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The Week in Art visit the site
19-26 May 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Cologne, London, Melbourne, Milan, Naples, New York, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Petworth, Taipei, Vienna, Zürich |
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Cologne
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| Cologne, Tuesday 26 |
Sotheby’s Cologne:
Modern & Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Tue 26 May-Tue 2 Jun
(viewing: Tue 26 May-Tue 2 Jun) |
auction starts |
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London
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| London, Tuesday 19 |
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA):
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher + Q&A with Simon Poulter and Tariq Goddard |
special event |
| London, Wednesday 20 |
October Gallery:
Sokari Douglas Camp: Fashion & Fortune
large and smaller scale steel sculptures and prints as the internationally renowned artist explores clothing, commerce and emblems of wealth as reflected in fashion and dress |
private view |
Raven Row:
Nomenclature for the Time Being
curated by Imani Mason Jordan, thirteen artists in sculpture exhibition with performance, writing, photography and video – “these are practices that do not try to represent the world, but actively reconfigure it” |
opening reception |
| London, Thursday 21 |
Alma Pearl:
Unyimeabasi Udoh: No Vehicles
new wall-based sculptures and screenprints using aluminium, retroreflective glass, and cold wax to explore language, sign, and perception in urban infrastructure materials |
opening reception |
Emanuel von Baeyer:
Cas Campbell: Under the Coral Sea
Campbell explores evolutionary history, mythology, and queer culture through sculpture – metaphorising marine and terrestrial nature to reveal the flimsiness of social and political binary systems |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth:
Roni Horn. Seizure of Hope
alongside one of her renowned glass sculptures, never before exhibited works on paper from Horn’s new series exploring repetition and the written word as a medium |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth:
Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons
an expansive exhibition covering five decades of the work of one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century |
opening reception |
Project LOOP:
Jordan Zayas Kelly: Pluperfect
the interdisciplinary artist’s practice spans experimental video, sculpture, sound installation, and prose, exploring the intersections of identity, material history, and archival memory |
private view |
October Gallery:
Sokari Douglas Camp: Fashion & Fortune
large and smaller scale steel sculptures and prints as the internationally renowned artist explores clothing, commerce and emblems of wealth as reflected in fashion and dress |
first day |
Raven Row:
Nomenclature for the Time Being
curated by Imani Mason Jordan, thirteen artists in sculpture exhibition with performance, writing, photography and video – “these are practices that do not try to represent the world, but actively reconfigure it” |
first day |
NISO:
Guy Haddon Grant: Fata Morgana
Grant explores form as a structure of thought, and image as process and relation, referencing the optical mirage where images appear unstable and shifting |
private view |
| London, Saturday 23 |
Autograph:
Activating the Archive: A Workshop on Preserving Community History |
special event |
Serpentine South Gallery:
Saturday Talks: Kit Gurnos on Cecily Brown: Picture Making |
talk |
Twilight Contemporary:
William Braithwaite: Formed in Repetition
the Yorkshire-based sculptor’s debut solo exhibition explores the tension and connections between sculpture and architecture |
opening reception |
| London, Sunday 24 |
Lane Gallery:
Butter
works by Manon Steyaert, Gwenyth Fugard, and Vasylyna Vrublevska, three distinct artistic voices in an exploration of texture, materiality, and subtle transformation |
first day |
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Melbourne
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| Melbourne, Saturday 23 |
Tolarno Galleries:
Brent Harris: Writing poems to the moon
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opening reception |
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Milan
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| Milan, Thursday 21 |
A arte Invernizzi:
François Morellet | Gianni Colombo
curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the first exhibition in a national project to mark the centenary of Morellet’s birth explores the relationship between these two leading figures in the international art world |
opening reception |
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Naples
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| Naples, Friday 22 |
Thomas Dane Gallery:
Luisa Lambri Salvatore Emblema
new photographs by Lambri shown with a selection of paintings by Emblema in an exhibition which “brings together two practices that approach space and light from fundamentally different positions, without attempting to reconcile them” |
private view |
| Naples, Saturday 23 |
Thomas Dane Gallery:
Luisa Lambri Salvatore Emblema
new photographs by Lambri shown with a selection of paintings by Emblema in an exhibition which “brings together two practices that approach space and light from fundamentally different positions, without attempting to reconcile them” |
first day |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 19 |
Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Evening Auction
auction: Tue 19
(viewing: Sat 2-Mon 18) |
auction |
| New York, Wednesday 20 |
Eerdmans:
Neighborhood Gallery Walk |
special event |
HOSTLER | BURROWS:
Neighborhood Gallery Walk |
special event |
Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Day Auction
auction: Wed 20
(viewing: Sat 2-Mon 18) |
auction |
| New York, Thursday 21 |
The Gallery at Soho Grand:
Edie Baskin: Live From My Studio
a rare and immersive presentation of more than forty of Baskin’s hand-tinted photographs in the first comprehensive exhibition of work by one of the greatest pop culture witnesses of our time |
first day |
| New York, Saturday 23 |
Halsey McKay Gallery:
Michael Delucia
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first day |
| New York, Tuesday 26 |
The Painting Center:
Nichole Gronvold Roller: Days Folded
recent paintings that respond to the discord between the beauty and tedium of daily routines – shifting light, patterned wallpaper, how textiles soften a room’s hard edges |
