Exhibo Editorial Team
Sergey Rabusov is founder of BARS Agency, where he leads brand, digital and editorial work for cultural institutions and private clients across the UAE and wider Gulf. On Exhibo he writes about collecting, gallery culture and how the contemporary art market is taking shape in the Middle East.
Development, finance, ops, marketing and HR across museums, festivals and foundations: the work, pay caveats and routes in
Arts administration jobs sit in development, finance, operations, marketing and HR across museums, festivals, foundations and arts non-profits. Here: what the work looks like week to week, how the field formed, entry routes including Goldsmiths and Columbia programmes, pay bands with sources, and UK and US regional variation.
Art handler careers mapped across museums, galleries, auction houses and logistics firms: skills, pay and progression
Art handlers pack, install and move objects for museums, galleries, auction houses and specialist shippers. This career guide covers daily work, physical demands, pay bands in the US and UK, entry routes, and how handlers progress into preparator, registrar or crew-lead roles without turning into a DIY packing tutorial.
Capital, inventory, fair booths and private sales: how to build a dealing practice without salary myths or shortcuts
Building a dealing practice means raising working capital, managing consigned and owned stock, surviving fair selection, and meeting ethics and resale-right duties. This guide maps those steps for people who already know gallery floors and want to trade under their own name, with costs and risks stated plainly.
Front-of-house, sales support and the mid-level track inside dealer spaces: duties, pay ranges and how people get hired
A gallery assistant job is front-of-house and administration inside a commercial space that sells art. This guide maps the role ladder, day-to-day work, sourced salary bands in the UK and US, museum versus trade distinctions, and regional hiring patterns, without promising pay or teaching artists how to sell.
USPAP, ASA, AAA and ISA ladders, plus comps libraries: the practical career route into professional art valuation work
Art appraisal is a standards-bound career built on market hours, report discipline and association credentials. This guide maps USPAP and IVS awareness, ASA, AAA and ISA membership routes, RICS for UK practice, specialisms, liability and how you assemble a usable comparable-sales library for paid work.
Science prerequisites, master’s programmes, internships and specialisms on the route from first degree to bench work
Art conservation trains you to examine, stabilise and treat cultural objects under ethical codes. The route runs through chemistry and studio prerequisites, competitive master’s places, and post-graduate fellowships. This guide maps UK and US programmes, specialisms, costs and when a technician or allied role fits better.
An outcomes map of museum, gallery, auction, education, publishing, heritage and adjacent careers, with selection criteria and pay sources
Art history graduates work in museums and galleries, but Graduate Outcomes data show many enter marketing, administration and retail first. This guide maps real pathways, credentials employers ask for, and pay figures from BLS and UK museum benchmarks without promising a job or a curator title on graduation.
From degree choice to assistant posts: internships, project portfolios, museum versus independent routes, and competition without pay myths
Most curators reach the title through subject degrees, museum experience and years on the assistant ladder, not a single course. This pathway guide covers education options, internships, museum versus freelance routes, the portfolio evidence hiring panels want, and sourced pay benchmarks with clear caveats.
Art history degree explained: modules, assessed skills, BA/MA/PhD routes, indicative fees, and studio versus history paths
An art history degree trains you to look, research and argue about images, objects and buildings in historical context. This guide covers typical curricula, the skills departments assess, BA through PhD paths, studio versus history distinctions, indicative fees, and when specialised curating or conservation programmes make more sense than a general degree.
An organogram of museum employment families, from collections and learning to security, retail and the routes people use to enter them
Museums hire curators, but they also hire registrars, educators, conservators, handlers, visitor hosts, fundraisers and facilities teams. This guide maps the employment families behind a working museum, how major institutions organise those teams, what a working week looks like in each cluster, and how pay and entry routes vary by region.
British painting from Victoria’s accession to 1901: modern-life panoramas, Pre-Raphaelite intensity, Aesthetic beauty and Empire-era publics
From Derby Day crowds to Ophelia’s riverbank, Victorian art maps a Britain remade by industry, print and exhibition culture. This period survey covers Royal Academy spectacle, reform pictures, Aesthetic “art for art’s sake,” and the twentieth-century fall and partial recovery of the Victorian reputation.
How European art academies set training ladders, genre ranks and the polished Salon style that dominated the nineteenth century.
