Exhibitions: Reviews, Gallery Visits, and Contemporary Art Spaces

Xenia Lesniewski Hides a Leg Inside a Torn-Open Gift Box

Xenia Lesniewski and Galerie Zeller van Almsick won the Bildrecht ASTORIA Art Award 2026 at Astoria Artshow in Vienna, on view through September 13.

Riikka Anttonen Turns the Spinning Top Into a Machine for Metamorphosis

Read our independent review of Riikka Anttonen's Vertere at Sinne, Helsinki, with spinning-top sculptures turning Ovid's Metamorphoses into marble mosaic.

Read our independent art analysis of Eva Chenyao He's Procrustean at COLLECTA in Shanghai, exploring bodily correction, sculpture and control.

Eva Chenyao He's Bodies Comply Before Anyone Asks Them To

Read our independent art analysis of Eva Chenyao He's Procrustean at COLLECTA in Shanghai, exploring bodily correction, sculpture and control.

Marwa Arsanios Spends Eight Years Asking Who Land Belongs To.

An independent review of Marwa Arsanios’s five-part film cycle Who is Afraid of Ideology? at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, on view through October 4, 2026.

Elena Adamou Finds Sacred Icons in the Weeds Nobody Names

Explore our archive review of Elena Adamou's Iconographies; Tiny Resistance, Crevices and Other Creatures at primopiano, Montesilvano (2026).

Leah Dixon Gives the Wheel a Different Inventor

Leah Dixon with Tartan Tartana at Spiritvessel in Espinavessa, curated and text by Sira Pizà, on view through September 12, 2026.

Kallirroi Ioannidou Paints Bodies That Cannot Decide What They Are

Read our independent art analysis of Kallirroi Ioannidou's Galvanizing Memories at Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning. On memory, myth, and hybrid bodies.

When External Rules Become Internal Convictions

Umrian Gallery presents Soft Power, a group show by Aziya, Bartoníčková, Roztočilová and Šáteková on how power lives inside routine.

Nari Ward Revisits Haile Selassie’s 1963 UN Speech Through Found Materials

An independent review of Nari Ward's Until That Day at DESTE Foundation's Slaughterhouse Project Space on Hydra, on view through Oct 31, 2026.

Roland Reiter Turns Salvaged Vehicle Parts Into Bodies That Refuse a Name

Read our independent review of Roland Reiter’s No matter what it is, but it matters what it could be at Neue Galerie Graz. Exploring sculpture, vehicle parts and posthumanism in Graz.

Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova Turn Violence Into a Ceremony

Read our independent art analysis of Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova at ROAM projects in Berlin. Exploring violence, ritual and materiality.

Maija Fox Leaves Fingerprints on a Material Built to Have None

A Conversation between Ellery and Maija Fox in the OUTPOST courtyard about her exhibition As the sap rises in Norwich: cast aluminium, Baltic granite, and the labour of the workshop.

What a Mountain Gives Up When You Dig a Tunnel Through It

Review of TRANSFER Exhibition at Kulturforum Laßnitzhaus in Deutschlandsberg, where six artists respond to the Koralm Tunnel through archaeology and democracy.

Ruins That Keep Growing

Musée d'art de Joliette presents Patrick Bérubé's (Ce)pendant, where mycelium, bronze, and silk stage ruins that are still forming. Through September 7, 2026.

Proof of Looking - David Hanes Graduation Show

David Hanes shows I Look at the Royal College of Art Degree Show in London. Twenty small oil paintings drawn from five years of travel, now featured by Catapult Contemporary

Tsvetomira Borisova Suspends an Ancient Gesture Without Resolving it

Read our independent art review of Tsvetomira Borisova's A Hot Day at lo3eto, Vetren Dol, Bulgaria. Exploring myth, fertility and ceramic form.

Too Big for a Living Room, Too Intimate for a Museum

An independent review of Signal V, A Selection of Objects and Installations from the Robert Runták Collection at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, through 24 September 2026.

Sebastian Scholz Keeps Building the Room He Never Left

An independent review of Sebastian Scholz's ludo at Global International, Vienna, where objects, drawings and materials return to the logic of childhood play.

ENESS Turns an Old ATM Into a Confession Booth for the Algorithm.

An independent review of Nimrod Weis's HPATM at FUTUREJUICE, part of Automation Bias during Illuminate Adelaide, on view through 30 August 2026.

