Worldwide Exhibitions and Art Galleries
Our gallery guide helps you find world-class contemporary art at the leading galleries and museums worldwide. Browse or filter our exhibition listings on the ArtMap to find art exhibitions, events and auctions in your city. Use the NearMe function on our ArtMap to search for contemporary art galleries and museums open today near you.
- Galleri Magnus KarlssonStockholmJane Lombard GalleryNew YorkMassimo De Carlo, Hong KongHong Kong
Doug Aitken 27 Mar - 19 May 2018 the artist's first solo exhibition in China, presenting three new works which allow the viewer to operate as a spectator, actor and voyeurParasol unit foundation for contemporary artLondon, Public
Carlos Garaicoa 13 Apr - 3 Jun 2018 exploring a diverse body of work, the exhibition reflects upon the city – its limitations as well as its potentials and possibilities – as a physical infrastructure, social network and political spaceSimon Lee LondonLondon West End
just openedViewing Room: Joel Mesler: The Alphabet of Creation (for now) 20 Apr - 26 May 2018 in his first solo exhibition in the UK, new paintings from Mesler’s ongoing body of work where each painting is devoted to a single letter, drawing on memories from his childhood and his hometown of Los AngelesTenderpixelLondon
last weekPakui Hardware: The Return of Sweetness 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 an entirely new site-specific project, exploring metabolism both as a metaphorical device and as a physical and biological processThe Mayor GalleryLondon West End
Miguel Chevalier: UBIQUITY 13 Apr - 1 Jun 2018not open todayseries of digital, print and sculptural works, exploring the imagination of the city and its urban transformationsGaleria Nara Roesler São PauloSão Paulo
León Ferrari: For a World with no Hell 11 Apr - 30 May 2018 curated by Lisette Lagnado, this panoramic exhibition covers almost half a century of the multimedia artist’s creative process, gathering a selection of works made between 1962 and 2009Galeria Nara Roesler São PauloSão Paulo
Roesler Hotel #28: Screenspaces 11 Apr - 30 May 2018 recent work by 19 artists investigating contemporary visual culture through photographic language in a post-digital context
just openedJoseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments 17 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 curated by Norman Rosenthal, a retrospective of Beuys’ masterpieces, including early drawings, sculptures and early photographs from the late 40s and early 50s
Nudes 11 Apr - 26 May 2018 the exhibition considers the versatile and paradoxical power of the body and its representation in artSadie Coles HQ Kingly StreetLondon West EndFeldbuschWiesnerRudolphBerlin
just openedAlvaro Barrington: A Taste of Chocolate 17 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 a site-specific installation curated by Norman Rosenthal which actively reproduces the energy found in the artist’s studiokamel mennour, LondonLondon
Liam Everett: The Listeners 11 Apr - 12 May 2018 “In the little black chair an idiot waits under the heat of the lamp”Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea
Claire Falkenstein: Matter in Motion 6 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 a survey of works in a range of media, from early ceramic and wood sculptures to seminal explorations in metal to dynamic paintings and works on paperrosenfeld porciniLondonSprüth Magers, Grafton St.London West End
Karen Kilimnik 13 Apr - 26 May 2018 works from four decades in Kilimnik’s career as one of the most important representatives of figurative painting, sculpture and installationZabludowicz CollectionLondon, Public
Invites: Lindsey Mendick 12 Apr - 3 Jun 2018 a sculptural and audio mise-en-scène reflecting on teenage holiday romance, burgeoning womanhood and a desire for revengeFondation CartierParis, Public
Junya Ishigami, Freeing Architecture 30 Mar - 10 Jun 2018 the first large-scale solo show that the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain has devoted to an architect - with models, films and drawingsA arte InvernizziMilan
The Philosophical Eye 13 Apr - 16 May 2018not open todaythe exhibition “is designed to have the ‘intellectual’ eye of the philosopher interact with the ‘intuitive’ one of the poet (both of them sublime craftsmen of words) and with the more specifically ‘visual’ one of the artist”Annka Kultys GalleryLondon