From plaster-cast rooms to Prix de Rome scholarships, academic art was a career system as much as a look. This guide maps French and British academies, the hierarchy of genres, painters from Ingres’s line to Cabanel and Bouguereau, and how modernists turned “academic” into a slur before ateliers revived the craft.
Rome and Florence at the peak: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Bramante, c.1490–1530, between Early Renaissance and Mannerism
Papal Rome and republican Florence funded a brief peak of Italian art around 1500. This guide defines the High Renaissance, names the patrons and workshops behind it, reads four landmark works in marble, oil, fresco and stone, and tracks how critics invented the “peak” label after the Sack of Rome in 1527.
Seventeenth-century Dutch painting from republican trade and Calvinist homes to specialised genres, four close readings, and afterlife.
Haarlem banquets, Delft harbours, and Amsterdam militia halls show how Dutch Golden Age painting sold specialised genres to a merchant republic. Trace the market conditions, hallmarks, key painters, four landmark works read closely, later criticism, and why the “golden” label now draws museum debate.
Round arches, thick walls and carved portals: Europe’s eleventh- and twelfth-century visual language for pilgrimage churches.
From Conques to Durham, Romanesque makers vaulted stone naves, carved Last Judgments over doors and cast bronze for liturgy. This guide maps dates, traits, named workshops and key buildings, then follows critics from Bernard of Clairvaux to modern museums, while leaving the Gothic sequel to its sibling essay.
A period survey of prehistoric art: Ice Age conditions, parietal and portable media, major sites, and debates over meaning.
From South African ochre workshops to Chauvet’s sealed chambers and Altamira’s painted ceiling, prehistoric art shows how Ice Age and early farming communities marked stone, bone and ivory. This survey covers media, key sites via museums and replicas, and debates over magic, shamanism and authorship.
How Paris’s official exhibition ruled careers, and why Napoleon III’s 1863 annex of rejected pictures changed the stakes
In 1863 the Paris Salon jury turned away more than half the works submitted. Napoleon III ordered a public annex for the refused. Crowds laughed; Manet and Whistler became infamous overnight. This guide maps the Salon system, the Refusés stakes, key canvases, and the path toward independent exhibitions.
Late-nineteenth-century painters who favoured dream, myth and suggestion over optical Realism and Impressionist light.
A period survey of the Symbolist art movement: why painters turned from nature toward idea and mood, who led the French and Belgian circles, how the style spread across Europe after 1886, and how four key works still teach the difference between Symbolism as a movement and a general “symbols in art” glossary.
How a secret London society of 1848 remade British painting through sharp nature study, moral subjects and blazing colour on white grounds.
Seven young artists formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 against Academy polish. This survey covers their aims, Hunt, Millais and Rossetti, close readings of key Tate and Liverpool pictures, later mutation under Burne-Jones, and how critics from Dickens to Tate’s Victorian Avant-Garde shows have judged them.
Courbet, Millet and Daumier put labour and ordinary life on Salon-scale canvases after 1848: French Realism as a movement.
After 1848, French painters put stone-breakers, gleaners, village funerals and third-class rail passengers on walls sized for history painting. This survey stays with mid-century Realism as a movement: conditions, characteristics, close readings, critics and afterlife, without treating “realism” as timeless style.
Elongated bodies, acid colour and court polish: how mannerism art followed High Renaissance balance into stylish artifice
From Pontormo’s Capponi Chapel to Parmigianino’s unfinished Madonna and Bronzino’s ice-cool Medici portraits, Mannerism turned Italian Renaissance skill into deliberate artifice. This guide covers dates, characteristics, key works, European spread, and why later critics first damned then revived the style.
From Burgundian courts to German prints: what Northern Renaissance art looked like, who made it, and which works still define the period.
Museum visitors meet Northern Renaissance art beside Italian labels: Bruges oil panels, German engravings, Tudor court portraits. This card points to the cities and patrons that funded it, the visual habits that mark a northern panel or print, four works still on public view, and why scholars still argue over the name.
From Republic verism to imperial marble: how Romans used portraits, reliefs, mosaics and painted walls as political tools.
Roman art is less a single look than a toolkit: veristic faces for ancestry, Greek bodies for prestige, spiral relief for conquest, painted walls for rooms that had to impress. This period survey tracks patronage and empire from the late Republic to Constantine, with close readings of monuments still standing in Rome and museums.
