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17 July 2026
This week we’ve put together our selection of twelve unconventional exhibitions drawn from some of the most exciting galleries in the world to bring you something slightly out of the ordinary for your weekend reading.
CARVALHO, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, Jack Shainman Gallery, GOCA by Garde, Pi Artworks, Annely Juda Fine Art, DES BAINS, Taste Contemporary, Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, David Zwirner, GRIMM, HB381 |
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Summer Performance Series 2026
@ CARVALHO, New York |
| the fifth in the gallery’s biannual performance series – a living meadow sculpted by Nicole Rossi encasing the latest work by choreographer Andrew Skeels, performed by two of contemporary dance’s most distinctive artists, Lloyd Knight and Jacquelin Harris
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Yvonne Mabs Francis: Breakdown
@ Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London |
| curated by Carol Maund, the late artist’s first solo exhibition in a London commercial gallery presents paintings and drawings examining the mental breakdown she experienced following the death of her father
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Modus Operandi
@ Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook |
| historically significant work by nearly twenty artists across painting, sculpture, textile, photography and video, in an exhibition which considers method not simply as process but as a way of thinking
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Yuya Saito: Ground Rules
@ GOCA by Garde, New York |
| “through his distinctive bent-wood works and these new sculptures, Saito takes the park – the public ground of the city – as his point of departure, and asks, from several angles, what a genuinely open public realm, and what freedom, might mean today”
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Mehmet Ali Uysal: Skin
@ Pi Artworks, London |
| to mark the gallery’s new London space, an exhibition of key works from the series – “Uysal approaches architectural space as a living surface – a skin – that can be stretched, compressed, pierced, or displaced”
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Yuko Shiraishi: Brief Encounter – Gazebo
@ Annely Juda Fine Art, London |
“for this project – another in my Imaginary Architecture series – I chose to explore iridescent clouds, sometimes known as \”rainbow clouds\”, a meteorological phenomenon characterised by vibrant, colourful bands appearing on thin, semi-transparent clouds
last day Saturday
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Carmela De Falco: Listening with Eyes, Watching with Ears
@ DES BAINS, London |
De Falco’s first solo exhibition at the gallery – “her research subverts and alters codified cultural orders through an investigation of language and the physical and mental spaces inhabited and crossed by individuals and communities”
last day Sunday
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Summer!
@ Taste Contemporary, Geneva |
| painting, sculpture, and mixed media in an exhibition bringing together artists whose works reflect the energy and atmosphere of summer
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Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame
@ Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York |
| works on paper, paintings, neon sculpture, and installation celebrating Dominican players in US Major League Baseball, in the first posthumous exhibition of the Dominican-born New York-based artist
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Steven Shearer: My Moody Muse
@ David Zwirner, London |