Agnieszka Topolska Keeps a Crushed Water Bottle Under Glass Like Evidence

Exhibition review of Agnieszka Topolska’s Call It Fate, Call It Karma at Galeria Skala in Poznań, featuring a crushed water bottle and cast reliefs.

A Sculpture No One Is Allowed to Enter, Repaired by Everyone Anyway

This review documents Reparaturgesellschaft, a group exhibition featuring eight artists at the Wewerka Pavilion, which ran through August 2, 2026.

What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris

Read our review of the group show What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris, on the mutual gaze between object and viewer. Curated by Egor Miroshnichenko

A Body Rebuilt From the Foundation Up

TICK TACK presents Hannah Perry's Hard Love in Antwerp's De Zonnewijzer. Steel, resin, sound and installation address matrescence and labour. Through 1 August 2026.

Erekle Chinchilakashvili Threads Tbilisi's Memory Through a Steel Frame

Read our independent review of Erekle Chinchilakashvili's The Story of a Thread Seen Through the Window at The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi. Memory, painting and archive.

Devotion Begins Where Function Runs Out

Skånes konstförening presents Object of Devotion, works by Ville Laurinkoski and Matti Sumari in Malmö, curated by Tawanda Appiah. Through 14 June 2026.

The Everyday Was Never the Easy Subject

An independent review of Haricot Gallery's group show, What Shall We Do for the Rent? Five London painters turn kitchens, bathtubs and cut flowers into an argument about rent.

After Stone, Dimitrios Antonitsis Lets the Island Dream in Water

An independent review of Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) at Hydra School Projects on Hydra Island, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, through Sept 6.

Maciej Nowacki and Miłosz Tomkowicz Let the Body Argue With the Monument

HOS Gallery presents Blood Concrete Sun, pairing Maciej Nowacki's queer bodies with Miłosz Tomkowicz's concrete monuments. Warsaw, through Aug 8.

Looking Up Is Also a Way of Questioning the Ground - Rotor Graz

Rotor Graz presents A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird, with artists exploring mythological creatures, from 29 May to 1 August and 24 August to 5 September 2026.

What Cuteness Is Built to Hide

Clauda presents Olga Krykun with the exhibition Stardust for Tomorrow in Prague, where kitsch sunflowers and kawaii softness conceal memories of war.

The Dead Do Not Log Off Anymore

Raleigh Chapel presented Nicola Genovese's Infinite Stage, Chapter I in London, pairing griefbots and aging bodies in performance and sculpture. Through 28 June 2026.

The Interruption Is Where the Meaning Starts

Charis Judith presents new marble, bronze and glass sculptures in her Berlin solo studio exhibition We Are Being Carried Somewhere. Feature text by David Sharp.

Space Expands Toward the Viewer. So Does Belief.

The Edit Gallery presents The Greatest Nation Ever, Yeti’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Limassol. Paintings, sculpture, and installation. Catapult Contemporary Review

A Room That Reconfigures Itself Has No Fixed Center

Louis Morlæ fills Tranen with robotic walls, an oversized airbag, and AI-generated films. A solo exhibition about disruption, inscrutable systems, and the end of a legible world. Curated by Toke Lykkeberg

A Body That Learns to Rot Slower Than the Room Around It

Pani Domu presents Kamil Kukla's Silva in Poznań. Paintings, gouaches, and sculptures where forests absorb debris and bodies stop resolving.

Alejandro Monge’s Synthetic Future at LA BIBI Gallery in Palma de Mallorca

LA BIBI Gallery presents Synthetic Future by Alejandro Monge in Palma de Mallorca. Resin and cement sculptures on hyperconnectivity, isolation, and the synthetic body.

KiefferWoodtli’s AXES at Alvarez Chida in Mexico City

KiefferWoodtli present AXES at Alvarez Chida in Mexico City. Sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, and solar data map orientation as a fragile act. Through July 10, 2026.

Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo at Phantom Pförtnerhaus Berlin

Phantom Pförtnerhaus presents Chapter II in Berlin. Sofiia Yesakova and Matilde Sambo on fragmentation, persistence, and material form. Through 12 July 2026.

Poison Blooms Here in Permanent Spring

Anna Mari Liivrand’s Amid Bitter Flowers fills the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia with a fragile garden of poisonous plants, iron, glass, and found objects that refuse to separate the sacred from the discarded.

What the Moth Does at Night, the Guest Does at Dusk

Vartai Gallery presents Liump! Fitness? by Laurynas Skeisgiela in Vilnius. Mimicry, moth observation, and Heuriger ritual in a multi-room installation.

