Cheekwood Wins Awards From American Association of Museums

Judith Belzer explores global upheaval at Hosfelt Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Judith Belzer is a bi-coastal painter who uses the language of landscape to try to understand and come to terms with the current environmental, political and social climate. Her most recent work explores the idea that instability and unpredictability, though anxiety-provoking, may offer opportunity for growth… and maybe even the possibility of finding peace. For more than four decades, Belzer has utilized a technically eclectic, but always painterly, vocabulary of dammed rivers, closeups of tree bark, the locks of the Panama Canal, the intersection of the San Francisco Bay with the industrial complexes on its shores, and improbably balanced boulders – all as metaphors for personal and collective emotional states. In her new paintings, shards of matter fling and scatter through clouds of color and light. There is no ground here. No solidity. Nor security. ... More

Resilience in color: Monterey Museum of Art honors three Japanese American trailblazers
MONTEREY, CA.- As part of a national tour organized by the Japanese American National Museum, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo is on view at Monterey Museum of Art from February 5–April 19, 2026. The exhibition introduces the public to three trailblazing Japanese American women, whose artwork and life stories expand our understanding of both California Art and the American experience. Curated by Dr. ShiPu Wang, Coats Family Chair in the Arts and Professor of Art History, University of California, Merced, the exhibition spans eight decades and reveals the range and depth of these artists' bodies of work, connections that have been previously unexplored, and includes many pieces on view to the public for the first time. MMA is the fourth and final traveling venue for Pictures of Belonging before its final stop at JANM in late 2026. ... More

David Claerbout unveils 'The woodcarver and the forest' at Annet Gelink
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the third solo show by David Claerbout at the gallery. At the heart of the exhibition is Claerbout’s newest video work, The woodcarver and the forest (2025). The woodcarver and the forest unfolds around two central figures: a solitary woodcarver and the forest that surrounds him. Set in a large house deep in the woods, the film follows a man who spends his days ceaselessly carving wooden spoons, recalling craft practices often embraced as analogue antidotes to screen fatigue and as ways of reconnecting with nature. The slow, repetitive gestures of carving and the soft yet sharp sounds they produce evoke a sense of calm and focused attention, while introducing a subtle irony into the work as it questions comfort, attention, and the mechanisms through which contemporary art seeks to engage its audience. Over ... More

Baroque nymphs for a digital age: Aistė Stancikaitė reimagines the Zwinger at Kunstverein Dresden
DRESDEN.- Echoes marks the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by the Lithuanian-born, Berlin-based artist Aistė Stancikaitė (b. 1988), presented at Kunstverein Dresden. For this occasion, Stancikaitė has developed a new series of large-scale figurative paintings: a layered constellation of luminous, androgynous bodies, imagined portals, and visionary spaces that open onto unfamiliar spheres, symbolic landscapes, and parallel worlds. A key point of reference for the exhibition is the Nymphenbad at the Dresden Zwinger, one of the most remarkable Baroque fountain ensembles in Europe. Stancikaitė draws inspiration from its theatrical spatial composition, the movement of cascading water, and the expressive gestures of the sculptures. These elements are reimagined in her paintings as contemporary nymph-like figures—detached, liminal beings suspended ... More

Grammars of Light: Luminous sculptures and video projections transform Astrup Fearnley Museet
OSLO.- Grammars of Light brings together the work of three contemporary artists—Cerith Wyn Evans, Ann Lislegaard, and P. Staff—who explore the potential of light as an artistic medium. Their immersive environments, architecturally scaled video projections, and luminous sculptures—fashioned from repurposed consumer, medical, and industrial lighting—transform the museum’s galleries and stimulate the senses. Perception is impacted in unexpected ways, and essential questions are raised about how we see the world as a thinking, feeling body. The representation of natural light through illusion, particularly in painting, has been an enduring concern for the visual arts. Yet it was only with the advent of mass-produced artificial lighting in the early twentieth century that artists began using it as an artistic medium. These early experiments within Constructivism and ... More

