Monday, May 25, 2026

Fondation Beyeler hosts first Swiss museum solo exhibition of Pierre Huyghe's work

Installation view "Pierre Huyghe", Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2026. Photo: Ola Rindal.
BASEL.— This summer, Fondation Beyeler presents the first solo exhibition of Pierre Huyghe (*1962, Paris) in a Swiss museum, bringing together new works, recent films, and selected earlier pieces by one of the most innovative artists of his generation. For more than two decades, Pierre Huyghe has challenged conventional ideas of what an exhibition can be, as exemplified by his participation in Documenta 13 (2012) and Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017). He is recognized for creating exhibitions as speculative fictions from which emerge other modalities of the world – with continuities between life forms, technology, biological and inert matter, that constantly learn, modify, and evolve. His works are not static objects, but dynamic situations shaped by time and unpredictability. Conceived for the Fondation Beyeler, the exhibition becomes a site-specific experience where each work and the in-between form an ambiguous threshold. Through the interplay of shifting works, combining moving images, sound, objects, living organisms, and machine learning, the exhibition unfolds to the rhythms of Apnea, 2026. An artificial breathing organ, curled underwater, breathes at a human rhythm, its membrane oscillates according to apnea. Air, sound and subtle vibrations circulate through walls, until they are desynchronized or interrupted, forming a shared respiratory field that permeates the entire exhibition. This indeterminate state extends further in Alchimia, 2026, where a worm, a larval ancestor of the human unconscious, lies at the threshold of a door. Animated by breath, it murmurs and hums into surrounding matter in a polyphony of voices; when deprived of air, it falters and convulses. Like Apnea, it foregrounds respiration as both a physical and symbolic force, shaping our experience. Subtle experiences, as much felt as observed, open onto an encounter with the unknown. This condition is reinforced by the presence of his most recent film, Liminals, 2025. Liminals, unf...
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Roni Horn returns to London for first solo show in a decade with Seizure of Hope

LONDON.— For her first solo exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn presents works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores her preoccupation with repetition and the utilization of the written word as a medium. Accompanying the artist’s drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects. The exhibition is accompanied by the limited-edition title ‘Seizure of Hope’ (2026) by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, an artist’s book that reproduces her drawings in precise detail. Underpinning her wider practice, drawing is a primary activity that has been integral to Horn’s oeuvre for nearly 40 years. The artist’s engagement with language permeates her Seizure of Hope series, relentlessly writing and rewriting the words ‘I am paralyzed with hope’ throughout the works on view. The phrase comes from
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Library to add cutting-edge molecular data storage device carrying digitized collections to America's time capsule

WASHINGTON, DC.— The nation’s oldest federal cultural institution is using some of the newest technology to preserve digital copies of historical collection items for the next 250 years. As part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, the Library of Congress will make a trailblazing contribution to the America250 Time Capsule in Philadelphia in July: a tiny metal vial holding synthetic DNA encoded with digital copies from the Library’s collections. The Library initiated a molecular data storage feasibility study in response to a request from Congress in 2024. As a result, the Library has been examining the storage capabilities of a new medium, synthetic DNA. An entirely manufactured molecule, synthetic DNA is designed to replicate the exceptional information density of nature’s best storage medium: DNA itself. Working
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Kemper Museum launches major photography exhibition on the age of the Anthropocene

KANSAS CITY, MO.— Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, on view May 22 through September 13, 2026. It is the first major exhibition to examine the Anthropocene through the lens of contemporary photography, comprised of some 40 photo-based artists working in a variety of artistic methods from studios and sites across the globe. Just over 20 years ago, scientists introduced the term the “Anthropocene” to denote a new geological epoch in which human activity has had a marked impact on the global climate. Since that time, the concept of the Anthropocene has been disseminated to a wider public audience through expanding environmental studies
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MoMA announces fourth annual Silent Movie Week featuring exclusive collection restorations

NEW YORK, NY.— The Museum of Modern Art announces the fourth annual presentation of Silent Movie Week, a summer series that presents seven recent silent film restorations at MoMA over the course of seven consecutive evenings, from July 29 through August 3, 2026. This year’s series will be the first to feature restorations of films exclusively drawn from MoMA’s collection. Two of the films—The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and A Dog’s Life/Shoulder Arms (1918)—have been restored to their original domestic theatrical release cut for the first time since the works premiered, with MoMA’s print of The Student Prince recently discovered to be the sole remaining copy of the cut shown to audiences in 1927. All restorations are being shown in the Museum’s theaters for the first time, including five World premieres and two American premieres. This year’s series will once again feature live musical
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Mennello Museum of American Art unveils new exhibition celebrating Orlando artists

ORLANDO, FLA.— The Mennello Museum of American Art announced the opening of Our Orlando: Tasanee Durrett, Martha Jo Mahoney, and Mado Smith, from May 15 to August 16, 2026. The exhibition, the fourth iteration of Our Orlando celebrated series, is an exhibition program that presents remarkable art by Orlando artists at exciting junctures in their careers, particularly generative practices, curated from the artists' studios to support and share their unique contributions to Orlando's cultural scene and to give visitors a platform that underscores the essential role artists play in Orlando. Shannon Fitzgerald, executive director of the Mennello Museum, states: We are delighted to share the rich and compelling work of three exciting Orlando artists, celebrating local makers who are dedicated and vital to our community. Our goal is to highlight outstanding work. Three artists from two generations, with diverse backgrounds, interests, and experiences, of
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Frist Art Museum unveils major global surrealism exhibition in collaboration with Tate