| focussing on his portraiture, new figurative oil paintings, significant loans of recent work, and drawings “reflect Shearer’s commitment to exploring the variable, unfixed nature of images and the technologies that mediate our reception of them”
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The Fountain Overflows
@ GRIMM, London |
| curated by Yates Norton and titled after a William Blake couplet, this exhibition “celebrates the vital power of creativity and poetry as a ceaseless act of responding to and working with the world around us”
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EGEVÆRK: Forms of Belonging
@ HB381, New York |
| this exhibition follows Danish designers Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen’s recent artist residency at the Wendell Castle Workshop and features hand-carved furniture inspired by the natural forms and muted tones of the Scandinavian landscape
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More artists showing this week:
A · Mikayil Abdullayev · Eileen Agar · Yussef Agbo-Ola · Yuji Agematsu · Kelly Akashi · Miramar Al Nayyar · Monira Al Qadiri · Lita Albuquerque · Jonny Alexander · Francis Alÿs · Hurvin Anderson · Benny Andrews · Ei Arakawa-Nash · Daniel Arsham · Farah Atassi · Felicity Aylieff · B · Firelei Báez · Max Bainbridge · Claire Baker · Jonathan Baldock · Mahesh Baliga · Ranti Bam · Heike Baranowsky · Thiago Barbalho · Carolyn Barker-Mill · Alvaro Barrington · Mary Ellen Bartley · Edie Baskin · Marc Bauer · Max Beckmann · Oliver Beer · Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar · Genesis Belanger · Merikokeb Berhanu · Gabriele Beveridge · Sara Birns · Irma Blank · Jenna Bliss · Jean Bosphore · Frédéric Bruly Bouabré · Vincent Bousserez · Carol Bove · Frank Bowling · Sebastiaan Bremer · Cecily Brown · Lauren Brown · Daniel Buren · Ethan Byrne · C · Huguette Caland · Matt Calderwood · Javier Calleja · Sokari Douglas Camp · Cas Campbell · Cristina Canale · Yoan Capote · Valentin Carron · James Castle · Ishita Chakraborty · Eduardo Chillida · Neha Choksi · Isaac Chong Wai · WeiXin Quek Chong · Ha Chong-Hyun · Toby Christian · Christo · Liane Chu · Prunella Clough · Ernest Cole · Matthew Cole · Gianni Colombo · Tohé Commaret · Mark Corfield-Moore · Anne-Lise Coste · Steven Cox · Coco Crampton · Gregory Crewdson · Daniel Crews-Chubb · Mikey Cuddihy · Rasto Cyprian · D · Jesse Darling · Estevan Davi · Enrico David · Lynn Davis · Mathilde Denize · Alioune Diagne · Diambe · Jason Dodge · Sven Drühl · Beverley Duckworth · Mia Dudek · Aidan Duffy · Isabella Dyson · E · Egeværk · Ida Ekblad · Eleanor Ekserdjian · Mandy El-Sayegh · Nada Elkalaawy · Buck Ellison · Slawomir Elsner · Salvatore Emblema · Tracey Emin · Zhang Enli · Oli Epp · F · Hung Fai · Carmela De Falco · Shao Fan · Feng Xiao-Min · John Ferren · Genieve Figgis · Spencer Finch · Leonor Fini · Peter Fischli David Weiss · David Flaugher · Günther Förg · Lesley Foxcroft · Yvonne Mabs Francis · Helen Frankenthaler · Leonardo Frigo · Franziska Furter · G · Charles Gaines · Peter Gallo · Ernst Gamperl · Magdiel García Almanza · Alex Gardner · Jan Gatewood · Goutam Ghosh · Rosie Gibbens · Eleni Gkinosati · Tomoo Gokita · Jack Goldstein · Bob Gramsma · Jasmine Gregory · Justin Brice Guariglia · Charlotte Winifred Guérard · Philip Guston · H · Guy Haddon Grant · Tom Halsall · Abe Hamilton · Siobhán Hapaska · Domitilla Harding · Savannah Marie Harris · NS Harsha · Jann Haworth · Andrew Heard · Roger Herman · Patrick Heron · Candace Hill-Montgomery · Lubaina Himid · Naotaka Hiro · David Hockney · Amanda Holiday · Nancy Holt · Roni Horn · Dom Sylvester Houédard · Thomas Houseago · Nhu Xuan Hua · Florence Hutchings · Heather Hutchison · I · Ryoji Ikeda · Yinka Ilori · Anne Imhof · Jan Van Imschoot · Jemila Isa · Tiina Itkonen · Iwane Ai · Serge Izquierdo · J · Henry Jabbour · Arthur Jafa · James Jarvaise · Eve