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On June 30, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac announced a new solo exhibition by Alex Katz focusing on the artist's preparatory works, including intimate, small-scale paintings such as "Study for Trees" (2025).
On June 4, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced a solo exhibition of South Korean artist Lee Kang So, his first in New York in more than two decades. The show features 30 works spanning his career from radical experimentalist to celebrated painter.
On May 12, 2025, Kunsthaus Zürich announced a landmark endowment from Marianne and Martin Haefner, who have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new foundation dedicated to funding major temporary exhibitions.
On June 26, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced 'Fields of Becoming', a simultaneous solo exhibition by Korean artist Lee Kang-so in Daegu and New York.
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 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.
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 17, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that works by Matthew Barney, Katharina Grosse and Thomas Struth are included in A Thousand Times Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof, marking the museum’s 30th anniversary with over 70 works by more than 50 artists from 1989 to the present.
Hauser & Wirth has announced representation of artist Leonardo Drew.
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