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.

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.

Nancy Holt
Power Systems
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Through June 29, 2025

Nancy Holt: Power Systems features the most extensive inquiry yet into Nancy Holt’s studies of systems. The exhibition launches in summer 2024 with a presentation of Pipeline, which calls attention to the physical and economic systems powering buildings and to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. Holt visited Alaska in March of 1986 at the invitation of the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, with the hope she might create a work of art in celebration of the region’s beauty. Holt was instead struck by the infiltration of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System through the landscape. In response she made Pipeline, a sculpture made of steel pipes that twist in and out of the gallery, winding down to the floor where one section of pipe leaks—an incessant drip of oil pooling thickly on a white base. Pipeline points to the unchecked audacity and devastating consequences of the energy industry.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.