Exhibitions & Shows
The best of the year's art exhibitions and shows, compiled by Wallpaper*
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Gideon Appah has joined art’s big league. How is he feeling as his New York debut at Pace gathers momentum?After being signed by Pace in 2022, the artist has gone on to translate thoughts on leisure and freedom into exquisitely detailed oil paintings
By Gameli Hamelo Published
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Everything you need to know about Frieze Los Angeles 2026Los Angeles is gearing up for another jam-packed week of art and cultural events taking place over the last weekend in February.
By Dan Howarth Published
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Experience Ken Gun Min’s explosively colourful work at his LA exhibition, opening this weekendThe Korean artist’s third solo exhibition at Nazarian/Curcio runs from 21 February to 28 March 2026, unveiling shockingly vibrant and richly ornamented works
By Anna Solomon Published
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Lorena Lohr's tiny, surreal paintings are like looking through a motel room peepholeLorena Lohr’s 'Motel Nudes' series, currently on show in London at Soho Revue, gives an erotic nod to a Victorian love token
By Belle Hutton Published
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Artists at 1-54 Marrakech 2026 set a prescient mood for the year aheadHighlights and four talents to know from Morocco’s edition of the annual fair, which spotlights contemporary art and artists from Africa and its diaspora
By Gameli Hamelo Published
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works on paper reveal an artist's technical mastery of his mediumThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark unites 50 of the artist’s works that were ‘not made for the market’ and have a singular focus
By Finn Blythe Published
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Artist Lauren Drescher’s mythical mermaid prints balance rhythm and reverieThe New Zealand and France-based artist exhibits blue-washed prints of otherworldly aquatic tales in New York
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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Sussy Cazalet’s sun-drenched tapestries blur the boundaries between art, design and architectureAt Tristan Hoare Gallery in London, artist Sussy Cazalet's handwoven tapestries are inspired by mid-century design
By Hannah Silver Published
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Sound and Vision: inside Jason Bruges' joyful, immersive David Bowie tribute at Here EastHow the artist and lighting designer filled a vast warehouse with balloons, strobes and one of the Thin White Duke’s greatest songs
By Jordan Bassett Published
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Beanie Babies and Blockbuster nights: this nostalgic London exhibition revisits Y2K aesthetics‘Internet Cafe’, running until 7 March 2026, brings millennial culture into the gallery, paying tribute to the era of flip phones, velour tracksuits and analog rituals
By Anna Solomon Published
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Enter the dark, unsettling world of Pierre Huyghe in BerlinArtist Pierre Huyghe creates a haunting new world in his latest work, ‘Liminals’, commissioned by the LAS Art Foundation
By Hili Perlson Published
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Who are the emerging artists to know in the UK now?New Contemporaries’ annual exhibition in London and Middlesbrough spotlights 26 emerging and early-career artists working in the UK
By Hannah Silver Published
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Beryl Cook celebrated the maligned of British society: now her paintings have their moment in Plymouth‘Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy’ at The Box Plymouth shines a light on the often underestimated artist
By Hannah Silver Published
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The appeal of the ‘internet boyfriend’: Richard Hawkins in Vienna‘Potentialities’ at Kunsthalle Wien sees the American artist dissect the appeal of today’s movie hunk in his first institutional show in more than a decade
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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Art inspired by horror films is chilling and thrilling in LA‘Horror’ at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles considers the enduring, often surprising, influence of horror movies on contemporary artists
By Hannah Silver Published
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Inside AlUla Arts Festival 2026, an open air museum shaped by the desertSet across valleys, canyons and palm-filled oases, the festival brings together land art, performance and new institutions as the destination builds cultural momentum
By Lauren Ho Published
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Mickalene Thomas and Tom Wesselmann consider the female nude in Palm Springs'The Female Form: Tom Wesselmann & Mickalene Thomas from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation' places the artists' work in cultural context at Palm Springs Art Museum
By Hannah Silver Published
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'I have always been interested in debasement as purification': Sam Lipp dissects the body in LondonSam Lipp rethinks traditional portraiture in 'Base', a new show at Soft Opening gallery, London
By Emily Steer Published
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Wallpaper* Design Awards: meet Klára Hosnedlová, art’s Best DreamscaperThe immersive worlds that the Czech artist creates make her a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award 2026 winner; she speaks to us ahead of her first show at White Cube, London
By Hannah Silver Published
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David Lynch’s photographs and sculptures are darkly alluring in BerlinThe late film director’s artistic practice is the focus of a new exhibition at Pace Gallery, Berlin (29 January – 22 March 2026)
By Hannah Silver Published
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Winston Branch searches for colour and light in large-scale artworks in LondonWinston Branch returns to his roots in 'Out of the Calabash' at Goodman Gallery, London ,
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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MoMA celebrates African portraiture in a far-reaching exhibitionIn 'Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination' at MoMA, New York, studies African creativity in photography in front of and behind the camera
By Gameli Hamelo Published
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Don't miss these art exhibitions to see in JanuaryStart the year with an inspiring dose of culture - here are the best things to see in January
By Hannah Silver Published
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In Norway, discover 1000 years of Queer expression in Islamic Art'Deviant Ornaments' at the National Museum of Norway examines the far-reaching history of Queer art
By Emi Eleode Published
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‘I want to bring anxiety to the surface': Shannon Cartier Lucy on her unsettling worksIn an exhibition at Soft Opening, London, Shannon Cartier Lucy revisits childhood memories
By Hannah Silver Published
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Robert Therrien's largest-ever museum show in Los Angeles is enduringly appealing'This is a Story' at The Broad unites 120 of Robert Therrien's sculptures, paintings and works on paper
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Published
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Valie Export in Milan: 'Nowadays we see the body in all its diversity'Feminist conceptual artists Valie Export and Ketty La Rocca are in dialogue at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan. Here, Export tells us what the body means to her now
By Hannah Silver Published