last weekSigne Pierce: Metamirrorism 28 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Pierce takes the gallery’s visitors as her raw material to create an immersive, reflected, refracted and abstracted universe of the ephemeralMaureen PaleyLondon
Anne Hardy 10 Apr - 20 May 2018 the UK debut of a new film presented in a specially created cinema setting, together with a large photo-structure in the upstairs spaceRoslyn Oxley9 GallerySydney
Bill Culbert: Time Tables 11 Apr - 5 May 2018 from suitcases pierced with fluorescent tubes, repurposed furniture, vast arrays of reclaimed plastic containers, Culbert’s works celebrate common things and imbue them with poetic presencePi Artworks IstanbulIstanbul
last weekVolkan Aslan: Shoot me! Don't turn me over! 7 Apr - 28 Apr 2018 new works by Aslan, curated by Merve Elveren at the gallery’s new space in KaraköyT293Rome
Sonia Kacem: Did snow fall on the pyramids? 7 Apr - 5 May 2018 Kacem’s installations are the result of a search for interaction between objects and observer - an intuitive interaction with the forms and materiality of compositions that, even though aesthetically abstract, follow traces of fiction or dramaAnders Wahlstedt Fine ArtNew York Chelsea
Joan Snyder / Selected Prints 1975-2018 12 Apr - 24 May 2018 highlights of Snyder’s printmaking activity from the 1970s onward, including her newest, “hot off the press” printSimon Lee LondonLondon West End
Eric N. Mack: Misa Hylton-Brim 12 Apr - 12 May 2018 a new body of the artist’s signature large-scale assemblages, which oscillate between painting, sculpture, the readymade and performance, at the same time initiating a dialogue between fashion and artVictoria MiroLondon
Surface Work 11 Apr - 19 May 2018 taking place at both London galleries, a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract paintingVictoria Miro MayfairLondon West End
Surface Work 11 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 taking place at both London galleries, a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting
Dessins de Sculpteurs 22 Mar - 19 May 2018 an exhibition of sculptors’ drawings, from Dubuffet to Shingu including Giacometti and RodinRichard SaltounLondon
Paulo Bruscky: The Gallery will be fumigated of art 6 Apr - 26 May 2018 in his first solo exhibition in London, a unique opportunity to explore Bruscky’s radical language through a major display of works created from the late 1960s to todayRoberts ProjectsLos Angeles
Ed Templeton: Hairdos of Defiance 17 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 a photographic look into a microcosm, coming from twenty years of unmediated chance encountersYancey Richardson GalleryNew YorkTucci Russo - Studio per l’Arte ContemporaneaTorre Pellice (Turin)Alan Cristea GalleryLondon West End
Christiane Baumgartner: Liquid Light 21 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 new work by Baumgartner exploring the themes of transience and immaterialityGagosian Grosvenor HillLondon West End
Richard Serra: Rifts 6 Apr - 25 May 2018 I use black because it is a color that doesn’t transport elusive emotions - Richard SerraZabludowicz CollectionLondon, Public
Ericka Beckman 22 Mar - 8 Jul 2018 in her first major solo exhibition in the UK, four seminal works from the Collection by the American artist, spanning over 30 years of genre-defying film-makingZabludowicz CollectionLondon, Public
Marianna Simnett 22 Mar - 8 Jul 2018 fable-like film, sound and light installations that examine the sense of intimacy yet anxious unfamiliarity we experience with our own bodiesDavid Zwirner, Hong KongHong KongGalleria Continua BeijingBeijingHamiltonsLondon West End
Robert Frank 28 Mar - 11 May 2018 rarely seen prints, including pictures from Frank’s seminal 1953 visit to a Welsh coal-mining village, and a selection from his travels in London, Paris and America during the 50s and 60sTolarno GalleriesMelbourne
Gianfranco Pardi: Autoarchitettura 23 Mar - 8 Jun 2018 a large retrospective of the Milanese artist, curated by Bruno Corà and involving Fondazione Marconi, Studio Marconi ’65 and the Gianfranco Pardi ArchiveGagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea
last weekCy Twombly: In Beauty it is finished. Drawings 1951–2008 8 Mar - 25 Apr 2018 the first career-spanning exhibition of drawings and works on paper by Twombly, organized in association with the artist’s FoundationGagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea
Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal 10 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 large-scale paintings, first presented together at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in 2000, together with a granite sculpture from the artist’s “Antiquity” seriesSprovieriLondon West End
last weekFrancesco Arena: Due ritratti con persona 2 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 an exhibition centred around the first work of a new series by the artist, which deals with two of their most recurring themes: portrait and time
Daniel Buren, Camille Henrot, Anish Kapoor, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Christodoulos Panayiotou 21 Mar - 30 Apr 2018SkarstedtNew York Upper East Side
Sue Williams: Paintings 1997-98 22 Feb - 21 Apr 2018 the first exhibition of Williams’s work to be shown at the gallery spans two years of her early careerLarge GlassLondonSimon Lee Hong KongHong Kong
last weekJim Shaw 27 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 new paintings in the first exhibition in Asia by the influential American artistBlain|Southern, Hanover SqLondon West End
Gabriella Boyd: Help Yourself 23 Mar - 5 May 2018 new series of paintings in which dream logic appears to dominate and the atmosphere is suffused with both eroticism and threatBlain|Southern, Hanover SqLondon West End
Wim Wenders: Early Works: 1964 - 1984 23 Mar - 5 May 2018 Polaroids and black-and-white photographs from Wenders’ archive, many never shown beforeRoberts ProjectsLos Angeles
Daniel Crews-Chubb: Chariots, Beasts and Belfies 17 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 works that employ a traditional expressionistic, painterly language amid a conceptual framework investigating the dynamism of historic and contemporary visual repetition, in the artist’s first exhibition at the galleryGalerie ForsblomHelsinkiGalerie ForsblomHelsinkiGalerie ForsblomHelsinkiGalerie Nikolaus RuzicskaSalzburg
Josef Hoflehner: Night Work 23 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 ”the world looks completely different by night, it is more thrilling and the saying all cats are grey in the dark holds no truth whatsoever” Josef HoflehnerCardi Gallery, MilanMilan
Fred Sandback 22 Feb - 6 Jul 2018not open todayeight sculptures and a large selection of drawings and photostats that present the evolution of the artist’s investigation of spaceGalerie Lisa KandlhoferVienna![Frauke Dannert: folie [fɔli] @Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna - GalleriesNow.net](https://www.galleriesnow.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Galerie-Lisa-Kandlhofer-Frauke-Dannert-1-260x260.jpg)
last weekFrauke Dannert: folie [fɔli] 23 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Dannert transfers her constructional and analytical strategies of collage from architecture to plant lifeGalerie Lisa KandlhoferVienna
last weekProject Room: Pier Stockholm 23 Mar - 27 Apr 2018 a discussion surrounding the discourse between the column, the pedestal and the plinthVNH GalleryParis
last weekGiulia Andreani: Intermezzo 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 paintings and works on paper transformed into sensitive witnesses of a moment using acrylic or watercolour portraits or scenes bathed in monochromatic bluish gradationsVNH GalleryParis
last weekTJ Wilcox: Carte de visite 15 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 “I hope you will accept this work as a very long and annotated carte de visite, which I have wished to deliver for many years” TJ WilcoxLullin + FerrariZürichSophia Contemporary GalleryLondon West End
Iva Gueorguieva / Dona Nelson: Portal 16 Mar - 2 May 2018 the American duo’s first two-person exhibition provides an inter-generational visual dialogue through works including Gueorguieva’s vibrant acrylic and collage works and Nelson’s signature double-sided freestanding paintingsAchille Salvagni AtelierLondon West End
Apollo 15 Mar - 7 Sep 2018 the Atelier is transformed into a sumptuous retro-futuristic space capsule inspired by iconic 1960s science fiction set designsEva Presenhuber, New YorkNew York
