devlin works with the architecture of san giorgio maggiore The historic architecture of Fondazione Giorgio Cini becomes increasingly present as the exhibition develops. In An Infinite Birdsong, shaped and backlit mirrors create a nocturnal Venetian environment. Handmade birds and insects emerge from the windows of the room, while jewelry inspired by similar forms is displayed […]
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MARK FRANCIS TURNS SOUND INTO COLOR With Chroma, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art presents a new body of work by Northern Irish painter Mark Francis, whose abstractions operate somewhere between what can be seen and what might almost be heard. On view from September 5 to November 21, 2026, the exhibition brings together paintings shaped by […]
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THE GALLERY BECOMES A STAGE For Berlin Art Week 2026, German artist André Wendland turns BETTER GO SOUTH into something between a gallery, a theatre and a particularly elaborate visual trick. Titled On Stage, the solo exhibition explores the language of performance spaces and set design through large-format paintings populated by curtains, proscenium-like frames, props […]
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bringing noguchi’s unrealized playgrounds into motion For decades, Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized sculptural playgrounds are preserved as plaster models, drawings, and blueprints, admired for their abstract beauty, remaining strangely detached from the purpose for which they were conceived: children at play. For the Noguchi’s New York exhibition at The Noguchi Museum, marking the institution’s 40th anniversary, […]
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Trump’s 2025 executive order followed a similar attempt to target the ICC in his first term. That attempt was blocked by a judge in 2020 and formally rescinded under President Biden in 2021. This lawsuit comes two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would seek to dismantle the court, […]
Read Morececilia vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu as a living technology Cecilia Vicuña fills the soaring Manica Lunga at Castello di Rivoli with a suspended quipu that stretches for more than one hundred meters through the historic gallery. Titled El glaciar ido (The Vanished Glacier), the Chilean artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Italy draws on […]
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joshua vides turns the petersen into a drawn garage At the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA, Joshua Vides has turned a gallery of cars into a walk-in black-and-white drawing. The Los Angeles-based artist’s exhibition, Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides, takes over the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery with five hand-painted vehicles, tire stacks, gas […]
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Jenny Holzer at the Serralves Foundation in Porto Wrong Answers, the first solo exhibition of American artist Jenny Holzer in Portugal, opens within the sprawling garden-exhibition space of Porto’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Fundação de Serralves). In the midst of the American political moment, where the airwaves are replete with references to President Donald […]
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June exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR June’s exhibitions turn familiar spaces into shifting ground. Fog rolls through the Bourse de Commerce, light bends inside Gagosian Hong Kong, and Chicago’s skyline is recast through the flight paths of migrating birds. Across the month, architecture becomes something to test with the body, the eye, and the weather around […]
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Antony Gormley opens ‘what holds us’ in italy Inside the former cinema-theater of Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Antony Gormley turns the body into a small city. This latest exhibition, What Holds Us, moves through the gallery’s 14th-century walls, theatre space, thresholds, and exterior views, using the Tuscan hill town as both setting and structural […]
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the painter at david zwirner, new york At Lisa Yuskavage’s solo show at David Zwirner, New York, a stunning display of the artist’s painted and mixed-media work fill the space with pieces ranging from sprawling triptychs to bite-sized compositions. Looking at the collection all together, dotting the walls in shocks of pink and green, it […]
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‘still joy’ highlights ukraInian art in venice To enter the PinchukArtCentre exhibition, a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennial of Art in Venice, one must cross over the Ponte dell’Accademia bridge and look over a scenic Venetian canal with its water taxis and vaparettos zipping by. With this view, on what is likely to […]
Read MoreIris Van Herpen Brings Living Systems Into Couture Iris Van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses brings the Dutch designer’s couture, materials research, and collaborations with science into the Brooklyn Museum as the exhibition will be on view from May 16th — December 6th, 2026. designboom attended a preview of the show, where Iris Van Herpen led […]
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inside the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of art The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Costume Art this May in New York, inaugurating the new Condé M. Nast Galleries with a show that puts fashion in direct dialogue with the museum’s wider collection. designboom attended a preview of the exhibition where architects Miriam Peterson […]
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Misha Kahn Flotsam Jetsam, 2017 Aluminum, stainless steel Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Misha Kahn, Arthur Vandergucht Metropolis Cabinet, 2025 Aluminium, rivets Courtesy of Uppercut, Tuscan School, 16th century CRUCIFIXION WITH THE MOURNING oil on panel
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GROHE SPA PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONALIZED DESIGN At the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato, GROHE SPA reinforces its presence as a leader in luxury bathroom design, through the installation ‘Aqua Sanctuary’ held during Milan Design Week 2026. Through the exhibit the brand explores its know-how in bespoke signatures and curated materials, and finishes intertwined with […]
