Exhibition
John Baldessari
No Stone Unturned – Conceptual Photography
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Through November 23, 2025
John Baldessari (1931–2020), one of the most influential figures in conceptual art, spent more than seven decades reshaping how we understand what art can be. Drawing from everyday life and visual culture, he created paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, and photographs that explored the contrast between image and language, object and meaning—often with disarming wit.
No Stone Unturned – Conceptual Photography, is Baldessari’s largest exhibition ever held in Venice and focuses on a crucial moment of his career in the late 1960s, when photography became central to his conceptual practice.
Exhibition
Psychonauts
John Bock and Heiner Franzen
Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin
Through August 11, 2025
Who are we and what are we doing here? Ever since Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) founded psychoanalysis, we have been searching our own souls for answers to life’s great questions. Psychonaut comes from astronaut and literally means soul-sailor. These voyages lead not out into space but towards the infinite expanse within us. In that spirit artists John Bock (*1965) and Heiner Franzen (*1960) explore the human psyche and its depths in their enigmatic videos. They draw inspiration from the cinema with its rivers of imagery, a machinery of dream and myth that has often been compared with the human mind. Bock’s theatrical film COWWIDINOK, 2015, and Franzen’s installation Twin, 2009, are both in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie and will be screened on the museum’s premises for the first time.
Exhibition
Walter Dahn
Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024
Haus Mödrath, Kerpen
Through August 31, 2025
Walter Dahn’s solo exhibition Have Love Will Travel. Works 1986–2024 at Haus Mödrath provides a comprehensive insight into the artist’s work from 1986 onwards. As one of the protagonists of Mülheimer Freiheit in the early 1980s, Dahn became primarily known as a painter. Yet the exhibition deliberately begins after this period and sheds light on Dahn’s expanded concept of painting and his widely ramified system of references to (pop) culture as well as intellectual history. A central focus is on works with a clear reference to music. A catalog with texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oliver Tepel is published on the occasion of the exhibition.
Exhibition
Thea Djordjadze / Edi Hila
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Through October 5, 2025
In her experimental artistic practice, Thea Djordjadze proceeds by means of an informed intuition. Djordjadze’s sculptures and environments emerge from the artist’s intense engagement with the active and latent energies of a space, using a large range of materials in assemblages of singular poetry. Her works are created in a process that responds to the particular site, sometimes reflexively, sometimes as an immediate reaction to the given conditions. Often, images, forms and ideas from literature, design, painting, architecture – particularly, but not limited to, Modernism – flow into Djordjadze’s work, leaving an imprint like an echo of the artist’s encounter with them. Thea Djordjadze will create a new body of works for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, offering viewers a spatial, physical and psychological experience. Doing so, the artist will challenge not only the formal and material qualities of the building, but also its situated context.
Exhibition
Gilbert & George
DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR…
The Gilbert & George Centre, London
Through February 2026
The third exhibition to take place at The Gilbert & George Centre, DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR…, is an exhibition of 18 pictures made by Gilbert & George between 1984 and 1998, an astonishingly prolific period for the artists. The exhibition presents a rare opportunity for viewers by bringing together works from a period in which the art of Gilbert & George forged further and deeper into a phantasmagorical and visionary landscape.
Bringing together the epic quadripartite picture DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR (1984), which the exhibition takes its title from, the Centre presents it alongside a unique selection of pictures from Gilbert & George’s NEW DEMOCRATIC PICTURES (1991) and RUDIMENTARY PICTURES (1998).
Exhibition
Jenny Holzer
Glenstone Museum, Potomac
Ongoing
Jenny Holzer has long used language as her primary medium, engaging words and phrases as tools for personal and political examination. Her presentation in Room 2 will include drawing, paintings, LED signs, and plaques alongside the seminal installation The Child Room (1990). Originally commissioned for the US Pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale, The Child Room combines vertical scrolling LED elements with a custom engraved marble floor featuring an original text by Holzer. This is the first time the work has been on view since 1993.
