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The Week in Art visit the site
7-14 Apr 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Cape Town, Cologne, Dallas, Hong Kong, Hove, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Monaco, New York, Paris, Reykjavík, Seoul, Vienna, Zug, Zürich |
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Cape Town
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| Cape Town, Thursday 9 |
RESERVOIR:
Pierre Vermeulen: Deeper – Deeper
“working with imitation gold leaf on Belgian linen, [Vermeulen] uses sweat as an oxidising force, producing corrosive imprints that register physical presence over time” |
opening reception |
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Cologne
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| Cologne, Friday 10 |
Galerie Buchholz:
Elie Nadelman Peter Fischli David Weiss
an exhibition of Nadelman’s experimentations with serially produced sculptures of inexpensive materials shown alongside three sculptures by Fischli and Weiss exploring both figuration and everyday objects |
opening reception |
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Dallas
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| Dallas, Saturday 11 |
Colector:
Germán Venegas: Everything Is Becoming
“the exhibition title reflects the logic of the work itself. Each canvas unfolds as a process rather than a fixed image, in which accumulation, erasure, and reconstruction allow the painting to emerge over time” |
opening reception |
| Dallas, Monday 13 |
Colector:
Germán Venegas: Everything Is Becoming
“the exhibition title reflects the logic of the work itself. Each canvas unfolds as a process rather than a fixed image, in which accumulation, erasure, and reconstruction allow the painting to emerge over time” |
first day |
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Hong Kong
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| Hong Kong, Thursday 9 |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Treasures of Brush and Ink: A Selection of Classical Chinese Paintings from Eisei Bunko Museum
auction: Thu 9
(viewing: Sat 4-Wed 8) |
auction |
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Hove
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| Hove, Saturday 11 |
Maureen Paley Morena di Luna:
Jack O’Brien: Leisure
O’Brien reconfigures everyday objects through processes of twisting, binding, stretching, and puncturing … to probe how desire is constructed, how economies of consumption are sedimented, and how queer aesthetics operate |
opening reception |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Wednesday 8 |
SANATORIUM:
Agnes Waruguru: It Sounds Like Rain is Coming
works on fabric and paper and a site-specific sound installation exploring the rhythms of rain, memory, and the emotional landscapes of lived experiences in Waruguru’s first solo exhibition in Turkey |
opening reception |
| Istanbul, Thursday 9 |
Dirimart Dolapdere:
Ghada Amer: Aurora
recent bronze sculptures, iconic embroidered paintings, new canvases highlighting appliqué techniques, and paintings on wood in a survey of Amer’s recent practice examining gender politics, desire, representation, and the visibility of the female subject |
opening reception |
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London
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| London, Wednesday 8 |
FreddieFoulkes Gallery:
Annie Shead: 9,983 Rows
“charged with discourse on craft, gender, and class, Shead’s Machine Paintings transform what is otherwise private and domestic into the public” |
private view |
| London, Thursday 9 |
Ab-Anbar:
Shaan Syed: The Judge’s Quarters
new and existing works centred on a monumental body of paintings shown for the first in its entirety in Syed’s first solo exhibition at the gallery |
opening reception |
Bartha_contemporary:
Lucinda Burgess: Morphosis
this new exhibition by the British artist presents works centring on processes of material change, erosion, and preservation developed during a recent residency at the Albers Foundation on the Atlantic coast of Ireland |
first day |
Camden Art Centre:
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms
“explore the expansive resonances of a body of work, produced through a life-long commitment to experimentation” in London’s first comprehensive survey of the Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor |
private view |
Camden Art Centre:
Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project
in an immersive environment, the London-based composer, artist, and DJ presents her ongoing trilogy of films, rooted in her biography and relationship to Jamaica |
private view |
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Deptford:
Abraham Kritzman: Palms and Smoke
curated by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, an exhibition of new painting, sculpture, and ceramics – “in a moment of synthesis, Palms and Smoke presents a culmination of Kritzman’s artistic evolution” |
private view |
SQFT:Space Gallery:
Develop The Occurrence
curated by Isaac Ji, this exhibition re-imagines the gallery space as a “darkroom of perception” |
private view |
Sim Smith:
Dido Hallett: Rumble