first day |
The Painting Center:
Julian Pozzi: Hole in Mouth
fifteen paintings exploring structural abstraction through drawing and mark-making, depicting spaces where architectural and organic forms overlap, revealing fragility or the moments after disaster in a delicate equilibrium |
first day |
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Palma de Mallorca
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| Palma de Mallorca, Monday 25 |
Baró Galeria:
Erwin Olaf: Against Time
part of the inaugural Mallorca PhotoFest, an exhibition focused on Olaf’s still lifes – “a meditation on time and its resistance” |
first day |
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Paris
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| Paris, Thursday 21 |
Galerie Lelong Matignon:
Paula Rego: Drawing from Life
an exhibition focussing on an intense three-year period Rego spent in her London studio, devoting herself almost exclusively to drawing and lithography |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong:
Kiki Smith: Flight
bronze sculptures, two large stained-glass windows, drawings, and an imposing print centred around birds and their symbolic meanings – as Smith “projects the feelings that drive her – fears, desires or dreams – onto these animal figures” |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong:
Eduardo Chillida: Selected prints
Chillida’s work on paper was an important part of his creative process, and this exhibition focusses on rare etchings from the 1960s and 70s |
opening reception |
Loevenbruck:
Alina Szapocznikow: Autobiography in Fragments. A Centenary Retrospective
across both gallery spaces, and on the centenary of her birth, the gallery celebrates Szapocznikow’s work with a chronological journey through her creations from 1946 to 1972 |
opening reception |
Loevenbruck:
Alina Szapocznikow: Autobiography in Fragments. A Centenary Retrospective
across both gallery spaces, and on the centenary of her birth, the gallery celebrates Szapocznikow’s work with a chronological journey through her creations from 1946 to 1972 |
opening reception |
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m.:
Mattia Moreni: Un autre regarder
an exhibition examining one among the most unconventional artists of the post-war period and his “disquieting and prophetic pictorial vision … grasping the tensions between humanity and technology long before their full contemporary manifestation” |
first day |
Templon:
Alioune Diagne: Saytu
new paintings – “vivid, figurative scenes of striking intensity” – drawn from two years of research into ancestral customs and rituals across Diagne’s homeland of Senegal |
opening reception |
Templon:
Jan Van Imschoot: Le Chant du Pommier
nineteen works by the Belgian painter exploring mythologized French women including Joan of Arc and Bardot to examine how the authority of the gaze shapes their iconic images and collective memory |
opening reception |
| Paris, Friday 22 |
Loevenbruck:
Alina Szapocznikow: Autobiography in Fragments. A Centenary Retrospective
across both gallery spaces, and on the centenary of her birth, the gallery celebrates Szapocznikow’s work with a chronological journey through her creations from 1946 to 1972 |
first day |
Loevenbruck:
Alina Szapocznikow: Autobiography in Fragments. A Centenary Retrospective
across both gallery spaces, and on the centenary of her birth, the gallery celebrates Szapocznikow’s work with a chronological journey through her creations from 1946 to 1972 |
first day |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann:
Ishita Chakraborty: East Is Everywhere
Chakraborty’s first solo show in France “places the landscape, understood as territory, memory, and political space, at the center [and] reveals these entangled histories of capital, extraction, and control embedded within both landscapes and bodies” |
opening reception |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann:
Ishita Chakraborty in conversation with Françoise Vergès, moderated by Peter Kilchmann |
talk |
| Paris, Saturday 23 |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann:
Ishita Chakraborty: East Is Everywhere
Chakraborty’s first solo show in France “places the landscape, understood as territory, memory, and political space, at the center [and] reveals these entangled histories of capital, extraction, and control embedded within both landscapes and bodies” |
first day |
Semiose:
Szabolcs Bozó: Antidote
“Bozó’s images might appear to resemble storyboard frames from Hanna-Barbera or Disney cartoons, they in fact have more in common with Cy Twombly’s scribbles and gestures, Jackson Pollock’s splatter paintings or William de Kooning” – Saša Bogojev |
opening reception |
Semiose:
Glen Baxter: The Response from the Parisian Art Critics is Swift and Decisive
the first exhibition of Baxter at the gallery stands as a tribute to the artist, who sadly passed away in March of this year |
opening reception |
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Petworth
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| Petworth, Saturday 23 |
Petworth House and Park:
Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain by Felicity Aylieff
on show for the first time at Petworth – and extending thoughout the house and grounds – towering sculptures by the renowned ceramicist |
first day |
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Taipei
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| Taipei, Saturday 23 |
Bluerider ART Taipei·DunHua:
Josep Riera i Aragó: The Voyage of Life – Half-Century Journey into the Unknown
one of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, Aragó “explores voyages between sky and sea, employing mechanical elements such as propellers, submarines, and airplanes to construct a poetic narrative of time, space, and life” |
opening reception |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Thursday 21 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Karl Karner: Wasserspiele
Karner’s new body of work explores water as life, resource, symbol, danger, and endangered ecosystem through participatory sculptures inspired by animal and plant forms |
opening reception |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On: Crystin Moritz & Karl Karner
Moritz is a Vienna-based visual artist working across photography, video, and artificial intelligence whose work addresses underlying fears, and destabilizes fixed ideas of identity and gender |
opening reception |
| Vienna, Friday 22 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Karl Karner: Wasserspiele