Screening
Arthur Jafa
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
E-Werk Luckenwalde
Through July 12, 2025
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016) consists of footage shot by Jafa, a visual artist with a long career as a cinematographer and film director, as well as clips sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and amateur videos, much of which were sourced from the internet. These images traverse the twentieth century, focusing on the lives of Black people set against the backdrop of systemic racism and white supremacism. The work is a powerful meditation on racism and Black pain, creativity and Black resilience and will be shown for the first time in Brandenburg.
Exhibition
Barbara Kruger
ANOTHER DAY. ANOTHER NIGHT.
OTRO DÍA. OTRA NOCHE.
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Through November 9, 2025
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proudly presents the first survey exhibition in Spain of work by renowned American artist Barbara Kruger. This exhibition showcases Kruger’s ability to transform architectural spaces into immersive, text-driven experiences. Visitors will step into powerful installations where language takes center stage, enveloping entire environments with vinyl, soundscapes, and multichannel video works. Many of these pieces revisit and reimagine Kruger’s early works, brought to life anew through digitization, large-scale LEDs, and the integration of sound.
Exhibition
Consider Listening
Group Exhibition with Louise Lawler
Curated by Sam Durant and Axel Haubrok
FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin
Through July 6, 2025
The exhibition Consider Listening presents works from the haubrok collection and loans that address a range of issues, including artistic freedom, ecology, economic constraints, racism, and other forms of discrimination. At the same time, they illustrate the need to look closely and to allow for ambivalences.
Exhibition
Once Within a Time: 12th SITE SANTA FE International
Group Exhibition with Louise Lawler, Mire Lee and Nora Turato
Curated by Cecilia Alemani
SITE SANTA FE
Through January 12, 2026
Once Within a Time takes its title from the most recent film by Godfrey Reggio, the legendary experimental filmmaker who has long resided in Santa Fe. Reggio’s Once Within a Time (2022) intertwines fairytale atmospheres with apocalyptic landscapes, pursuing a form of storytelling that blends the fantastical and the mundane in a moving portrait of the existential condition. Inspired by the film’s circular narratives, the 12th International places storytelling at its heart, exploring New Mexico’s multilayered histories through the lens of more than ninety participants.
Exhibition
David Maljkovic
Razstava
Cukrarna, Ljubljana
Through October 26, 2025
In his project David Maljkovic shows how painting opens a discursive field, reflecting and articulating the manifold relations between image, space, and time. On view at Cukrarna are works produced since 2017 in which Maljkovic has created image constellations linking two worlds, as Gilles Deleuze argued in his lectures on painting that deal with the defined and the undefined, chaos and order, figure and ground. As in earlier projects, Maljkovic relates to the heritage of the (South-) Eastern European avant-garde and its relevance for today. According to the artist himself he gauges “the idea of painting as a guardian of time and the painter’s position as its witness” on several levels by interweaving the past and the present. This reveals an “open malleability of time folding in upon itself, a sort of ontological multitemporal existence.”
Exhibition
Anthony McCall
Works 1972–2020
Futura, Seoul
Through September 7, 2025
Futura Seoul presents Anthony McCall’s first extensive survey exhibition in South Korea comprising early performance based work, vertical solid light films, a sound installation and extensive archival material.
Publication
Reinhard Mucha
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space
Edited by Sprüth Magers in cooperation with Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Luhring Augustine, Lia Rumma Gallery
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, March 23, 2023
Urlaub im All / Holiday in Space is an artist book which can be considered as Reinhard Mucha’s personal oeuvre catalogue. It comprises two volumes in a slipcase and is based on Reinhard Mucha's so-called portfolio books that he created for himself over the years, relating his photographically documented works to one another both formally and aesthetically. Nearly 800 reproductions as well as detailed image and work information provide unprecedented, comprehensive insight into both his work and understanding of sculpture. Also published for the first time are 19 letters and texts by Mucha further elucidating his artistic thinking.
