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
12 June - 20 September 2026
Avilés, Asturias
Spain
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Chioma Ebinama are both included in the 1st Climate Biennial. Held across 11 venues in Avilés, Spain, the Biennial is conceived as a meeting space open to the public that invites reflection on the ecological, social and territorial challenges of our time.
The programme brings together more than forty artists and collectives. Many of the works have been acquired or produced specifically for this edition. Some pieces are part of the State Collection of Art and Climate of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, a growing collection that will accompany future editions of the Biennale. Others are the result of artistic residencies developed at the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the Energy City Foundation, and the Factoría Cultural of Avilés.
The Biennale also presents projects in progress that will continue evolving beyond this edition, as well as interventions in public facilities — such as libraries — through participatory architecture projects.
12 June 2026 - 3 January 2027
CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux
7 Rue Ferrere
33000 Bordeaux, France
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Alexandra Bircken opens SomaSemaSoma today at CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, marking the third iteration of an exhibition tour that included Biel and Lisbon.
Alexandra Bircken has developed a sculptural practice that examines the relationships between the body, technology, and social structures. She creates works both cyborg-like and androgynous that question human behaviors and desires, as well as the vulnerability of bodies in their relationship with technology. The hybrid forms she imagines can be read as metaphors for bodies subjected to conditions -whether aesthetic, productive, or gendered—or bodies traversed by flows of information and power.
She questions the relationships between the body, technology and social structures. She began a fashion career in the mid-1990s, founding her own brand and settled in London and then Paris for over a decade. In the early 2000s, she eventually turned her back on fashion. She then began to develop an artistic practice that questions the relationships between bodies, technology and social structures. Its formal vocabulary borrows a great deal from anatomy and engineering, industrial design and textile craftsmanship.
Alexandra Bircken shapes states of tension: attraction and repulsion, protection and exposure, desire and at times violence in her radical works.
This exhibition is co-produced with Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; KBCB, Bienne Art Centre, Switzerland and Marta Herford Museum, Germany.
image: Portrait of Alexandra Bircken. Photo: Dan Ipp
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 Jett 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.
22 May - 25 October 2026
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10016
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Hujar: Contact is now open at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, on view through 25 October 2026.
The exhibition offers an unprecedented look into the life, times, and creative evolution of a master photographer. The exhibition features more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements from the Morgan’s Peter Hujar Collection, which includes over 5,700 contact sheets from throughout the artist’s career.
On the occasion of the exhibition, The Morgan Library & Museum and Mack Books have co-published the catalogue, Hujar:Contact, now available for pre-order.
AnOther, Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets Reveal an Artist in the Process of Becoming, Will Ferreira Dyke, 25 May 2026
image: Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz II, 189 Second Avenue, 1981 from The Morgan Library & Museum, Peter Hujar Collection, New York
Opening: Friday 22 May 2026
Public talk: 5:00 - 6:00 pm (tickets free booking required)
Opening party: 6:30 - 9:00 pm
23 May - 16 August 2026
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke St
Oxford
OX1 1BP
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Modern Art Oxford presents Little Fennel’s Complaint, a major solo exhibition by Olivia Plender (b. 1977, London), exploring historic and ongoing inequalities in women’s healthcare, from early modern witchcraft to contemporary debates on reproductive rights and medical authority.
Plender developed the exhibition through research with leading Oxford institutions, including the Bodleian Library, Oxford Botanic Garden and John Radcliffe Hospital. Across embroidered textiles, watercolours, drawings, mobiles, and sound works, she examines how women’s healthcare has been recorded, classified, and practised over time, exploring how systems of knowledge shape lived experience while offering alternative understandings grounded in feminist histories.
The exhibition also features three seventeenth-century books on loan from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. These volumes contain the medical case notes of astrologer doctor Richard Napier, who practiced humoral medicine based on the ancient theory of the four humours.
image: Olivia Plender, installation view, The Reabilitation of Curiosity, lasercut wood, 2024-26
© Olivia Plender, courtesy Maureen Paley, London
6 May - 22 November 2026
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto
Venice
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On the occasion of the Biennale Arte 2026, Lawrence Abu Hamdan's new multi-channel video installation '450 XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound' has been commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film for 'CANICULA,' the final chapter in a series of exhibitions curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi.
The Guardian, What not to miss at the 2026 Venice Biennale, 9 May 2026
The New York Times, 6 Must-See Venice Shows, 9 May 2026
Frieze, Off-Site Exhibitions Review: The Politics of Listening, Vanessa Peterson, 8 May 2026
image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 450 XL: The Story of a Fugitive Sound, CANICULA, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice, 2026. Photo: Maureen Paley
solo exhibition at South London Gallery
opening: 30 April, 6.30 – 8.30pm
1 May – 23 August 2026
South London Gallery
65–67 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
Thursday – Sunday 12 – 6pm
Wednesdays 12 – 9pm
Paulo Nimer Pjota works in oil, tempera and acrylic on canvas. His paintings draw on art history, popular culture, mythology and folk tales, merging multiple references to create expansive imaginary worlds. We have been showing his work at the gallery since 2016.
At the SLG, Encantados showcases a new series of paintings paired with an overall mural painted directly onto the gallery walls. His installation environments are populated by mythical characters, animals and various beasts; bringing together disparate elements from the past, present, his life in Brazil, as well as his created world.
‘Street culture is about revolution’: Brazilian ‘hip-hop’ painter Paulo Nimer Pjota, The Guardian, 28 April 2026
A recent monograph, Paulo Nimer Pjota: A Lua e Eu, was published by Distanz in 2025.
Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados is supported by:
Maureen Paley, London; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles and New York