Anish Kapoor’s aesthetic exploration of how objects inhabit, distort, and negate space is on full show at his Hayward Gallery exhibition, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the ideas that have pre-occupied him for the past four decades.
As we do every semester, we’ve put together a selection of exhibitions and events planned for the second half of 2026 in São Paulo.
Between February and April, Inhotim opened three new exhibitions and two site-specific works, confirming what the season’s curatorial direction suggested: this anniversary would not be a retrospective exercise in self-congratulation, but a statement on the place of contemporary Brazilian art today.
Julio Le Parc died in Paris on the 30th May 2026, aged 97, just days before the opening of this retrospective at Tate Modern, which he had been eagerly awaiting and had hoped to attend.
During the Biennale months, Venice transforms its 16th-century palazzos, baroque churches and industrial warehouses into art spaces, and the city itself becomes one vast, sprawling exhibition of contemporary art.
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
Here we run through some of the highlights from the fair itself, alongside the exhibitions and events happening across the city that same week, so you can plan your visit properly.
Founded in 1982, ARCOmadrid was among the pioneers of the modern European art fair. More than four decades later, Spain’s leading contemporary art event continues to occupy a distinctive position within the international circuit.
Despite the numerous Picasso exhibitions we have all seen over the years, Tate Modern offers us yet another.
We have selected the year’s must-see programs, bringing together shows set to shape the country’s cultural agenda.
Fortaleza is experiencing a moment of intense activity in the visual arts, being one of the main cultural hubs of Northeast Brazil.
London rarely fails to satisfy the culturally curious, and 2026 offers ample evidence of its continued standing as one of the world’s most varied and ambitious centres for art.
Just before closing for Christmas, White Cube presents an exhibition by the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes.
We have selected 10 remarkable events or moments that shaped 2025 in the arts, with our special focus on contemporary art and São Paulo.
From 22 November to 23 February 2026, the Lasar Segall Museum presents a new exhibition by contemporary artist Alessandra Rehder, who was born in Sao Paulo and developed her photographic practice at the SPEOS Institute in Paris
Come learn about the best art shows on display in São Paulo. You’ll see photography and modern and contemporary art.
In this short review, you will learn more about the show and its shortcomings.
As part of the France–Brazil Season / France–Brazil Cultural Year 2025 – an initiative celebrating two centuries of diplomatic relations between the two countries – Casa Bradesco presents Re-Selvagem – Natureza Inventada, a solo exhibition by French artist Eva Jospin, curated by Marcello Dantas, on view through December 7, 2025.
The Royal Academy’s exhibition pairs Anselm Kiefer with Vincent van Gogh proposing a cross-century dialogue between two artists.
The solo show, on view through August 2025, features a large selection of moving image works spanning 15 years of his career.
On view at London’s Royal Academy of Arts (RA) through April 2025, “Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism” is a large exhibition spanning decades of history, from the 1910s to the 1970s.
When the viewer first enters the exhibition of works by Ficre Ghebreyesus (1962-2012) at Modern Art in London, his first show in the United Kingdom, they encounter a diverse collection of work, with sixteen paintings of different sizes and formal approaches, which somehow appear to form a coherent whole.
Verena Loewensberg (1912-1986) was one of the most influential figures of the Zurich school of concrete artists, whose work evolved from these principles. The current exhibition of her work at Hauser & Wirth in London presents paintings from the 1960s to the 1980s in which Loewensberg disrupts some elements of the rigid norms of concrete art.
Joseph Kosuth’s work, One and Three Chairs (1965), is an iconic illustration of what has become known as Conceptual Art — an art movement that prioritises the idea over the object.
This must-see exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the work of one of Cuba’s most well-known yet enigmatic contemporary artists.
This year, London’s art world promises an exciting group of exhibitions, from emerging artists to established icons, covering diverse practices from around the globe.
The Turner Prize, Britain’s most anticipated art award, sets the tone for contemporary debates concerning the state of the visual arts in the country.
In São Paulo, Brazil, Leme Gallery is currently hosting a solo exhibition by Gabriela Giroletti, a young Brazilian artist based in London, United Kingdom.
Curated by Marcello Dantas, it is the second by this artist in Brazil, after 18 years. Named ‘Inflammation,’ it gathers 19 large-scale works. Some of them were created specifically for this occasion.
Just like last year, painting is in abundance at Frieze London, while sculptural and three-dimensional works seem to have taken a step back, retreating closer to the comfort of the walls.
Renowned for her immersive installations, large-scale sculptures, infinity rooms, and her use of polka dots and bright colours, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most well-known contemporary artists.
“All Rendered Truth” is one of the most enthralling exhibitions currently on view in London. A solo show by celebrated artist and musician Lonnie Holley at Camden Art Centre, the exhibition features a series of new works produced during a residency in Suffolk and other never-seen pieces.
Le Parc was born in Argentina and emigrated to Paris, France, in 1958. Once he was in Europe, Galerie Denise René was crucial for the development of his international career. At that gallery, he was sided by Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Díez, another kinetic artist.
The gallery Duarte Sequeira is a modern structure, built on a hillside in northern Portugal, in the vicinity of the historic Monastery of St. Martin of Tibães, a place where the Benedictine rule of silence, obedience, poverty, and prayer were followed
A major survey of the work of South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi, the exhibition at London’s Tate Modern offers a glimpse into their vast body of work and encapsulates the range of their artistic practice.
This exhibition title, impactful and choral, is indeed a provocative reminder of the solidarity’s feeling that unites women from all ages, forced to fight in order to redeem themselves first as women, and then, in this case, as artists.
The exhibition showcases a unique selection (bought recently by the artist’s estate) of photograms and photographs from her time living with Picasso.
