Exhibition Reviews

In an immersive exhibition at Somerset House Studios, London, the artist reflects on the 2011 London riots and the struggle for agency

At Opera Gallery, London, the artist works with charcoal and chiaroscuro to depict a pantheon of deities

At Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, the artist guest curates an exhibition that tackles the history of gender bias in institutional acquisitions

In a packed retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the artist’s depictions of everyday objects take centre stage

At its most moving, the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art asserts that expressions of joy in precarious times are no small feat

This year’s Busan Biennale, inspired by David Graeber’s notion of ‘pirate enlightenment’, offers a glimpse into a world where progress can only be found outside the West

In his first solo institutional exhibition at Centro Pecci, Prato, the artist’s intimate vignettes honour queer sensuality

In her latest show at Waddington Custot, London, the artist’s triptychs reimagine the sacred through large-scale abstraction 

Once excluded from art history, the conceptual artist has her first US solo exhibition at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

After an election dominated by far-right rhetoric, curator Alexia Fabre’s eclectic network of artists presents an inclusive vision of French culture

A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth

Her retrospective at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances demonstrates a philosophy almost incompatible with the viewing methods of institutional exhibition

At Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, the artist uses theories from quantum physics to weave a narrative of human connection

Inspired by Joan Didion's novel, a new group show at Charim Gallery, Vienna, toys with the illusion of choice

An ecofeminist show of 18 artists and collectives at The Brick, Los Angeles, decentres a male perspective – but ultimately can't get away from a human one

Nicolas Bourriaud’s theme of ‘pansori’ suggests an opera you can walk through – but this only begins to take form at the Gwangju Biennale

At Unit Gallery, London, the artist's layered canvases capture platonic love in the youthful heat of the moment

The artist’s show at kurimanzutto, New York grapples with a transgenerational experience of a conflict that’s often overlooked and largely unresolved

In her comprehensive retrospective at EMMA in Espoo, Finland, the artist questions the limits of human understanding in the age of technology

At Fridericianum, Kassel, the artist evokes racial power dynamics through objects and watercolours that hint at violence and containment