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The Week in Art visit the site
5-12 May 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Naples, New York, Seoul, Stockholm, Tisbury, Venice |
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▻ use the Daily Diary for all the latest events and updates!
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Hong Kong
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| Hong Kong, Tuesday 5 |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Treasures of a Flourishing Age: The Songde Tang Collection of Ming Porcelain
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Heaven’s Mandate: Giuseppe Castiglione’s Auspicious Lotus for the Yongzheng Emperor
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
MINEO HATA – A Life in Art: Early Buddhist and Ancient Art
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Zoomorphia: Animal Forms in Ancient China | Chinese Art
auction: Tue 5
(viewing: Mon 27 Apr-Mon 4 May) |
auction |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Thursday 7 |
Dirimart Pera:
Olivia Sterling: Jelly
Sterling’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Istanbul – “involving food, the body, and stains, Sterling’s paintings appear playful and exaggerated … yet reveal underlying hierarchies, processes of objectification, [and] microaggressions” |
opening reception |
SANATORIUM:
Eda Sütunç: Warm Rehearsal
Sütunç’s process-oriented practice uses sculpture, photography, video, installation, and text to explore different ways of being in the world through carrying, relationality, and fragility |
opening reception |
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London
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| London, Wednesday 6 |
Autograph:
Expression in the Absence of Dialogue |
talk |
FreddieFoulkes Gallery:
Rosebud
referencing the denouement of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, these new paintings by Dan Coombs and Sophie Ives reflect on memory and time past |
private view |
| London, Thursday 7 |
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert:
Patrick Heron: 1950-54
including several paintings never previously exhibited, this exhibition focusses on a pivotal period in the early 1950s when Heron negotiated his own path between figuration and abstraction |
first day |
Osh Gallery:
The Hudson Transparencies
“a fascinating window into the unseen world of Victorian science [which] celebrates the work of naturalist Charles Thomas Hudson, a pioneer in the world of microscopy” |
private view |
SQFT:Space Gallery:
*This Sound Is Purple
created by Glenn Harvey, an exhibition where each artwork is paired with a three-part audio piece of spoken narration, artist reflection, and an original soundscape – inviting audiences to experience the work through sound as well as sight |
private view |
Sim Smith:
Kate Groobey: I’m A Big Star
“Groobey … explores emotions that cut across individual experience, like awe, success, joy, tenderness, adoration, and desire. Her work depicts the body, the primary site through which the world is felt and known” |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s London:
Asian Art / 5000 Years
auction: Thu 7-Fri 15
(viewing: Mon 11-Fri 15) |
auction starts |
Workplace:
From the other end of the hallway
a group exhibition with works by Jimmy DeSana, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, William Etty, George Grosz, Maria Lassnig, Tony Morgan, Raymond Pettibon, Thomas Ruff, and Patti Smith |
opening reception |
| London, Friday 8 |
SQFT:Space Gallery:
*This Sound Is Purple
created by Glenn Harvey, an exhibition where each artwork is paired with a three-part audio piece of spoken narration, artist reflection, and an original soundscape – inviting audiences to experience the work through sound as well as sight |
first day |
Twilight Contemporary:
Ellie Kayu Ng: Catching the Big Fish
the Brooklyn-based painter’s debut UK solo exhibition “reflects on the role of imagination as a survival mechanism … these vivid, energetic works bring joy and humour to the everyday” – Sam Hanson, curator |
first day |
Workplace:
From the other end of the hallway
