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The Week in Art visit the site
20-27 Oct 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Milton Keynes, New York, Paris, Sydney
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Frankfurt
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| Frankfurt, Saturday 24 |
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin:
Alicia Viebrock: Melancoholics
| first day |
London |
| London, Thursday 22 |
Sotheby’s London:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Thu 22-Thu 29
(viewing: Fri 23-Thu 29) | auction starts |
| London, Tuesday 27 |
General Assembly:
Raymond Pettibon, Atticus Wakefield, Susan Kellaway
| first day |
Los Angeles |
| Los Angeles, Thursday 22 |
Carpenters:
Afterglow
“inspired by the power of light and heat in producing remarkable objects of contemporary craftsmanship - from the flames of a potter’s kiln and the illumination that vitalizes functional artworks to the intense temperatures that mold glass and metal” | first day |
Milton Keynes
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| Milton Keynes, Saturday 24 |
MK Gallery:
L.S. Lowry The Theatre of Life
marking the fiftieth anniversary of the British painter’s death, an overview exhibition of his many themes and subjects, from landscapes and seascapes to portraits and surreal imaginings | first day |
New York |
| New York, Wednesday 21 |
Findlay Galleries:
Ronnie Landfield: Monumental Works
a focused exhibition of large-scale paintings by the leading figure of Lyrical Abstraction - “expansive fields of stained color, shifting horizons, and atmospheric depth reveal the immersive power of Landfield’s work at monumental scale” | first day |
| New York, Thursday 22 |
LATITUDE Gallery:
Grace Chang and Amos Kang: Scenic Route
a duo exhibition with new painting, sculpture, and installation by the Brooklyn-based artists, exploring the theatrical nature of storytelling, the instability of representation, and the evolving relationships between humanity, nature, and identity | opening reception |
LATITUDE Gallery:
Me & My Plurals: Yosub Koh and Angela Fang Zirbes
paintings by the two artists, whose works challenge the conventional approaches to figures and identity which tend to be singular and teleological, and suggest that everyone is “Me & My Plurals” | opening reception |
Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Karen Gunderson: Dark Waves Rising
new paintings, in Gunderson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, continuing her exploration of the haptic with works that shift and respond to their surroundings through richly worked surfaces and a deeply hued palette | opening reception |
Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Sharon Core: Flowering
new and recent photographs by Core that examine the expressive qualities of plants and perennials, both as types and as singular forms, documenting varieties she has cultivated in her garden at different stages in their life-cycle | opening reception |
| New York, Saturday 24 |
D LAN GALLERIES:
Rerrkirrwaŋa Munuŋgurr: The Ancestral Hearth
the first international solo exhibition of this Yolŋu artist, “whose remarkable practice brings together artistic mastery, Country, family and cultural continuity” - Lucy Foster | first day |
D LAN GALLERIES:
Rerrkirrwaŋa Munuŋgurr: The Ancestral Hearth | special event |
Halsey McKay Gallery:
Timothy Bergstrom: Chiroforms
titled after the centaur who gave up immortality - “silver, gold, and pearl filaments radiate from dense nodes and branch across the surface like star charts, maps, or neural networks, patterns of connection found in the sky, the city, and the brain” | opening reception |
Halsey McKay Gallery:
Charles Manion: Hum of Water
presented with TURN Gallery, an exhibition of new work “Manion’s canvased sculptures are solely constructed vessels that summon a calmness of observation and travel across emotional and physical realms | opening reception |
Paris |
| Paris, Tuesday 20 |
Carpenters:
MASTER PIECES. Eleven Modern Japanese Ceramicists
spanning a hundred years of work, a rare opportunity to see exceptional pieces - many rarely shown outside Japan - by some of the most important figures in twentieth and twenty-first centuries Japanese ceramics | first day |
Carpenters:
Rick Owens: Five Easy Pieces
curated by Michèle Lamy an exhibition of new editions of iconic functional artworks placed in conversation with pieces from Owens and Lamy’s own contemporary art collection | first day |
Emma Donnersberg:
À fleur de peau