Exhibition
Senga Nengudi
Senga Nengudi & Maren Hassinger
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centro Julio González, Valencia
Through November 2, 2025
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno presents a two-person exhibition with Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger. For the first time in a Spanish museum, the close friendship and collaboration between both artists will be worked on, which originated with the experiences of Studio Z in Los Angeles and continued for more than five decades since the 70s, through installations, texts, sculptures, performances and video projects.
Exhibition
David Ostrowski
Let me put it this way
Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe
Through November 23, 2025
Aranya Art Center North is pleased to present German artist David Ostrowski’s first solo museum exhibition Let me put it this way in China. Known for his reduced canvases, Ostrowski has produced a body of work that relentlessly questions the medium of painting and its constitutive elements – deliberately breaking with painterly codes and traditions. On some of his paintings there is simply a sprayed line while others show traces of dirt or glued-on paper remnants from his studio. Thus, the artist’s light-handed and complex approach to the non-motif opens up the space of the canvas for unique breaks in perception and an unexpected freedom of vision.
This exhibition is organized by Assistant Curator Gao Liangjiao and Associate Curator Wu Yiyang at the Aranya Art Center.
Exhibition
Gala Porras-Kim
The reflection at the threshold of a categorical division
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Through July 27, 2025
Systems of categorization and inevitable mislabeling, material preservation and eventual degradation, and an impulse to record in the face of inherent forgetfulness—these contradictions inform Gala Porras-Kim’s interest in museums and their practices. In dialogue with curators at Carnegie Museum of Art over the past two years, Porras-Kim has been trawling the museum’s database to better understand its holdings and the Carnegie Institute’s evolving cataloguing systems and acquisition history. Her findings reveal overlapping areas in the collections of Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Carnegie Public Library, where each institution stewards their objects differently—as art, science, and information respectively. Porras-Kim proposes that art is not a fixed category, and questions the conceptual frameworks and individual subjectivities that go into presenting and understanding an object as a work of art.
Exhibition
Pamela Rosenkranz
Liquid Body
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Through August 24, 2025
Liquid Body is the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands by Pamela Rosenkranz. Known for her immersive environments, Rosenkranz transforms the museum into a charged sensory field, where the distinction between perception and matter dissolves, and light behaves as if it were thought itself. In a space bathed in a green and blue glow—suggestive of synthetic ecologies and unearthly atmospheres—painting exists not just as surface, but as a living system where presence and perception interact.
Exhibition
Andreas Schulze
Le Consortium, Dijon
Through November 2, 2025
Andreas Schulze’s exhibition at Le Consortium is the artist’s first solo show in France for 30 years. Schulze – one of the key figures in contemporary German painting – is known for his autonomous visual language and his room spanning pictorial installations. The exhibition, curated by Éric Troncy, focuses on the painting itself and presents the canvases in an almost purist manner, providing a comprehensive insight into Schulze’s painterly practice. Featuring works from the 1980s to the present, the show includes iconic works such as Traffic Jam – the series of life-size paintings of intriguing vehicles arranged as a classical frieze. Another premiere in France is an early work complex – consisting of three paintings and a sculpture – which can be read as Schulze’s homage to Barnett Newman’s Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue.
Exhibition
Nora Turato
IN SITU #1 – I hear you, I hear you.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Through August 31, 2025
The Stedelijk launched IN SITU, a new series in the mezzanine of the new building. A new generation of artists has been commissioned to create experimental works for one of the museum's largest intermediate spaces.
For her new work, Turato examines the impact of language on our self-image, expression, and identity—from how we learn to speak as children to how we constantly adopt the words of others. By combining language and typography, she questions how much control we truly have over how we communicate. For her site-specific work, Turato is developing a custom-made typeface and a script for her own monumental moving billboard. She explores how rhythm, pronunciation, design, and typography influence the power, ambience and character of language.
