Exhibitions

SummaryThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will open the first comprehensive showcase dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s depiction of headsFeaturing 45 works, the exhibition centers in on 1981-1983, key years of creation, and offers insight into this prolific motif while unpacking their role in his life and workAfter a childhood car accident left him hospitalized, a seven-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat was gifted a copy of Gray’s Anatomy, a medical reference book, by his mother. Throughout his life and practice, the artist kept a deep fascination with anatomy and science close, so when Basquiat, 22 at the time, was asked how he typically began a painting, his answer was simple: “I suppose I would start with a head.”A new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark puts a spo...

SummaryRenowned artist Ai Weiwei turns his 30-ton button collection into eight massive flags for Button Up!, a new exhibition in ManchesterOpening this summer, the show features “Eight-Nation Alliance Flags,” a new body of textiles, alongside a 2D version of “History of Bombs,” composed of 3.5 million Lego bricksIn 2019, Ai Weiwei bought out the entire stock of A Brown and Co Buttons, a defunct South London textile factory, leaving many to wonder: what was the artist planning to do with 30 tons of buttons? After the standout “F.U.C.K.” installation at Lisson in 2024, Ai’s fascination with the everyday object continues to unravel, and is set to take center stage in the forthcoming, aptly-titled Button Up! exhibition at Manchester’s Factory International come July 2.The ex-warehouse venue wi...

SummaryTino Sehgal opens his first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Museo de Arte de ZapopanThe exhibition features several live works, including the seminal “Kiss,” “Yet Untitled” and “These Associations,” a new work created for the venueTino Sehgal’s works are famously undocumented, save for the odd stray snapshot here and there. While based in sculpture, the Berlin-based artist has built a reputation around what he terms "constructed situations": fleeting encounters shared between visitors and performers; things to be experienced more than witnessed. You just have to be there.Sehgal has landed in Guadalajara for his first-ever solo show Mexico. Staged at the new Estación MAZ at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the eponymous exhibition gives the floor to these ephemeral exchanges in warm-bl...

SummaryDia Beacon presents Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first full retrospective of his durational performancesHighlights include "Cage Piece," "Time Clock Piece," "Outdoor Piece" and "Rope Piece," alongside the monumental "Thirteen Year Plan"Currently on view at Dia Beacon is Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the Taiwanese American artist’s radical durational performances. Enacted over a 21-year period, Hsieh’s oeuvre consists of five iconic One Year Performances followed by his monumental “Thirteen Year Plan,” all of which collapsed the traditional boundaries between art and life. This long-term view marks a significant milestone as it brings together all five year-long works for the first time, including "Rope Piece" and ...

SummaryJacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input/Ouput, his latest solo exhibitionFeaturing a suite of new and recent oil paintings, the showcase explores music as a unifier, bridging generations and genres, eras and placesPress play on your favorite song and, only a matter of measures in, you're already somewhere else — a different time or place, maybe surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. Music, and its immense, connective power, is a central for Jacob Rochester, an artist who translates the warmth and intimacy of sound into a rich, canvas-based language.The Los Angeles-based artist goes bicoastal with Input/Output, his New York solo debut. Now on view at Plato through March 7, the show brings together a family of new and recent works that trace familial ties, eve...

SummaryOpening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRocheThe show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los AngelesFor his third solo presentation with Roberts Projects, contemporary heavyweight Amoako Boafo is blurring the lines between creation and exhibition. Titled I Bring Home with Me, the show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los Angeles by physically recreating the artist’s studio within the gallery walls.Opening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRoche. The installation is more than a backdrop; it is a 1:1 scale exploration of "home" as a mobile concept. Visitors enter through a threshold of vibrant monstera-patterned wallpaper, movi...

SummaryToronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is hosting artist and designer Ranbir Sidhu's first museum solo exhibitionOn view until January 2027, No Limits is a deep dive into Sidhu’s chromatic, futurist landscapes with three new sculptural installationsThe Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents No Limits, Toronto-based artist Ranbir Sidhu’s debut museum solo. With an eye equally fixed on the past and future, Sidhu’s colossal, metal forms bridge this world and the beyond. In his latest sculptural suite, the artist-designer draws us into his futuristic vision, a lustrous landscape unbounded by scale, time and space.“To work with metal is to wrestle with time itself, bending it into forms that speak of possibility,” explained Sidhu. Drawn to its timeless yet enduring poeticism, metal has served a...

In 2026, museums across Europe, North America and Asia are leaning into exhibitions built around reassessment and scale. The year’s programming is anchored by major retrospectives, first-time surveys and focused studies of influential artists from Marcel Duchamp’s long-overdue return to MoMA to career-spanning presentations by Tracey Emin, Daido Moriyama and Anish Kapoor. Elsewhere, institutions are committing space and time to artists whose work reshaped entire disciplines, including Dan Flavin’s architectural light works, Marina Abramović’s performance practice, Mariko Mori’s immersive, science-driven installations and a joint exhibition by Fondazione Prada featuring Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince. Rather than thematic group shows, these exhibitions prioritize depth, historical context a...

SummaryOnassis ONX inaugurates its new, 6,000-square-foot Tribeca home with TECHNE: Homecoming, a new group exhibitionGathering immersive works by seven artists, the showcase explores the many faces of family in a digital landscapeChampioning experimental digital art incubator Onassis ONX heads downtown to christen its new Tribeca home with TECHNE: Homecoming, a multimedia group exhibition. On view until January 18, the showcase gathers a collection of works by seven artists, moving across form and focus, yet all grounded in the connective power of technology.Employing ancient and new mythologies, AI, bio art and immersive environments, the exhibition reconsiders how, in an increasingly digital world, the concept of “family” extends beyond blood to encompass the mythic and computation, rec...

SummaryKid Cudi is set to open an art exhibition at Ruttkowski;68 in Paris later this monthFollowing his recent artist documentary of the same name, Echoes of the Past gathers 10 paintings that explore Cudi's interior landscapeKid Cudi steps out as Scott Ramon, the painter. Hot off the heels of his artist documentary that premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach last month, the rapper is heading to Paris' 3rd arrondissement for his next act: his first-ever art exhibition.Running from January 31 through March 1 at Ruttkowski;68, Echoes of the Past features a 10-piece suite of paintings, introducing a vivid, geometric signature for Ramon. With playful colors coexisting with shadowy emotional undercurrents, each canvas revels in its own corner of the artist's inner world, rich with “juxtapositions ...

SummaryPhoto Elysée presents Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, a new exhibition of photography, now on view through February 1 in Lausanne, SwitzerlandThe showcase features 66 international artists exploring what it means to be Gen Z todayGen Z is a tough one to pin down. Despite numerous attempts to cast them as a detached bunch, talk to any one of them, really, and you’ll likely get a different story. The first cohort to come of age in a world marked by digital hyper-connectivity, climate anxiety and an unrelenting stream of political upheaval, a closer look can reveal a cohort shaped by complexity and a willingness to take things into their own hands.A new photo exhibition at Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland spotlights offers an intimate look into this generation. Now on view through Febr...

SummaryJapanese artist TIDE is set to present his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong across two locations: BELOWGROUND and WKM GalleryTitled EDIT, the showcase will feature his signature cat character in new paintings, plus an exclusive sculpture and limited printJapanese contemporary artist TIDE is making his Hong Kong debut with the two-location solo exhibition, EDIT, hosted simultaneously at BELOWGROUND and WKM Gallery.This dual-location showcase will present a new series of monochromatic paintings that center on his signature cartoon cat character -- a recurring motif that serves as a vessel for exploring themes of domestic life, familial bonds and childhood innocence. Alongside these works, the exhibition will also unveil a specially crafted sculpture and limited print, available excl...