Hallett’s first exhibition at the gallery presents a compelling new body of paintings that examine the search for stability under the weight of existence |
opening reception |
Sim Smith:
Sung Jik Yang: Still Here
in the Korean-born, Los Angeles–based painter’s first exhibition at the gallery, “portraits and still lives, positioning both as intimate and emotionally resonant records of lived experience among those closest to the artist” |
opening reception |
Sprüth Magers:
Thomas Scheibitz: Bright Shadows
“Scheibtz draws equally from everyday life and from art history, distilling both into dense, vividly coloured paintings and elusive sculptures: repositories of accumulated imagery, layered and compressed” |
opening reception |
| London, Friday 10 |
Camden Art Centre:
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms
“explore the expansive resonances of a body of work, produced through a life-long commitment to experimentation” in London’s first comprehensive survey of the Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor |
first day |
Camden Art Centre:
Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project
in an immersive environment, the London-based composer, artist, and DJ presents her ongoing trilogy of films, rooted in her biography and relationship to Jamaica |
first day |
Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Deptford:
Abraham Kritzman: Palms and Smoke
curated by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, an exhibition of new painting, sculpture, and ceramics – “in a moment of synthesis, Palms and Smoke presents a culmination of Kritzman’s artistic evolution” |
first day |
No.9 Cork Street:
Bolanle Contemporary: Osman Yousefzada: A Home That Will Not Behave
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first day |
No.9 Cork Street:
Nature Morte: Martand Khosla and Saad Qureshi: To Build and Remember
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first day |
SQFT:Space Gallery:
Develop The Occurrence
curated by Isaac Ji, this exhibition re-imagines the gallery space as a “darkroom of perception” |
first day |
Sprüth Magers:
Thomas Scheibitz: Bright Shadows
“Scheibtz draws equally from everyday life and from art history, distilling both into dense, vividly coloured paintings and elusive sculptures: repositories of accumulated imagery, layered and compressed” |
first day |
Thaddaeus Ropac:
Not Vital: Listening + Looking
sculptures from 2009 to the present and his latest painted self-portraits in an exhibition spanning almost twenty years of the Swiss artist’s work, “exemplifying Vital’s multidisciplinary approach and his alternative strategies of representation” |
opening reception |
Thaddaeus Ropac:
Liza Lou: FAQ
“Lou’s new works radiate a palpable sense of joy and freedom as she allows her medium to emote on its own terms … through processes of accumulation and care, Lou demonstrates how a material – as small, solid, inert as a glass bead – can amplify painting” |
opening reception |
| London, Saturday 11 |
GRIMM:
Michael Raedecker: placebo drive |
tour |
South London Gallery:
New Contemporaries Live |
special event |
Vardaxoglou Gallery:
Thérèse Oulton: Holding Patterns
a solo exhibition of paintings – her first in over ten years – by the first woman to be nominated for the Turner Prize |
private view |
| London, Monday 13 |
Sotheby’s London:
Modern & Contemporary Middle East
auction: Mon 13-Thu 30
(viewing: Fri 24-Tue 28) |
auction starts |
Waddington Custot:
Jean Dubuffet: The Last 10 Years
significant artistic achievements and pivotal paintings from the radical final chapter of Dubuffet’s career in a celebration of the gallery’s over 50 year relationship with the artist, since hosting his first British solo exhibition in 1972 |
first day |
| London, Tuesday 14 |
Goodman Gallery:
Carrie Mae Weems
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first day |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Tuesday 14 |
Lisson Gallery:
Liu Xiaodong: Host
the renowned figurative artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles presents his documentation of a stay in Detroit, with a single focus on John Mcintyre, a Detroit-based tattoo artist and member of a local medieval fighting team |
opening reception |
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Monaco
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| Monaco, Thursday 9 |
Hauser & Wirth Monaco:
Mise-en-scène
in an immersive audio-visual environment, design objects by Pierre Paulin shown alongside, exceptional works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Arp, Lucio Fontana, and Andy Warhol, Rashid Johnson, Henry Taylor, and Paul McCarthy |
first day |
| Monaco, Tuesday 14 |
Almine Rech:
Genieve Figgis: Drama Club
“in Figgis’ world, contradictions abound. Beneath the glamorous lies the ghastly, beneath self-serious artifice, irony. Her paintings are intentionally and delightfully off-kilter” – Louisa Mahoney |
first day |
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New York
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| New York, Wednesday 8 |
Anita Shapolsky Gallery:
Abstract Legacy