From Geometric grave markers to Hellenistic drama: how Greek workshops taught the Mediterranean world to see the human body
A period survey of ancient Greek art from Geometric pots to Hellenistic victory monuments. City-states, sanctuaries and trade set the brief; pottery, marble and bronze carried it. Named makers, four close readings, critics of the white-marble myth, and the afterlife that still shapes Western museum rooms.
How Byzantine sacred panels were made, used in liturgy, and argued over from Sinai workshops to the later Orthodox world.
A museum-led guide to Byzantine icons as practice and image theology: how panels and gold grounds work, what Iconoclasm changed after 843, four works to study at close range, and how the type travelled into Rus, the Balkans and Western painting without turning the piece into confessional debate.
Western Christian book painting from Insular gospel books to Gothic Hours: patrons, workshops, and pages that still shape museum displays.
Lindisfarne carpet pages, Carolingian psalm drawings and Parisian Books of Hours show how Western Christian workshops turned parchment into portable splendour. The essay maps scriptoria, city book trades, four landmark manuscripts, scholarship debates, and the print-era afterlife inside a European Christian fence.
Images built to work for gods, kings and the dead: canon, craft and change along the Nile across nearly three millennia.
Ancient Egyptian art was rarely made for the museum wall alone. This period survey explains why statues and reliefs functioned as cult tools, how a stable visual canon held for centuries, where Old, Middle and New Kingdom styles diverge, and which collections still make those differences visible today.
Constantinople to Ravenna: gold mosaics, icons and court craft that shaped Christian imagery for nearly a millennium.
Byzantine art was the Christian visual culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. This guide explains how mosaics and icons worked in liturgy and empire, follows the tradition from Constantinople across the Mediterranean, and points to works that still define the style after empire, conquest and modern museum display.
Paris salons to European courts: the light, ornamental language of furniture, porcelain, painting and church interiors.
Rococo began as private luxury in early eighteenth-century Paris and then travelled widely. This survey covers interiors and craft as much as painting, introduces Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard, tracks the style’s European afterlives, and names the museum rooms where its pastel wit still reads clearly.
After Impressionism’s light: structure, symbol and personal colour in Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their peers.
Post-Impressionism is a cluster, not a single school. This guide shows how painters kept modern subjects and a bright palette while pushing toward structure, symbol and expression — how the term arose, where it differs from Impressionism, and what those experiments fed into twentieth-century painting.
Feeling before classical calm: revolution, the sublime and personal vision in European painting, about 1780 to 1850.
Romanticism put emotion, imagination and the artist’s stance ahead of academic restraint. This guide explains the sublime and contemporary history as subjects, follows Géricault, Delacroix, Goya, Friedrich and Turner, and shows how the movement left Realism and later modern painting its restless inheritance.
Greek and Roman virtue revived: hard contours, civic drama and marble calm from the 1760s into the early nineteenth century.
Neoclassicism returned Western art to antique form and moral language. This survey maps dates and academies, the painters and sculptors who set the look, defining works from David to Canova, and how the style dressed Europe’s public face before Romanticism and later classicism answered back in force.
From the end of Rome to the edge of the Renaissance: Early Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic as working tools, not one style.
Medieval art spans more than a thousand years of European making. This guide separates Early Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic habits, follows patronage from monasteries to courts, and anchors the story in works you can still see — without collapsing the Middle Ages into a single cathedral silhouette.
Rome, Antwerp, Madrid and Amsterdam: the seventeenth-century visual language built to move bodies, faith and courts.
Baroque art pushed figures into your space and stacked diagonals for drama. This guide covers Counter-Reformation roots, key painters and sculptors from Rome to the Dutch Republic, four close readings of major works, and how the style spread, drew criticism, and still shapes museum rooms today.
Classical models, Florentine workshops and papal courts: how Renaissance art redefined painting and sculpture in Europe.
Renaissance art treated antiquity as a living brief, not a lost golden age. This survey explains why Florence led, how Rome and Venice answered, who set the terms of skill and patronage, and how four landmark works still teach what the period looked like when you stand before the painting or statue itself.
From twelfth-century France to late medieval courts: light, height and craft that remade Europe’s sacred and civic image world.
Gothic art is more than pointed arches. This guide traces how painting, sculpture, stained glass and goldsmiths’ work grew from mid-twelfth-century northern France, spread through cathedral workshops and courts, and stayed influential into the fifteenth century — with the phases, figures and works that make the label usable in a gallery.
