Dirk Braeckman: Although
Belgian photographer Dirk Braeckman presents his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, “Although,” at Grimm London from April 23 to May 30, 2026. The show assembles recent analogue works that emphasize the materiality of the photographic process, featuring dust, scratches, and chemical residues as active visual components. Drawing from a four‑decade archive, Braeckman revisits landscapes, interiors, and vernacular images, while also referencing his large‑scale airport frieze “Elongation.” The exhibition challenges conventional readability, inviting viewers to engage with time, ambiguity, and the physicality of the image.
Ellie Kayu Ng: Catching the Big Fish
Brooklyn‑based painter Ellie Kayu Ng makes her UK solo debut at Twilight Contemporary with the exhibition “Catching the Big Fish,” on view May 8‑30, 2026. The show extends her decade‑long practice of painting herself into imagined scenarios, using borrowed garments to embody...
Rhythm in the Blues
Rhythm in the Blues, co‑presented by Octavia Art Gallery founder Pamela Bryan and curator Julia Campbell Carter, opens at 14 Percy Street in London from May 11‑20, 2026. The group show features five international artists—Alia Ali, Aigana Gali, Azadeh Ghotbi, Naomie Kremer...
Aaron Kudi at 1-54 New York: Material Abstraction and the Weight of Witness
Adegbola Gallery made its inaugural appearance at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York, presenting a new body of work by Nigerian‑born, London‑based artist Aaron Kudi. The paintings, executed on glazed tarpaulin and cotton duck, employ liquid metal,...
Emilie Dubois Turns the Living Room Into a Map of Belonging at BFAF
The Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi has opened Emilie Dubois’s exhibition “Home Is Not A Place,” running from 11 February to 31 May 2026. Central to the show is an interactive living‑room installation where visitors can touch and...
Rebecca Ward: Lighter Later
Brooklyn-based artist Rebecca Ward returns to Ronchini Gallery with "lighter later," a solo show running from June 11 to September 30, 2026. The exhibition features new sewn canvases that blur the line between painting, sculpture and craft, employing a labor‑intensive process that begins...
ENDLESS Turns Money Into Monarchy at Cris Contini Contemporary Rome
London-based artist Endless opened "Cash Is King" at Cris Contini Contemporary in Rome, turning British banknotes into a visual critique of monarchy, power and national identity. The show highlights the recent debut of King Charles III on UK currency, framing...
Daiga Grantina: Lilacs
The Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre is presenting “Lilacs,” the most extensive UK solo exhibition of Latvian artist Daiga Grantina, running from May 2 to June 28, 2026. Building on her acclaimed New Museum show, the exhibition explores the tension between organic...
Bunny Hennessey: Radical Happiness
Union Gallery will present Bunny Hennessey’s "Radical Happiness" from May 2‑30, 2026, showcasing her high‑chroma, sensation‑driven paintings that fuse figuration and abstraction. The London‑based artist, a Slade MFA candidate and 2024 Freeland’s Painting Prize winner, uses oil, acrylic and watercolor to explore...
SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN: THE STORYTELLERS
From May 1 to July 5, 2026, Worcester College in Oxford unveils “Sculpture in the Garden: The Storytellers,” a free, open‑air exhibition featuring 15 contemporary figurative sculptors from across the globe. The works, ranging from Antony Gormley’s bronze forms to Leila Babirye’s culturally...
Yinka Ilori: Joy Through Resistance He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best
Yinka Ilori launches his first solo exhibition in London, "Joy Through Resistance," at Cristea Roberts Gallery from June 5 to July 11, 2026. The show assembles more than 20 pieces across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and an immersive sound installation that...
Katie Edwards’ Field of View Transforms Utrecht Centraal Into a Moving Landscape
Photographer Katie Edwards has unveiled *Field of View*, a site‑specific installation at Utrecht Centraal that displays 40 backlit photographs taken from the train window along the Haarlem‑Leiden line. The images capture Dutch tulip fields in full bloom, printed to the...
