Uncertainty & Possibility
Kyotographie 2026, Kyoto’s international photography festival, runs at multiple venues until May 17, gathering more than 13 artists to probe the concept of "the edge." The programme juxtaposes experimental image‑making with social, historical and urban peripheries, featuring veterans like Daido Moriyama and emerging voices such as Juliette Agnel. Installations honor the late Palestinian photographer Fatima Hammouna while others interrogate identity, migration and systemic inequality. Organisers Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi frame uncertainty as a catalyst for new visual narratives.
Uncovering Meaning
"Joy Like Time" opens at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich (June 20‑Nov 15, 2026), uniting Marina Abramović, Gillian Wearing and Kalliopi Lemos in a three‑artist investigation of time as material. The show treats duration, repetition and sustained attention as the primary medium, turning endurance performances,...
Expanded Photography
The "Renature" exhibition at Bildhalle Zürich showcases lens‑based artists who interrogate nature, perception and materiality through unconventional photographic practices. Featuring Inka & Niclas, Adam Jeppesen, Douglas Mandry and Joost Vandebrug, the show transforms images into sculptural, textile and fluid forms...
Beyond the Canvas
Lucia Shuyu Li, a Chinese‑American multidisciplinary artist, uses painting, installation, and performance to probe power, cultural identity, and the blurred line between perception and reality. Her recent paintings—Judge Me, I Am Dead Therefore I Was Alive, and Who Cried Walking...
Enter Art Fair: Dynamic Curation
Enter Art Fair, Scandinavia’s premier international art fair, returns to Copenhagen from August 27‑30, 2026 at the historic Lokomotivværkstedet. The eighth edition showcases 80 leading galleries, including 28 newcomers, spanning photography, painting, sculpture and installation. A robust talks programme will...
Xin Zhang: A New Perspective
Xin Zhang, a London‑Beijing multidisciplinary artist born in 2002, employs Shibari‑inspired rope techniques across sculpture, performance, and painting to interrogate intimacy, resistance, and gendered bodies. Her immersive installations, such as “Tactile Threshold,” invite audiences to physically engage with themes of...
The Enduring Power of Montage
Thames & Hudson’s new hardcover *Cut Out* reframes collage, montage and assemblage as a feminist practice, spotlighting women, folk and Indigenous creators long omitted from mainstream art histories. The volume surveys the medium from Victorian album makers through Modernist, Surrealist...
Verner Panton:Form, Colour, Space
The Vitra Design Museum is mounting a retrospective exhibition, "Form, Colour, Space," to mark the 100th anniversary of Danish designer Verner Panton. Running from 23 May to 9 May, the show features iconic pieces such as the single‑piece plastic Panton Chair, the...
History in Technicolour
MK Gallery in Milton Keynes is mounting “Life in Colour”, a major retrospective of French photographer Jacques‑Henri Lartigue. The show features more than 150 photographs and drawings, highlighting a trove of colour images that represent roughly a third of his...
The Presence of Ice:Sebastião Salgado’s Glaciers
Renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has released *Glaciers*, a coffee‑table book of 65 duotone images captured across Patagonia, the Himalayas, Antarctica and Russia. The collection showcases sweeping ice fields, crevasses and penguin colonies, while interweaving climate‑science commentary from Elisa Palazzi. Salgado’s...
The Poetics of Desire
Lin Zhipeng, working under the alias No.223, presents "Under the Sunlight, There is No True Intimacy" at Fotografiska Shanghai until 14 June. The exhibition assembles two decades of his work, using light, urban backdrops and subtle gestures to explore intimacy...
Angelica Mesiti: Traces in Time
Angelica Mesiti’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Switzerland opens at Museum Tinguely in Basel, titled *Reverb*. The show features five new video works, most notably the seven‑channel installation *The Rites of When* (2024), which maps the Pleiades stars and draws...
Art of Noise:How Design Shapes Music
The Cooper Hewitt’s “Art of Noise” exhibition explores how visual design has shaped music perception and memory, featuring archival posters, album art, and vintage playback devices. Spanning two galleries, the first highlights the evolution from early phonographs to modern Bluetooth...
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Focus & Desire
Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s first major solo exhibition in Switzerland, "Focus & Desire," which runs through 14 June. The show assembles early and recent photographs alongside archival ephemera, revealing Sepuya’s signature practice of exposing the act of image‑making....
Sense of Abstraction
Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ogawa presents his decade‑long “Lost in Kyoto” series at Buchkunst Berlin. The abstract images move away from typical travel photography, using mist, blur and hand‑ground lenses to convey Kyoto’s layered history. Over 10 million foreign tourists visited Kyoto...