Dramatic images of the impact of climate change on world's largest wetland go on display at the Science Museum in London
LONDON.- The Science Museum opened Water Pantanal Fire, a free photography exhibition documenting the world's largest wetland and the challenges it faces from climate change. Sixty-five images, captured by two of Brazil's leading documentary photographers, are now on display in an exhibition curated by Eder Chiodetto and produced by the Brazilian initiative Documenta Pantanal, contrasting the beauty of this natural wonder with the destruction it has suffered. Wetlands were a major focus at COP30 in Belém this November, highlighting their role in climate change mitigation and the need to protect them. Recognised by UNESCO as a Natural World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, the Pantanal is a tropical wetland covering ... More

Agnieszka Kurant's 'Recursion' turns digital capitalism into a living, breathing experiment
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting Recursion, Agnieszka Kurant’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from 6 February to 21 March 2026. The exhibition brings together new and recent works—speculative thought experiments developed in collaboration with scientists, linguists, engineers, and philosophers. Kurant’s conceptual practice investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences, the future of labor and creativity, and forms of exploitation embedded in digital capitalism. Her work examines how forms such as termite mounds, tools, languages, and social movements emerge through collective agency. In the complex systems she creates, molecules, bacteria, animals, AI algorithms, and human crowds interact to generate unstable, hybrid forms in constant transformation, like living organisms. Her projects draw on automation, cybernetics, ... More

Nature takes over at Marta Herford in a living exhibition by Katinka Bock and Lois Weinberger
HERFORD.- From February 7 to June 7, 2026, Museum Marta Herford becomes a space in motion. With Cartographies of Growth, the museum presents a rare and poetic double exhibition bringing together the work of Lois Weinberger (1947–2020) and Katinka Bock (born 1976). Rather than offering a static display, the exhibition unfolds as a living process—one shaped by water, plants, materials, and time itself. At the heart of the show is a shared fascination with forces that resist human control. Plants break through asphalt, copper reacts to air and rain, water follows its own rhythm. These are the kinds of phenomena we often dismiss as interruptions or disorder in everyday life. Here, they become the protagonists. The exhibition is conceived as a dialogue. Weinberger and Bock work in different media and come from different generations, yet both approach the world ... More

Photography takes on the climate crisis in Salzburg with "Project Groundswell"
SALZBURG.- From February 6 to April 4, 2026, FOTOHOF becomes a meeting point for urgent questions about the future of the planet. With the exhibition “Project Groundswell: Visions for Climate Action,” the Salzburg-based institution presents a powerful selection of contemporary photography and film that moves beyond documenting catastrophe and instead asks a more difficult question: What can be done? Developed in collaboration with three other European photography institutions—Cortona On The Move, Imago Lisboa, and Photo Museum Ireland—Project Groundswell is a Creative Europe–funded initiative that brought together artists from across the continent through an open call. Out of 400 submissions, an international jury selected 12 projects that confront climate change not only as a global emergency, but as a social, cultural, and ethical challenge. ... More

HEIRLOOM center for art and archives presents exhibition and archive launch Let Us Speak Now
COPENHAGEN.- In 2002, visual artist Kirsten Dufour (b. 1941), one of the first feminist artists in Denmark, initiated the video archive Let Us Speak Now. The project is both a video archive and an artwork addressing feminism, activism, and artistic production, based on interviews with international feminist artists. During travels and residencies—particularly in the United States—Dufour sought out feminist art communities with her video camera and a set of questions. These encounters developed into conversations that address a wide range of topics, with a primary focus on the intersection of feminism and activism. The archive contains more than 80 interviews with key figures from the feminist art movement of the 1970s, the so-called second wave, as well as with younger generations of artists and activists working from feminist perspectives in which ... More

Qtopia Sydney's exhibition celebrates photographs of Queer love from 1850-1950s
SYDNEY.- Qtopia Sydney, in association with the European Union (EU) Delegation to Australia, is presenting LOVING, a photographic collection capturing intimate moments of Queer love between the 1850s and 1950s by American collectors and married couple, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell. Hosted at the largest centre for Queer history and culture in the world, Qtopia Sydney, the landmark exhibition draws from the extraordinary private collection of more than 4,000 images of men in love by Nini and Treadwell from flea markets, auction houses, family albums and online collections across the globe over a period of more than two decades. When Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell discovered an old photograph of two men in love at an antique store in Dallas, Texas, 25 years ago, they had no idea how profoundly it would change their lives — and illuminate ... More