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, Pomegranate, from the series Bringing Down the Flowers, Watercolour on paper, 2026 © 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

14 April 2026 – 1 pm EST / 6pm GMT

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Felipe Baeza joins Brooklyn Rail contributor Christopher Alessandrini for a conversation on Zoom.

image: portrait courtesy of Clifford Prince King

11 April – 20 June 2026

Morena di Luna
3 Adelaide Crescent
Hove BN3 2JD

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Maureen Paley is pleased to present Leisure, the first exhibition by Jack O’Brien at the gallery in Morena di Luna, Hove.

Opening today between 2 - 6 pm.

In this new exhibition, Jack O’Brien reconfigures everyday objects through processes of twisting, binding, stretching, and puncturing, using these material interventions to probe how desire is constructed, how economies of consumption are sedimented, and how queer aesthetics operate under conditions of instability and continual transformation.

With special thanks to:
Ginny on Frederick and Freddie Powell.

image: Jack O'Brien, Deferral, resin filled wine bottles, lamp base, London taxi horn, epoxy putty, 23 x 11.5 x 123.5 cm - 9 x 4 1/2 x 48 5/8 in, 2026. © Jack O'Brien, courtesy Maureen Paley, London.

5 April – 7 June 2026

Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art
Markt 1
4331 LJ Middelburg
The Netherlands

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An Impossible Sound is conceived as the third installment of pink & green, a long-term project by Rory Pilgrim that will culminate in his forthcoming first feature film of the same title. Presented at Vleeshal, the exhibition unfolds with a new, immersive environment that foregrounds the choices faced by young people growing up in regional areas.

The guest curator of this exhibition is Martha Jager.

image: Polaroid courtesy of Rory Pilgrim

3 April 2026 at 6pm

Print Center New York
535 West 24th Street, New York, NY
10011 United States

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To celebrate the launch of the publication for Felipe Baeza: Anima, the Print Center New York are hosting an evening conversation with Felipe Baeza and Leslie Martinez, moderated by Barbara Calderón. The artists will discuss their longtime friendship as well as the material affinities behind their respective practices.

Felipe Baeza: Anima is a bilingual, illustrated catalog featuring original essays by exhibition curators Jenn Bratovich and Alex Santana, and guest essayist Donna Honarpisheh, that critically and thematically contextualize Baeza’s practice.

6–7PM: Artist Talk

7–9PM: Catalog Launch Party w/ DJ set by BLKshine (Darryl DeAngelo Terrell)

This event is sponsored by Zomoz Mezcal

image: Felipe Baeza, Our Shadows Merging, 2023. Ink, acrylic, cut paper, graphite and varnish on panel, 16 x 12 in © Felipe Baeza.

“I want to be remembered as I was. I’m going to join all our friends.” – Agosto Machado

Together with Gordon Robichaux we share news of the passing of cultural luminary Agosto Machado, who died peacefully on 21 March following a brief illness.

A singular figure, Machado was a Chinese-Spanish-Filipino-American self-taught performance and visual artist, activist, archivist, muse, caretaker, and friend to countless celebrated and underground visual and performing artists.

The New York Times, Agosto Machado Is Dead; Artist Memorialized New York’s Avant-Garde, 31 March 2026

Artforum, Agosto Machado, Whose Shrines Immortalized a Lost NYC Underground, Is Dead, 30 March 2026

Frieze, Agosto Machado, Downtown Performer, Artist-Archivist and Activist, Has Died, 23 March 2026

ARTnews, Agosto Machado, Artist and Activist Whose Shrine Sculptures Kept Queer History Alive, Has Died, 22 March 2026

Ocula, Agosto Machado, Chinese-Spanish-Filipino-American Artist, Has Died, 23 March 2026

Artlyst, Agosto Machado: New York Performance, Visual Artist And Activist Dies, 22 March 2026

image: Peter Hujar ‘Agosto Machado’ 1980
©The Peter Hujar Archive/Artists Rights Society NY