PATRICK HERON: Early Works, 1950-54
Hazlitt Holland‑Hibbert is mounting a second solo show of Patrick Heron, focusing on his 1950‑54 output, a period when the British modernist moved decisively from figurative interiors toward colour‑driven abstraction. The exhibition assembles works from the artist’s estate—including several never‑exhibited...
Onya McCausland: Tailings
British artist Onya McCausland opens "Tailings" at CLOSE Gallery, a solo show running from April 25 to May 30, 2026. The exhibition presents 30 paintings that employ bespoke pigments derived from mining waste, delivering a palette of ochres, rusts and...
Jasper Johns: Night Driver Opens at Guggenheim Bilbao with Major Retrospective
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has opened "Jasper Johns: Night Driver," a sweeping retrospective that showcases roughly 140 works spanning six decades of the artist’s career. Running from May 29 to October 12, 2026, the exhibition traces Johns’ evolution from his...
Wangechi Mutu Awarded National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship in Landmark UK Collaboration
Kenyan‑American artist Wangechi Mutu has been awarded the National Gallery’s second Contemporary Fellowship, a two‑year program run with Art Fund and the Whitworth in Manchester. The fellowship runs from 2026 to 2028, during which Mutu will develop new work that...
Miranda Lee and the Ethics of Attention
Curator Miranda Lee challenges the fast‑paced art market by designing exhibitions that prioritize slower, more reflective attention. Her physical show RECRAFTED introduced intentional pause points, while digital projects like MULT Coexistence and MULT Island embed layered narratives that require exploration...
William Wegman: Video Works, 1970-1977
Huxley‑Parlour in London is mounting *Video Works, 1970–77*, a showcase of ten early videos by American artist William Wegman. The exhibition traces Wegman’s blend of language play, visual puns and deadpan humor, and presents the first public appearances of his...
Osman Yousefzada: A Home That Will Not Behave
British‑Pakistani interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada opens his solo show "A Home That Will Not Behave" at Bolanle Contemporary, No.9 Cork Street, London, from April 10 to April 26, 2026. The exhibition reimagines the domestic interior as a volatile space, drawing...
Shaniqwa Jarvis: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Shaniqwa Jarvis’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom opens at London’s Public Gallery on 30 April 2026, running through 7 June. The show, titled Only Love Can Break Your Heart, presents twelve new works that combine silk, mirrored surfaces,...
Samuel De Saboia: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Brazilian artist Samuel de Saboia opens his second solo exhibition, The Aesthetics of Possibility, at Maruani Mercier in Knokke from April 4‑26, 2026. The show features large‑scale paintings that blend sweeping gestures, layered figuration and a richer palette to explore...
Tate Liverpool Brings Steve McQueen’s Grenfell to Liverpool
Steve McQueen’s film installation *Grenfell*, created after the 2017 London tower fire that killed 72 people, is arriving at Tate Liverpool from 16 May to 21 June 2026. The work, first shown publicly at the Serpentine in 2023, captures the...
Godfried Donkor: It’s a Numbers Game
Firstsite in Colchester is mounting Godfried Donkor’s first UK institutional exhibition, "It’s a Numbers Game," running from May 23 to August 30, 2026. The show assembles new collages, paintings, embroideries and installations that juxtapose archival photographs, Financial Times text, Ghanaian Adinkra...
Sir Peter Blake’s Studio Comes to Pitzhanger Manor in a Landmark West London Exhibition
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery will host "Peter Blake: In the Studio," a landmark exhibition running from 25 November 2026 to 4 April 2027. The show recreates Blake’s West London studio in full scale, giving visitors an intimate look at the...
SARAH MORRIS: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers
Sarah Morris opens "Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers" at White Cube London from March 11 to May 9, 2026, pairing a fresh series of diagrammatic paintings with two films—Midtown (1998) and Chris Rock (2025). The paintings abstract multinational corporations into geometric, glossy surfaces that...