works by artists including Thomas Beckman, Seymour Boardman, Ernest Briggs, Perez Celis, Herman Cherry, Nassos Daphnis, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Mark Gibian, Stanley Hayter, John Hultberg, Michiko Itatani, Buffie Johnson, Ibram Lassaw, Michael Loew, … |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York:
Prints Part II
auction: Wed 8-Wed 15
(viewing: Wed 1-Mon 13) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York:
Photographs Part II
auction: Wed 8-Thu 16
(viewing: Wed 1-Mon 13) |
auction starts |
| New York, Friday 10 |
Luhring Augustine Tribeca:
Emily Kraus
new large-scale abstract works which engage with the history of abstract expressionism and color-field painting, in the London-based artist’s first solo show with the gallery and in New York |
opening reception |
| New York, Saturday 11 |
Luhring Augustine Tribeca:
Emily Kraus
new large-scale abstract works which engage with the history of abstract expressionism and color-field painting, in the London-based artist’s first solo show with the gallery and in New York |
first day |
| New York, Tuesday 14 |
Sotheby’s New York:
Prints & Photographs Part I
auction: Tue 14
(viewing: Wed 1-Mon 13) |
auction |
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Paris
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| Paris, Tuesday 7 |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Dialogues
encounters between artists whose practices expand the boundaries between functional art and collectible design |
first day |
| Paris, Wednesday 8 |
Perrotin Matignon 8:
Bernard Frize: Les 26
“Frize’s paintings are also sensory, sensual, organic bodies, conveying the pleasure of painting, of watching paint open its chromatic corollas at the intersection of brushstrokes and the unruly flow of matter” – Jean-Charles Vergne |
first day |
| Paris, Thursday 9 |
Esther Schipper, Paris:
Sojourner Truth Parsons: Sooner or later you will call my name
titled after a poem by Louise Glück, the debut of new paintings in Parson’s first solo exhibition in Paris – “with great economy of means, her works capture a glance … they are painted reveries of instances of sadness, joy, and beauty” |
first day |
Galerie Mitterrand Temple:
Katja Schenker: French Vermilion
Schenker works across performance, drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore the relationship between body, matter, and space |
opening reception |
| Paris, Friday 10 |
Galerie Mitterrand Temple:
Katja Schenker: French Vermilion
Schenker works across performance, drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore the relationship between body, matter, and space |
first day |
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Reykjavík
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| Reykjavík, Saturday 11 |
BERG Contemporary:
Þórdís Erla Zoëga: Domestic Sci-fi
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opening reception |
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Seoul
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| Seoul, Wednesday 8 |
LKIF Gallery:
Gema Quiles: The Dancers Inherit the Night
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opening reception |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Thursday 9 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Théo Viardin: Orphaned
“a series of eleven paintings created over the last two years, in which [Viardin] reflects, as a painter, on the future of the religious figurative tradition in an increasingly aporetic world” |
opening reception |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On: So Young Park
the Vienna-based Korean artist works at the intersection of performative installation and live performance, exploring “the in-between state of living and dying, deconstructing the binary of life and death” |
opening reception |
| Vienna, Friday 10 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Théo Viardin: Orphaned
“a series of eleven paintings created over the last two years, in which [Viardin] reflects, as a painter, on the future of the religious figurative tradition in an increasingly aporetic world” |
first day |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On: So Young Park
the Vienna-based Korean artist works at the intersection of performative installation and live performance, exploring “the in-between state of living and dying, deconstructing the binary of life and death” |
first day |
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Zug
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| Zug, Thursday 9 |
Helvetika 1575:
Magical Transitions
works by artists including Marina Abramović, Nada Baraka, Michèle Buhofer, Tony Cragg, Donna Huanca, Harminder Judge, Marya Kazoun, Kathryn MacNaughton, Borja Martín-Moreno, Erin Vincent, and Erwin Wurm |
opening reception |
| Zug, Friday 10 |
Helvetika 1575:
Magical Transitions
works by artists including Marina Abramović, Nada Baraka, Michèle Buhofer, Tony Cragg, Donna Huanca, Harminder Judge, Marya Kazoun, Kathryn MacNaughton, Borja Martín-Moreno, Erin Vincent, and Erwin Wurm |
first day |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Thursday 9 |
Lullin + Ferrari:
Artist Talk with Valentina Pini |
talk |
| Zürich, Friday 10 |
Mai 36 Galerie:
Raphael Hefti
