Ron Meek
Artist Ron Mueck presents a focused survey of his work in Japan, marking his second solo exhibition in the country since his 2008 retrospective at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa. Known for his hyperreal figurative sculptures, Mueck builds each work through close observation of the human body, rendering moments of vulnerability, tension and introspection with an altered sense of scale that unsettles perception.
Bringing together eleven works, the exhibition traces the evolution of his practice from early works to recent sculptures, including Mass (2016–17) and the rarely exhibited Angel (1997). Originally presented by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 2023 before traveling internationally, the exhibition also includes photographs and films by Gautier Deblonde, offering insights into the processes behind Mueck’s sculptural production.
name: Ron Meek
artist: Ron Meek
museum: Mori Art Museum
location: Tokyo, Japan
dates: April 29 – September 23, 2026
Ron Mueck, Mass, 2016-2017, installation view: Ron Mueck, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2025. photo by Nam Kiyong, courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle presents Something Missing?, an exhibition developed in close collaboration with the artist and bringing together seven major series spanning five decades of work. Occupying the museum’s West Wing, the presentation includes more than 300 elements—photographs, texts, and videos—that reflect Calle’s ongoing exploration of intimacy, narrative, and the shifting boundary between lived experience and constructed history.
Working in image and text, Calle combines documentary forms with personal and often ambiguous accounts, creating a tension between observation and invention. The exhibition includes early works such as The Blind (1986), recently acquired by the museum, alongside later works such as Voir la mer (2011), in which participants encounter the sea for the first time. Together, these works trace a practice that engages perception, memory and emotion through direct yet open gestures.
name: Is something missing?
artist: Sophie Calle
museum: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
location: Humlebæk, Denmark
dates: March 26 – June 9, 2026
installation view: Sophie Calle, Something Missing?, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2026
Beyond the Manosphere – Masculinities Today
Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today examines how ideas of masculinity are shaped, performed and contested in contemporary culture. Beginning with the rise of online ‘manosphere’ communities, the exhibition considers masculinity as both a power structure and a lived condition, addressing its contradictions in public and private contexts.
Bringing together new commissions, installations and performances, the presentation includes works by Reba Maybury, Jasmine Gregory, Sven Gex, Hamishi Farah and SoiL Thornton, along with a performance by Zhana Ivanova. In these works, masculinity is approached as a set of changing roles and representations, shaped by media, economy and social behavior and examined through gestures, images and spatial interventions.
name: Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today
museum: Municipal Museum
location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
dates: April 17 – August 2, 2026
Amanda van Hesteren, I Want to Go Higher (video still), 2023. © Amanda van Hesteren. Produced by Amanda van Hesteren & Sky Verbeek. courtesy of Amanda van Hesteren
Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy
Transforming Energy presents a major exhibition of Marina Abramović at the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, marking the first time the institution has dedicated a large-scale presentation to a living female artist. Coinciding with the Venice Arte Biennale and the artist’s 80th birthday, the exhibition — curated by Shai Baitel — spans both permanent and temporary galleries, placing Abramović’s work in direct relation to the museum’s historic collection.
Bringing together key performances, new works and interactive installations, the exhibition traces Abramović’s long-standing focus on endurance, vulnerability and presence. Works such as Imponderabilia, Rhythm 0 and Balkan Baroque are presented alongside the newly designed ‘Transitory Objects’, while Pietà (with Ulay) enters into dialogue with Titian’s late painting. Through these juxtapositions, the exhibition considers the body as a site of transformation, connecting the performance to larger histories of material and spiritual inquiry.
name: Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy
artist: Marina Abramovic
museum: Gallery of the Academy of Venice
location: Venice, Italy
dates: May 6 – October 19, 2026
Marina Abramovic, portrait. image © Marco Anelli, 2025
Helter Skelter: Arthur Jaffa and Richard Prince
The show “Helter Skelter” brings together works by Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice. It marks the first dialogue between the two artists. With more than fifty works in photography, video, installation, sculpture and painting, the exhibition also includes new pieces and a collaboratively produced zine developed through exchanges between the artists.
Installed on the ground and first floors of the palazzo, the presentation examines how both artists draw on and rework images circulating in American visual culture. Through juxtaposition and overlap, it traces common strategies of appropriation and image-making, while situating their practices within broader issues of identity, media, and cultural narrative, reflected in the layered references embedded in the exhibition’s title.
name: Helter Skelter: Arthur Jaffa and Richard Prince
artist: Arthur Jaffa, Richard Prince
museum: Prada Foundation
location: Venice, Italy
dates: May 9 – November 23, 2026
Arthur Jaffa, Mickey Mouse Was a Scorpio, 2017 (detail). private collection © Arthur Jafa / Midnight Robber © photo by Ian Watts.TV. Richard Prince, Graduation, 2008. collection of Larry Gagosian © Richard Prince
LOUMA ARLES
LUMA Arles presents the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives Chapter 6: Zaha Hadid ‘I think there should be no end to experimentation’, marking ten years since Zaha Hadid’s death. The exhibition reexamines Hadid’s practice through her long-term dialogue with the curator Hans Ulrich Obristtracing its development from early conceptual work to construction projects and situating its approach to architecture within a wider field of artistic and theoretical inquiry.
Presented at the Tower in the Parc des Ateliers, designed by Frank Gehry, the exhibition brings together never-before-seen paintings, drawings, notebooks, archival material and interviews. Focusing on her early calligraphic works and their relationship to later buildings, the presentation outlines a practice that moved between abstraction and construction, emphasizing experimentation as a central method in Hadid’s approach to space and form.
name: Zaha Hadid “I think there should be no end to experimentation”
architect: Zaha Hadid
museum: LUMA Arles
location: Arles, France
dates: 1 May 2026 – 31 March 2027
image © Zaha Hadid Foundation
I started, I walked quickly report at White Cube London brings together new works, archival material and a large in-situ installation with Katharina Grosseassembling them into a single, continuous environment. Rather than following a chronological order, the exhibition connects works from different periods, allowing them to interact across time. Individual pieces function as points in a larger network, where relationships shift according to movement and proximity.
Since the late 1990s, Grosse has worked primarily with acrylic pigments applied with an industrial spray gun, a technique that extends the reach of the body and captures the act of painting as movement. The gesture is not contained on a surface, but unfolds in space, connecting the act of looking with the act of creation. This approach is based on performance and spatial practices where the boundaries between artwork, location and viewer are reduced.
name: I started, I walked quickly
artist: Katharina Grosse
museum: White Cube
location: London, United Kingdom
dates: 22 April – 31 May 2026