Down the Rabbit Hole
Katya’s Space CIC presents “Down the Rabbit Hole” at London’s The Crypt Gallery from April 17‑19, 2026. The group exhibition features more than 30 artists working in painting, sculpture, film and immersive installations within the venue’s vaulted underground chambers. Central...
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern will host "Frida: The Making of an Icon" from 25 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the first major UK exhibition to trace Frida Kahlo’s rise from a little‑known painter to a global cultural icon. The show, co‑curated with the Museum of...
Maria Candelaria Traverso’s Un Cubo Brings Material Politics to SUMMA Mallorca 2026
Maria Candelaria Traverso’s solo show *Un Cubo* opens at SUMMA Mallorca 2026, later moving to Pueblo Español. The exhibition reworks everyday plastic sacks—drawn from informal markets in Argentina—into woven cubes that reference the Andean Chakana. Traverso treats the sack as...
Dua Lipa to Curate Southbank Centre’s 2026 London Literature Festival
Global pop star Dua Lipa has been appointed curator of the Southbank Centre’s 2026 London Literature Festival, coinciding with the venue’s 75th anniversary and the UK’s National Year of Reading. The festival runs from 21 October to 1 November and will feature...
Allison Katz Returns to New York with Outta the Bag at Hauser & Wirth
Allison Katz opens her first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, titled "Outta the Bag." The show deepens her investigation of painting’s elasticity, using language, framing and self‑portraiture to probe an image‑saturated culture. Notable works include "Jaws,"...
Junying Jiang Examines Cultural Dislocation Through Animation
London-based artist Junying Jiang leverages digital animation and myth to explore cultural dislocation, drawing on his Chinese roots and British residency. His recent pieces, such as "Joy Blooms in Regent’s Park" and "Sword in the Pearl," fuse sound, motion, and...
Hockney / Paricio: Cycles of Renewal
Halcyon’s flagship New Bond Street gallery opens *Cycles of Renewal* on 7 April 2026, pairing David Hockney with emerging Spanish painter Pedro Paricio. The show juxtaposes Hockney’s decades‑spanning oeuvre—including iPad drawings, lithographs and his recent *Arrival of Spring* series—with Paricio’s vibrant, pattern‑driven reinterpretations...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The exhibition "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," curated by Maria Hinel, opens at Hypha Studios in London from March 12 to April 18, 2026. It brings together ten international artists to foreground animal agency, revolt, and...
Bettina Pousttchi’s Vertical Highways V03 Arrives at Rockefeller Center
Bettina Pousttchi’s sculpture *Vertical Highways V03* will occupy Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens from March 19 to April 17, 2026, marking the first U.S. showing of her acclaimed Vertical Highways series. The work, fashioned from repurposed guardrails, transforms familiar crowd‑control objects...
Perception & Provocation: Riley · Hirst · Banksy · Hockney
Calder Contemporary has launched “Perception & Provocation,” an online exhibition on Artsy that runs from March 12 to April 12, 2026, featuring British icons Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Banksy and David Hockney. The show emphasizes visceral, immediate visual impact over intellectual analysis, presenting...
Greater New York 2026
MoMA PS1 announced the 53 artists and collectives for Greater New York 2026, the museum’s flagship survey of New York‑based creators. Opening April 16 and running through August 17, the exhibition features site‑specific installations, newly commissioned works and a live...
Catherine Opie: The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure
Catherine Opie’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany opens at the Fridericianum in Kassel, running from February 14 to July 19, 2026. The show, titled “The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure,” presents a site‑specific survey of more than three decades...
Mirna Bamieh: Sour Things: The Door
Palestinian artist Mirna Bamieh’s new installation Sour Things: The Door opens at NIKA Project Space in Romainville from 17 April to 23 May 2026. Curated by Anne Davidian, the work extends Bamieh’s Sour Things series, using a monumental, partially blocked doorframe, porcelain okra sculptures, and video testimonies to explore migration,...