Yifan Jiang · Lisa Jonasson · Melissa Joseph · Haley Josephs · JR · K · Hayv Kahraman · Anish Kapoor · Raya Kassisieh · Allison Katz · Kawada Kikuji · Daniel Keller · Jonathan Kelly · Karen Kilimnik · Paul Klee · Yves Klein · Antone Könst · Serena Korda · Louis Pohl Koseda · Marijn van Kreij · Makiko Kudo · Yayoi Kusama · L · Martin Laforêt · Lucia Laguna · Lake Verea · Wifredo Lam · Luisa Lambri · Hashel Al Lamki · Jacques Henri Lartigue · Judith Lauand · Delaine Le Bas · Jiyeon Lee · Marc Lee · Zoe Leonard · Dale Lewis · Max Liebermann · Lidia Lisbôa · Donald Locke · Sophia Loeb · Holly Lowen · Rachel Lumsden · M · Heinz Mack · Rachel Maclean · Janet Mait · Anina Major · Mark Manders · Yehong Mao · Nifemi Marcus-Bello · Brice Marden · Vittorio Marella · Libbie Mark · Jasper Marsalis · Helen Marten · José Jun Martínez · James Abbott McNeill Whistler · Chang Meng · Léa Mestres · Fabio Miguez · Joan Miró · John Joseph Mitchell · Piet Mondrian · François Morellet · Mattia Moreni · H.E. Morris · Thomas Müller · Stefan Müller · N · Elie Nadelman · Tomoko Nagai · Johannes Nagel · Gustavo Nazareno · Louis Blue Newby · Hadassa Ngamba · Phuong Nguyen · Christoph Niemann · Rémi Noël · Massimo Nordio · Ron Norsworthy · Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi · O · Pieter Obels · Harold Offeh · Kenjiro Okazaki · Erwin Olaf · Fiona Ones · Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia · Otani Workshop · Angel Otero · Woody De Othello · Joe O’Rourke · P · Paul P. · José Parlá · Ruth Pastine · Trupti Patel · Adam Pendleton · Solange Pessoa · Dawit L. Petros · Kembra Pfahler · Francis Picabia · Pablo Picasso · Patricia Piccinini · Otto Piene · Ravelle Pillay · Matthew Pillsbury · Keith Piper · Thiago Rocha Pitta · Paulo Nimer Pjota · Robert Polidori · Sigmar Polke · Michel Pérez Pollo · Christiane Pooley · Jiab Prachakul · Ken Price · Charlie Prodger · Jean Prouvé · Ann Purcell · R · Gerri Rachins · Carol Rama · A. Ramachandran · Koka Ramishvili · Li Ran · Jo Rance · Paula Rego · André Ricardo · Gabriel Rico · John Riddy · Josep Riera i Aragó · Chris Rivers · Hanna Rochereau · Freddy Rodriguez · Danny Romeril · Dieter Roth · Eva Rothschild · Jordan Rubio · Ruby Rumié · Bella Rune · S · Betye Saar · Yuya Saito · Victoria Sambunaris · William Schaeuble · Gordon Scott · Sergen Şehitoğlu · Muzae Sesay · Ashiesh Shah · Tejal Shah · Farkhondeh Shahroudi · Katie Shannon · Steven Shearer · Aryana Sheibani · Kenzi Shiokava · Yuko Shiraishi · Stephen Shore · Jason Shulman · Shunshun · Willi Siber · Shahzia Sikander · Graham Silveria Martin · Fin Simonetti · Avery Singer · Kulpreet Singh · Kiki Smith · Lucien Smith · Mikolaj Sobczak · Kyungeun Son · Magda Stawarska · Ian Stephenson · Olivia Sterling · Robin Stretz · Larry Sultan · Francis Sultana · Eda Sütunç · Ted Le Swer · Reginald Sylvester II · Alina Szapocznikow · T · Ernest T. · Claire Tabouret · Antoni Tàpies · Henry Taylor · Nahom Teklehaimanot · Freya Tewelde · Evita Tezeno · Giles Thackway · Paul Thek · Skye Tholstrup · Caragh Thuring · Amelia Toledo · Rafał Topolewski · Hugo Toro · Thu-Van Tran · Luisella Traversi Guerra · Keith Tyson · U · Unyimeabasi Udoh · Günther Uecker · Lee Ufan · Shimizu Uichi · Çağla Ulusoy · Ahmed Umar · Gülbin Ünlü · Mehmet Ali Uysal · V · Valentina Vaccarella · Claude Viallat · Alfredo Volpi · W · Wang Pei · Rebecca Ward · Judy Watson · Dominic Watson · Richard Kenton Webb · Idelle Weber · Gray Wielebinski · Justin Williams · Clark Winter · Terry Winters · Terence Woodgate · Tala Worrell · Jessica Wynne · Y · Masaomi Yasunaga · Berke Yazıcıoğlu · Lynette Yiadom-Boakye · Song E Yoon · Isabelle Young · Ni Youyu · Flora Yukhnovich · Tsai Yun-Ju · Z · Jordan Zayas Kelly · Zheng Chongbin · Zhou Tianyu · Heimo Zobernig · Beat Zoderer |
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