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Marcel Duchamp and the object, reactivated Marcel Duchamp’s bicycle wheel, its spokes spinning above a wooden kitchen stool with no destination in mind, is arguably the most consequential non-artwork in the history of art. Not a sculpture in the traditional sense, not quite an object either, it hovers in a suspended state between utility and […]
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GROHE SPA STAGES ‘the aqua sanctuary’ AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026 Through an immersive architectural intervention named ‘The Aqua Sanctuary’, GROHE SPA comes back to the Brera district during Milan Design Week 2026. The brand unveils a 72-hour transformation at the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato, one of Italy’s most significant cultural institutions, opening doors to […]
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step inside the newest show at TOTO GALLERY·MA At TOTO GALLERY·MA, Suzuko Yamada: Parallel Tunes presents architecture as a field of simultaneous voices. designboom attended the exhibition in Tokyo, which marks the first solo presentation of Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada. It briges her built work and ongoing ideas into a single environment. Rather than isolating […]
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Karolina Wiktor creates a new language born from absence Karolina Wiktor’s Cartography of Motherhood at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw brings together drawing, gesture, and sound to trace the artist’s experience of post-stroke aphasia through the lens of motherhood. Following a ruptured aneurysm and strokes in 2009, Wiktor rebuilt her practice […]
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(floor) Lorna Simpson, Vibrating cycles, 2026, Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth (wall, from left to right) Lorna Simpson, Night Fall, 2023, Private Collection; Thin Bands, 2019, courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Time, 2021, Private Collection; Howling, 2020, Gina and Stuart Peterson Collection. installation views, Lorna Simpson. Third Person, 2026, […]
Read MoreInstallation view at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth, 2025 — Paola Pivi, Fortunately, one picture is worth a thousand of these suckers… (homage to Lincoln Peirce) (2025), nylon, polyurethane, metal, and blowers, 1400 × 700 × 20 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Created with the express permission of Lincoln Peirce; […]
Read Morethe new museum exhibits early visions of new humans Proposing an unsettling vision of humanity, New Humans: Memories of the Future takes over the New Museum‘s recently completed expansion. The museum’s Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni curates the show by gathering more than a century of artists’ responses to moments when technology and society reframed the […]
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ariana papademetropoulos’ show at Thaddaeus ropac paris At Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, Ariana Papademetropoulos presents Glass Slipper, her first solo exhibition in France, on view until April 11th, 2026, where painting, sculpture, and installation dissolve into one another. At its center sits Water Based Treatment, an inhabitable aquarium populated by ‘kissing fish’, which invites visitors […]
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the expanded new museum set to open in New York New York City sees the completion of the New Museum‘s long-awaited expansion by OMA, which now stands proudly alongside its iconic SANNA-designed counterpart. Realized under the direction of Shohei Shigematsu, the addition rises along the Bowery as a distinct yet closely linked counterpart to its […]
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A universe grown from lemon trees occupies perrotin paris What if regeneration wasn’t metaphorical but literal? In Live Again, Paola Pivi builds a world where life cycles are embedded into the artwork itself, using living matter as both medium and message. Presented at Perrotin Paris and running until April 18th, 2026, the exhibition centers on […]
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Ceramic organisms to show in Chicago Artist Janny Baek is set to present Life Forms, a new exhibition of ceramic sculptures set to open on March 20th, 2026 at Joy Machine gallery in Chicago. The works gather across the space as a series of small presences that appear midway through transformation. Some open outward like […]
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yorgos lanthimos on the autonomy of photographs On the occasion of Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs, an exhibition curated by Michael Mack, on view at Onassis Stegi in Athens from March 7th to May 17th, 2026, the filmmaker offered an unusually candid reflection on his evolving relationship with the still image. Known internationally for the singular cinematic […]
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Pulp Galerie Revisits Gaetano Pesce’s Chiat\Day New York Project Pulp Galerie presents Gaetano Pesce, The CHIAT\DAY New York Project, its second exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, bringing together rare elements from the experimental advertising offices designed by Gaetano Pesce in New York in the mid-1990s. On view from March 26th […]
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Dries Van Noten foundation to open in april 2026 Fondazione Dries Van Noten is set to open in April 2026 inside Venice’s Palazzo Pisani Moretta, positioning craftsmanship as a material, bodily, and imaginative act at the core of a new cultural platform. Overlooking the Grand Canal and located between the Rialto Bridge and Ca’ Foscari, […]
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jr’s California artworks collected at perrotin The exhibition, Horizons, arrives at Perrotin‘s Los Angeles gallery this spring, presenting a group of public artworks across California created by JR. Opening March 12th and on view through April 25th, the show marks the French artist’s first solo exhibition with Perrotin in Los Angeles and gathers photographic works that […]
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