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The Week in Art visit the site
17-24 Feb 2026
Openings, events, auctions
Gstaad, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, New York, Tisbury
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Gstaad
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| Gstaad, Wednesday 18 |
Patricia Low Contemporary:
Joel Mesler, Nir Hod: Mountains and Flowers
new paintings and works on paper by the two artists in an intimate and expansive dialogue across landscape, language, surface, and reflection |
first day |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Wednesday 18 |
SANATORIUM:
Mehmet Dere: 21:21
Dere presents recent works inspired by the number 21 and its cultural, mythological, and esoteric meanings, offering a critical perspective on contemporary socioeconomic issues through game-like forms |
opening reception |
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London
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| London, Tuesday 17 |
Hayward Gallery:
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
an exhibition of new, large-scale, intricate, web-like installations by Shiota, woven floor-to-ceiling across the gallery’s top floor - alongside drawings, early performance videos, and photographs |
first day |
Hayward Gallery:
Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart
immersive installations and sculptures in the first major UK survey exhibition of the artist who makes “multimedia artworks that negotiate the spaces between memories, individuals and the globalised societies that we live in today” |
first day |
Hayward Gallery:
Samuel Laurence Cunnane: Blue Road
photographs recording fleeting scenes which might go unnoticed, in the first London exhibition by the Irish artist |
first day |
Lisson Gallery:
Rodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
an exhibition exploring the late Canadian artist’s longstanding relationship to the natural world through two major bodies of work related to trees - accompanied by a new “accidental novella” in 100-word bursts by Max Porter |
private view |
| London, Wednesday 18 |
Frith Street Gallery:
Daphne Wright: Expectations
new sculptures by Wright, including an important Jesmonite installation alongside works made from unfired clay and a group of small wall-based pieces |
private view |
Lisson Gallery:
Rodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
an exhibition exploring the late Canadian artist’s longstanding relationship to the natural world through two major bodies of work related to trees - accompanied by a new “accidental novella” in 100-word bursts by Max Porter |
first day |
Lisson Gallery:
Lisson Street: Sean Scully – The Nature of Art
photographs from the island of Aran alongside large-scale paintings and a salon-style array of drawings, watercolours, photos and written works on paper in a survey exhibition of the "greatest living abstract painter" - Jonathan Jones |
first day |
Lisson Gallery:
Lisson Street: Leiko Ikemura – El Jardín Nocturno
following the gallery's seasonal theme of artistic responses to the natural world – Ikemura presents a nocturnal garden of sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and poems |
first day |
Palmer Gallery:
Max Boyla in conversation with Tom Morton |
talk |
Raven Row:
Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
curated by Rhea Anastas in cooperation with the Christine Kozlov Estate, this exhibition examines the scope of Kozlov’s activity, focussing on her work from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s and shown with pieces by a network of her peers |
opening reception |
| London, Thursday 19 |
Frith Street Gallery:
Daphne Wright: Expectations
new sculptures by Wright, including an important Jesmonite installation alongside works made from unfired clay and a group of small wall-based pieces |
first day |
LBF Contemporary:
Min Woo Nam: The Aftermath
new paintings by the Korean artist - “working in the liminal space between recognisable form and abstraction, he builds depth through accumulated layers and subtle shifts in hue” |
private view |
Raven Row:
Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
curated by Rhea Anastas in cooperation with the Christine Kozlov Estate, this exhibition examines the scope of Kozlov’s activity, focussing on her work from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s and shown with pieces by a network of her peers |
first day |
Sprüth Magers:
Bernd & Hilla Becher
including much not shown in the UK before, an exhibition of early and later work by the icons of German postwar photography |
opening reception |
| London, Friday 20 |
LBF Contemporary:
Min Woo Nam: The Aftermath
new paintings by the Korean artist - “working in the liminal space between recognisable form and abstraction, he builds depth through accumulated layers and subtle shifts in hue” |
first day |
Sprüth Magers:
Bernd & Hilla Becher
including much not shown in the UK before, an exhibition of early and later work by the icons of German postwar photography |
first day |
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Los Angeles
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| Los Angeles, Saturday 21 |
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
Arshile Gorky. Horizon West
including never-before-exhibited works, an exhibition presenting Gorky’s landscapes from before and after his transformative 1941 transcontinental road trip with Agnes ‘Mougouch’ Magruder and Isamu Noguchi |
first day |
Marian Goodman Gallery:
Tacita Dean: Trial of the Finger
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first day |
| Los Angeles, Sunday 22 |
Tropical Berlin:
American Cement at the American Cement Building
“Aimee Goguen, Margaret Haines, and P. Staff brandish prophecy, theatre, poetry, surveillance, alchemical instruments, masks, blades, regurgitated teratomas, and the fixative properties of cement itself” - Henry Hopper, curator |
opening reception |
| Los Angeles, Monday 23 |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
from a collection focused on women, artists of color, and California, more than eighty works reflecting Harris Norton’s prescient vision and commitment to social justice and learning |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black
Quarles’ first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles - “at its core, her practice contemplates the instability of existence, the extent of resilience and what it means to inhabit multiple realities at once” |
opening reception |
| Los Angeles, Tuesday 24 |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
from a collection focused on women, artists of color, and California, more than eighty works reflecting Harris Norton’s prescient vision and commitment to social justice and learning |
first day |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black