“Hefti’s experimental approach to sculpture is fueled by a fascination with industrial and post-industrial processes, which he reclaims, subverts, and transforms with an almost alchemical precision” |
opening reception |
| Zürich, Saturday 11 |
Mai 36 Galerie:
Raphael Hefti
“Hefti’s experimental approach to sculpture is fueled by a fascination with industrial and post-industrial processes, which he reclaims, subverts, and transforms with an almost alchemical precision” |
first day |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Berlin, Bruton, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Salisbury, Siena, Vienna
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Berlin
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| Berlin, Saturday 11 |
Capitain Petzel:
Georg Herold f. |
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Bruton
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| Bruton, Sunday 12 |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Don McCullin. 90 |
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London
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| London, Thursday 9 |
Albion Jeune:
Esben Weile Kjær: FOOL |
Virtual Visit! ▻ |
| London, Friday 10 |
The Mayor Gallery:
Celebrating 100 Years – Part 3: Asia and Central Europe |
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Mazzoleni:
Old Bond Room: Works from the Gallery Collection |
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| London, Saturday 11 |
Alison Jacques:
Gordon Parks: We Shall Not Be Moved. Curated by Bryan Stevenson |
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BEERS London:
Andreas Welin: We Meet, And Meet, And Meet |
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Dirimart London:
Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt: If you wanna go outside, get inside |
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Lisson Gallery:
Rodney Graham: Who does not love a tree? |
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October Gallery:
Kenji Yoshida: The Meaning of Life |
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The Sunday Painter:
Jennifer J. Lee: Yards |
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Timothy Taylor:
Alex Katz: Various Trees |
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| London, Sunday 12 |
South London Gallery:
New Contemporaries |
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South London Gallery Fire Station:
New Contemporaries |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 11 |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Joshua Nazario Lugo: Allá Afuera (Out There) |
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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Edra Soto: los ojos del viento (the eyes of the wind) |
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New York
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| New York, Saturday 11 |
Edwynn Houk Gallery:
North Light |
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Hauser & Wirth 18th Street:
Glenn Ligon. Late at night, early in the morning, at noon |
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Hauser & Wirth Wooster Street:
Studio Visit |
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Gallery Henoch:
Alan Feltus: Selected Works |
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
William T. Williams: Word of Eye |
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery:
Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing |
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Opera Gallery:
The Quiet Continuum: Contemporary Asian Artists |
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Perrotin New York:
Daniel Arsham: Various Thoughts |
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Perrotin New York:
Gabriel de la Mora: Repeated Original |
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Perrotin New York:
Gelitin: All for All |
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Sean Kelly Gallery:
Ana González: RÍO |
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Sean Kelly Gallery:
Kristy Chan: Short Letter, Long Farewell |
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Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Kevin Umaña: Sanguine and Spiraling |
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Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Pello Irazu: Matter |
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Paris
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| Paris, Saturday 11 |
Bigaignon:
Yannig Hedel, Geneviève Asse: Fragments of Infinity |
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Salisbury
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| Salisbury, Sunday 12 |
New Art Centre:
Justine Randall: Tapestries |
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Siena
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| Siena, Sunday 12 |
Galleria Continua San Gimignano:
Yoan Capote: Ruido Blanco |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Friday 10 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Sofia Mitsola: Psyche of Fae O |
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