A deep look into the mid-century art movement that liberated the Arabic letter, fusing traditional script with modern abstraction.
The Hurufiyya movement stands as one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Arab art. Discover how modernist pioneers deconstructed traditional Arabic calligraphy to assert a post-colonial cultural identity, and learn where to experience these works today using Exhibo.
A step-by-step handbook for surviving the sensory overload of contemporary art fairs, engaging with dealers, and finding your first piece.
Stepping into a massive contemporary art fair can be intimidating. Learn how to set a realistic budget, use the "two-pass" strategy, ask dealers the right questions, and use Exhibo's discovery platform to plan your route.
A comprehensive guide to Saudi Arabia's desert art revolution, mapping the permanent and temporary masterworks of the AlUla oasis.
Discover how AlUla transformed from an ancient trade route into a leading destination for contemporary land art. Explore the curatorial vision behind Desert X 2026, the permanent monumentality of Wadi AlFann, and the upcoming Contemporary Art Museum partnered with Paris's Centre Pompidou.
This year's projection design competition drops the AED 100,000 cash prize of 2025 in favour of a longer, fully global submission window — and rules out any AI-generated entries.
Emaar has reopened its Burj Khalifa Open Call, inviting artists, designers and creatives from the UAE and around the world to submit original audio-visual projections for a chance to see their work displayed on the facade of the world's tallest building. Submissions close on 18 August 2026.
The second edition of the emirate-wide public art event opens in Al Ain in October and Abu Dhabi in November, led by former MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose under the theme "Home: A Glossary for a Communal Sense of Place."
The second edition of the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial opens in Al Ain on 23 October 2026 and in the capital on 15 November, running into February 2027. Curated by former MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose under the theme "Home: A Glossary for a Communal Sense of Place," the free, citywide programme builds on the acclaimed inaugural edition, several of whose works have since become permanent public installations.
An in-depth look at the curators, scenography, and regional commissions shaping Saudi Arabia’s premier international contemporary art platform.
Explore the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, "In Interludes and Transitions". Our comprehensive visitor guide covers the co-curators' vision, Formafantasma's industrial scenography, major commissions, and practical tips for navigating the JAX District with Exhibo.
An insider's directory to navigating the capital's changing creative spaces, from transformed industrial warehouses to central gallery hubs.
Riyadh's contemporary art scene is expanding at an extraordinary pace. Discover the city's essential creative hubs, from the monumental converted warehouses of the JAX District to the bustling commercial galleries of Al Olaya, with Exhibo's comprehensive cultural guide.
From a Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim on Saadiyat Island to a floating art museum on Dubai Creek, six major institutions are set to redraw the country's cultural map over the coming years.
The UAE's museum and performing arts landscape is entering one of its most ambitious build-out phases yet, with six major cultural institutions — spanning Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah — currently in development. From the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to a floating art museum on Dubai Creek, here is what is coming and when.
Chairman Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi says transformative ideas "may come from anyone, anywhere in the world" as Dubai's landmark institution invites public submissions for its next generation of experiences.
Dubai's Museum of the Future has launched an international open call inviting residents of the UAE and the public worldwide to submit ideas for its next generation of exhibitions, timed to coincide with the institution's approaching fifth anniversary.
How Hassan Sharif and the artists known as "the Five" built conceptual art in the UAE from nothing
Before the Louvre came to Abu Dhabi and Alserkal filled with galleries, a small group of artists made conceptual art in the UAE with almost no audience and a great deal of ridicule. This is the story of Hassan Sharif and the pioneers who built a scene from nothing — and why their work still anchors Emirati art today.
In a single decade, the Kingdom built a contemporary art ecosystem from almost nothing — ministries, biennials, museums, a market. Here is how it happened, what it has produced, and the questions that remain.
Vision 2030 did not simply fund some exhibitions; it rewired the institutional plumbing of an entire art world, and did so fast enough to unsettle the assumptions on which the Gulf's art map had been drawn.
The Saadiyat Island museum announces a year-long programme that moves from ancient board games and Indian Ocean trade routes to conflict-zone heritage preservation and a first-ever GCC–India contemporary art prize.
Louvre Abu Dhabi has announced four major exhibitions for its 2026–2027 season, tracing a single curatorial thread — exchange, movement, and cultural resilience — across ancient board games, Indian Ocean maritime history, a landmark GCC–India contemporary art prize, and heritage preservation in conflict zones.