Godfried Donkor Heads to Venice with a Tribute to History, Power and Koyo Kouoh
Godfried Donkor will present a new painting, *Michael and the Dragon II* (2026), and four earlier works at the 61st Venice Biennale, honoring his late friend and curator Koyo Kouhou. The exhibition revisits his 2017 *First Day of the Yam Custom*...
Simone Brewster Takes Centre Stage in PLATFORM at the Design Museum
The Design Museum has launched the second edition of its PLATFORM series, featuring London‑based designer Simone Brewster in a year‑long exhibition from February 2026 to January 2027. Brewster’s monographic display spans jewellery, furniture, sculpture and architectural interventions, organized into four...
Soho Solos
Great Pulteney Street Gallery hosts "Soho Solos" from June 10‑28, 2026, featuring four solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners Mandy Hudson, James Robert Morrison, Conor Quinn and Alice Sheppard Fidler. The artists were chosen from more than 2,000 entries...
Demi Danka: Co-Authored Terrains
Demi Danka’s solo exhibition “Co‑Authored Terrains” opens at Gillian Jason Gallery in London, running May 21‑June 27, 2026. The show presents cameraless works where light‑sensitive paper is treated with light, salt, water, air and pressure, turning photographic emulsion into a volatile painting surface....
Becoming Through Pain Curated by Huma Kabakcı
The "Becoming Through Pain" exhibition, curated by Huma Kabakcı, opens at London’s Somers Gallery from March 26 to April 2, 2026, featuring eight international women artists. Their works treat pain not as a static condition but as a transformative force...
Gustavo Nazareno: How to Grow a Flower From a Supernova
Gustavo Nazareno’s solo exhibition “How to Grow a Flower from a Supernova” opens at Opera Gallery Paris from 24 June to 17 July 2026, coinciding with Paris Couture Week. The show blends Afro‑Brazilian religious iconography, especially the Orixá Pombagira, with...
Powerhouse Arts Appoints Liz Munsell to Lead Curatorial Vision in Brooklyn’s Expanding Cultural Hub
Powerhouse Arts has named veteran curator Liz Munsell vice president of Curatorial and Arts Programs, tasking her with shaping exhibitions, public programmes and artist‑led production at its Brooklyn hub. Munsell brings nearly two decades of museum experience and a track...
A Pulse Before the Opening: Anticipating the 61st Venice Biennale
The 61st Venice Biennale, directed by curator Koyo Kouou, shifts from grand spectacle to an intimate, affect‑driven experience that foregrounds memory, diaspora and unresolved histories. Early previews highlight three participating artists—Manuel Mathieu, Sara Shamma and Igshaan Adams—who each translate trauma...
PORTALS Unveils Eva Dixon’s Little Lady, Recasting the Space Race in Spitalfields
PORTALS unveiled Eva Dixon’s sculptural installation *Little Lady* at Spitalworth Market’s K67 kiosk from 18‑27 March 2026, running 24/7. The work reimagines a re‑entry capsule and parachute to honor the overlooked Mercury 13 women pilots. Curated by James Marshall, the...
Sophie Tea Redefines Art Sales with First Live Fine Art Launch on TikTok Shop
British artist Sophie Tea became the first creator to sell original paintings live on TikTok Shop, launching her Bric‑a‑Brac collection during a three‑hour broadcast. The event attracted 1.3 million viewers worldwide and offered a limited release of oil paintings sourced from...
Frida and Diego: The Last Dream
The Museum of Modern Art will host "Frida and Diego: The Last Dream" from March 21 to September 12, 2026, showcasing a curated selection of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera works alongside a new Metropolitan Opera production, *El Último Sueño...
Cecily Brown: Picture Making
The Serpentine Galleries are hosting Cecily Brown’s first UK institutional solo exhibition since 2005, titled “Picture Making,” from 27 March to 6 September 2026 at Serpentine South. The show pairs newly created paintings inspired by Kensington Gardens with key works dating back to 2001,...