Exhibitions

SummaryThe KAWS:HOLIDAY exhibition has debuted in Abu Dhabi at Souq Al Mina, in partnership with AllRightsReservedThe installation features a monumental, luminous COMPANION figure reclining while cradling a glowing moon, exploring themes of light and scaleThe public art display, organized by Manar Abu Dhabi, will run from November 15, 2025, through January 4, 2026The global public art project KAWS:HOLIDAY has landed in the Middle East, debuting in Abu Dhabi with a massive, luminous installation that redefines scale and light. In collaboration with long-time partner AllRightsReserved (ARR), the exhibition is centrally featured at Souq Al Mina as part of the second public light art exhibition presented by Manar Abu Dhabi.The monumental work features KAWS’s iconic COMPANION figure in a serene...

SummaryJulie Curtiss has lifted the veil on Maid in Feathers at White Cube SeoulRunning through January 10, the exhibition features new paintings, works on paper and sculpture that explore the psychological dimensions of early motherhoodFrench artist Julie Curtiss sees her work as a portal into a surreal world, often reworking social archetypes to expose the humor, darkness and uncanny of reality. Her new showcase at White Cube in Seoul pushes deeper into this “shadow-side,” bringing forth an intimate meditation on early motherhood and psychological transformation.Maid in Feathers is, as Curtiss describes, “all about light and darkness, and difficulty,” peeling back the layers of everyday life. Across acrylic and oil paintings, gouache works on paper and lacquered sculptures, the artist cr...

SummaryForever Is Now returns for its fifth edition, running through December on the Giza PlateauThe showcase features 10 site-specific commissions by an international roster of artistsThe theme centers the mythic and historical dimensions of the pyramids and the timeless power of artFresh off the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Forever Is Now returns to the Giza Plateau with a crop of new sculptural commissions, for that special month of the year when the ancient pyramids turn into an open-air art gallery. Running through December 6, the 2025 edition pays tribute to the timeless allure of Egypt’s cultural heritage, exploring the mythic layers of the pyramids and how they’ve rippled into arenas of art, philosophy, culture and history.Ten international artists were tapped to ...

SummaryDavid Brian Smith’s All around the Wrekin exhibition explores English pastoral traditions through luminous, surrealistic landscapesWorks such as "Another Dream" and "A Dragons Eye" combine oil and gold leaf on herringbone linenOn view at Ross + Kramer until November 22, 2025London-based contemporary artist David Brian Smith’s latest exhibition at Ross + Kramer Gallery is titled All around the Wrekin. The show presents a series of luminous new landscapes that merge memory, folklore and ancestral heritage into richly symbolic compositions. The title itself references a Midlands expression meaning “to take the long way around,” a fitting metaphor for Smith’s winding journey through personal history and imaginative reinterpretation of rural life.The show features several notable large‑s...

SummaryAmerican artist Mark Ryden, known for his leading the pop surrealist aesthetic, has lifted the veil on Eye Am at Perrotin Los AngelesOn view through December 20, the exhibition features a mix of paintings and drawings that revel in intuition, curiosity and feelingWhimsy, wondrous and delightfully absurd, Mark Ryden’s fantastical worlds offer up an escape from our own, from the confines of logic, from chronology and the pressures of corporate enclosure. The pop surrealist pioneer has built a career out of elusive, Victorian-inflected dreamscapes, and his new exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles only takes us further down this rabbit hold.There’s thinking and there’s feeling, and as Eye Am points out, one often comes at the expense of the other. As a result, this new suite of paintings ...

SummaryFondation Beyeler hosts Switzerland’s first major Yayoi Kusama retrospective, showcasing over 300 worksHighlights include Infinity "Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart," "Narcissus Garden" and immersive polka‑dot tentacle installationsThe show will run until January 25, 2026The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is hosting Switzerland’s first major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama. The show presents a vast vision of the artist's prolific output, featuring approximately 300 works that span her entire career, presenting both iconic installations and previously unseen pieces that highlight her lifelong exploration of infinity, repetition and the interplay between art and life.Among the standout works is "Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart" (2025), a mirrored cube installed i...

Meet Mariko Mori, the time traveler. From ancient cosmologies to technological futures, the Japanese artist has long used her practice as a way to bridge the gap between matter and spirit, this world and the next, revealing the unseen dimensions that bind the universe. She sees connections where others see borders, and commits herself to bringing these immaterial links into a rich, resonant reality — a pursuit she considers her “mission.”This metaphysical journey extends into her ongoing exhibition, Radiance, at New York’s Sean Kelly, running through December 20. Connecting her enduring fascination with quantum imagination and primordial faith, the showcase explores the transcendental energy of iwakura – sacred rock sites found across Japan – and like these stones, the works on view are de...

SummaryAyoung Kim is set to open, Delivery Dancer Codex, her debut U.S. exhibition at New York's MoMA PS1The film trilogy will be shown together for the first timeIn addition to the exhibition, Kim will also premiere a live work, “Body^n,” at Performa festival from November 13 through 15South Korean artist Ayoung Kim makes her U.S. debut at MoMA PS1 with Delivery Dancer Codex, bringing together the entirety of her celebrated video installation trilogy for the first time. A pioneering voice in the new media space, Kim’s works fuse virtuality reality, game engines, AI and sculpture to create immersive speculative systems that interrogate geopolitics, myth and technology.The trilogy follows two doppelgänger couriers hurtling through the backstreets of Seoul. What begins as a routine drop-off ...

SummaryBrian Eno will debut his new Blocks series in an upcoming exhibition at Paul Stolper Gallery in LondonOpening on November 14, the showcase will feature select works from the over 400-piece collection alongside a smaller series of four-panel worksThe birch ply panels will be available for purchase for £500 GBP starting November 12Ambient architect and artist Brian Eno is set to premiere his new painting series, Blocks, at London’s Paul Stolper Gallery. Created over the course of a two-day performance in his studio last summer, the collection consists of over 400 one-of-one birch ply panels; each of which will be up for grabs for £500 GPB (approximately $651 USD).Eno undertook the project in August, setting out hundreds of wood pieces across his studio tables. To create these vivid co...

SummaryPace Prints will open the first New York exhibition by Japanese artist Yusuke HanaiPerseverance explores themes of resilience and overcoming in everyday lifeIn addition to the showcase, Pace Prints is also releasing a new print edition by the artist available exclusively through the publisherJapanese artist Yusuke Hanai is set to make his New York debut with a suite of new works on paper going up at Pace Prints. Alongside the exhibition, Pace Prints will also be releasing a new edition by the artist created during his time at the publisher’s atelier.Fusing a ’60s countercultural feel with the aesthetics retro-Americana surf culture, Hanai’s graphic style is unmissable. The upcoming showcase, titled Perseverance, centers wry yet tender scenes of resilience, while introducing a new pa...

SummaryJapanese artist Otani Workshop has opened anima at Perrotin New YorkThe exhibition features a new suite of sculptures, paintings and ceramicsThe showcase expands on the artist's exploration of animism and spirituality, a recurring theme throughout his practicePerrotin has lifted the veil on anima, new exhibition by Otani Workshop. Born Shigeru Otani, the Kaikai Ki Ki–backed artist is known for playful, anthropomorphic characters and his latest suite of works delivers nothing short of a fantasy. Blending a Japanese pop sensibility with time-honored ceramic craftsmanship, Otani ushers us into his whimsical world through a display of paintings, bronze and FRP sculptures and ceramics.Raised in Shigaraki, Japan's ancient pottery capital, Otani channels the spirit of kawaii into each of h...