How a row of Al Quoz warehouses became the most serious address in Gulf contemporary art — and how to navigate its galleries, foundations and programme.
Alserkal Avenue sits in Al Quoz Industrial Area 1 — a grid of concrete warehouses and marble workshops wedged between Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Khail Road — and it is, improbably, the most culturally credible square kilometre in the Gulf.
Treasure House Fair, Studiolo and Classic Art London bring renewed momentum to a shifting capital
Amid a sweltering June, London's art scene is staging a quiet resurgence driven by homegrown initiatives rather than international mega-fairs.
A sprawling exhibition of wobbling robots, sound installations and participatory workshops explores what it means to welcome the stranger
Running from June 2026 to May 2027, SeMA Buk-Seoul presents Kwon Byungjun's ambitious project using robots and sound to question how we encounter difference and build a shared sense of 'we'.
Skennen'kó:wa ken? (Do You Carry Great Peace?) features Shelley Niro, Melissa General, and Hannah Claus at the Canada Pavilion
A Kanien'kehá:ka-led exhibition curated by Ryan Rice will represent Canada at the 2026 Gwangju Biennale, exploring Haudenosaunee philosophies of peace, rematriation, and self-governance through interdisciplinary contemporary art.
A Modigliani nude, a rediscovered Magritte, and a Klimt portrait drive one of the most remarkable single-owner sales in auction history
The collection assembled by British billionaire Joe Lewis realised £296.3 million at Sotheby's London on Wednesday, nearly doubling its pre-sale estimate and setting a new European record for a single-owner sale — led by a Modigliani nude at $63.9 million and a long-unseen Magritte that sold for four times its estimate.
The fair's 12th edition moves to a new venue, introduces a dedicated photography section and expands its mentorship programme — here is everything you need to know.
World Art Dubai returns for its 12th edition from 19 to 22 November 2026, this time at a new home — Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo City. With over 10,000 works from 65 countries, a new dedicated photography section and an expanded mentorship programme, here is everything galleries and collectors need to know.
Amid a fraught political climate, Manhattan's oldest museum opens a $175m expansion exploring the nation's democratic legacy
The New York Historical launches its ambitious Tang Wing for American Democracy this week, a 71,000 sq. ft addition that doubles as both a civic statement and a major curatorial upgrade for the institution founded in 1804.
Three German art institutions convene an experimental symposium to reimagine the future of cultural organisations
Taking place in Cologne this July, Speculative Pen brings together artists, curators and researchers to collectively rethink institutional structures through speculative writing, workshops and collaborative exercises.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston surveys four decades of the conceptual artist's irreverent, research-driven practice
CAMH presents the first major museum exhibition dedicated to Mary Ellen Carroll, whose multidisciplinary work interrogates art, bureaucracy, and social structures with wit and rigour.
A garden of ash and memory at Kunsthaus Hamburg
Melike Kara burns her photographic archive to create a fragile, evolving installation that dissolves fixed identity into sensory experience.
The institution has opened a temporary exhibition space at JW3 on Finchley Road while it plans a permanent new home targeted for 2030.
The UK government has awarded £1m to Jewish Museum London to support plans for a long-term site, as the museum inaugurates Two Rooms, a temporary exhibition space at the JW3 cultural centre in north London.
The £437m Farringdon complex, one of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projects, will debut in two phases
The London Museum has confirmed that its long-anticipated new home at the historic Smithfield market will welcome visitors from 28 November, marking one of the most significant museum developments in the capital in recent memory.
Three new exhibitions opening in June reframe Greece as a cultural crossroads rather than a Western periphery
The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens launches a trio of exhibitions that collectively challenge Eurocentric narratives, repositioning the country at the heart of interconnected Mediterranean, Balkan, and Near Eastern histories.
Over fifty artists and researchers gather at SIMoA to explore how observation collapses reality into fleeting certainty
The inaugural Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennial, directed by Zikang Zhang and curated by Naiyi Wang and Mónica Bello, treats the act of looking as a force that reshapes what exists.
The world's first AI art museum opens on Grand Avenue, blending biodata, scent, and immersive storytelling
Dataland, Refik Anadol's 25,000 sq ft AI-driven museum in Frank Gehry's Grand LA development, reimagines the museum experience through real-time biodata, scent technology, and machine-generated visions of nature.
The long-running award for emerging artists has been quietly discontinued, with galleries learning of the cancellation only days before the fair.