Quarles’ first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles - “at its core, her practice contemplates the instability of existence, the extent of resilience and what it means to inhabit multiple realities at once” |
first day |
L.A. Louver:
Alison Saar: Meet Me at the Crossroads: Ruby’s Soul Service Station
a new immersive sculptural installation by the path-breaking artist - “a space of rest and renewal” |
first day |
L.A. Louver:
California Color: Peter Alexander, Karl Benjamin, John McCracken
paintings, sculpture, and wall hangings from three artists linked by their interest in form and color, and their deep ties to the landscape and culture of Southern California |
first day |
Lisson Gallery:
Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
Ikemura’s first exhibition in Los Angeles explores the relationship between the female body and the natural world, the heavens and the horizon line, or as she describes it - “the place where two worlds come together” |
opening reception |
Louis Stern Fine Arts:
A New Way of Seeing: Lecture on Dr. Samella Lewis by Kristin Juarez |
talk |
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New York
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| New York, Wednesday 18 |
CARVALHO:
Heron: Winter Performance Series 2026 |
performance |
Sotheby’s New York:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Wed 18-Wed 25
(viewing: Wed 18-Wed 25) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York:
Contemporary Discoveries
auction: Wed 18-Fri 27
(viewing: Wed 18-Wed 25) |
auction starts |
| New York, Thursday 19 |
Galerie Lelong:
Ursula von Rydingsvard
recent sculptures in her signature medium of cedar, shown with a selection of drawings, in this new exhibition by the esteemed artist |
opening reception |
| New York, Friday 20 |
Friedrichs Pontone:
Luciano Ventrone: Legacy
“painting is not the mere representation of the object, but it is color and light: the right relationships between the two things give shape in space. The subject should not be seen as such but abstractly” - Ventrone |
opening reception |
Jack Shainman Gallery:
Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu: Manuscripts of Tradition
in the first solo exhibition at the gallery’s new space, new works on paper and paintings in oil as Chiamonwu’s explores the Nigerian Igbo community she was raised in, and the contemporary relevance of its cultural and mythological forms |
opening reception |
Jack Shainman Gallery:
Elizabeth Neel: In the Guts of Living
new paintings and works on paper - including the debut of a group of monochromatic pieces - in Neel’s first solo presentation with the gallery |
opening reception |
| New York, Saturday 21 |
Galerie Lelong:
Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Sculpture |
talk |
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Tisbury
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| Tisbury, Saturday 21 |
Messums West:
Windmill |
performance |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
Havana, Istanbul, Lagos, London, New York, Palm Beach, Stockholm, Vienna, Zug
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Havana
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| Havana, Saturday 21 |
Galleria Continua Habana:
Mientras el día no cierre |
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Istanbul
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| Istanbul, Sunday 22 |
Dirimart Pera:
ÇiÄŸdem Aky: Santosha |
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Lagos
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| Lagos, Saturday 21 |
Rele:
Young Contemporaries 2026 |
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London
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| London, Friday 20 |
Canopy Collections:
Philip Eglin: Bucket List |
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Gagosian Shop, London:
James Turrell: After Glow |
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Hurst Contemporary:
My Candle Burns at Both Ends, It Will Not Last The Night |
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The Mayor Gallery:
Celebrating 100 Years - Part 2: European Art |
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| London, Saturday 21 |
Alison Jacques:
Gina Kuschke: A Place Beyond |
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Dirimart London:
Seçkin Pirim & Jorinde Voigt: Fractures & Rhythm |
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Palmer Gallery:
Max Boyla: Spooky Action At a Distance |
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| London, Sunday 22 |
Ab-Anbar:
Fadia Haddad: The Symphony of Birds |
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Ab-Anbar:
Amin Bagheri: Hyle - Dark Light |
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Saatchi Yates:
Slawn’s Studio |
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New York
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| New York, Wednesday 18 |
Perrotin New York:
Gregor Hildebrandt: Blau im Gedächtnis (Blue in Memoriam) |
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| New York, Thursday 19 |
Goodman Gallery:
Sam Nhlengethwa: All Blues |
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Robilant+Voena, New York:
Robert Ryan: Another Time and Place |
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| New York, Saturday 21 |
Lincoln Glenn:
Edward Zutrau: Thirty Years, Two Worlds |
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Nicola Vassell Gallery:
Eva Robarts: Bikes, Bolts & Brooms |
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Perrotin New York:
ob: Phantom Tales |
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Perrotin New York:
Slow Wave Sleep |
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Sean Kelly Gallery:
Hilda Palafox: De Tierra y Susurros |
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Sean Kelly Gallery:
Ground Work (Field Revision) |
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Palm Beach
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| Palm Beach, Wednesday 18 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Ronnie Landfield: Recent Works |
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Stockholm
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| Stockholm, Saturday 21 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Klara Kristalova: Works on Paper and Sculpture |
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Vienna
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| Vienna, Saturday 21 |
Galerie Kandlhofer:
Paco Koenig: Domi Reversi |
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Galerie Kandlhofer:
Focus On. Melissa Steckbauer: Am I Dreaming / on Titration |
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MEYER*KAINER:
Heimo Zobernig: untitled - Zein Editions |
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Zug
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| Zug, Sunday 22 |
Helvetika 1575:
Hermann Nitsch: The Art Of Extremes |
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