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The Weekender visit the site
8 May 2026
Twelve must-see exhibitions on right now – at galleries in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Zürich.
Timothy Taylor, Sean Kelly Gallery, Albion Jeune, Philip Martin Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, Waddington Custot, Loevenbruck, Lychee One, Esther Schipper, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Zander Galerie, Mai 36 Galerie |
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30 Years
@ Timothy Taylor, London |
| the gallery celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with a landmark presentation – “from those who laid our foundation, to those who remain vital touchstones today, on to those whose work will shape the decades ahead”
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Jose Dávila: The Simple Act of Positioning
@ Sean Kelly Gallery, New York |
| new sculptures continuing Dávila’s exploration of the fundamental act of placing one thing in relation to another, working through deliberate acts of positioning and arrangement so that relationships, tensions, and meanings emerge
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Anthony Caro & James Capper: Heavy Metal
@ Albion Jeune, London |
| an exhibition pairing seminal works by Caro with the pioneering practice of Capper to explore a cross-generational dialogue and the evolution of British sculpture
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Katy Cowan: Tape Drifts and Figures Reach
@ Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| new wall-mounted, hand-painted sculptures as Cowan transforms regular studio items through the process of casting to examine their nature and how we look at and think about them
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Grace Weaver: Plaids
@ Galerie Max Hetzler, London |
| new abstract and figurative watercolour-on-paper compositions drawing on the rhythmic, patterned textiles of checks, tartans, and plaids continue Weaver’s ongoing concern with colour, gesture, geometry, and line
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Jean Dubuffet: The Last 10 Years
@ Waddington Custot, London |
| significant artistic achievements and pivotal paintings from the radical final chapter of Dubuffet’s career in a celebration of the gallery’s over fifty-year relationship with the artist, since hosting his first British solo exhibition in 1972
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Key Hiraga: Works 1966-1971
@ Loevenbruck, Paris |
paintings and works on paper by the late Japanese artist who combined vivid palettes with surreal, often erotic figures
last day Saturday
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Qian Qian: The Fountains of Enceladus
@ Lychee One, London |
| ten watercolor works on panel, developing Qian Qian’s concept of a “practice-based cosmology”, not a representation of a world already known but a landscape of consciousness – unstable, generative, and not yet fully understood
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Celeste Rapone: Hyperarousal
@ Esther Schipper, Berlin |
| Rapone’s first presentation with the gallery debuts three paintings where she explores “the heated juncture of sensuous stimulation and nervous irritation in narratively dense compositions”
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Nicolas Grenier: Flags
@ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles |
| “the starting point for this exhibition was the desire to take on the flag, this supreme icon of nationalism, and to reverse its logic … I wanted to make works that, while evoking the idea of a flag, visually and emotionally contradict its principles”
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William Eggleston: Six Prints, One Scale
@ Zander Galerie, Paris |