a group exhibition with works by Jimmy DeSana, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, William Etty, George Grosz, Maria Lassnig, Tony Morgan, Raymond Pettibon, Thomas Ruff, and Patti Smith |
first day |
| London, Saturday 9 |
Kearsey & Gold:
Emerald Rose Whipple: Fallen Angels
the California-born, New York-based painter’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery and in the UK – “what unifies the portraits, cityscapes and landscapes is an abiding quality of presence – the gaze of a benevolent and attentive observer” |
first day |
| London, Monday 11 |
County Hall Pottery:
Re-Figured
“across sculpture, statuary, devotional forms, and porcelain figurines … drawing on mythic, classical, and domestic traditions, the works return to forms we think we know and reshape them for the present” |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s London:
Crafted
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first day |
Sotheby’s London:
Crafted: The Fair
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first day |
Sotheby’s London:
Intoart: Tékhnē
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first day |
Sotheby’s London:
Secret Ceramics
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first day |
Sotheby’s London:
The 2026 House & Garden Craft Prize Showcase
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first day |
| London, Tuesday 12 |
Canopy Collections:
Isabelle Young: Venice As I Was
the British photographer’s first exhibition with the gallery – “Young’s Venice is both elegy and diary. The city appears suspended at the threshold of submergence … both shielded and already defeated” – Alona Pardo |
private view |
County Hall Pottery:
Re-Figured
“across sculpture, statuary, devotional forms, and porcelain figurines … drawing on mythic, classical, and domestic traditions, the works return to forms we think we know and reshape them for the present” |
first day |
Ed Cross @ 67 York Street:
Tiffany-Annabelle: 100 ways she blooms
a hundred small mixed media works on C5 manilla envelopes in the latest iteration of Tiffany-Annabelle’s Women in Bloom series |
first day |
sketch:
sketch in Bloom
the 12th edition of sketch in Bloom presents “a floricultural tribute; an immersive flower show bringing together bold floral design and seasonal expression” |
first day |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 9 |
Bluerider ART LA•Manhattan Beach:
Pupil & Pulse: An East-West Dialogue of Perception Chapter I
nearly fifty works by seventeen gallery artists from the East and the West, revealing two distinct yet complementary modes of artistic perception |
opening reception |
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Naples
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| Naples, Saturday 9 |
Alfonso Artiaco:
Adam Pendleton + Antoni Tàpies
“a cross-generational conversation in which painting emerges as an open system – one capable of absorbing language, history, and material experimentation while continually renewing its own terms” |
opening reception |
| Naples, Monday 11 |
Alfonso Artiaco:
Adam Pendleton + Antoni Tàpies
“a cross-generational conversation in which painting emerges as an open system – one capable of absorbing language, history, and material experimentation while continually renewing its own terms” |
first day |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 5 |
Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park:
Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit
curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Othello’s first solo outdoor exhibition in the city presents large-scale bronzes and new totemic redwood sculptures exploring ritual, spiritual, and healing objects from Western and Central Africa |
opening reception |
| New York, Thursday 7 |
GOCA by Garde:
Mitsumasa Kadota: Dissolving Horizons: A New Figure-Ground Proposition
an ambitious exhibition positioning the esteemed Japanese contemporary artist as a vital continuation of American Abstract Expressionism who simultaneously redefines its underlying Eastern spirituality within the broader context of global art history |
opening reception |
Nohra Haime Gallery:
Ruby Rumié: How are the Children?
