Exhibition Reviews

From Cynthia Daignault’s new body of work at Kasmin Gallery, New York, to Monika Baer’s first Swiss institutional show in 30 years at Kunsthalle Bern, these are must-see painting shows this season

At Swiss institute, New York, a well-earned survey of the late artist charts her early experimental works and textile sculptures of the 1970s

At Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, the Austrian artist mines epochs of ancient history to bring painting back to a time before consciousness

At Gasworks, London, the artist queers the conventional masculinity of the action-adventure video game 

At Zollamt MMK, Frankfurt, the artist's barren landscapes reveal the ugly legacy of Apartheid

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents the artist’s first major retrospective in 20 years

At Morán Morán’s new space in Los Angeles, the artist presents an array of makeshift objects that reveal the mutability of identity

From Paula Rego’s unflinching women to Ellen Harvey’s mournful, forgotten buildings, these are the best institutional shows in the UK

At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, the artist’s first major retrospective traces the complex entanglements of colonial and personal histories

At The Breeder Gallery, Athens, the Nigerian artist tethers the superficial conventions of European portrait painting to the semiotics of Blackness

From Jumana Manna's solo exhibition at M HKA, Antwerp, to a retrospective of the late artist Chiara Fumai at Centro Pecci, Prato, these are the institutional shows not to miss in the Schengen area 

Through clever exhibition design and a mix of historical and contemporary positions, ‘The Endless Frontier’, offers a telescopic view onto complex issues

At Komaba Museum, Tokyo, a retrospective showcases the late postwar artist and theorist’s dedication to transforming polarized media representations

From an exhibition celebrating the life and career of filmmaker Bill Gunn at Artists Space to Wade Guyton’s latest solo outing at Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows in the US this month

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist's multimedia installation follows the shamanic goddess Princess Bari and a host of avatars on a hero’s journey through climate collapse and renewal

For his latest solo outing at Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, the artist presents a series of paintings inspired from the news lines during the pandemic and the minutia inside his studio

For the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s island outpost, the artist has created a new series of paintings and sculptures that span from the European discovery of the New World to racialized urban zoning 

At Villa Carmignac, Pourquerolles, the pioneering underwater photographer Jean Painlevé acts as a guiding spirit for a group exhibition that depicts the beguiling strangeness of aquatic life

At the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the late artist, who died tragically during 9/11, is remembered for his trenchant works that reflect on the transcendence and vulnerability of the Black male body

From Yael Bartana's expansive solo exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin to a group exhibition that depicts the oddities of aquatic life, here are our must see shows in the Schengen