International Programme
Current, upcoming and recent institutional exhibitions, commissions and artist projects
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13 August 2018
Now extended – Conrad Shawcross: MATRIX 179 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The exhibition (21 June–21 October 2018) celebrates the premiere of Shawcross’ sculpture Monolith (Optic), 2016, on Main Street in front of the Wadsworth Atheneum. The accompanying exhibition will feature additional sculptures, models and a slow-moving light machine. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut -
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12 August 2018
Final week – Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line at Virginia MOCA
A survey (17 March–19 August 2018) of some 30 paintings from across the artist's career. Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art -
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6 August 2018
Final week to see The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018, coordinated by Grayson Perry
The exhibition (12 June–19 August 2018) also features work by Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Idris Khan, Tal R and Conrad Shawcross. Royal Academy of Arts, London -
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12 July 2018
Stephen Willats in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, the inaugural edition of the Cleveland Triennial (14 July–30 September 2018) comprises artist commissions, performances, films, and public programmes to examine the ever-changing and politically urgent conditions of an American city. Cleveland, Ohio -
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7 July 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors opens at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Focusing on the evolution of her immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, the most significant North American tour of Kusama’s work in nearly two decades continues at The Cleveland Art Museum (7 July – 30 September 2018). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio -
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4 July 2018
Frieze Sculpture 2018 is now open, featuring a new work by Conrad Shawcross
Selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Frieze Sculpture (4 July–7 October 2018) features works by 25 contemporary and modern artists in Regent's Park. Regent's Park, London -
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1 July 2018
Rockaway! 2018: Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama
MoMA PS1 presents Yayoi Kusama’s site-specific installation of Narcissus Garden as the third iteration of Rockaway! (1 July–3 September 2018), a free public art festival presented with Rockaway Artists Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Bloomberg Philanthropies in the Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden. Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Tilden, Far Rockaway, New York -
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27 June 2018
A major work by Doug Aitken inaugurates the new Copenhagen Contemporary
The opening programme (29 June–30 December 2018) includes Aitken's installation Song 1, 2012/2015. Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark -
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22 June 2018
Work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien and Grayson Perry features in Michael Jackson: On the Wall
The exhibition (28 June–21 October 2018) explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art. National Portrait Gallery, London -
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19 June 2018
Wangechi Mutu and Barnaby Furnas feature in Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, at the Frist Art Museum
The exhibition (22 June – 16 September 2018) features works that induce feelings of disturbance, mystery, and expansiveness through the portrayal of forces shaping and hastening social transformation in ways that are increasingly difficult to predict. Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee -
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16 June 2018
Stephen Willats and Grayson Perry feature in Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? at Heong Gallery, Cambridge
The exhibition (16 June–7 October 2018) engages with themes of communication, breakdown of communication, and isolation. Heong Gallery, Downing College, University of Cambridge -
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11 June 2018
A new exhibition by NS Harsha opens at Glynn Vivian, Swansea
The artist's largest solo UK exhibition to date (7 July–9 September 2018) takes place in several spaces across the Glynn Vivian and includes three core works – a new installation Feel Free to Feed Each Other, the UK premiere of Reclaiming the Inner Space, and the seminal earlier work Stargazers. Glynn Vivian, Swansea -
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6 June 2018
Doug Aitken’s migration (empire) goes on display at Weatherspoon Art Museum
Aitken's video serves as the catalyst for a concurrent exhibition (9 June–30 September 2018) of artworks drawn from the museum’s collection. Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro -
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30 May 2018
Stan Douglas in Resist! The 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy at BOZAR, Brussels
The exhibition (27 June–26 August 2018) brings together works by seminal figures from the photographic and photojournalistic world, alongside rare archive images. BOZAR, Brussels -
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29 May 2018
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s, now open at Towada Art Center
An exhibition (2 June – 14 October 2018) featuring an installation Suh's Hub works, along with the video My Home/s, 2014-2016. Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan -
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29 May 2018
