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50 stories across Contemporary, London, Sculpture, and Paris. Latest: Lisson Gallery Presents Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska's 'Zanzibar' Installation.
Lisson Gallery has presented a new iteration of 'Zanzibar' (1999-2023), a mixed-media installation by Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska, as part of its ongoing Lisson Street programme.
Art21 announced the premiere of the episode "Human Nature" on June 10, 2026, concluding Season 12 of its series Art in the Twenty-First Century. The episode features four artists — including Josh Kline — who examine human impact on the environment, social systems, and interpersonal connection.
Château La Coste presents "Rashid, Sheree and Friends," a group exhibition cocurated by artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian in conjunction with their solo shows at the venue.
The Van Gogh Museum delivered a Van Gogh Museum Edition — a high-quality 3D replica of one of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces — to primary school Syncope in Almere on June 24, 2026, as part of its educational programme Van Gogh Goes to School, made possible by partner DHL Express.
On June 24, 2026, the Barbican Centre announced further programme details for "Repercussions," a multi-day takeover led by Turner Prize-winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his nonprofit Earshot.
The 129th General Assembly of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft on May 27, 2024 approved the 2023 annual report and accounts.
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Kunsthaus Zürich has received a CHF 30 million initial endowment from Marianne and Martin Haefner to establish the Förderstiftung für bedeutende Ausstellungen des Kunsthauses Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich announced on May 20, 2026, its expanded role as a site of societal participation through programs linking art with health and community engagement.
Art Basel’s Zero 10: The Condition program features an artist and co-curator who addresses how artificial intelligence is disrupting authorship, ownership, and image-making. The discussion centers on digital art’s established role in examining contemporary conditions.
On June 23, 2026, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced a five-day pop-up display of Jordyn Woods’s Tux Clutch Mini bag at the Guggenheim New York’s Café Rebay.
On June 17, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that KAWS’s work is included in the group exhibition HARD EDGE(D) at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg. The show is installed in the museum’s historic Haupteingang and Rittersaal and examines the evolution of hard edge painting over six decades.
On June 15, 2026, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) presents an exhibition of works by Antony Gormley curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
June 18, 2026, New York-based photographer Jack Pierson has installed a Word Collage spelling “Hope” using vintage signage along a prominent corridor leading into the center’s museum.
On June 24, 2026, the Mori Art Museum announced an exhibition of work by Katayama Mari, winner of the inaugural Mori Art Award Grand Prize. The show runs from October 31, 2026, to March 28, 2027, in the Small Exhibition Gallery at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
On June 23, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that Barry Flanagan’s work is the subject of solo exhibitions at Fundació J. Llorens Artigas in Gallifa and at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, the latter curated by Dr. Jo Melvin and accompanied by public events on 22 February and 18 April.
The Dora Maar Cultural Center at the historic Hôtel de Tingry presents Joanna Pousette-Dart: Shaping Light from 25 June to 27 September 2026. The solo exhibition features new paintings created for the show along with works on paper that respond to the light and color of the space.
June 23, 2026 — The Centre Pompidou presents Fabrice Hyber's La Vallée in Vendée as part of the Hors Pistes / Hors Champs festival. The artist opens his 100-hectare site, planted with 100,000 trees since age 16, to the public for the first time.
New Museum has made June and July tickets available for purchase. Visitors are encouraged to buy tickets and plan their visits.
On June 16, 2026, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection in Paris installed Cloud #07156 by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya in the Rotonde as part of the Clair-Obscur exhibition.
On June 22, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the exhibition “The Sky in the Cave” by Oliver Beer at its Dover Street location.
On June 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac opened the exhibition Barceló Printmaker, which presents around thirty prints by Miquel Barceló, most of them recent and produced at the Barcelona workshop of Joan Roma and Takeshi Motomiya.
On June 13, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the collection presentation 'Various Signs', which runs alongside the 'Pierre Huyghe' exhibition. It brings together works from the collection that each engage with signs and meaning in their own way.
On June 23, 2026, Centre Pompidou released painter Jean-Philippe Delhomme's reflections on the Matisse, 1941-1954 exhibition at the Grand Palais.
