This October in Venice, Unseen—a major international group exhibition—reframes vision itself, reaching beyond the visible into the felt, remembered, and imagined. Featuring 20 headline artists including Fion Gunn, Amy Jackson, Shoran Jiang, and Audrey Mullins, the show explores thresholds where sight yields to instinct and memory blurs into suggestion. The lead artists also present 70 …
SYNCHRONIC: Xu Xiaowei in Florence marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe, bringing over twenty lens-based artworks to Florence. Centred on the core concept of “synchronic existence”, the exhibition captures visual fragments often overlooked in everyday life, using fluid and rhythmically dynamic imagery to construct an organic sense of “breath”. Within this shared frequency, …
One of the challenges in attempting to describe the human condition is the vastness of its experiences, complexity, and intangibility. Since the 19th century, artists from Alfred Kubin to Salvador Dalí were able to achieve this in painting, bringing their subconscious lives into the real world for all to see, but it really took the …
Yun Wen is an emerging artist who has lived in many different places, from her home town in southwest China, to London via Hong Kong. This is a detail about her that might be considered both superfluous and integral to gaining insight into her artistic practice. As a visual artist, Wen boasts a broad scope, …
Waking up from a slumber, a little girl wakes up to find, on the corner of her dresser, a silver ring with a raven design biting a gemstone. She puts it on her finger and sits down in her chair, spinning around while enchanted by the ring’s appearance. On the wall next to her, a …
For artist Yang Yang, photography is neither emotional release nor storytelling. With a background in finance and risk management, he approaches photography as a calm and restrained form of observation. He examines how people, objects, spaces and behaviours form relationships, while also attending to forms of value that cannot be measured numerically: memory, silence, intimacy, …
London-based curator Xin Liu is part of a new generation of independent curators who conceive the curatorial framework of an exhibition as an environment where history, identity and art intersect. Moving away from the traditional curatorial approach of presenting artworks as tightly organised and interpreted within a rigid framework in a traditional gallery space. A …
The first thing to greet you in Somerset House’s M.C. Escher: The Exhibition is the deep crimson of the galleries — a colour that deepens the mystery already surrounding Escher. What we tend to remember most readily about him are, of course, those vertiginous images: staircases that arrive nowhere, waterfalls that fold back into themselves, …
This summer, one of Britain’s most unusual museums is arriving not through grand architecture or the doors of a permanent institution, but on wheels. The Art Explora Mobile Museum has launched its 2026 tour in collaboration with the Government Art Collection, bringing artworks from the national collection directly into communities across the South West and …
Few artists make you question your own eyes even as you look. Walking into M.C. Escher: The Exhibition at the Somerset House, that feeling sets in almost from the first step. A Building Made for Escher Somerset House may be the most fitting space in London to host an Escher exhibition. Stairs greet you …
If you were to ask British children what they share as a common childhood memory, Quentin Blake’s line work would almost certainly be among the answers. Those seemingly casual, light, almost hurried brushstrokes accompanied generations of British children as they grew up. From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Matilda, the wonderfully eccentric characters conjured …
I still remember the summer of 2024, standing before Euan Uglow’s work for the first time at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. The paintings were not loud, one could even say they were quiet. And yet that quietness held something irresistible. I remember moving closer, then stepping back, then closer again, until I realised a long time had …
What does intimacy look like in the contemporary age? How does it feel, and how receptive are we to it? The intimate image is protected by law, by tech encryption, by trust, and by agency. Yet, what we see, the medium through which we see it, and the provocation of the experience is mediated through …
At the China Pavilion of London Craft Week 2026, “craft” was not presented merely as a display of traditional techniques. Instead, the exhibition used garments, textiles, patterns, and materials to explore a deeper question: what constitutes “Chinese beauty,” and how that beauty has been continuously shaped and transmitted through everyday life. Under the title They …
On 26 March 2026, Castle Howard marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Sir John Vanbrugh with the exhibition Staging the Baroque: Vanbrugh at Castle Howard. The exhibition, designed and curated by architect Roz Barr, chronicles the story of this exciting creation and explores Sir John Vanbrugh’s visionary use of scale, shadow and light …
From 25 March to 10 April 2026, the VIP Gallery at HOW Art Museum in Shanghai presented Reconstructed Scripts — Defocus and Encounter, curated by Mengqi Ye. Featuring six artists—Chen Qiang, Fu Yao, Xie Caomin, Feng Zhijia, Jia Hui, and Kang Shixin—the exhibition critically examines the production and transformation of images. It also reconsiders the …
As the seasons turn and spring quietly arrives, London’s artistic season seems never to follow the passage of time. It remains perpetually in bloom, alive with new beginnings. Across the city’s galleries and exhibition halls, new branches seem to emerge each spring. Here, we step into a new chapter of London’s spring exhibitions in 2026. …