Art Basel's Statements section has lost its flagship prize after Baloise ended a partnership dating back to 1999, catching participating galleries by surprise.
Burning the archive to reimagine identity at Kunsthaus Hamburg
For her solo show at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Melike Kara incinerates her own photographic archive, transforming the remnants into a garden-like installation that probes memory, heritage and the dissolution of fixed identity.
CHERUBY's summer programme treats exhibitions, residencies and a nomadic theatre school as sites where cultural value emerges through collective making rather than fixed objects.
Running from June to August 2026, CHERUBY's summer programme A Pop-up of A Pop-up brings together an exhibition, artists-in-residence and a roaming theatre school to explore how meaning is generated through circulation, participation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Millennials and Gen-Z bidders are reshaping the market for traditional Asian works of art, but the category's complexity demands patience and expertise.
A new generation of collectors is turning to Chinese ceramics, bronzes and artefacts, pushing auction sales to record highs — yet the category's steep learning curve raises questions about whether this momentum can be sustained.
Europe's leading gathering for independent publishing heads to silent green with a focus on bibliodiversity and global voices
The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival returns for its eighteenth edition, bringing together 235 exhibitors from 46 countries to explore publishing as artistic and political practice.
The inaugural year of the SGVAP pairs two distinct artistic practices rooted in community, material experimentation and spatial intervention.
The Speed Art Museum's new visiting artist initiative honours Sam Gilliam's Louisville legacy through exhibitions by vanessa german and Eric N. Mack, each reimagining the social possibilities of contemporary art.
A Basel exhibition traces a century of art confronting the invisible labour of women—from factory floors to the home
At Museum Tinguely, 36 artists spanning a hundred years reveal how female labour—paid, unpaid, biological and domestic—has been rendered invisible, mechanised and exploited.
Nearly 600 handcrafted garments and cultural objects from the Widad Kawar archive find a permanent home in Toronto
The Royal Ontario Museum has secured one of the world's most significant collections of Arab dress and heritage arts, comprising almost 600 objects spanning fourteen countries across the region.
Galleries honour the late artist as collector demand surges following his death
David Hockney's work commands attention across Art Basel this year, with galleries reflecting on his enduring influence as the art world mourns one of its most cherished figures.
Seven-figure transactions signal robust appetite for top-tier works despite broader market uncertainty
Art Basel's VIP preview saw a flurry of high-value sales, with galleries reporting strong demand for museum-quality works by Picasso, Hockney, Twombly and others.
The boutique, stand-less fair near Messeplatz will use the pause to rethink its model and lower dealer fees.
June, the small-format Basel satellite fair, has cancelled its 2026 edition after a key corporate sponsor withdrew, prompting organisers to rethink the event's structure and reduce participation costs for galleries.
Para Site marks three decades with an episodic performance series that reimagines the city as a site of ritual, sound, and queer mythology.
Spanning June to December 2026, Para Site's thirtieth-anniversary programme commissions four artists to navigate Hong Kong through live interventions in sound, movement, and animist ritual.
A Glimpse of the Infinite brings together over fifty artists and scientists to probe the quantum nature of observation
The inaugural Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennial, directed by Zikang Zhang and curated by Naiyi Wang and Mónica Bello, opens at SIMoA on 30 May 2026, running for an entire year.
Kunsthalle Münster presents the Georgian artist's first institutional solo exhibition, spanning film and sculpture
Zauri Matikashvili's debut institutional solo show at Kunsthalle Münster brings together two-channel video installations and a sculptural series probing identity, belonging and the fragility of democratic life.
CHERUBY's summer programme treats exhibitions, residencies and pedagogy as sites of para-content and collective meaning-making
Running from June to August 2026, CHERUBY's summer activation brings together an exhibition, artists-in-residence and a nomadic theatre school to explore how cultural value emerges through circulation, participation and collective making.
Sapieha Palace hosts a group exhibition probing intergenerational bonds amid crisis
Opening in April 2026, this Lithuanian group show examines how everyday technologies and care shape maturity, identity and social life in an era of war, ecological collapse and algorithmic infantilisation.
Galleries across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah are keeping their doors open through the summer months — with seven exhibitions running well into September.
From Abu Dhabi's Cultural Foundation to Sharjah's arts district, galleries and cultural institutions across the UAE have mapped out an ambitious summer programme that runs well into September — defying the region's traditionally quieter months.