The Pavement Was Always Writing Back

AMP Gallery presents Min Jeong Park's solo exhibition in Peckham, reading the city's pavement surfaces as accumulations of use and time. Dec 2025.

Camouflage Means the Landscape Was Already Watching You

Katharina Busl builds a forest theater at Paltz Biënnale 2026, Soest. Camouflage tarps, silicone masks, sculptural ear forms. On view through June 21.

A Body Breathes Whether or Not Anyone Thinks to Listen

Rahel Oberhummer presents Still Breathing at Maison Visinand, Montreux. Glass sculptures with glacial ice cores. Curated by Audrey Beyeler and Noor Diba.

The Skeleton Has Always Been a Building Site - Ottone Radavi at Pop Up Gallery

Pop Up Gallery Paris presents Rebone organizm'os by Ottone Radavi. Modular bone sculptures, 3D-printed resin, participatory assembly. Paris, May 3–6, 2026.

Light Does Not Arrive. It Persists. Galerie Leu Munich

Julia Selin's Sun's Show at Galerie Leu Munich brings process-based oil paintings where light is released from within the surface. Through June 13, 2026.

The Architecture Had Already Become Image

PS ROY presents Gwon Osang's SCULPTURE CENTER 4/4 in Seoul. Photography adhered to foam turns five walls into a virtual interior.

Reluctance Is a Form of Admission

Galerie 3AP Frankfurt presents "Ungerne," sculpture, photography, and installation by Joschua Yesni Arnaut. Curated by Aileen Treusch.

The In-Between Has Weight

Dortmund Kreativ presents Call Me We by lom-of-LaMa at SUPERRAUM . Shared bodies, modified cameras, identity as variable. February 27 to March 27, 2026.

Complicity Begins in the Act of Looking - Favu Gallery

FAVU Gallery Brno presents Echoes that refuse to fade. Anzhelika Palyvoda, Céline Struger, Sofiia Yesakova on authoritarian memory and the politics of seeing. Curated by Massimiliano Maglione

Infrastructure Leaks

Anna Engelhardt and Tina Bxtq present Bleed Through at Galerie 35M2, curated by Zuzana-Markéta Macková through 8 August 2026.

A Body That Keeps Arriving in Countries Where It Does Not Speak the Language

NAK Aachen presents Elen Braga's first institutional solo exhibition: textile installations on migration, xenophobia, and identity. Through 26 July 2026.

A History That Did Not Ask to Be Quoted

Babst Gallery presents Justin Ortiz: Will I Live Again in Los Angeles.

Giving Has Never Been a Disinterested Act

HOS Gallery Warsaw presents The Gift / Das Gift, curated by Marianna Łomża. Four artists on desire, sacrifice, and the cost of giving.

A Form Doesn't Die. It Comes Back Different.

Ernst Koslitsch at Bildraum 07 Vienna. Formwork timber in altered constellations, curated by Katharina Hoffmann. 17 April – 27 May 2026.

Return Is Not the Same as Repetition - Kaja Clara Joo / 다시 : DASI / Korean Culture Center Vienna

Kaja Clara Joo at Korean Culture Center Vienna presents 다시 DASI, an installation tracing material return across residencies, industrial histories, and systems of extraction. On view through 5 June 2026.

Wanting to Win Was Always About Not Being Left Alone

Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe presents Finja Sander's site-specific exhibition on grief, intimacy, and collective memory in Ettlingen, through May 31, 2026. Curated by Alex Besta

When Language Recedes, Architecture Remains

Olivia Rode Hvass's floating reed house at Skt. Hans Psychiatry, Roskilde, part of the nomadic Museet for Samtidskunst. A foam cocoon, a monument to care, built to be burned.

Shame Has a Geology - Dino Cama and Rune Lambrecht at Gallery Fusion

Gallery Fusion presents GRIHODDA, a duo exhibition by Dino Cama and Rune Lambrecht. New paintings, sculptures, and installations through May 17.

The Imprint Stays When the Figure Leaves

Gallery Rechnitzer Budapest presents Inner Spaces. Emma Kling, Júlia Csapó, Eszter Kálóczy on the body's thresholds. Curated by Flóra Gadó, 2026.

What the Archive Doesn't Classify - Nata Varazi and Gvantsa Jishkariani in a Duo Exhibition

The Why Not Gallery presents Catalogue of Sensory Data, a duo exhibition by Nata Varazi and Gvantsa Jishkariani at Fabrika Project Space, Tbilisi, 2026.