Among London’s many museums, Sir John Soane’s Museum stands apart. It is neither a space designed for exhibition, nor a historical building retrospectively adapted. Rather, it is a lived environment, constructed by an architect’s own hand. Stepping inside, one quickly realises that what is on display here is not merely a collection of objects, but …
As one steps into Chupei Yu’s In Formation, a group exhibition at 1215 Gallery (Canada), one plunges into an atmosphere of movement and transition. The paintings have an ethical visual language and operate as part of a wider process of engenderment, which engages with complex issues of primal scenes and ancient epistemologies. Conversely, the moving …
Qishan Li works across moving image, installations, and photography to position the body not as a static subject, but as a dynamic interface between memory, form, matter, private experience and public inscription. Throughout her practice, the body is never singular. It is a site of negotiation shaped by societal expectations, yet Qishan Li continuously resists …
Energy in Eastern philosophy is understood as a subtle, vital force that flows through the universe, the body, consciousness and nature. It is a dynamic, interconnected and transformative force that animates life, emphasising balance between opposing forces to achieve harmony and enlightenment. Inside the carefully curated space of the exhibition “In Between”, such energy is …
What is a samurai? The question sounds simple enough — and yet, as Joe Nickols, Project Curator of the British Museum’s exhibition Samurai, is quick to point out, it has no clean answer. “Samurai are many things to many people,” he says. “They can’t really be fixed down.” For Nickols, this resistance to definition is …
Through moving images and sound, digital and mixed-media artist Xilichen Hua establishes new modes of coexistence, responsiveness, and governance. In her four-channel moving image piece Fragile Harmony: An Ecofeminist Call (2026), she takes a distinctly ecofeminist worldview, connecting gendered oppression and environmental destruction. Although the scenery of the films comprising Fragile Harmony take cues from …
Walking into the V&A’s galleries feels less like entering a fashion exhibition and more like stepping into a carefully orchestrated dream. The exhibition is titled Schiaparelli:Fashion Becomes Art — a proposition that unfolds not through theoretical exposition, but through the narrative of objects arranged across space and light, inviting visitors to arrive at that understanding …
To paint is, in itself, an act of care. Family photographs that have drifted into the second-hand market are stripped of the relations and memories once attached to them. Passing from one owner to another, they lose their sense of belonging, and slip into the state of the unsayable. It is here that Yang Xinan …
London’s March auction week opened at full throttle. After Sotheby’s delivered a white-glove Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale the night before, attention shifted swiftly to Christie’s, where the house staged a marathon evening combining three auctions on 5th March: 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, and Modern Visionaries – …
Text by Michael Kurtz Safehouse 1 is a terraced house off Rye Lane. While much of Peckham is fast gentrifying, the building has been kept in a state of suspense – rented out for exhibitions and film shoots for over a decade and meanwhile left slowly to decay. As described on the venue website, …
Our relationship with salt has many aspects. Its existence may predate us by billions of years, yet we have such a strong relationship with it. Beyond seasoning our food, we can taste a single grain in a bottle of water, we smell it by the sea, and we feel its grainy texture when we handle …
“She has long since taken up the fight.” — Marianne Pitzen, Director of Frauenmuseum Bonn 「她早已投入這場抗爭。」 —— 瑪麗安娜·皮岑，波恩女性博物館館長 In 1989, at the opening of the China Avant-Garde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Xiao Lu fired a gun at her installation Dialogue. At that moment, she did not yet speak the language …
For Chinese multimedia artist and visual storyteller Qingyuan Liang, the poetry of life is written in the margins. Moments that pass unnoticed, words that go unspoken, emotions that take time to unfold. In these she is well versed. With a body of work comprising illustration, painting, and artist’s books, Liang pursues narratives of transience, healing …
Light is the source of all life. It’s something we learn at school: without light, plants can’t photosynthesise, and no animals that rely on them, including humans, can survive. Fang Liu incorporates this thinking into her curation of the cyanotypes in the exhibition ‘Luminous Flesh — Objects Between Presence and Absence‘. We seldom think of …
Entering the exhibition hall of Wayne McGregor:Infinite Bodies, the human form is reconfigured through technological elements, visual effects, and sound. Body, movement, dance, technology, Wayne McGregor has spent three decades exploring the subtle transformations between the human body and technological forces. As Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, and …
1-21 November 2025 InJoy Art Space, Shanghai Intimate Transgressions is an international group exhibition initiated and curated by Fion Gunn. It aims to collaborate with artists worldwide who are concerned with equitable expression for individuals and collectives, women’s rights in particular. Through unique artistic languages, the exhibition reveals phenomena of infringements upon women’s rights …
Turner & Constable — Rivals & Originals Tate Britain 27 November 2025 – 12 April 2026 One of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of British landscape painting is undoubtedly the near-simultaneous appearance of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837). Born less than a year apart, the two artists opened …
