Exhibition Reviews

At the Toledo Museum of Art, contemporary software-based art doesn’t abandon the history of modernism so much as reroute it

At Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the artist uses objects from athletics to upend the idea of individual achievement

In Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens, the artist collaborates with choreographer Holly Blakey, designer Ashish Gupta and musician Maxwell Sterling to present a dreamlike, melancholic dance

Its 2025 edition, ‘Shelter’, seeks to disturb our anthropocentric attitudes by swapping spectacle for subtlety

His mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, reflects on the violence and absurdity of neocolonialism

At LUMA Arles, the artist’s photographs of bohemian life demonstrate his rich engagement with artistic tradition and craft 

The inaugural exhibition at ARoS’s Salling Gallery, Denmark, sees the artist dissolve identity into an endless performance

At Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, the artist’s vibrant paintings depict speculative futures borne of 1960s counterculture

Curator Sorcha Carey’s vision unites monolithic and reflective commissions – from a three-headed stone bird to bespoke ice cream – enlivening this British coastal setting

At The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, the artist-activist’s paintings offer a counterpoint to more overtly political work by her peers

By responding to the late artist’s works at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Olesen confronts the opaque legacies of postwar masculinity

A new retrospective honours the filmmaker’s lyrical eye, but largely sidesteps his politics and contemporary relevance

At Cabinet, London, the artist’s minimal installation recreates a blurry photograph of a bus stop 

At Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, the artist holds the virtual treeline and the natural one in a single view

At Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the artist’s participatory practice invites a radical, bodily mode of knowing

At ShugoArts, Tokyo, the artist combines nostalgic still lifes with assorted produce, cheap liquor and whistled Chopin

The artist’s survey at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, demonstrates his commitment to liberatory notions of nationhood, kinship and art itself

At MASSIMODECARLO, London, the artist presents a series of unnerving paintings based on archival photographs of Francis Bacon

At Blue Velvet, Zurich, the artist’s charged sculptures balance violence with desire

On view at the Aspen Art Museum, the artist’s early replicas of canonical artworks appear imbued with love and disdain