Every Fresh Start Carries the Last One Inside It - Review Josefine Schulz

Kunstraum Ortloff Leipzig presents Josefine Schulz's Makeover. On identity as process, the glow-up as loop, and overpainting as method. .

Technology Moved In. The Body Is Still Adjusting.

BERG Contemporary presents Thordis Erla Zoega's Domestic Sci-fi in Reykjavík. AI-predicted sunrises, dichroic light, and the blind as primary medium.

What the Body Inherits Before Language Can Name It

Galeria Piana presents Agata Jarosławiec: We Speak in Echoes in Kraków. Silicone, crochet, and folk heritage as somatic archive. Through 09.05.2026.

The Middle Finger as Serious Argument

Joan Pallé at Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida: new work on youth, powerlessness, and subcultural refusal as genuine political gesture. Curated by Sjors Bindel Through May 2026.

Archive of Contact

Liget Gallery presents Asztrid Csatlós and Eszter Metzing in Budapest. Trace-making as relational act, not residue, but ongoing negotiation between body, material, and absence.

Gut Feeling as a Compositional Principle

Jacob Bjørn Gallery presents Abel Kabel "GOT GUTS", figurative painting fusing pop-cultural symbols with personal narrative. Aarhus, April-May 2026.

Still Life with Collapsed Ideology

VUNU Vienna presents Tudor Ciurescu's ELEGIA - taxidermy, painting, and dark wood frames tracking desire after authority's retreat. Through May 2026.

The Inner World Doesn't Have an Entrance

LUFT Festival presents Unconscious Paradises at Gallery GAFU in Ostrava. Seven artists on inner space, bliss, and the limits of self-knowledge. April-May 2026.

A Parliament Where Nothing Stands on a Pedestal

JesuitenFoyer Vienna presents PARLAMENT by Jörg Reissner. Installation from scrap MDF, plywood, and canvas, arranged at eye level.

Care and Control Share a Vocabulary

Vivienne Sun at a.d.b.k. Nürnberg. Sculptures from medical furniture, resin, and wood suspended between care and control.

Everything That Accelerates Leaves Something Behind

Sinne presents Maija Fox's Hard Shoulders in Helsinki. Cast metal and woven wire where infrastructure and marsh ecology meet. Curated by Markus Aström

Gestation Does Not End in Birth

Galerie Kandlhofer presents So Young Park's Gestated Leak in Vienna. 3D-printed HWA entities suspended between digital fabrication and organic form. April 10–May 15, 2026.

The Organism Was Never the Exception

Karim Boumjimar at Møstings Frederiksberg. Wall paintings, ceramics, and silver casts map the body inside nature's cycles. Through June 7, 2026.

Both Hotels Know What Was Taken

Michael McGregor draws the Parthenon Marbles on London and Athens hotel stationery. His Athens debut, at George Benias Gallery, frames restitution as a formal argument.

A Ceremony Doesn't Know It's Violence - Yalda Afsah at Kunsthal Thy .

Yalda Afsah presents Surge at Kunsthal Thy, Denmark. Two video works examine ritual, collective force, and what proximity does to the body. March-May 2026.

Neither Metaphor Nor Pet: A Preview

Kunsthalle Bern presents Lin May Saeed. Sculptures and drawings by the German Iraqi artist who made speciesism a material question. Until May 2026.

Matti Sumari at SIC Helsinki with Worker Ant After Work. Text by Sophia Person

SIC Helsinki presents Matti Sumari's Worker Ant After Work. Anodized aluminum and found lampposts address precarious labor and identity. Through April 2026.

Endurance Is Not the Same Thing as Healing

Xxijra Hii presents Floryan Varennes in London. PVC orthoses, glass ears, lavender: care becomes architecture, endurance without resolution.

The Postcard Arrived. The Silence Came with It - Ramesch Daha at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol

TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol presents Ramesch Daha: Mein Österreich, postcard murals and archive work trace Austria's history. Curated by Nina Tabassomi

Neither Patient Nor Caregiver

Luca Vanello at Z33 Hasselt. Objects from therapeutic gardens, animal prosthetics, and humidity-responsive materials. Through April 12, 2026.