last weekGerwald Rockenschaub: geometric playground (flamboyant edit) 10 Mar - 27 Apr 2018 a new four-part wall installation takes over the main showroom space, flanked by smaller mixed media works in the entrance and on the lower levelGaleria Nara Roesler New YorkNew York
Almir Mavignier: Privileged Form 2 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 an exhibition of the “poster-maker for the 20th century avant-garde”Lisson GalleryLondon
Pedro Reyes: Glyptotek 2 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 in his first London exhibition for five years, Reyes produces a fictional, pan-historical museum of sculpture, or a glyptotek, from the ancient Greek term for a cache of classic statuaryLisson GalleryLondon
Ryan Gander: The Self Righting of All Things 2 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 new site-specific installations drawing on notions of time, balance and instabilityMichael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side
Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Bronzes from the 1980s 28 Feb - 5 May 2018 more than twenty paintings and bronze sculptures, exploring an important period in Kirkeby’s oeuvre, one not previously shown in such depthOlivier MalingueLondon
Surrealism: A Conversation 2 Mar - 12 May 2018 rare and iconic works by some of the most significant figures within the Surrealist movement - including Hans Arp, Salvador Dalí, Óscar Domínguez, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy
ReCycle 10 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 tracing the history of assemblage and the potential of recycling with works by Marcel Broodthaers, Tony Cragg, Abraham Cruzvillegas, David Douard, Robert Filliou, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ray Johnson, Jean-Luc Moulène, Carol Rama, ReenThomas Dane GalleryLondon West End
José Damasceno: RE: PÚBLICA 9 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 Damasceno’s first exhibition in the UK since his Artangel commission of 2014 completely encloses the gallery space, forcing visitors to enter his worldSimon Lee New YorkNew York
last weekChris Huen Sin Kan 5 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 large-scale oil paintings derived from observation of his own life in Huen’s first solo exhibition in AmericaCortesi Gallery, LondonLondon
Angela Lyn: floating gardens 2 Mar - 10 May 2018 “I see floating gardens not only reflecting my observations of nature but also as a metaphor for our human existence within the great unknown” LynLévy Gorvy LondonLondon West End
last weekSource and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing 5 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 launching the gallery’s remodelled London space, an exhibition inspired by Sigmar Polke, Roy Lichtenstein, and Gerald Laing’s use of the Ben-Day dot in their paintings from the 1960sBERG ContemporaryReykjavík
last weekBjörn Roth: Nervettis 2009-2018 3 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Roth’s career covers experimental group music and body art performances, immersive assemblages produced in collaborative work with his late father, Dieter Roth, and his solo practice, largely concentrated on oil paintings and watercoloursSkarstedt, LondonLondon West End
Eric Fischl: Presence of an Absence 1 Mar - 26 May 2018 “my paintings are only ‘about’ something when they’ve missed their mark. When they are successful, it is because they embody the ‘thing’ itself” Fischl
Yan Pei-Ming: Dating 2 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 new oil paintings rendered in velvety hues of deep red and blue of Popes, Female nudes and erotic scenesMichael Werner Gallery, MayfairLondon West End
A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier 23 Feb - 21 Apr 2018 two exhibitions by one of the most important artists to emerge from Germany during the post-war period, with large-scale works representing a key moment in the artist’s practiceSerpentine GalleryLondon, Public
Ian Cheng 6 Mar - 28 May 2018 Cheng works with sentient artworks named BOB (Bag Of Beliefs) - to transform the Serpentine into a sort of animal sanctuary for new forms of 21st century lifeSerpentine Sackler GalleryLondon, Public
Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on 6 Mar - 20 May 2018 the first European solo exhibition of the American artist who explores the intersection of black identity, digital culture and power structures through video, media, installation and performanceLuxembourg & Dayan LondonLondon West End