Exhibition
Kaari Upson
Dollhouse – A Retrospective
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Through October 26, 2025
Bodies tell tales. Objects remember. Memories leave traces. In Kaari Upson’s distinctive world, beauty meets horror, sensitivity resonates with despair. The first retrospective museum exhibition featuring Upson after her untimely death shows the strength and range of an artist already well on her way to becoming a modern classic. At her untimely death from cancer in 2021, aged 51, Kaari Upson was widely regarded as one of the most significant and versatile American artists of her generation with a practice spanning sculpture, drawing, performance, film and painting. Though her career was cut short, she has left behind a rich, intense and strongly personal body of work that revolves around identity, body, relationships, emotions, illness and loss.
Exhibition
Kara Walker
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA
Through spring 2026
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler.
Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners
Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious
by
Kara E-Walker.
Kara Walker has long been recognized for her incisive examinations of the dynamics of power and the exploitation of race and sexuality. Her work leverages expressions of fantasy and humor to confront troubling histories and dominant narratives, repossessing control in the process. Inspired by a wide range of sources, from antique dolls to Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower, Walker’s new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society. The presentation marks the first time that SFMOMA has commissioned an artist to create a site-specific installation for the Roberts Family Gallery.
Exhibition
The stories we tell
Group Exhibition with Kara Walker and Andro Wekua
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Through October 26, 2025
In The stories we tell, contemporary artists create works that explore the past, interpret the present and imagine the future. History is a story that’s constantly in motion, and always open to reinterpretation. The stories we tell shows art as a catalyst for change. The artists in this exhibition shed light on society from their own personal perspectives. Their stories are about the human condition – about the complexities, contradictions and possibilities of our time. They expose underlying structures and challenge us to rethink what we have taken for granted.
Exhibition
John Baldessari
Parables, Fables and Other Tall Tales
Centre for Fine Arts – BOZAR, Brussels
September 19, 2025–January 25, 2026
John Baldessari (1931–2020) was a giant of contemporary art, whose codes he turned upside down. This autumn, Bozar is offering an essential insight into his work, a must for anyone wanting to grasp the subtleties of the avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. This first retrospective since his death will focus more specifically on his work during the 1980s, which was also the decade of profound breakthroughs that saw the artist emancipate himself from convention. Known for his assemblages of cropped and colorized photos and films, Baldessari constantly blurred visual boundaries, questioning artistic practice and teaching. An influential artist on the contemporary art scene, he introduced a complex narrative tinged with humor, creating a new visual alphabet that influenced both North America and Europe. The exhibition will explore and illustrate the impact of his work, and its relevance to generations born in the digital age.
Exhibition
The Parks of Aomame
Group Exhibition with Cyprien Gaillard and Mire Lee
Okayama Art Summit
September 26–November 26, 2025
The theme of this year’s Okayama Art Summit is The Parks of Aomame, inspired by Aomame, the mysterious character from Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84. As Artistic Director Philippe Parreno describes in his statement, a curated group of thirty individuals and groups from twelve countries and regions—including artists, musicians, architects, designers, scientists, writers, and thinkers—will use their unique methods of expression to create new forms, transforming Okayama’s public spaces into places where reality and imagination naturally merge. Sprüth Magers is delighted that Cyprien Gaillard and Mire Lee are amongst the participating artists.
Exhibition
Gilbert & George
21ST CENTURY PICTURES
Hayward Gallery, London
October 7, 2025–January 11, 2026
21ST CENTURY PICTURES marks the third time Gilbert & George have shown their art at the Hayward Gallery and it is set to be their largest exhibition in the space to date. Showing their living journey as artists, this presentation will focus on new pictures from the start of the millennium as well as pictures that have never been seen in the UK.
The artists will also showcase pictures across key series made since 2000, such as NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016) and their more recent CORPSING PICTURES (2022). Through these, audiences will be invited to explore contemporary society through the complexities of hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption, violence, patriotism, addiction, ghosts, death and more.
