Columbia Museum of Art Displays Contemporary Street Art

Atlanta Contemporary announces Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language
ATLANTA, GA.- Atlanta Contemporary announces Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language, a group exhibition curated by Karen Comer Lowe. The exhibition examines how language transcends the written word to become something felt, lived, and carried within the body. Opening February 1, 2026, the exhibition features four artists whose diverse practices—spanning painting, sculpture, film, and installation—reveal language as an active force shaping identity, memory, and experience. Unbound Narratives joins the featured exhibition, Georgia Women to Watch 2026: A Book Arts Revolution, which celebrates the book as an artistic medium, showcasing five innovative Georgia artists who are redefining what books can be. Unbound Narratives brings together Bethany Collins, February James, A'Driane Nieves, and Gabi Madrid, artists who draw from literature, personal writing, ... More

Nick Aguayo to unveil new abstract paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced an exhibition of new paintings by Nick Aguayo, on view 8 January through 14 February 2026 at 515 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Benjamin Weissman. In his latest body of work, Aguayo deepens his exploration of abstracted shapes, images, and patterned geometries that have long captivated him. Familiar forms reappear in endlessly reconfigured arrangements, producing compositions that feel both disciplined and fluid. Aguayo describes his process as a self-assigned sentence: a commitment to continually revisiting the motifs that “entirely capture” him, exploring their eccentricities until they yield new meaning. This cycle gives the paintings their taut immediacy. “In a lot of my new paintings I’ve tried to preserve the feeling of the first mark,” he reflects. ... More

Seriously Playful will bring sculpture, drawing, and painting together at LAUNCH Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery will present Seriously Playful, an exhibition of sculptures by Joe Davidson, drawings by David S. Rubin, and paintings by Scott Taylor. Working in different mediums, the Los Angeles-based artists share an interest in building upon art historical traditions to create new forms that are at once serious yet whimsical or quirky. Joe Davidson draws inspiration from contemporary sculptors who were in part influenced by Surrealism, including Eva Hesse, Piero Manzoni, and Robert Gober, and Tony Cragg. Like these artists, Davidson experiments with various materials, explores new or unusual processes, and embraces imagery that can be ambiguous or seem uncanny. He is particularly drawn to familiar mundane objects, such as the balloons he used as molds for the stacked plaster and resin works currently on view. According to the artist, ... More

Kolumba honors memory, objects, and storytelling in Musée sentimental showcase
COLOGNE.- We could certainly manage to live in the absence of objects. But it is doubtful that we would be able to remember anything without them. Have you got some particular thing at home that owes its significance to a memory you attach to it? The objects exhibited here are precisely such vehicles of emotional meaning. Whether banal, unassuming or works of art—one might describe them as remnants, vestiges or relics. For in effect, they bear witness. The objects refer to the unseeable: times lived through, memorable experiences, past locations. They are storage facilities in the sense of batteries or aggregator platforms; stories have been deposited in them, although we don’t realise this at first glance. All the objects assembled in this exhibition are connected with Kolumba. They were brought together by the people who work for the museum—above all, by Stefan ... More

Painting and photography converge in Galerie Miranda's winter exhibition Winterreise
PARIS.- Galerie Miranda’s 2026 winter exhibition proposes a voyage into abstracted landscapes by three contemporary artists working between painting and photography: Chuck Kelton, Chloe Sells and Marian Wijnvoord. Chuck Kelton (1952, American), employs darkroom chemistry, light and process to create abstractions evoking ethereal, elemental landscapes - volcanic, glacial, lunar, desertic. His gestures on the paper are various - brushing, folding, dipping - and works can take several weeks to complete, after layers of chemistry and development. For this exhibition the gallery has selected pale, minimalist works, evocative of frozen northern lakes and skies. All of Chuck Kelton’s works are unique. Chloe Sells (1976, American), takes analog landscape photographs that she prints and cuts by hand, reworking them either in the darkroom or in her studio ... More

