We join in congratulating Wolfgang Tillmans on receiving the 2026 Roswitha Haftmann Prize.

The prize is presented by the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation Board in acknowledgement of a more than four decade body of work that has combined artistic innovation with social responsibility. Previous winners have included Walter De Maria, VALIE EXPORT, Maria Lassnig, Cildo Meireles, Sigmar Polke, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Cecilia Vicuña and Jeff Wall.

The official award ceremony will take place on Thursday 17, September 2026 at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

This will be delivered by Prof. Bernhart Schwenk, a member of the Board and Chief Curator and Head of the Contemporary Art Collection at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. He says: "Wolfgang Tillmans is unquestionably one of the trailblazing artists of his generation in the field of photography internationally.”

image: Georg Petermich / MUMOK, Vienna.

23 - 26 September 2026

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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Turner Prize-winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan transforms the Barbican Centre into a dynamic, interdisciplinary platform exploring the urgent and evolving concept of sonic justice.

Over four days, Repercussions brings together an installation, performances, screenings, panel discussions and live music to examine the impact of sound, from the harmful damage of noise pollution to the subversive power of silence.

Often describing himself as a 'Private Ear', Abu Hamdan’s work in audio analysis and aural testimony has reshaped how sonic evidence is mined and understood. His investigations into various crimes and human rights abuses, conducted through his not-for-profit Earshot, have been used by major news organisations, NGOs and grassroots community groups. He then uses installation, video, and live performance to reflect and meditate on the wider political, social and cultural implications of his investigations.

For Repercussions, Abu Hamdan reshapes the Barbican into a site for listening, reflection and shared inquiry.

A full list of events can be found here.

image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifzafa: Livestream Audio Essay (2025). © Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

10 September – 12 December 2026

Counterpublic
locations across St Louis
Missouri, USA

As part of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic's triennial exhibition, Max Hooper Schneider and Tom Burr present major new commissioned works in public space in St Louis, Missouri. Envisioning a shared near future, Coyote Time brings together fifty new artist commissions and selected historical artworks presented at public sites throughout the city.

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Roses, Tom Burr 
3724 Grandel Square
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Roses continues Tom Burr’s long engagement with parkscapes, garden constructions, and reconfigured architecture. The work takes the form of two inverted, misaligned right angles made of chain-link fencing. Rose-tinted safety and surveillance mirrors, along with chairs, are attached to the fencing. ark-inspired signage connects historical figures and public regulations. For Burr, the rose functions as both a material metaphor and a historical reference. He draws from the life of Rose Williams, the sister of playwright Tennessee Williams, whose institutionalization affected Williams greatly. Burr places Rose within a lineage of queer figures who stand in for voice, presence, and resistance.

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World Aquarium, Max Hooper Schneider 
Chouteau’s Landing
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

World Aquarium transforms the former World Aquarium in Chouteau’s Landing into a living sculptural ecology. Installed in the industrial building that housed the World Aquarium until its permanent closure in 2019, the work salvages architectural remnants and operational debris, turning them into a large, aquarium-like reliquary that hosts robotic aquatic organisms. Inside, processes of life, decay, and reconfiguration are staged in real time. The tank’s neon green glow references St. Louis’s industrial and environmental history, including its role in uranium processing during the Manhattan Project and the long afterlives of radioactive material in the region.

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Edinburgh Art Festival 2026

29 August, 7 – 8 pm (book tickets)

Leith Theatre
28-30 Ferry Road
Edinburgh EH6 4AE

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Programmed as part of Edinburgh Art Festival in collaboration with Falastin Film Festival, Lawrence Abu Hamdan presents a sound performance scored by Busher Kanj Abu Saleh, who will perform live together with saxophonist Amr Mdah and Earshot audio investigator Renate Lurdesa Baumane.

The Guardian, The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses, Charlotte Higgins, 25 August 2026

image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifafa, a live audio essay, 2024
© Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Photo: Kristina Sergeeva

20 August – 17 October 2026

Artist talk: Wednesday 26 August, 6 – 7 pm
(tickets free, booking required)
Exhibition preview: Wednesday 26 August, 7– 8:30 pm

The Common Guild
5 Florence Street
Glasgow G5 0YX

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Through his practice of forensic listening, artist, sound investigator and founder of Earshot, Lawrence Abu Hamdan creates performance, sound and video works that explore the political force of sonic experience. Shown for the first time in the UK at The Common Guild, Zifzafa (2025) is Abu Hamdan’s recent body of work comprising of a multichannel audiovisual installation, performance and video game, expanding on an audio investigation conducted with fellow researchers at Earshot.

The Guardian, The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses, Charlotte Higgins, 25 August 2026

image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifzafa, installation view, Munchmuseet, Oslo, 2025. Photo: Ove Kvavik

Friday 3 July 2026, 6.30 - 7.15 pm

Room 54, Level 2
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DN

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Unexpected views is a series of conversations between our curators and some of the most important artists living and working today.

Discussions focus on selected paintings from our collection, exploring their relevance to the artist’s work, or more broadly to current social and cultural issues.

Join curator Annabel Bai Jackson and Kaye Donachie at the National Gallery for the latest Unexpected View event on Friday 3 July 2026. They will be discussing Catharina van Hemessen's 'Portrait of a Woman', 1551.

Tickets are free. Book online on the National Gallery website.

image left: Kaye Donachie, drawing of Catharina van Hemessen's Portrait of a Woman (1551); right; Catharina van Hemessen, Portrait of a Woman (1551).

Opening: Friday 26 June 2026, 6 – 8 pm

27 June – 27 September 2026

Talbot Rice Gallery, 
The University of Edinburgh, 
Old College, South Bridge, 
Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

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Anne Hardy has transformed Talbot Rice Gallery’s iconic Georgian Gallery into a new installation. Known for her pioneering approach to exhibition-making, Hardy treats the gallery as a found object, extending the influence of sculpture into the fabric of the gallery through light, sound, data and scenography, creating an active environment for a series of sculptural "beings".

Curated by Talbot Rice Gallery Director, Prof Tessa Giblin and presented in association with Edinburgh International Festival.

Supported by Edinburgh College of Art, Creative Scotland and Henry Moore Foundation, and part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

The Guardian, the week in art, 26 June 2026

image: Anne Hardy, exhibition view, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
© Anne Hardy, photography: Angus Mill

Stand J12

18 – 21 June 2026

Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058


Open by invitation:
Tuesday 16 – Wednesday 17 June

Open to the public:
Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 June

Participating in Kabinett with Reverend Joyce McDonald

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image: Wolfgang Tillmans, paper drop (May), 2011, inkjet print on paper mounted on Dibond aluminium in artist’s frame 145 x 210 cm - 57 1/8 x 78 3/4 inches, edition of 1 + 1 AP