A Journey to the Infinite: Yoo Youngkuk, on view at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice until 24 November 2024, is the first major retrospective of the Korean artist Yoo Youngkuk (1916-2002) in Europe.
Curated by Sarah Bowels (The Smirnov Family Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings at The British Museum) and Grant Lewis, the show illustrates the last thirty years of Michelangelo’s activity, from when he left his hometown Florence to Rome in 1534, until his death at almost 90 years old.
Set almost a year since the artist died, Phyllida Barlow ‘Unscripted’ brings together works from as early as the 1970s to work made and conceived last year.
Amelia Toledo: Chromatic Landscape, a comprehensive show of her works, is now on display at MuBE.
The highly anticipated 60th iteration of the Venice Biennale opened to the public in April, attracting hundreds of artists, curators, cultural practitioners, and aficionados to the Floating City.
Pinacoteca Contemporanea is now holding a solo show of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña named ‘Dreaming about water — A retrospective of the future’.
This exhibition features 59 works by artists from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela, many of which have rarely been seen, drawn from the collection of English art critic Guy Brett (1942-2021).
If you had to sum up the life and work of Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio in one word, it’d be drama. A dramatic life, with equally dramatic paintings.
Francesca Woodman (1958-81) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), two of the most influential photographers, are being showcased in Portrait to Dream In at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The exhibition borrows its title from the controversial book, published in 1973, ‘The Secret Lives of Plants’, in which the authors claimed that plants are beings with emotions and are able to communicate with other creatures like humans.
The first major exhibition of Yinka Shonibare in over twenty years, Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States, on view at the Serpentine South Gallery until early September, features recent sculptures and installations.
It is on display, in Sao Paulo, ‘Claudia Andujar: Cosmovision,’ a solo show by Claudia Andujar, a groundbreaking photographer and activist.
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art exhibition curated by Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith showcases the works of 50 international artists from the 1960s to today.
Displayed across four floors of the Frank Gehry designed building, this show features over 115 works from major global institutions and smaller collections, some of which have been rarely displayed.
In this show, curators Ana Maria Maia and Pollyana Quintella have chosen to bring Clark, rather well-known in the art milieu, to a broader public.
Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Ione Saldanha, Willys de Castro, Djanira, Abdias do Nascimento. These are only a few of the thirty artists featured in Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s, currently on view at London’s Raven Row until early May
Investigating the figure of the brilliant, prolific and fascinating Rembrandt Van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 – Amsterdam 1669) is not easy.
Turner Prize winner, Oscar Murillo, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on issues such as migration, globalisation, and identity.
Entangled Pasts, 1768-now is perhaps one of the most powerful and ambitious exhibitions to take place at the RA in decades.
The show “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You” extends beyond the gallery walls. Barbara Kruger created designs for three London black cabs, digital installation, Silent Writings, 2009/2024, presented in collaboration with Outernet Arts.
In São Paulo, Luisa Strina Gallery is now showing a solo show by Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942), an Italian-born Brazilian artist. It is entitled ‘To want not to want, to desire, and to fear’ and will be on display till 16 March 2024.
‘Indigenous Histories’ is one of the four shows now on display at MASP, not to mention their long-term show with European and Brazilian art pieces. It is part of the theme of the year 2023 at MASP: Indigenous Histories, which has been orienting the events and shows held at the museum.
William Pope.L, better known as Pope.L, was an artist and educator who confronted and changed the mainstream contemporary art scene through his provocative, often absurdist works that explored issues of race, gender, and class in the United States.
Philip Guston (1913-1980) was born in Montreal, the youngest of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
In Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, a large retrospective of the great Japanese artist at the Hayward Gallery, the visitor is introduced to a rich and vast landscape of photographs that spans his 50-year practice.
The show consists of 20 paintings and one site-specific installation. The paintings develop themes relating to childhood and are constructed upon a vertical movement.
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology exhibition featuring 250 works by nearly 50 women and gender nonconforming artists. Photographs, films, installations exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, spanning decades, continents, and media, offering perspectives on our ongoing ecological crisis.
‘Sonia Gomes: Symphony of Colours’ is Sonia Gomes’ show currently on display at the Pinacoteca do Estado museum, a top local art institution.
At a time when prominent UK arts institutions are amplifying women’s voices, The Courtauld has taken a significant step by presenting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to a black woman
The exhibition showcases a carefully selected collection of hidden watercolours by Turner and Bonington, both renowned for their mastery of the watercolour medium.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Frieze London returns to Regent’s Park, showcasing art from 160 galleries spanning 46 countries.
Marina Abramović’s major retrospective, the largest in the UK to date, is currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until January 2024.
Since 26 August, a solo show by Maxwell Alexandre has been on display at Casa SP-Arte. The artist, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro city, is globally recognized, having exhibited extensively in Brazil and abroad.
Tate cleverly used the walls surrounding this exhibition to engage in a fun conversation between young Sarah and today’s Sarah.
Moved by curiosity as much as ignorance (as I don’t know much about digital games), I went to see the exhibition Third World: The Bottom Dimension, hoping to learn about this experimental project conceptualised by multi-hyphenate artist Gabriel Massan.
The exhibition explains how modern art evolved from movement to movement, Impressionism to Expressionism, redefining what painting means and its uses to paint what can’t be seen with the eye.
Sweden artist Hilma Af Klint was born in 1862, 10 years before the birth of Dutch star artist Piet Mondrian. They died in the same year in 1944 but never met, and neither saw each other’s work.
Using objects to try and make sense of the world is the core of the current Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at the Design Museum. He questions the value of things and if time changes that.