“I do not intend for this work to rest on answers or certainties, on fixed or dogmatic conclusions. It situates itself in listening, in looking, in staying with a reality that strikes us in silence” – Rumié |
opening reception |
Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park:
Woody De Othello |
talk |
Upsilon Gallery:
Allison Gildersleeve: Gathering
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opening reception |
| New York, Friday 8 |
Almine Rech, Tribeca:
Vaughn Spann: (All) Americans
“Spann seeks to make the flag a banner more explicit in its aims … this weighty work on wood panel confronts us like a roadside banner warning that some of us will find scant shelter here” – Seph Rodney |
opening reception |
Almine Rech, Tribeca:
Alejandro Cardenas: ARACHNE
in a dynamic installation, new paintings and a series of drawings by Cardenas – “an alluring gesamtkunstwerk … his reimaginings of art, design, mythology, and fantasy are masterfully woven into a dreamlike vision of the future” – Paul Laster |
opening reception |
Friedrichs Pontone:
Frameworks
a group exhibition which examines how eleven contemporary artists reduce figurative forms – embracing design and line to create non-objective work, communicating an essence that reaches beyond the surface of the canvas |
opening reception |
HB381:
Marit Tingleff: Into the Green
Tingleff, one of Scandinavia’s leading ceramic artists, gives an “impression of the natural world beyond human-made walls, made powerfully and palpably present … all normal sense of scale is suspended” – Glenn Adamson |
opening reception |
LATITUDE Gallery:
What Holds, What Lingers
Sean Zhang curates an exhibition that brings together Elizabeth Dimitroff, Alice Ningci Jiang, Paulina Moncada, and Yutong Yin, who explore how identity is formed through transition, environment, encounters, and the traces we carry forward |
opening reception |
Nohra Haime Gallery:
Ruby Rumié: How are the Children?
“I do not intend for this work to rest on answers or certainties, on fixed or dogmatic conclusions. It situates itself in listening, in looking, in staying with a reality that strikes us in silence” – Rumié |
first day |
Schoelkopf:
New York City Circa 1960: Works from the Collection of Robert A. Ellison, Jr.
paintings and works on paper created by a network of fifteen artists in the years surrounding 1960 – a pivotal moment of expansion in post-war American art |
opening reception |
| New York, Saturday 9 |
Galerie Lelong:
Wadada Leo Smith and Eli Keszler, an Intimate Concert in Dialogue with “Ficre Ghebreyesus: Color is Supreme” |
special event |
Yancey Richardson Gallery:
In Conversation: Sheida Soleimani and Nat Trotman |
talk |
| New York, Tuesday 12 |
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Firelei Báez: Feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty
Báez first NYC exhibition with the gallery presents “an ambitious, enveloping constellation of radiant new paintings and works on paper” shown alongside new large-scale bronze sculptures |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Carol Rama. I See You You See Me
organized by Carlo Knoell, the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian artist brings new focus to her wildly original experimentations in paint, textile, sculpture, and bricolage |
opening reception |
Nara Roesler:
Amelia Toledo and Cristina Canale: On the Nature of Figures
as part of the series marking the gallery’s 50th anniversary “two artists whose practices … converge in their investigation of form in relation to nature and to the structures that organize the visual field” |
opening reception |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Saturday 9 |
LKIF Gallery:
Ruben Müller & Shumu: A Stir, A Touch, A Warmth
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first day |
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Stockholm
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| Stockholm, Tuesday 12 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Bella Rune: Planet
new works that criss-cross between two and three dimensions in sculptures, objects, and works on paper “engaged in a playful dialogue with geometric, non-figurative art” |
opening reception |
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Tisbury
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| Tisbury, Saturday 9 |
Messums West:
On Nature
accompanying the Forest Cathedral installation in the Barn this summer, a group exhibition which “extends from the forest floor to the sea and sky and encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, ceramic and multi-media” |
first day |
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Venice
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| Venice, Tuesday 5 |
Victoria Miro Venice:
Flora Yukhnovich: Egg
new paintings, in dialogue with a site-specific wall painting, based on “myths, Biblical accounts and fairy tales, with an emphasis on stories detailing fantastical conceptions and births” |
first day |
| Venice, Wednesday 6 |
The Foundation of ART NYC at Spazio 996/A:
Song E Yoon: Songs Across Time. Biennale Arte 2026 |
professionals preview |
Patricia Low Venezia:
Daniel Crews-Chubb: The Belt of Venus
in this exhibition, titled after an atmospheric phenomenon visible shortly before sunrise or after sunset, an “ethereal pinkish band” directly inspires six new, monumental paintings by Crews-Chubb |
first day |