| shown for the first time, unique oversized dye-transfer prints by Eggleston from the late sixties and early seventies – rare works distinguished by their scale, chromatic intensity, and material presence
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Raphael Hefti
@ Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich |
| “Hefti’s practice is fuelled by a deep fascination with industrial and post-industrial processes, which he reclaims, subverts, and transforms with an almost alchemical precision”
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More artists showing this week:
A · Pacita Abad · Marina Abramović · Lindsay Adams · Yuji Agematsu · Carolina Aguirre · Soryun Ahn · Kelly Akashi · Monira Al Qadiri · Ghada Amer · Hurvin Anderson · Brook Andrew · Benny Andrews · Tiffany-Annabelle · Ei Arakawa-Nash · Ei Arakawa / Nikolas Gambaroff · Alejandro Asensio · Tauba Auerbach · March Avery · Felicity Aylieff · B · Firelei Báez · Ain Bailey · John Baldessari · Jonathan Baldock · Rob Ball · Ranti Bam · Nada Baraka · Heike Baranowsky · Thomas Andréa Barbey · Barnaby Barford · Carolyn Barker-Mill · Marion Baruch · Camila Barvo · Dan Basen · Edie Baskin · Christiane Baumgartner · Laura Benson · Tizta Berhanu · Isidore Bishop-Sauve · Magda Blasinska · Jenna Bliss · Jean Bosphore · Frédéric Bruly Bouabré · Carol Bove · Dirk Braeckman · Colin Brant · Sebastiaan Bremer · Cecily Brown · Roger Brown · Michèle Buhofer · Loïc Burzotta · C · Huguette Caland · Matt Calderwood · Boris Camaca · Craig Cameron-Mackintosh · Cristina Canale · Louis Cane · James Capper · Alejandro Cardenas · Anthony Caro · Valentin Carron · Jean-Pierre Cassigneul · Loris Cecchini · Paul Cézanne · Alan Charlton · Louisa Chase · Eunice Cheung Wai Man · Virginia Chihota · Ha Chong-Hyun · Toby Christian · Lygia Clark · Sas Colby · Gianni Colombo · Anaïs Comer · Fiona Connor · Dan Coombs · Aki+Arnaud Cooren · Fernanda Cortes · Katy Cowan · Tony Cragg · Coco Crampton · Martin Creed · Mary Crenshaw · Henry Crespo · Daniel Crews-Chubb · Racheal Crowther · Mikey Cuddihy · Claire Curneen · D · Dai Junpeng · Dai Yinglun · Salvador Dalí · Jesse Darling · Jose Dávila · Lisa Corinne Davis · Peter Davis · DAZHI · Judith Dean · Mathilde Denize · Jimmy DeSana · Aliou Diack · Alioune Diagne · Philip-Lorca diCorcia · Elizabeth Dimitroff · Ding HongDan · Ingrid Donat · Kees van Dongen · Nick Doyle · Djibril Dramé · Jean Dubuffet · Abigail Dudley · E · William Eggleston · Michaela Eichwald · Nicole Eisenman · Nada Elkalaawy · Buck Ellison · Salvatore Emblema · Tracey Emin · Zhang Enli · Mitch Epstein · Eugenio Espinoza · William Etty · F · Jens Fänge · Sharif Farrag · Jennifer Farrow Moore · Feng Xiao-Min · Thierry Feuz · Genieve Figgis · Leonor Fini · Gina Fischli · Peter Fischli David Weiss · Wolfgang Flad · Dan Flavin · Günther Förg · Christina Forrer · Michel François · Helen Frankenthaler · Leonardo Frigo · Bernard Frize · G · Esther Gamsu · Néstor García · Franz Gertsch · Ficre Ghebreyesus · Luigi Ghirri · Jeffrey Gibson · Allison Gildersleeve · Gregor Gleiwitz · Domenico Gnoli · Paul Gondry · Todd Gray · Jasmine Gregory · Nicolas Grenier · Pablo Griss · Kate Groobey · George Grosz · Nicola Gunnarsson · Philip Guston · H · Abe Hamilton · Domitilla Harding · Jessica Harrison · Hans Hartung · Bridget Harvey · Johanna Hedva · Julie Heffernan · Raphael Hefti · Stefanie Heinze · Alice Herbst · Patrick Heron · Nicola Hicks · Todd Hido · Key Hiraga · Naotaka Hiro · David Hockney · Loie Hollowell · Roni Horn · Kat Howard · Nhu Xuan Hua · Donna Huanca · Melissa Huddleston · Charles Thomas Hudson · Heather Hutchison · Ran Hwang · I · Ryoji Ikeda · Leiko Ikemura · Jan Van Imschoot · Angelo Iodice · Tiina Itkonen · Sophie Ives · J · Arthur Jafa · Lisa Jahovic · Louise Janin · Sebastian Jefford · Alice Ningci Jiang · Jing Ao · Sarah