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The Weekender visit the site
21 August 2026
Twelve must-see exhibitions on now at great galleries across four continents.
Sylvia Kouvali, Graces Mews, LAMB, SETAREH, LATITUDE Gallery, Halsey McKay Gallery, 603 Arts Foundation, Hauser & Wirth, Gallery Chosun, Tolarno Galleries, Bluerider ART, Each Modern |
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Jason Dodge
@ Sylvia Kouvali, London |
| in his first exhibition with the gallery, new work by the American artist – “sculptures … not defined by formal transformation, but rather by the repositioning of recognisable materials through acts of selection, displacement, and framing”
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Chardchakaj Waikawee: Youth
@ Graces Mews, London |
| the Bangkok-based artist presents analogue, handprinted photographic portraits of people living on the margins of the city’s streets – showing youth as a capacity for adaptation, reinvention and resilience
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Dialogues: Memories of Alfredo Volpi
@ LAMB, London |
| the latest in the gallery series presents significant works by Volpi alongside paintings by artists from subsequent generations who reflect on – and depart from – his example
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Brent McKeever: LOOK
@ SETAREH, London |
| the debut solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist known for his hyperreal photography includes dual-imaged lenticulars, lightbox, installation, sculpture, and self portraiture
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Meanwhile, the Mise-en-scène
@ LATITUDE Gallery, New York |
| curated by Weifan Mo and Xumeng Zhang, six artists who use painting as a medium with an almost cinematic recounting of urban space, in an exhibition which “activates a productive friction between the grammar of film and the stasis of painting”
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Builders
@ Halsey McKay Gallery, New York |
| an exhibition of thirty artists who move fluidly between painting, sculpture, and object-making, to examine how abstraction is shaped not only through image, but through material decisions
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The cataclysm of binary star systems
@ 603 Arts Foundation, New York |
| “if The cataclysm of binary star systems begins by asking what survives catastrophe, its artists reply with a different question: How do we move forward?” – Jessica Holmes
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Charles Gaines. Ciphering African Acacias and Supreme Court Decisions
@ Hauser & Wirth, Paris |
| the debut of new Plexiglas works from the pioneering conceptual artist in his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery
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Woo Min Jung: Dream, Love, Hope
@ Gallery Chosun, Seoul |
| “this exhibition invites us to hold once again to love, dreams, and hope the oldest forces that no fall can ever completely destroy”
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Danie Mellor: Awake (in the Dream)
@ Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne |
| a new exhibition of mixed-media works, “a visual archaeology of old and new … through the subtle interplay of photographic image and paint, Mellor coaxes a metaphysical, even supernatural, quality from the landscape – and the figures in the landscape’
more exhibitions in Asia and Australia |
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Void & Volume
@ Bluerider ART, Shanghai |
| following the first part of “An East-West Dialogue of Perception” in LA, this second chapter brings together twelve contemporary artists from East and West who explore space, perception, and the possibilities of existence
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David Diao, Li Yuan-Chia, Chen Shiau-Peng
@ Each Modern, Taipei |
| “together, these three artists demonstrate that the significance of Asian artists lies not in adding ‘Eastern’ elements to Modernism, but in offering new ways to rethink and extend it’
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More artists showing this week:
A · Mikayil Abdullayev · Rita Ackermann · Luke Agada · Yussef Agbo-Ola · Young-Il Ahn · Esvin Alarcón Lam · Tony Albert · Jess Allen · Hurvin Anderson · José Angelino · Alessia Armeni · Michael Armitage · Hans Arp · Daniel Arsham · Felicity Aylieff · B · Felipe Baeza · Jonathan Baldock · Ranti Bam · Inma Barrero · Lyndon Barrois Jr. · John Bartlett · Edie Baskin · Hans Op de Beeck · Genesis Belanger · Pierre Bellot · Ruth Beraha · Gianmarco Biele · Oscar Bluemner · Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom · Barbara Boekelman · Adam de Boer · Guy Pene du Bois · Bea Bonafini · Fernando Botero · Frédéric Bruly Bouabré · Vincent Bousserez · Frank Bowling · Preston Douglas Boyer · William Bradford · Andreas Breunig · Thomas Broomé · Cecily Brown · Daniel Buren · C · Anthony Caro · Leonora