What Does the Image Owe to the Oil That Made It?

basis e.V. presents Infrascapes, the first comprehensive solo show by Kaya & Blank. Night photography, salt prints, and living algae. Curated by Lukas Picard

The Basement Is Where the Power Waits - Esben Weile Kjæ

St. Chads Projects presents Lions by Esben Weile Kjær at King's Cross. A monumental golden inflatable rat in a former hospital room. Curated by Benjamin Orlow

The Optimization Never Arrives Christine Tien Wang + Rachel Youn at Night Gallery Los Angeles

Night Gallery presents Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn in Factory Doomscroll, Los Angeles. On memes, motors, and the labor of the disposable. Through April 4.

A Colony Has No Single Center - Patricia Piccinini at Passage Gallery, Sydney

Passage Gallery Sydney presents Patricia Piccinini's kinetic installation 'Centrifugal Love Garden.' Organoids, hybrid bodies, and care. 6 March–8 May 2026.

What Does It Mean to See What Another Person Thinks?

Anton Janizewski presents Ferdinand Dölberg in Berlin. Spinning panels probe consciousness and whether thought can ever reach another mind.

Can Something Microscopic Outlast Our Dream of Immortality?

Stine Deja presents Micro Management at Viborg Kunsthal. A speculative laboratory where tardigrades expose the limits of humanity's immortality quest.

A Body Held in Suspension Has Not Stopped Living

PART (International Art Residency Austria) presents still (a little life) at The Hall Vienna. Neven Allgeier, Judith Eisler, and Pakui Hardware on suspension, perception, and the body. Curated by Barbara Horvath.

What If the Reward Was Never Part of the Arrangement?

GAVU presents The Cake is a Lie in Prague. Six Czech and Slovak artists examine aspiration, performance pressure, and the myth of earned reward.

What Does the Sea Remember That We Have Chosen to Forget?

ARoS international art museum, Aarhus presents Anna Boghiguian - The Sunken Boat till 19. April 2026

Telegraph Gallery Olomouc: What If the People Inside the Myth Start Painting?

Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc presents fourteen artists from Romania's Cluj School. Curated by Jane Neal. Transylvanian Painting Today - till 11 June 2026.

When Is the Machine Also a Mirror?

Nod Gallery presents Fatal Attraction by Bety Krňanská, Prague. Painting and textile examine the female body against the automobile.

What Happens When a Pop Icon Begins to Rust?

VAA gallery Artifex in Vilnius presents Full Metal Shell DLC, iron sculptures by Liudvikas Kesminas that hold pop icons at the moment they begin to expire.

Cosima von Bonin: The Ritz at House of Gaga

At House of Gaga in Mexico City, Cosima von Bonin presents The Ritz, turning the gallery into a quietly absurd animal theatre of plush bodies, fabric structures and deliberate refusal.

How Much Distance Does Intimacy Require?

Simchowitz presents Two of Us, a joint exhibition by Andrey Samarin and Lera Derkach at Hill House, Pasadena.

What If Neurological Pain Were Already a Deity?

Kunsthalle zu Kiel presents Lu Yang: Electromagnetic Brainology, Kiel. Buddhist deities wired to neurological pain in five-channel video

When Does the Mirror Become the Audience?

GOODBANK, Frankfurt presents Spiegel, a solo exhibition by Katharina Schücke. Ink drawings interrogate the mirror selfie as a site of staging, observation and control. Curated by Maja Dana Lisewski.

Clauda Presents Paula Gogola: soft_sighs synthesis

Clauda, Gallery Prague presents Paula Gogola’s exhibition soft_sighs synthesis, where painting expands into sculptural relief exploring bodily transformation, opacity, and material tension.

Villa du Parc Presents Flo Kasearu: Do Not Step on the Grass

Flo Kasearu’s exhibition Do Not Step on the Grass at Villa du Parc in Annemasse stages a quiet collision between institutional authority and childhood imagination inside the rooms of the historic villa.

GRIP FACE SOLO SHOW - "UTOPÍA DEL LODO Y SASHIMI DE BRUMA" MIRÓ FOUNDATION MUSEUM

Miró Foundation Museum presents Utopía del Lodo y Sashimi de Bruma, a large-scale installation by Grip Face addressing war, civilian fragility and symbolic resistance

Call Someone at ayayay

Group exhibition “Call Someone” at ayayay Frankfurt brings together works by Tobias John, Marcel Walldorf, Kasper de Vos, Tommy Smits, Stijn ter Braak and others, exploring fragile material structures, memory fragments, and sculptural interventions within the gallery space.