René Magritte (Or: The Rule of Metaphor) 27 Feb - 12 May 2018 an exhibition dedicated to the development of Magritte’s word-pictures during his years in Paris between 1927-30Pippy Houldsworth GalleryLondon West EndRobilant + Voena, LondonLondon West End
Marino Marini: Horses, Horsemen and Female Nudes 27 Feb - 18 May 2018not open todaycurated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi, an exhibition exploring the main sculptural themes that Marini concentrated on from the 1930s to the 1950sMamcoGeneva, Public
Art & Entertainment 28 Feb - 29 Apr 2018 organized by Paul Bernard et and Lionel Bovier, and based on the writings of the American artist David Robbins on the relationship between art and the notion of entertainmentMamcoGeneva, Public
Die Welt als Labyrinth 28 Feb - 6 May 2018 a look at a plethora of avant-garde movements of the 1940s - organized by John Armleder, Paul Bernard, Gérard Berréby, Lionel Bovier, Alexandra Catana Tucknott, Julien Fronsacq and Mai-Thu PerretMamcoGeneva, Public
last weekNouvelles Images 28 Feb - 22 Apr 2018 organized by Lionel Bovier and Sophie Costes, an exhibition looking at Letterism and the Situationist International - and how to exhibit in a museum people who were systematically opposed to cultural institutionsTucci Russo - Studio per l’Arte ContemporaneaTorre Pellice (Turin)MazzoleniLondon West End
MORE THAN WORDS... 23 Feb - 12 May 2018 an exhibition exploring the use of text and the written word in the practice of major Post-War Italian artistsSemioseParis
Anselm Kiefer: Für Andrea Emo 11 Feb - 2 Jun 2018 five years after staging the first exhibition at the Pantin gallery space, over 20 new mid-size and monumental canvases and sculptures reflect Kiefer’s ideas of destruction and regeneration in an entirely new wayInternational Center of Photography (ICP) MuseumNew York, PublicInternational Center of Photography (ICP) MuseumNew York, PublicTimothy TaylorNew York
Eduardo Terrazas: Cosmos within a cosmos 22 Feb - 21 Apr 2018 new work by Terrazas, considered a founding member of the contemporary Mexican art scene, in the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1974Bartha ContemporaryLondon West EndOrdovasLondon West End
last weekLondon Painters 22 Feb - 28 Apr 2018 works by the core proponents of the so-called “School of London”: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj and Leon KossoffSerpentine GalleryLondon, Public
Lee Ufan: Relatum - Stage 6 Feb - 29 Jul 2018 the Serpentine continues its exploration of public art with a sculptural commission by Lee Ufan, installed outside the gallery in Kensington GardensChristophe Guye GalerieZürichGalleria Continua Les MoulinsBoissy-le-ChâtelGalleria Continua Les MoulinsBoissy-le-ChâtelGalleria Continua Les MoulinsBoissy-le-Châtel303 GalleryNew York ChelseaDoug Aitken: New Era 13 Apr - 25 May 201847 CanalNew York Lower East SideAcquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García 12 Apr - 25 May 2018 over sixty paintings, sculptures and works on paper from 1896 to 1949 drawn from the private collection of the family of the artistAir de ParisParisLittéralement et dans tous les sens 24 Mar - 19 May 2018Air de ParisParisMrzyk & Moriceau: Never Dream of Dying 24 Mar - 19 May 2018Alexander Gray AssociatesNew York ChelseaAlison Jacques GalleryLondonAlmine Rech GalleryParis
new todayforthcoming:Arlene Shechet: Some Truths 21 Apr - 26 May 2018 sculptures executed between 2015 and 2018 showing off Shechet’s idiosyncratic visual language, in her first solo exhibition in ParisAlmine Rech Gallery LondonLondon West End
just openedMatthias Bitzer: Sequences from a Volatile Now 17 Apr - 19 May 2018 new sculptural and wall works form an installation in Bitzer’s first solo exhibition in LondonAlmine Rech Gallery New YorkNew York Upper East Side
just openedLicia Galizia: Flussi 18 Apr - 26 May 2018 environmental installations and sculptures in a site-specific exhibition project that tells, with a rhythm made of movements and pauses, an ideal story on the infinite visual and sound forms of waterAnnely Juda Fine ArtLondon West EndMania Akbari & Douglas White, Phil Coy & Frances Scott, Golden Family: Islands, curated by The Russian Club 15 Mar - 2 May 2018Annely Juda Fine ArtLondon West EndYuko Shiraishi: Floworld 15 Mar - 2 May 2018