Contested monument gains new context through Azra Akšamija's interactive sculpture
WUPPERTAL.- The sculpture of Pallas Athena has returned to its familiar place in front of the Wilhelm Dörpfeld Gymnasium in Wuppertal—but this time, it does not stand alone. Installed alongside it is Eulensicht (Owl’s Gaze), a new work by artist and architectural historian Azra Akšamija, offering a thoughtful and quietly powerful intervention into one of the city’s most contested monuments. Arno Breker’s Pallas Athena has long been a source of debate. Breker was one of the most prominent artists favored by the Nazi regime, and his monumental classicism remains inseparable from the ideology it once served. For decades, questions have lingered over how—or whether—such works should remain in public space. Rather than removing the sculpture or allowing it to stand without context, the city chose a different path: commissioning a contemporary artist to respond ... More

Marta Herford seeks Curator for Contemporary Art
HERFORD.- As a museum of contemporary art with a focus on design and architecture, Marta Herford provides a platform for critical engagement with art and contemporary social issues. The museum encourages dialogue across architecture, applied art and fine art, while maintaining a clear focus on contemporary fine art within its programme. The programme features internationally renowned contemporary artists, presented in regularly changing solo and group exhibitions that address socially relevant themes and foster critical discourse in the form of spacious stagings and socially relevant stances. Exhibitions are conceived as multisensory experiences that engage in dialogue with the museum`s distinctive architecture, designed by Frank Gehry. Marta Herford understands itself as an inclusive museum that addresses diverse audiences and perspectives. ... More

Air de Paris will present ceramics, photography, and archives shaped by 30 years of artistic exchange
PARIS.- Air de Paris presents C’est un endroit que je connais assez bien [A place I know quite well], an exhibition bringing together ceramic sculptures by Juli Susin, analog prints and rayographs by Véronique Bourgoin, as well as a selection of archives from Royal Book Lodge—an editorial project initiated by the two artists that has gradually brought together many artist friends over time. For more than thirty years, Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin have developed distinct practices that have continuously engaged in dialogue and intersected, nourished by formal and thematic affinities, shared political concerns, and above all by a common commitment to creation as a space for research and collaboration. Echoing Toyen’s eponymous drawing from which the exhibition takes its title, the project reveals a constellation of gestures and forms shaped both by the legacy ... More

Neues Museum Nuremberg reexamines Boris Lurie's legacy through feminist dialogue in Testimony
NUREMBERG.- Neues Museum Nuremberg (NMN), in collaboration with the Boris Lurie Art Foundation is presenting the work of Jewish artist Boris Lurie in dialogue with works by Zoë Buckman, Fancy Feast, and Marsha Pels. Testimony continues the theme of the 2024 exhibition Testimony. Boris Lurie and Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, which recontextualized Lurie’s War Series in conversation with young artists from Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine. While the previous exhibition focused on Lurie’s perspective on war, Testimony now centers on his distorted depiction of women, as seen in his series Dismembered Women and Pinups. These are set against the works of contemporary artists who, like Lurie, explore their own relationships to sexuality, bodily violence, trauma, and family history through a Jewish lens, while challenging and deconstructing the male-dominated ... More

Lynne Woods Turner explores movement, balance, and abstraction at Adams and Ollman
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman announced one thing and another, a solo exhibition featuring paintings and intimate abstract works on paper by Lynne Woods Turner. The exhibition also includes visual documentation of Trisha Brown's Spanish Dance as performed at Minneapolis's Walker Art Center in 1979. The exhibition opens with an artist reception on Saturday, January 17, from 3–5pm and remains on view through February 28, 2026. For more than five decades, Lynne Woods Turner has explored the world through abstraction, developing a unique visual vocabulary drawn from an expansive range of interests. This body of work—encompassing both drawings and paintings across multiple series—is inspired by diverse sources including mathematical investigations, scientific diagrams, graphic cartoons, art history, dance, and sewing patterns. The resulting ... More

Catholic University architecture students build soaring spaceframe in the National Building Museum's Great Hall
WASHINGTON, DC.- Architecture students from The Catholic University of America will build a massive floating spaceframe in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., using sustainable materials and new technology that was designed in part by a student and professor at the University. This new approach could revolutionize spaceframe design and construction to be more sustainable, efficient, flexible, and affordable. Spaceframes appear in everything from geodesic domes and long-span roofs to solar arrays, aerospace systems, stadiums, and entertainment venues like The Sphere in Las Vegas. The completed installation will be on view from Dec. 27, 2025 through Feb. 8, 2026. The sculpture will hover above the heads of visitors. ... More