Through a materially attentive approach, visual artist Chun Ding explores how memory and transformation are inscribed upon both surface and skin. Her practice relieves the traditional photo processing technique of cyanotype of its technical symbolism to instead pursue a kind of sensory reflection, asking us to sit a while and consider how light permeates and …
Frieze Week may have come to an end, but London’s art pulse shows no sign of slowing. From under-the-radar gems to major blockbusters, our editorial team has selected five must-see exhibitions that prove the city’s creative energy extends far beyond the fair. Frieze藝術週雖已落幕，但倫敦的藝術脈動仍在持續。從隱而不顯的珍藏到眾人矚目的大展，我們精選出五個值得關注的展覽，因為這座城市的創意熱度遠不止於藝博會的一週。 Kerry James Marshall: The Histories Royal Academy of Arts 20 September …
The poetics of memory, longing and diasporic experience take centre stage in Xiao Ge’s practice. Drawing on spatial symbolism and heritage traditions, the multimedia artist–primarily working in video, installation and digital forms—constructs contemplative visual environments where absence, fragmentation, and distance become tools for narration. 記憶的詩意、遷徙的惆悵、流散的體驗，在葛霄的藝術實踐中交織成深邃的景致。這位擅長影像、裝置與數位媒介的創作者，運用空間隱喻與傳承的智慧，構築出令人沉思的視覺場域。在這裡，空缺、碎片與距離都化作敘事的筆墨。 In a video piece, created as part of her series …
“Mythological Journey—A Dialogue Across Time and Space” presents a contemporary artistic interpretation of the essence of Chinese and Western mythology. The featured artists of this exhibition are Irish artist Fion Gunn and Chinese artist Shoran Jiang. The two artists, from different cultural backgrounds, have connected through art in London, engaging in cross-cultural exploration through imagery, …
Zhengwei Fan combines layered watercolors and pencil on paper as a meditative form of image-making. With a background in illustration and visual storytelling, the artist has stated that, “Drawing is, for me, a way of dwelling. It is a slow, tactile practice that keeps me close to what is fleeting and fragile.” His practice is …
The renowned art historian E.H. Gombrich once noted in the second half of the twentieth century, 「Ours is a visual age. We are bombarded with pictures from morning till night.」 This signifies a continuous enhancement in the efficiency of information transmission, with traditional methods of information replication and dissemination, predominantly led by written language, facing …
Ziyi Xiong’s curatorial focus takes as its subject the liminal intersection of presence and absence, the encounter of the spiritual and the material, the ephemeral and the transcendent. Through her multidisciplinary background in Art Management and Policy Practice, Xiong approaches the exhibition space as an immersive lived experience that not only relies on the emotional …
Most of us think of fog as an inconvenience; it grounds flights and makes driving dangerous. But there’s also something magical about getting lost in it, when you can barely see what’s in front of you, animals and buildings appear out of nowhere, and you have to take a leap, or should that be step, …
Alexandra Baraitser and YU Xiao She Paints Still 3 Sep -4 Oct 2025 Tiderip x Mandy Zhang Art London She Paints Still is a dual-venue exhibition initiated by two Chinese female gallerists based in London. It focuses on the sustained painting practices of women artists navigating different life stages, cultural contexts, and artistic languages. …
Nelson Qin curates from his drive to discover and give voice to emerging artistic generations and to present their work with and from new perspectives. Challenging the predominance of the white cube exhibition space, Qin seeks to push beyond the limits of conventional static presentation models, experimenting with new approaches while developing a diverse portfolio …
In the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy, sound is both a medium of transmission and a way of being. Even when its source fades, the echo remains; when space becomes a resonating chamber and the body begins to vibrate with it, the individual and the world, past and present, are joined anew through the experience of …
Mocube BEIJING Duo exhibition by Jonathan Miles, Xu Chenxi Curated by Deng Ting 09 Aug – 14 Sep 2025 Opening: 4pm, 09 August 2025 In celebration of a decade since its founding, MOCUBE presents The Softening of All Edges, a thoughtful and visually poetic duo exhibition by Jonathan Miles and Xu Chenxi, on view from …
Yoshitomo Nara 10 Jun – 31 Aug 2025 Hayward Gallery, London Yoshitomo Nara’s children do not smile. They glare, pout, sulk – or stare straight back at you with unsettling clarity. These wide-eyed, child-like figures, so central to Nara’s practice, have long evoked a range of contradictory responses: tenderness, defiance, vulnerability, and strength. They …
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting 20 June – 7 September 2025 National Portrait Gallery, London I was thinking about the way that faces come to us, like messengers from the elsewhere. As messengers they come and go, flickering in the light afforded by the day. They appear then as arrested light, as if bearers …
The British Museum Presents Ukiyo-e Master Exhibition: Hiroshige and the “Open Road” Between Cultures In 2025, the British Museum launches Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road, a landmark exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan’s most influential and beloved ukiyo-e masters. This is the first major exhibition on Hiroshige …
To help bridge the cultural access gap, international charity Art Explora has partnered with the British Museum to launch Time Odyssey. This ambitious programme will offer free museum visits to over 100,000 children aged 7 to 11 across the UK over the next three years. The programme not only covers museum admission but also offers …
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