Coming to the Whitechapel Gallery this autumn – Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue
The first major UK survey of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, this exhibition (27 September 2018–13 January 2019) spans twenty years of extraordinary artistic collaboration. Whitechapel Gallery -
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25 May 2018
Alice Neel in Animals & Us at Turner Contemporary
The exhibition (25 May–30 September 2018) explores artists’ reflections on the relationship between humans and other animals. Turner Contemporary, Margate -
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24 May 2018
Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/Francesca Woodman at Tate Liverpool
The exhibition (24 May – 23 September 2018) pairs work by the artists to explore motion in drawing and photography. Tate Liverpool -
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24 May 2018
Ian Hamilton Finlay in Machines à Penser at Fondazione Prada, Venice
The exhibition (26 May–25 November 2018) explores the correlation between conditions of exile, escape and retreat and physical or mental places which favour reflection, thought and intellectual production. Fondazione Prada, Venice -
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24 May 2018
Isaac Julien in Höhenrausch 2018
Water is the theme of Höhenrausch 2018 (24 May–14 October 2018), which features work by more than 40 international artists, including The Leopard (Western Untion: Small Boats), 2007, by Isaac Julien. Linz, Austria -
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21 May 2018
Dancing Goddesses, featuring David Harrison, at Dio Horia, Mykonos
Curated by Marina Vranopoulou, this group exhibition (27 May–20 July 2018) features 19 artists including David Harrison, Katherine Bradford, Erik Parker, Emily Mae Smith and Kenny Scharf. Dio Horia, Mykonos -
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18 May 2018
Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing at The Lowry
An exhibition (19 May – 2 September 2018) of works from across Joffe's career addressing themes of portraiture, motherhood, passing time and art's relationship to history. The Lowry, Salford -
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11 May 2018
Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
The intricate, multipart installation (11 May – 29 July 2018) manifests the artist’s fantasy of Detroit. Seven large-scale paintings, rendered in a rich and moody palate of blues, depict the artist’s vision of specific Detroit neighborhoods he has never visited. MOCA, Detroit -
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10 May 2018
Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between at Cantor Arts Center
For this exhibition (10 May 2018–25 Feb 2019) Do Ho Suh has created a chandelier, wallpaper, and a decorative screen to focus attention on issues of migration and transnational identity. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California -
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7 May 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow at Museum MACAN, Jakarta
The first large-scale exhibition (12 May – 9 September 2018) of Yayoi Kusama’s work in Indonesia includes more than 130 works that span almost 70 years. Museum MACAN, Jakarta -
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5 May 2018
Grayson Perry – Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life at Shipley Art Gallery
A Crafts Council touring exhibition (5 May – 28 July 2018) of two large-scale tapestries. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead -
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26 April 2018
Works by Maria Nepomuceno feature in the opening displays of the Norval Foundation, Cape Town
The Norval Foundation (from 28 April 2018) is a new centre for the research and exhibition of 20th and 21st-century visual art from South Africa and beyond. Norval Foundation, Cape Town -
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25 April 2018
Stephen Willats: Control at Tate Liverpool
A project and events programme (25 April – 16 May 2018) devoted to Control Magazine. Founded in 1965 by Stephen Willats, Control remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to this day. Tate Liverpool -
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25 April 2018
Varda Caivano in The Divine Joke, curated by Barry Schwabsky
An exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, New York (25 April – 2 June 2018) curated by the critic and poet Barry Schwabsky. Anita Rogers Gallery, New York -
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14 April 2018
Secundino Hernández at Taidehalli, Helskini
An exhibition (14 April – 13 May 2018) of new paintings in addition to a selection of works from the past five years. Kunsthalle Helsinki -
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13 April 2018
Stan Douglas in Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern
This major exhibition (2 May – 14 October 2018) tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. Tate Modern -
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13 April 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Hayward Gallery Billboard is unveiled
Dwell: Aso Ebi, 2017, is on view until February 2019. The work is installed on the façade of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, opposite the Hayward Gallery. Southbank Centre, London -
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12 April 2018
David Harrison curates The Lore of the Land at Churchgate Gallery, Porlock
The exhibition (30 April – 30 May 2018) brings together artists including Anne Ryan, Abigail Lane, Peter Doig, Ross Taylor and Nicky Hoberman, who have been invited to respond to the exhibition title with interpretations ranging from folklore, the land, legends and myths to landscapes; urban or bucolic, threatening or seductive. Porlock, Somerset -
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6 April 2018