Carrington · Channatip Chanvipava · Chen Shiau-Peng · Mathieu Cherkit · Eunice Cheung Wai Man · Christo · Bernard Cohen · Timothy Cook · Johan Creten · Michael Crowther · Mikey Cuddihy · D · Dai Yinglun · Dai Junpeng · Jesse Darling · Estevan Davi · Enrico David · Nolan Oswald Dennis · Eric DePan · Diambe · David Diao · Lucy Dodd · Drew Dodge · Jason Dodge · Xiaochi Dong · Kees van Dongen · E · Tonye Ekine · Tracey Emin · Zhang Enli · Richard Estes · Inci Eviner · Randall Exon · F · Iain Faulkner · Chen Fei · Eileen Feng · Han Feng · Genieve Figgis · Spencer Finch · Perle Fine · Mark Flood · Laura Footes · Walton Ford · Günther Förg · Denzil Forrester · Cornelia Foss · Helen Frankenthaler · Matthias Franz · Louis Fratino · Lee Friedlander · Simon Fujiwara · G · Charles Gaines · Lu Gan · Elisa Giardina Papa · Liza Giles · Tricia Gillman · Robert Gober · María Elena González · Phil Goss · Chantal Goulder · Jake Grewal · Krzysztof Grzybacz · Charlotte Winifred Guérard · Janice Guy · H · Sharon Hall · Abe Hamilton · Elias Hansen · Wenhui Hao · Hauck Plümpe · Julie Heffernan · Camille Henrot · Roger Herman · Secundino Hernández · Nicola Hicks · Lubaina Himid · Thomas Hirschhorn · David Hockney · Nancy Holt · Thomas Houseago · James Howell · Brook Hsu · Nhu Xuan Hua · Volker Hüller · Colin Hunt · Marianne Huotari · Phung Huynh · Hwang Do You · Remy Hysbergue · I · Hettie Inniss · Iwane Ai · Serge Izquierdo · J · Ja Jess · Alfredo Jaar · Arthur Jafa · James Jarvaise · Oda Jaune · Woo Jin Joo · Cathy Josefowitz · Sosa Joseph · K · Hayv Kahraman · Anish Kapoor · Gülsün Karamustafa · Katie Kaur · Bonolo Kavula · Kawada Kikuji · Markus Keibel · Bradley Kerl · Robin Kid · Michael Kidner · Ken Kiff · Vincent Kimeu · R.B. Kitaj · Jakob Lena Knebl · Jutta Koether · Leon Kroll · Yayoi Kusama · L · Martin Laforêt · Lai Chih-Sheng · Lake Verea · Michael Landy · Jacques Henri Lartigue · Maria Lassnig · Judith Lauand · Maia Ruth Lee · Lee Bul · Wietske van Leeuwen · Leonilson · Norman Lewis · Jenny Lewis · Li Liangchen · David Ligare · Glenn Ligon · Donald Locke · Luca Longhi · LoVid · Rick Lowe · M · Anna Maria Maiolino · Paul Majek · Nikki Maloof · Joe Mama-Nitzberg · Ptolemy Mann · Wallen Mapondera · Andrea Marcellier · John Marin · Megan Marlatt · Jasper Marsalis · Helen Marten · Zana Masombuka · Wangari Mathenge · Quentin James McCaffrey · Anthony McCall · Brent McKeever · James Abbott McNeill Whistler · Danie Mellor · Léa Mestres · Fabio Miguez · Zvonimir Mihanovic · Garry Fabian Miller · Ruarí Milne · Joshua Mochache · Matteo Montani · Virginia L. Montgomery · John Moore · Abelardo Morell · Anne Morgenstern · Lauren Moses · Mr. · Ruben Müller · Sienna Murdoch · Wangechi Mutu · N · Na Kim · Masao Nakahara · Jamil Naqsh · David Nash · George Nemethy · Tia-Thuy Nguyen · Christoph Niemann · Reynier Leyva Novo · Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi · O · Seohyun Oh · Erwin Olaf · Lovie Olivia · Freeba Omidi-Sabet · Gabriel Orozco · Angel Otero · Woody De Othello · P · Jennifer Packer · Alexandra Pacula · Anna Pakosz · Pan Inkhoo · Athena Parella · Gordon Parks · Peachey & Mosig · Simon Periton · Lawrence Perry · Solange Pessoa · Raphaella Pester · Jane Peterson · Richard Pettibone · Cece Philips · Tom Phillips · Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín · Shaun Pierson · Sabine Pigalle · Paulo Nimer Pjota · Emma Prempeh · Deshaun Price · Jean Prouvé · Antti Pussinen · R · Gerri Rachins · Carol Rama · Alfredo Ramos Martínez · Robert Rauschenberg · Benji Reid · André Ricardo · Carol Robertson · Freddy Rodriguez · Ayako Rokkaku · Eva Rothschild · Alix Cléo Roubaud · George Rouy · Anne Ryan · S · Betye Saar · Tanoa Sasraku · Jana Schröder · Johanna Schweizer · Jordan Sears · David Seidner · Colin Self · Ashiesh Shah · Honoré Sharrer · Cindy Sherman · Kenzi Shiokava · Antonia Showering · Jason Shulman · Taryn Simon · Henrik Simonsen · Lorna Simpson · Avery Singer · Mary Sipp Green · Dillwyn Smith · Richard Smith · Jesús Rafael Soto · Pierre Soulages · Magda Stawarska · Ian Stephenson · Hiroshi Sugimoto · Becky Suss · Alina Szapocznikow · T · Claire Tabouret · Kei Takemura · Henry Taylor · Tula Telfair · Kate Terry · Defne Tesal · Mario Testino · Edwin Thuo · Caragh Thuring · Marit Tingleff · Barthélémy Toguo · Aryo Toh Djojo · Tess Tomassini · Saverio Tonoli · Erika Trotzig · Joan Truckenbrod · Tseng Ting Yu · John Tweddle · U · Lee Ufan · Shimizu Uichi · Jan Urant · V · Simón Vega · Michel Verjux · aurèce vettier · Alicia Viebrock · Antonello Viola · Alfredo Volpi · W · Chardchakaj Waikawee · Frank Walter · Da Wang · Rebecca Ward · Jonathan Wateridge · Wendy Wei · Austin Martin White · Jack Whitten · Shaqúelle Whyte · Clark Winter · Vik Winter · Woo Min Jung · Terence Woodgate · Birhane Worede · Jimmy Wright · Wu Huaheng · X · Xue Ying · Y · Ying Yefu · Song E Yoon · Li Yuan-Chia · Z · Wang Zhibo · Zio Ziegler · Beat Zoderer · Irène Zurkinden · Jane Zweibel
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