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Anish Kapoor Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre for his first majo...
08/07/2026

Anish Kapoor Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre for his first major exhibition there in almost thirty years, taking over the entire building with mirrored steel sculptures, Vantablack voids and a body of new, unnervingly visceral work. Curated by Ralph Rugoff as the closing act of his twenty-year directorship, the show runs until 18 October 2026.

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Words by Thom Oosterhof

Anish Kapoor
Hayward Gallery

“For his fourth exhibition with Mai 36 Galerie , Michel Perez ‘s painterly interrogation comes in pairs. “Double Gaze” p...
07/30/2026

“For his fourth exhibition with Mai 36 Galerie , Michel Perez ‘s painterly interrogation comes in pairs. “Double Gaze” presents new paintings built from hand-worked clay and Play-Doh maquettes he seems to trust more than the world itself.”

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Words by Julien Delagrange

Michel Perez
Mai 36 Galerie

“Jiashun Zhou Jiashun Zhou is a Chinese, Chicago-based fiber artist who weaves the parts of a house nobody stops to look...
07/17/2026

“Jiashun Zhou Jiashun Zhou is a Chinese, Chicago-based fiber artist who weaves the parts of a house nobody stops to look at: the hallway, the doorframe, the stair landing. These are spaces built for passing through, not for lingering, and a floor loom is a strange, almost contrarian tool to point at them, since it can’t produce anything quickly. He builds rooms that don’t exist out of thread that takes months to lay down, modeled on no house he has ever actually lived in, woven slowly enough that the labor itself becomes a way of testing whether a remembered or imagined place can be made to hold weight.”

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Words by Julien Delagrange

Crèvecœur  presents Calamondin, a solo exhibition by Ernst Yohji Jaeger  , on view at the gallery’s 5 & 7 rue de Beaune ...
07/15/2026

Crèvecœur presents Calamondin, a solo exhibition by Ernst Yohji Jaeger , on view at the gallery’s 5 & 7 rue de Beaune space in Paris from 11 June to 25 July 2026. Born in 1990 in Germany and now living and working in Vienna, Jaeger takes his title from the small citrus tree that has lived in his studio through a near-death and a slow recovery — a private ordeal that becomes, across the paintings gathered here, a way of thinking about what can and cannot be forced out of a body of work. Thom Oosterhof paid a visit.

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REITER REITER  Galleries presents Subterfuge, a new solo exhibition by Irish painter Michael Canning Michael Canning , o...
07/09/2026

REITER REITER Galleries presents Subterfuge, a new solo exhibition by Irish painter Michael Canning Michael Canning , on view at the gallery’s Berlin space from 19 June to 25 July 2026, continuing Canning’s long-running focus on the marginal flora of the Irish countryside.

Words by Julien Delagrange

REITER Galleries
Michael Canning

“Curating, for Huiyu Lan  is ultimately a form of translation: the attempt to make abstract experience concrete, to tran...
07/01/2026

“Curating, for Huiyu Lan is ultimately a form of translation: the attempt to make abstract experience concrete, to transform an intuition into an environment that another person can enter and encounter for themselves. A stand-out quote that describes her curatorial endeavors can currently be found on the about page of Purist Magazine, stating that she does not aim to focus on what is already established, but on what is urgent. Which seemed reason enough to, with urgency, sit down with her for a conversation about art and her hybrid approach when it comes to curating it.“

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Words by Julien Delagrange

Images:
1. Portrait of Huiyi Lan
2. Installation view of “ My favourite colour is transparency” (2024-2025) at Purist Gallery, London, UK.
3. Installation view “ dérèglement des sens” (2025) at Purist Gallery, London, UK.
4. Installation view of “ Paradoxical Field - Prelude (I)” (2025) at Purist Gallery, London, UK.
5. Ted Le Swer, Untitled (establishing shot 01), 2025. Courtesy of Purist Gallery and Ted Le Swer
6-7. Installation view of “Ted Le Swer: Soft Exit” (2025) at Purist Gallery, London, UK.
8. Installation view “ dérèglement des sens” (2025) at Purist Gallery, London, UK.
9. Huiyu Lan, Run, 2025. Courtesy of Purist Gallery and Huiyu Lan.

