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.

We have selected 10 remarkable events or moments that shaped 2025 in the arts, with our special focus on contemporary art and São Paulo.

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.

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.

‘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.