Karner’s new body of work explores water as life, resource, symbol, danger, and endangered ecosystem through participatory sculptures inspired by animal and plant forms |
first day |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On: Crystin Moritz & Karl Karner
Moritz is a Vienna-based visual artist working across photography, video, and artificial intelligence whose work addresses underlying fears, and destabilizes fixed ideas of identity and gender |
first day |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Tuesday 19 |
Lullin + Ferrari:
Anna Krammig: FLÜSTERN |
book launch |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Basel, Cape Town, Cologne, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Reykjavík, Shanghai, Zürich
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Basel
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| Basel, Saturday 23 |
Hauser & Wirth:
Niklaus Stoecklin |
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Cape Town
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| Cape Town, Friday 22 |
RESERVOIR:
Pierre Vermeulen: Deeper – Deeper |
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Cologne
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| Cologne, Friday 22 |
Zander Galerie:
Christiane Baumgartner: The Long Goodbye |
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Zander Galerie:
Mitch Epstein: American Arbor |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Sunday 24 |
Dirimart Dolapdere:
Ghada Amer: Aurora |
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London
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| London, Friday 22 |
Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Julian Opie |
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David Zwirner:
Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Ryman, Sandback |
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Larkin Durey:
Habib Hajallie: Black & Blue |
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Richard Nagy:
Josef Karl Rädler. The Laughing Philosopher |
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| London, Saturday 23 |
Albion Jeune:
Anthony Caro & James Capper: Heavy Metal |
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BEERS London:
Alice Herbst: The Whispering Game |
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Goodman Gallery:
Carrie Mae Weems |
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Hanina Fine Arts:
Post-War Perspectives |
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Maureen Paley:
Michaela Eichwald: MÄR |
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Maureen Paley Studio M:
Michaela Eichwald: MÄR |
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Messums London:
Nicola Hicks: Love |
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NıCOLETTı:
Boris Camaca: Locomotion (The Unfinished Path) II |
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Pace, London:
Loie Hollowell: Overview Effect |
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Perrotin London:
Sigrid Sandström: Squall |
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Pilar Corrias, Conduit Street:
Alexis Ralaivao: Flirter avec l’abstrait |
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Pilar Corrias, Conduit Street:
Alyina Zaidi: Rewilding |
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Pipeline:
Headcanon |
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Thaddaeus Ropac:
Not Vital: Listening + Looking |
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Thaddaeus Ropac:
Liza Lou: FAQ |
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Victoria Miro:
Paula Rego: Story Line |
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| London, Sunday 24 |
Ab-Anbar:
Shaan Syed: The Judge’s Quarters |
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Bluerider ART London:
Ink Flux – 7 Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Ink |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 23 |
Roberts Projects:
Instant Theatre: Rachel Rosenthal and King Moody |
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Milan
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| Milan, Friday 22 |
Robilant+Voena, Milan:
Maria Kreyn: Continuum |
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New York
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| New York, Tuesday 19 |
Sean Kelly Gallery:
Sean Kelly Gallery at TEFAF New York 2026 |
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| New York, Friday 22 |
Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Sheida Soleimani: Forest of Stars |
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Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Yamamoto Masao: Ten Owls |
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| New York, Saturday 23 |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli |
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The Painting Center:
Mary Crenshaw: Inhale |
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The Painting Center:
Perri Neri: Caught Looking |
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Palma de Mallorca
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| Palma de Mallorca, Monday 25 |
Baró Galeria:
Tirar del Hilo |
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Baró Galeria:
Tales From the Garden |
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Paris
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| Paris, Thursday 21 |
Almine Rech, Turenne:
Larry Poons: Kentucky Cols. |
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| Paris, Friday 22 |
Zander Galerie:
William Eggleston: Six Prints, One Scale |
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| Paris, Saturday 23 |
Almine Rech, Matignon:
Forming the Monochrome: Masters of Dansaekhwa |
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Bigaignon:
Diogo Pimentão: Presence |
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Galerie Maria Wettergren:
Lotte Westphael: Where Colours Dissolve Into Weightless Nothingness |
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Reykjavík
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| Reykjavík, Saturday 23 |
BERG Contemporary:
Þórdís Erla Zoëga: Domestic Sci-fi |
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Shanghai
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| Shanghai, Saturday 23 |
Perrotin Shanghai:
Fanseng Wang: New World |
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Zürich
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| Zürich, Saturday 23 |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse:
Amol K Patil: The Shadow of Lustre |
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