At 30, Liste Art Fair no longer needs to prove a point. Outgrowing its famed ‘Young Art Fair’ moniker after moving from ...
06/30/2026

At 30, Liste Art Fair no longer needs to prove a point. Outgrowing its famed ‘Young Art Fair’ moniker after moving from Werkraum Warteck to Messe Basel, its legacy continues to promise a blue-chip future akin to David Zwirner. Admission is difficult. Yet year after year, Liste flattens the ground ready for the next artist to crack open and emerge.

Words by AUGUSTINE PAREDES

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Images:
1-2. Wei Leng Tay, View From This Side, 2022. Yeo Workshop Contemporary Art
3. Margaux Moonen Guillaume, Lustre, 2026. Margaux Moonen Guillaume Cibrián
4. Kemil Bekteši, Slow and Unstoppable, Object 4, 2025. Kemil Galerija Manuš
5. Ruofan Chen, Heavy Dust, 2025. Ruofan Chen shower
6. Maryam Jafri, The Everyday Model, 2021. Matteo Cantarella
7. Coco Klockner, Letters of Support 07, 2024. coco Romance
8-9. Installation view, O-Townhouse, 2026, Liste, Basel, Switzerland. O-TOWN HOUSE Larry Johnson
10. Vytautas Kumža, Falling Rise, 2025. VYTAUTAS KUMŽA Copperfield
11. Vincent Scheers, Broken Delay, 2025. Paulina Caspari
12. Mariann Metsis, Trauerspiele III, 2025. Margot Samel
13-14. Emanuel de Carvalho, gound lack II, 2025. Emanuel de Carvalho GATHERING
15. Katie Shannon, You And Me on a Tuesday, 2025. TINA

Naotaka Hiro’s Naotaka Hiro solo exhibition “Others” is now open at Herald St Herald St , spanning both the gallery’s Lo...
06/25/2026

Naotaka Hiro’s Naotaka Hiro solo exhibition “Others” is now open at Herald St Herald St , spanning both the gallery’s London premises — 2 Herald St in Bethnal Green and 43 Museum St in Bloomsbury — and runs through 1 August 2026. The show brings together new paintings and one stainless steel sculpture as the Los Angeles-based Japanese artist continues his investigation into what he calls the ‘unknowable’: the parts of the body that remain forever out of direct sight.

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Naotaka Hiro
Herald St

“Bring Me Men” is the first solo exhibition by London-based American artist Gray Wielebinski Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, ...
06/18/2026

“Bring Me Men” is the first solo exhibition by London-based American artist Gray Wielebinski Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas, TX) at Nicoletti Contemporary NıCOLETTı , running from 28 May to 4 July 2026. A follow-up to the gallery’s solo presentation of his work at Frieze London 2025, Wielebinski uses his first major gallery solo of the year to interrogate the construction of masculinity — its myths, its materials, and its violences — through sculpture, collage, installation, and scent. Thom Oosterhof visits Nicoletti.

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Gray Wielebinski
NıCOLETTı

All images courtesy the artist and Nicoletti Contemporary

On view through June 20 at Galerie Tobias Naehring Tobias Naehring in Leipzig, “No Long Term (the last paintings)” bring...
06/16/2026

On view through June 20 at Galerie Tobias Naehring Tobias Naehring in Leipzig, “No Long Term (the last paintings)” brings together nine new paintings by Seth Pick Seth Pick (b. 1985, Reading, based in Berlin) — a painter not so much unknown as under-discussed — and, on the evidence of this exhibition, an increasingly urgent one. The works span oil on linen, accumulating figures, interiors, symbolic fragments, and organic forms into surfaces that appear permanently mid-transformation: bodies becoming landscape, structures becoming flesh, images folding in on themselves to produce something that is neither narrative nor symbol but simply, insistently, there.

Words by Julien Delagrange

Seth Pick
Tobias Naehring

All images courtesy of Galerie Tobias Naehring © Seth Pick

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