NASHVILLE, TENN.— The Frist Art Museum presents International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams, an exhibition that investigates the global appeal of surrealism and how it has widely influenced culture and society over the last century through the work of artists including Eileen Agar, Louise Bourgeois, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, and Dorothea Tanning. Organized in collaboration with Tate, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram Galleries from May 22 through August 30, 2026. Drawn from the Tate collection, UK, the exhibition of approximately 125 works focuses on the long trajectory and broad reach of surrealism as a state of mind through a captivating selection of film, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and other art objects, as well as publications and archival material. “One of the great attractions of surrealism was its internationalism,” writes Matthew Gale, exhibition curator and former
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New group exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko explores the realms of the enigma

STOCKHOLM.— The group exhibition SIGHTSEEING invites visitors into a space outside the mainstream, where Martin Jacobson brings together six artists whose work explores the realms of mysticism and mythology. The participating artists are Aleksandra Waliszewska, David Tibet, Richard Cartwright, Olle Wärnbäck, Niklas Nenzén and Hugo Lindblad. The artists in the exhibition are, in various ways, situated outside the established norms of the contemporary art world. Richard Cartwright studied at Goldsmith’s College of Art in London but distanced himself early on from formal art education. He settled in Bristol in the 1980s and has since consistently created works shaped by his own visual logic. David Tibet, a name well known to many in the music world as the founder and member of the experimental music group CURRENT 93, has a deep interest in apocryphal and apocalyptic Biblical texts, which, in addition to music, finds expression through art, poetry and publishing.
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Louvre and Musée Rodin join forces for historic exhibition: Michelangelo and Auguste Rodin face to face

PARIS.— Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), two unrivalled masters of Western sculpture, engage in a dialogue across the centuries. Their works, emblematic of the strength of the body and the depth of the soul, are here brought together for the first time, revealing a continuum between the two artists, marked by clear divisions. The more than 200 works brought together by the exhibition highlight the issues of form and concept that drove the same ambition in both artists: to make manifest the body's inner energy. The body is thus revealed as the membrane that envelops the soul, a living thing weathering time and movement. We also explore the historic uses of motion in sculpture: how did the reinvention of antiquity and the ways bodies were used foreshadow the divisions of the 20th century? Calling attention to the connections, borrowings
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Galerie Lelong opens solo exhibitions of works by Kiki Smith aand Eduardo Chillida

PARIS.— Kiki Smith is a multidisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, objects, stained glass and tapestry. Her body of work has developed with remarkable coherence for over four decades. Far from fragmenting her output, this diversity of media instead reveals a strong underlying theme that runs through her practice: the continuity and unity of life. Humans, animals and plants are linked in an unbroken chain, stretching from the microcosm of the cell to cosmic infinity. A thread that the artist can draw from observing the bark of birch trees near her home, the pigeons in Manhattan’s parks, a full moon and the Milky Way, but also from reading Lewis Carroll, an anatomy book, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, tales and legends… From all this, with utter sincerity—because she cannot do otherwise, she says—she crafts and weaves a visual narrative that grows ever stronger and richer with time. This exhibition marks the artist’s tenth show at
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Drawing revealed as the consistent thread of Marisol's career in major new retrospective

SANTANDER.— Marisol: When Things Are Just Beginning is the first retrospective of Marisol’s drawings, featuring more than 100 works spanning from the 1950s to her death, presented alongside a selection of sculptures that extend her drawing practice into three dimensions, archival materials, and several of Warhol’s films in which Marisol starred. The extensive selection of works, drawn almost entirely from the collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, NY, highlights drawing as the most consistent thread throughout Marisol’s career, the medium by which she wove her global concerns, private discomforts, and imaginative fictions throughout her practice. The title recalls dealer Leo Castelli’s remark to Marisol in the late 1950s when she left the United States following her successful presentation at his New York gallery: “How can you leave when things are just beginning?” The phrase also resonates with her subsequent decisions to withdraw from
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Ed van der Elsken's raw, direct street photography comes to Annet Gelink Gallery

AMSTERDAM.— Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Face to Face, an exhibition featuring works by Ed van der Elsken, bringing together photographs from Paris, Amsterdam, and Japan. Ed van der Elsken is known for his direct and confrontational approach to photography. Without distance or embellishment, he captured what he encountered around him. In his photographs, the viewer often feels almost physically present — as if standing in the photographer’s place, being looked at directly by the people Ed met. From the very beginning, Van der Elsken worked from his own life and experiences. His photography was intuitive, personal, and deeply connected to the world in which he moved. His first book, Love on the Left Bank (1956), was unique for its time: a photographic novel about the harsh post-war life in Paris, where Ed lived between 1949 and 1955. After returning to Amsterdam, Van der Elsken spent much of his time
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Elmgreen & Dragset transform Städel Museum with surreal 'treasure hunt' exhibition

FRANKFURT.— Since the mid-1990s, Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, b. 1961 and Ingar Dragset, b. 1969) have consistently challenged familiar spatial structures through their work, lending both public and institutional spaces a distinctive atmosphere. While often being referred to as sculptors, they work in an expanded field that also includes installation, performance and architecture. With their exhibition Stillleben mit Gemüse, the Berlin-based artist duo transforms the Städel Museum into a fascinating interplay of reality and illusion. Their sculptures and installations enter into a dialogue with the permanent collection of the museum, opening up new perspectives. Philipp Demandt, Director of the Städel Museum: “The Städel Museum is internationally renowned for its outstanding collection, which since 2020 also includes the bronze sculpture Si par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur by Elmgreen & Dragset,
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Alfredo Jaar inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Bram Demunter introduces bronze sculpture and a self-contained cosmic world in Crowded Valley

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Flashback: On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange was born
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Couple Seated on Porch, Gunlock, Utah, 1953, Gelatin silver print, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds donated by Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley. ©Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

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