| Venice, Thursday 7 |
The Foundation of ART NYC at Spazio 996/A:
Song E Yoon: Songs Across Time. Biennale Arte 2026 |
professionals preview |
| Venice, Saturday 9 |
The Foundation of ART NYC at Spazio 996/A:
Song E Yoon: Songs Across Time. Biennale Arte 2026
curated by Seohyun Kang, works by Song E Yoon and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré exploring humanity’s engagement with memory, recording, and the passage of time |
first day |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Istanbul, London, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tisbury, Zürich
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Sunday 10 |
Dirimart Dolapdere:
Ghada Amer: Aurora |
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London
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| London, Wednesday 6 |
BEERS London at Saatchi Gallery:
Andrew Moncrief & Sebastian Neeb: The Wink & Nudge |
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| London, Friday 8 |
Helly Nahmad Gallery at Nahmad Projects:
Petits Bijoux |
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| London, Saturday 9 |
Alma Pearl:
Jeanine Richards: Physical Chemistry |
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Emanuel von Baeyer:
Patterns of Harmony |
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Project LOOP:
Aliou Diack: Into the Foetus |
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Lisson Gallery:
Lisson Street: Sean Scully – The Nature of Art |
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Lisson Gallery:
Lisson Street: Leiko Ikemura – El Jardín Nocturno |
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Thomas Dane Gallery:
Luigi Ghirri: Felicità |
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Thomas Dane Gallery:
Luigi Ghirri: Felicità |
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NISO:
Mateo Revillo: Forms Have Attitude |
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| London, Tuesday 12 |
JD Malat Gallery:
The Body in the Room |
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Milan
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| Milan, Wednesday 6 |
A arte Invernizzi:
Fragilità. Visioni di una forza formativa |
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| Milan, Friday 8 |
Robilant+Voena, Milan:
Maria Kreyn: Continuum |
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Naples
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| Naples, Tuesday 5 |
Thomas Dane Gallery:
Atlante |
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New York
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| New York, Friday 8 |
Leila Heller Gallery:
Ran Hwang: Noble Blossoms |
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SANATORIUM at FIERMAN:
Çağla Köseoğulları:
Seeping Into the Horizon |
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| New York, Saturday 9 |
Gallery Henoch:
60 Years an Art Dealer |
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Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary:
Raquel Rabinovich: Gateless |
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Galerie Lelong:
Ficre Ghebreyesus: Color is Supreme |
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VeneKlasen:
Sigmar Polke: The Dream of Menelaus |
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Paris
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| Paris, Thursday 7 |
Galerie Lelong:
David Hockney: The Moon Room |
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Galerie Lelong Matignon:
Etel Adnan: Au coeur du silence |
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Galerie Lelong:
Juan Uslé: Notas |
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Templon:
Abdelkader Benchamma: Signs and Wonders |
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Templon:
Jitish Kallat: Point of Incidence |
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| Paris, Saturday 9 |
Loevenbruck:
1+1=3: an exhibition where art becomes dialogue |
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Loevenbruck:
Key Hiraga: Works 1966-1971 |
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Galerie Mitterrand St-Honoré:
Centro Fly Milano 1966: Ettore Sottsass & Andy Warhol |
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann:
Uwe Wittwer: La Cloche dans la Forêt (The Bell in the Grove) |
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Rome
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| Rome, Saturday 9 |
Galleria Continua Roma:
Giovanni Ozzola: Il cielo dentro |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Saturday 9 |
Esther Schipper, Seoul:
March Avery: Form into Color |
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Shanghai
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| Shanghai, Sunday 10 |
SHENME ART Project & Consultancy:
Tuapennot: I Don’t Understand Why I Have To Follow You |
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Taipei
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| Taipei, Sunday 10 |
Bluerider ART Taipei·DunHua:
Wolfgang Flad: Forma Futura |
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Tisbury
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| Tisbury, Sunday 10 |
Messums West:
Conversations in Paint |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Saturday 9 |
Lullin + Ferrari:
Valentina Pini: Décorps |
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