Exhibition
Arthur Jafa
Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa – Less Is Morbid
The Museum of Modern Art – MoMA, New York
November 19, 2025–July 5, 2026
For this exhibition – the latest in MoMA’s Artist’s Choice series – Jafa has selected nearly 100 objects from the Museum’s collection. Placing things beside one another, he creates relationships between pictures and between their makers: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly; Cady Noland and Mark Rothko; Lygia Clark, Roy DeCarava, and Piet Mondrian. Many of the works share an allover approach to composition in which the picture exceeds its physical frame. Seen together, the installation of works collapses typically opposed ideas and approaches – minimalist/maximalist, sparse/dense, atomic/cosmological, individual/collective – as well as the hierarchies that emerge from this kind of binary thinking.
Exhibition
Senga Nengudi
Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi
Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti, Columbus
July 19, 2025–January 11, 2026
Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi is the first museum retrospective on the pioneering collective and cross-disciplinary practices of artists Maren Hassinger (*1947, Los Angeles) and Senga Nengudi (*1943, Chicago). Since their first encounter in Los Angeles in 1977, Hassinger and Nengudi have developed an expansive five-decade collaboration and lifelong friendship. Exceeding categorization, their works are grounded in performance, conceptual ideas, and a passionate exploration of the body in motion tied to their shared training in movement languages developed by choreographers such as Lester Horton and Rudy Perez.
Exhibition
Jon Rafman
Nine Eyes
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
October 8, 2025–January 11, 2026
Canadian artist Jon Rafman is renowned for a multifaceted work that revolves around our relationship with digital technologies and surveillance. He will often use images and stories from the internet, which he adapts and reworks seeking to cast an empathetic and critical look at the way technologies affect modern life – emotionally, socially and existentially. Nine Eyes, considered a major work in contemporary art, is presented for the first time in a standalone exhibition. Rafman's pioneering project, which has been developing since 2008, focuses on both the everyday and the existential aspects of life in the age of digital surveillance.
Screening
Martine Syms
The African Desperate
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
August 1, 2025, 7:30pm
Palace Bryant (Diamond Stingily), a Black artist on the cusp of graduating from a prestigious MFA program, endures one final absurd day of microaggressions, pretentious critiques, and overwhelming expectations before embarking on a chaotic, drug-fueled odyssey. Martine Syms’ The African Desperate (2022) is a razor-sharp, satirical fever dream that dissects the contradictions of the contemporary art world, capturing the existential exhaustion of being both fetishized and dismissed within elite creative spaces, making it a hilarious yet unflinching meditation on race, class, and survival in the avant-garde. This screening is part of the series American Gurl: Seeking…, guest programmed by curators Zehra Zehra and Kilo Kish, exploring how we can reimagine the American Dream to include women of color and their hopes and desires, while exploring new ways of dreaming.
Exhibition
Robert Therrien
This is a Story
The Broad, Los Angeles
November 22, 2025–April 5, 2026
This fall, The Broad presents Robert Therrien: This is a Story, the largest museum exhibition of the late artist’s widely-adored work to date. Therrien’s meditations on scale and material are a deeply influential and well-known approach within the field of contemporary sculpture, significant to The Broad’s own identity as a museum, and long admired by visitors of all ages. The installation will showcase Therrien’s personal vocabulary of images and symbols—from enormous tables, chairs, and dishes, to intimate drawings of snowmen, birds, and chapels—as they become a language of continuous creation and transformation for the artist over time. Featuring more than 120 works spanning five decades, the exhibition offers unprecedented access to the artist’s exploration of scale, memory, and perception, just miles from the downtown Los Angeles home and studio space he operated out of for close to thirty years beginning in 1990. Many of the works on view, including those created just before Therrien’s untimely death in 2019, have never been featured in museum exhibitions and will offer new avenues of understanding his practice.
