition titled "David Hockney, 25." “This exhibition means an enormous amount because it is the largest exhibition I’ve ever had—11 rooms in the Fondation Louis Vuitton," said Hockney in a statement. "Some of the most recent paintings I’m working on now will be included in it, and I think it’s going to be very good."Curated with artistic director Suzanne Pagé, guest curator Sir Norman Rosenthal, and François Michaud, Hockney remained closely involved in the show's process. Alongside his partner and studio manager, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, the exhibition primarily focus...

Friedman Benda will present Far Afield, a solo exhibition by Misha Kahn at the 2025 edition of Salone del Mobile. Known for his experimental approach to materials and form, Kahn transforms the space into a surreal, tactile landscape that challenges conventional design.At the heart of the exhibition is "Azimuth," a sprawling grid of colorful mirrors inspired by a type of archaic celestial measurement. Acting as a cosmic reflection tool, it places viewers at its center. “It reflects our desire to measure ourselves against our abyss,” Kahn explains, with radiating irises of color capturing an infinite interplay between perspective and perception.Other standout pieces include "Euphausiids Delight (Final Moments)," a densely tangled center table inspired by the swarming movement of marine crust...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia — A Conversation offers a fresh perspective on the legacy of Pablo Picasso through an innovative cross-cultural exhibition. More than 60 masterpieces by Picasso, on loan from Musée National Picasso-Paris (MnPP), will be displayed alongside around 130 works by 30 Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. Spanning the early 20th century to the present, this showcase creates a dialogue that explores connections and contrasts across generations and regions.Co-organized by M+ and MnPP, the exhibition is part of the French May Arts Festival 2025 and is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Marking the first major exhibition of Picasso in Hong Kong in over a decade, the event highlights an unprecedented collabor...

Art has long since influenced fashion and vice versa. However, there's rarely been a tangible dissection of the relationship between the two. Designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Marni, Loewe, and Prada have frequently referenced artworks on the runway. Meanwhile, iconic artists have often been referred to as arbiters of all-around culture and taste. For the first time, the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a northern outpost of the historic museum, has set out to thoroughly analyze the two in an exhibition titled "The Art of Dressing: Dressing Like an Artist." Curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, and Olivier Gabet, Director of the Objets d’Arts, the exhibition features over 200 works, including previously archived couture gowns, sculptures, photographs, and paintings. Each...

American artist Robert Zehnder is making a return to C L E A R I N G for Resurrection, his latest solo exhibition, now on view through April 12. In this surreal suite of oil paintings, Zehnder unpacks the idea transformation, fusing historical tradition and digital landscapes to construct a new mythology.While the landscapes of Resurrection take clear cues from American Regionalism, they ditch nostalgia in favor of something more slippery. Rather than mere places, these near-melting scenes operate as states of mind – metaphors for how we consume, construct and deconstruct meaning. The land itself seems to breathe, shifting between crisp realism and dreamlike abstraction, as if in a perpetual state of flux.Playing on the physical and historical, the artist also brings digital escapism into ...

WHAAM! gallery has unveiled Turnover, the first US solo exhibition by Japan-based artist ancco. Showcasing a new series of ceramic sculptures within an immersive installation, Turnover delves into themes of time, transformation and resilience, weaving together personal and societal cycles into an introspective body of work.Rooted in her lived experiences, ancco’s work is shaped by her battle with atopic eczema. She explores the accelerated pace of decay, whether in the body or in society and how it influences her creative process. Drawing a parallel between the rapid turnover of her own skin and the relentless churn of modern culture, she transforms personal affliction into artistic expression.A key inspiration for Turnover comes from old mass-produced toys and stuffed animals ancco discov...

Kiang Malingue is playing host to Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time, an exhibition of recent films and video installations by Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen. Structured around trailokya, the three realms of spiritual existence, the show unfolds across the gallery’s multi-storied building, each dedicated to its own domain: the netherworld, earth and heaven.Ho, known for his incisive reflections on temporality, presents three major works created over the last several years: “Night March of Hundred Monsters” (2021), O for Opium (2023) and the over 40-piece suite of Timepieces (2023). Together, they navigate the spectral histories of Japanese through yōkai (folkloric demons), the aesthetics of the opium trade and the elusive nature of time itself. Blurring myth and history, Th...

Filipino-American artist Louis De Guzman has opened his first solo exhibition, In The Rearview in Seoul, South Korea — marking a pivotal moment in his career. Hosted at Soft Corner Gallery in the vibrant Gangnam district, the exhibition showcases a diverse body of artworks, ranging from acrylic-on-canvas paintings to fiberglass sculptures and paper-based creations.In The Rearview expands upon De Guzman's ongoing Along The Way universe, featuring his original character Disruptie. For this show, the artist drew inspiration from his personal upbringing and life experiences, inviting viewers to reflect and rediscover the often-overlooked wonders in life through his artworks. Each piece carries elements of storytelling, serving as a tribute to his cultural heritage and creative evolution.De Guz...

Contemporary Chinese sculptor Huang Yulong has unveiled UPWARD, his outdoor exhibition by the Hong Kong Observation Wheel and AIA Vitality Park at the city’s iconic harbourfront.Designed to embody optimism and a forward-looking spirit, this unique installation showcases 20, life-size hooded figures in various poses, all gazing upwards towards the Hong Kong skyline. Known for his hip-hop and street culture-inspired style, Yulong elevates his craft to unprecedented heights in this series, with hopes to foster community, openness and youth engagement — making it a powerful symbol of positivity during one of Hong Kong’s busiest cultural months.In addition to the exhibition, one of the artist's prominent works, “Be My Side L,” has been acquired for permanent display at the site. Huang will also...

Jeane Terra, a Brazilian visual artist from Minas Gerais, based in Rio de Janeiro, opened her solo exhibition, "Pele do Rio" ("Skin of the River"), at São Paulo's Janaina Torres Gallery. The exhibition digs into themes of endings and erasure that Terra's work is all about. Mixing it up with painting, sculpture, photography, and video art, she creates this dialogue between her own memories and the collective vibe of the Amazon, giving form to both pain and hope in her art."I became a memory prospector," Terra says, which really captures her process of hunting down and giving new meaning to stories. "Pele do Rio" hits home the urgency of capturing what's here and gone, turning ruins and memories into something precious. By diving into places marked by shared loss, like the Amazon, Terra's ai...

A new solo exhibition by Thai artist Kantapon Metheekul, better known as Gongkan, is set to open at Tang Contemporary Art, just in time for Art Basel Hong Kong. Titled Asynchronous Affinities, the show is a play on the proverbial idea of “right person, wrong time” as a point of departure, using it as a lens to explore the delicate ambiguity of interpersonal relationships, social situations and contemporary life at large.This body of work marks a new chapter for the Bangkok-based painter, as he approaches social criticism and individual development in universal scenes of celebration, eating and play. The delightfully uncanny vignettes expand on the artist’s oeuvre which follows the journey of a young boy – a representation of himself – as he drifts between cosmic spaces, cross-cultural cont...

WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR exhibit curated by James Taylor-Foster is an all-immersive exploration of the popular multi-sensory experience. Created and presented in collaboration with Sweden's National Centre for Architecture and Design, ArkDes, as well as the Design Museum in London, the large-scale presentation explores the way ASMR makes audiences feel.By definition, ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Responses -- a term used to describe a physical sensation of deep calm and euphoria, often described as a “tingling” in the body. Across the internet, innumerableand ever-evolving works of ASMR garner billions of views. This cultural movement has grown into a global phenomenon that is, uniquely, rooted in kindness, empathy, and self-care. The latest presentation ...