works by Rafaela de Ascanio, Mónica Figueroa, Marco Kalach, Romana Londi, Hala Matta, Tori Pounds, Kitty Rice, and Isabella Vella approach the figure as something continually transformed by emotion, memory, mythology and the natural world | first day |
Esther Schipper, Paris:
Philippe Parreno
“the gallery takes on the appearance of … an apartment-like setting where architecture, objects, and natural light become part of a choreography unfolding over time” | first day |
LBF Contemporary:
Pour aujourd’hui et pour l’avenir: Caroline Absher, Pierre Bonnard, Annice Fell
an intimate work on paper by Bonnard shown with new paintings by Absher and Fell, made in direct response to his work - the three share a belief in colour as a carrier of feeling and memory | first day |
Galerie Lelong Matignon:
Exhibition walkthrough and Art Talk with Magnus Plessen | special event |
| Paris, Wednesday 21 |
Phillips:
Vente Art Moderne & Contemporain et Design
auction: Wed 21
(viewing: Sat 17-Wed 21) | auction |
| Paris, Thursday 22 |
Christie’s:
Durand-Ruel, Generations of Vision
auction: Thu 22
(viewing: Fri 16-Thu 22) | auction |
Christie’s:
20th/21st Century: Paris Evening Sale including Thinking Italian
auction: Thu 22
(viewing: Fri 16-Thu 22) | auction |
Loevenbruck:
Jakob Lena Knebl: Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
“Knebl’s work explores how art and design are shaped by spatial, social, and political conditions, both historically and in the present. Her installations offer a sensual invitation: they awaken desire and create spaces in which it can take shape” | opening reception |
Loevenbruck:
Ashley Hans Scheirl: Petrol M*other Paris
“Scheirl astonishes us with an even greater variety of materials and techniques: pencil, pastel, crayons, oil stick, ballpointpen, charcoal, watercolour, acrylic on collage of printed paper” | opening reception |
Sotheby’s Paris:
La Collection Schlumberger. Le Temps retrouvé
auction: Thu 22
(viewing: Fri 16-Thu 22) | auction |
| Paris, Friday 23 |
Christie’s:
Art Moderne - Vente du Jour, including Works from the Durand-Ruel Collection and Works from the Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection
auction: Fri 23
(viewing: Fri 16-Thu 22) | auction |
Christie’s:
Art Contemporain - Vente du Jour
auction: Fri 23
(viewing: Fri 16-Fri 23) | auction |
Loevenbruck:
Jakob Lena Knebl: Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
“Knebl’s work explores how art and design are shaped by spatial, social, and political conditions, both historically and in the present. Her installations offer a sensual invitation: they awaken desire and create spaces in which it can take shape” | first day |
Loevenbruck:
Ashley Hans Scheirl: Petrol M*other Paris
“Scheirl astonishes us with an even greater variety of materials and techniques: pencil, pastel, crayons, oil stick, ballpointpen, charcoal, watercolour, acrylic on collage of printed paper” | first day |
Sotheby’s Paris:
Surrealism and Its Legacy
auction: Fri 23
(viewing: Fri 16-Thu 22) | auction |
Sotheby’s Paris:
Modernités
auction: Fri 23
(viewing: Fri 16-Fri 23) | auction |
Sydney
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| Sydney, Thursday 22 |
Sullivan+Strumpf:
Michael Lindeman: I Could Be Wrong
“an open-ended, ambivalent affair. Lindeman’s textual works murmur with nuance - a Barthesian drift across witty musings, and stream of consciousness confessions” | opening reception |
Sullivan+Strumpf:
Sydney Ball: As Much As You Can
curated by Michael Lindeman, a presentation of many of Ball’s iconic series, celebrating his innovation and major contribution to Australian abstraction, as well as the resilience and restless pursuit of discovery that sustained his practice | opening reception |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Berlin, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Mahón, New York, Paris, Reykjavík, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Vienna, Zürich
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Berlin |
| Berlin, Saturday 24 |
Esther Schipper:
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Fire Sermon | |
Esther Schipper:
David Claerbout: Repose | |
Frankfurt
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| Frankfurt, Saturday 24 |
FILIALE:
Hauck Plümpe: Organisation von Pause | |
Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Sunday 25 |
Dirimart Pera:
Ebru Duruman: Silent Presence | |
London |
| London, Thursday 22 |
LBF Contemporary:
Lawrence Perry: Careless Rapture | |
| London, Saturday 24 |
Alma Pearl:
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Desert of Promise | |
Alma Pearl:
Jessica Sarah Rinland: Mutual Interruption | |
Holtermann Fine Art:
Ahmed Umar: Glowing Phalanges | |
NISO:
Sawako Nasu: Curved Horizon | |
No.9 Cork Street:
P·P·O·W: Robin F. Williams: Act Natural | |
No.9 Cork Street:
The Third Line: Jordan Nassar: No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال | |
Palmer Gallery:
Mac Collins: Between the Rafters | |
Palmer Gallery:
The Door: Philip Ewe: Inheritance | |
The Redfern Gallery:
Desmond Morris (1928-2026) | Virtual Visit! ▻ |
Sprüth Magers:
Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful | |
Timothy Taylor:
Hayal Pozanti: A Dream That Rhymed With Mine | |
| London, Sunday 25 |
Carpenters:
DRIFT: Aeolus | |
Felix & Spear:
One Love: Paintings and Sculptures by Errol Lloyd | |
Serpentine South Gallery:
Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier: a serpentine | |
Serpentine South Gallery:
Jesús Rafael Soto: Pénétrable BBL Jaune | |
Los Angeles |
| Los Angeles, Saturday 24 |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Phung Huynh: Bite The Hand That Feeds You | |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
June Edmonds: Inheritance | |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Sherin Guirguis: Into the Lake of Fire // ⲉ̀ϧⲟⲩⲛ ⲉ̀ϯⲗⲩⲙⲛⲏ ⲛ̀ⲭ̀ⲣⲱⲙ | |
Roberts Projects:
Mia Middleton: Summoning Cleo | |
Roberts Projects:
Objective Truths | |
Mahón
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| Mahón, Sunday 25 |
Hauser & Wirth Menorca:
Directionless | |
New York |
| New York, Wednesday 21 |
Almine Rech:
Zio Ziegler: The Tesseract | |
| New York, Thursday 22 |
Leila Heller Gallery:
Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell: The Wild Within | |
| New York, Friday 23 |
galerie gmurzynska:
Jiří Kolář: Revolutionizing Collage | |
| New York, Saturday 24 |
ACA Galleries:
Taking up Space: New Works by Kandy G Lopez | |
Berry Campbell:
Perle Fine: Ninth Street Woman | |
Berry Campbell:
In Focus: Susan Vecsey | |
CARVALHO:
Alicja Biała + Diana Orving: Aether’s Long Roots | |
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street:
Lee Bul. The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun | |
Galerie Lelong:
Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America, 1987 | |
Lincoln Glenn:
Sherron Francis: Beyond the Stain | |
Lisson Gallery:
Leonilson | |
Lisson Gallery:
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat | |
Luhring Augustine Chelsea:
settle for a good fantasy | |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Wangari Mathenge: Re-membering | |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper | |
NORR COHAN:
Savdie / Soutine | |
NORR COHAN:
Vicky Colombet: Memory of the Surface | |
Nagas:
Surrealism (on paper) | |
Nara Roesler:
Tomie Ohtake: The Ultimate Works | |
Nicola Vassell Gallery:
Na Kim: Blue | |
Pace:
Arlene Shechet: She Said She Said | |
Pace:
Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING | |
Pace:
Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue | |
The Painting Center:
Kathleen Beausoleil: Meet at the Ferris Wheel | |
The Painting Center:
Ellen Starr Lyon: Nesting Rituals | |
Tina Kim Gallery:
Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision | |
Paris |
| Paris, Saturday 24 |
Baró:
David Medalla: Le Désir Cinétique... | |
Templon:
Anthony Caro: The Kenwood Series | |
| Paris, Sunday 25 |
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff:
Ribal Molaeb: The Near Future | |
Frith Street Gallery:
Frith Street Gallery Le Molière | |
| Paris, Monday 26 |
LBF Contemporary:
Pour aujourd’hui et pour l’avenir: Caroline Absher, Pierre Bonnard, Annice Fell | |
Reykjavík
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| Reykjavík, Saturday 24 |
BERG Contemporary:
Dodda Maggý: Magnus Annus | |
Seoul |
| Seoul, Saturday 24 |
PNC Gallery:
Hoon Kwak: Recent Works | |
Perrotin Seoul:
Mr.: On the Threshold of Tomorrow | |
Shanghai |
| Shanghai, Friday 23 |
Perrotin Shanghai:
Jean-Philippe Delhomme: House of painting | |
Perrotin Shanghai:
Xie Qi: Tugging | |
Sydney
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| Sydney, Saturday 24 |
Ames Yavuz:
Elsewhere Held and Lingered | |
Vienna |
| Vienna, Friday 23 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber:
Angela Bulloch: Entropy, 2026 | |
Zürich
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| Zürich, Saturday 24 |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Andy Denzler: Renaissance Paintings Reloaded | |
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