Jones · Donald Judd · Harminder Judge · K · Mitsumasa Kadota · Susumu Kamijo · Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga · Anish Kapoor · Allison Katz · Marya Kazoun · Daniel Keller · Richard Kirwan · KOO JEONG A · Serena Korda · Çağla Köseoğulları · Leon Kossoff · Emily Kraus · Maria Kreyn · Les Krims · Abraham Kritzman · L · Wifredo Lam · Luisa Lambri · Maria Lassnig · Marc Lee · Doowon Lee · Lee Eun · Lee Mingwei · Kalliopi Lemos · Les Lalanne · Mirko Leuzzi · Kate Lewis · Li Liangchen · Max Liebermann · Donald Locke · Liza Lou · Jessica Luostarinen · Kat Lyons · M · Kathryn MacNaughton · Boniface Maina · Mark Manders · Sergio Marrero · Borja Martín-Moreno · Zana Masombuka · Shara Mays · Jacopo Mazzetti · Paul McCarthy · John McCracken · Rodney McMillian · Andy Mendoza · Almagul Menlibayeva · Zachary Merle · Jack Milroy · Francesca Mollett · Paulina Moncada · François Morellet · Tony Morgan · Adrian Morris · Ruben Müller · Lizzie Munn · Guruwuy Murrinyina · Djurrayun Murrinyina · Michael Musyoka · N · Elie Nadelman · Johannes Nagel · Loredana Nemes · Perri Neri · Ellie Kayu Ng · Massimo Nordio · O · Pieter Obels · Catherine Opie · Julian Opie · Angel Otero · Woody De Othello · Thérèse Oulton · Roy Oxlade · Giovanni Ozzola · Jack O’Brien · P · Elisa Pardo Puch · GaHee Park · So Young Park · Anna Park · Cornelia Parker · Martin Parr · Sojourner Truth Parsons · Ruth Pastine · Amol K Patil · Hamish Pearch · Anna Pederson · Alicia Penalba · Mano Penalva · Adam Pendleton · Alexis Peskine · Raymond Pettibon · Ann Pibal · Francis Picabia · Pablo Picasso · Cathie Pilkington · Diogo Pimentão · Valentina Pini · Thiago Rocha Pitta · Paulo Nimer Pjota · Sigmar Polke · Larry Poons · Mary Potter · Kathy Prendergast · Ken Price · Jean Prouvé · Max Prus · Q · Qian Qian · R · Raquel Rabinovich · Jo Ractliffe · Josef Karl Rädler · Bianca Raffaella · John Rainey · Alexis Ralaivao · Carol Rama · Harold Ramírez · Li Ran · Celeste Rapone · Robert Rauschenberg · Paula Rego · Mateo Revillo · Jeanine Richards · Ray Richardson · John Riddy · Chris Rivers · Saree Robinson · Danny Rolph · Alessandro Roma · Rachel Rosenthal · Thomas Ruff · Ruby Rumié · Bella Rune · Robert Ryman · S · Linet Sánchez · Fred Sandback · Sigrid Sandström · Chung Sang-Hwa · Armig Santos · Arcangelo Sassolino · Thomas Scheibitz · Katja Schenker · Gregor Schneider · Nora Schultz · Sean Scully · Manuela Sedmach · Park Seo-Bo · Mamali Shafahi & Domenico Gutknecht · Farkhondeh Shahroudi · Kyungmi Shin · Yuko Shiraishi · Shumu · Sally Silberberg · Henrik Simonsen · Keith Smith · Patti Smith · Sophie Smorczewski · Sheida Soleimani · Amparo de la Sota · Ettore Sottsass · Pierre Soulages · Vaughn Spann · Elinor Stanley · Olivia Sterling · John Stezaker · Niklaus Stoecklin · Robin Stretz · Eda Sütunç · Shaan Syed · T · Moffat Takadiwa · Parviz Tanavoli · Antoni Tàpies · Paul Thek · Chris Thompson · David Thorpe · David Thuku · Marit Tingleff · Rirkrit Tiravanija · Oliver Tirré · Amelia Toledo · Tseng Ting Yu · Pichakorn Chukiew (Tuapennot) · Gavin Turk · Joseph Mallord William Turner · U · Lee Ufan · Euan Uglow · Ahmed Umar · Gülbin Ünlü · Francis Upritchard · V · Germán Venegas · Pierre Vermeulen · Claude Viallat · Théo Viardin · Erin Vincent · Not Vital · W · Heath Wae · Adia Wahid · Fanseng Wang · Andy Warhol · Agnes Waruguru · Grace Weaver · Richard Kenton Webb · Carrie Mae Weems · WenJue · Franz West · Lotte Westphael · Emerald Rose Whipple · Uwe Wittwer · Terence Woodgate · Wu Huaheng · Erwin Wurm · X · Liu Xiaodong · Xu Qu · Y · Yamamoto Masao · Hiroka Yamashita · Lynette Yiadom-Boakye · Yutong Yin · Ying Yefu · Song E Yoon · Isabelle Young · Ni Youyu · Liang Yuanwei · Flora Yukhnovich · Yun Hyong-keun · Z · Alyina Zaidi · Fahrelnissa Zeid · Zhou Yilun · Þórdís Erla Zoëga
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