The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, presents Mariko Mori: All That Shines from October 31, 2026 to March 28, 2027. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist in Japan since 2002 and is organized in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
On June 22, 2026, Gagosian announced that Theaster Gates has been commissioned to create a permanent installation for the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side, scheduled to open in 2026.
On June 20, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced the exhibition Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs at its Milan gallery.
Kunsthaus Zürich will present the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Eye That Listens' from July 3 to October 25, 2026. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916).
On June 8, 2026, Christie's reported that The Exceptional Private Cellar of a Silicon Valley Pioneer achieved $3,230,175 at its 5 June auction at Rockefeller Center in New York, with 100% sold by lot and 132% sold by low estimate.
The Kunsthaus Zürich recorded 539,500 visitors in 2025, the second-highest annual total in its history and the highest among Swiss art museums.
Tate Modern opens Frida: The Making of an Icon on June 25, 2026, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
On June 22, 2026, The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation features works by Julian Opie. The exhibition occupies the heart of downtown New Orleans along Poydras Street from Convention Center Boulevard to North Galvez Street.
On June 16, 2026, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection opened the exhibition 'Clair-obscur,' presenting around 100 works from the collection, including modern pieces shown for the first time.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia will host the exhibition titled 'Leiko Ikemura: TransLucent - The Form of Light' from 10 September to 22 November during the ninth edition of The Venice Glass Week 2026.
On June 21, 2026, Urs Fischer opened a pair of exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch’s two Los Angeles galleries in collaboration with Gagosian.
On June 21, 2026, Art Basel closed its 2026 edition in Basel, reporting strong sales across established, mid-market and emerging artists.
On June 15, 2026, Tate announced the appointment of Daisy Desrosiers as Britton Family Curator at Large, North America. Based in the USA, she will focus on the development of North American art in Tate’s collection through new research and acquisitions. Desrosiers succeeds Christine Y.
On June 21, 2026, Tate unveiled its first show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Tate Britain Garden, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, centers on Barbara Hepworth’s Bicentric Form 1949 and previews the Clore Garden due to open at Tate Britain in 2027.
On June 10, 2026, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the presentation of Collection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st century portrait (2006) by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno from June 11 through July 19 in the Peter B. Lewis Theater.
The National Portrait Gallery announced the shortlist for the 44th edition of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award on 18 May 2026.
On June 18, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac presented the exhibition “For Theresa” by Theresa El-Sayegh. The show is arranged in four sections of varying density and opens with the artist’s Net-Grid canvases (2010–) alongside the new Grand Collection of World Art tableaux (2026).
On June 17, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced that its Paris Marais gallery is hosting "Earthsongs," the first solo exhibition in France by Joan Snyder.
On June 19, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler announced that Inge Mahn’s work is included in FORCE FIELDS, a new collection presentation at the Kunstmuseum Bonn that transforms the upper floor into a dynamic parcours.
On June 11, 2026, the Centre Pompidou highlighted its collection of major works by Claude Lalanne (1925–2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008).
On June 12, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released an interview with a performance artist exploring solidarity through the collective presence of women of various ages and body types.
June 18, 2026, Gilbert Prousch, 82, and George Passmore, 84, of the art duo Gilbert & George welcomed an interviewer to their four-storey 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Fournier Street in Spitalfields, east London.
June 19, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac released a text by Catherine Millet on new paintings by Adrian Ghenie.
On June 19, 2026, the Centre Pompidou opened a retrospective of Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis coinciding with his receipt of the Jean Vigo d'honneur prize for his body of work.
On June 19, 2026, Inge Mahn’s work features in The Sky Was Candy, a group exhibition at Arter, Istanbul. The show brings together works by 24 artists from the museum’s collection.
On June 16, 2026, the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago installed Maya Lin's stone sculptural water feature Seeing Through the Universe on the Ann Dunham Water Terrace and Kiki Smith's bronze sculpture Receive in the Hope and Change Lobby.
On June 16, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published an analysis by Hyunjoo Jung examining Alex Katz's painting techniques. The text details Katz's luminous flat color planes set against bold monochromatic backdrops or interwoven with primary and pastel tones that reflect New York sunlight.
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