Grayson Perry: Folk Wisdom at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The exhibition (13 April – 2 September 2018) is produced in collaboration with La Monnaie de Paris museum, where it will be on view during autumn 2018. Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki -
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6 April 2018
Stephen Willats is featured in Fashioned from Nature at the V&A
Willats’ Variable Sheets/Optical Shift, 1965, is included in the exhibition (21 April 2018 – 27 January 2019), which invites visitors to think about the materials of fashion and the sources of their clothes. V&A, London -
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3 April 2018
Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at the Yale Center for British Art
The exhibition (3 April–12 August 2018), specially selected by Als in collaboration with the artist and a deeply personal testament to their transatlantic friendship, will focus on Paul’s recent works, New Haven, Connecticut -
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31 March 2018
Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences at Bristol Art Museum
Inspired by Hogarth’s morality tale, A Rake’s Progress, Perry’s tapestries (on display 31 March – 24 June 2018) follow the socially-mobile life of fictional character Tim Rakewell from infancy to untimely death. Bristol Museum -
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26 March 2018
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves at The Whitworth
Ten Thousand Waves (on display 30 March – 28 August 2018) is the most recent in a series of major moving image acquisitions by the Whitworth, and was supported through Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund. The Whitworth, Manchester -
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25 March 2018
John Kørner: Running Problems at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
For his first museum exhibition in Belgium (25 March – 17 June 2018) Kørner creates an integrated environment of painting and installation. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium -
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24 March 2018
David Harrison in Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus
The exhibition (24 March – 3 June 2018) at the Royal West of England Academy also features work by Sir Peter Blake, Abigail Lane and many others. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol -
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20 March 2018
Grayson Perry in Things of Growing Beauty: British Studio Pottery at the Fitzwilliam Museum
A collaboration with Yale Center for British Art, where it was first displayed, the exhibition (20 March – 17 June 2018) traces the changing nature of British studio pottery through the evolution of specific types of vessel. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge -
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16 March 2018
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The exhibition (16 March - 5 August 2018) features a major installation of the artist’s Hub sculptures along with a group of semi-transparent replicas of household objects, titled Specimens. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC -
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16 March 2018
The 21st Biennale of Sydney, featuring NS Harsha
A new work by NS Harsha will be on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (16 March – 11 June 2018). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
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13 March 2018
Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, featuring Chantal Joffe, Conrad Shawcross and Yayoi Kusama
The exhibition (13 March – 6 May 2018) brings together unseen material by Joffe, Shawcross, Kusama and all the artists contributing to the Crossrail Art Programme. Whitechapel Gallery -
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4 March 2018
Celia Paul in All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain
Tate Britain's major exhibition (28 February – 27 August 2018) celebrates painters in Britain who found new ways of depicting people, places, feelings and relationships. Tate Britain -
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3 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Art Gallery of Ontario
The major exhibition (3 March – 27 May 2018) continues its North American tour. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto -
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3 March 2018
Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves in The Rebellion of Moving Image at MOCA Taipei
The nine-screen installation of Ten Thousand Waves continues its world tour as part of the exhibition (3 March – 6 May 2018), curated by Huang Hsiang-Ning. MOCA Taipei, Taiwan -
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3 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love at Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Taking place in the artist's hometown of Matsumoto City, this major retrospective (3 March – 22 July 2018) features some 180 works drawn from across Kusama's career. Matsumoto City Museum of Art -
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22 February 2018
Conrad Shawcross at Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Hong Kong
Two works are displayed as part of Harbour Arts Sculpture Park (22 February–11 April 2018). The artist will also take part in The GREAT Festival of Innovation and Art Basel Hong Kong Dialogue Series. Hong Kong -
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16 February 2018
Secundino Hernández: Todo es Mucho at CAC Málaga
The exhibition (16 February – 6 May 2018) features some 38 works, several of which have been made especially for the show. CAC Málaga, Spain -
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15 February 2018
Grayson Perry’s Photo Album, now on view at The Photographers’ Gallery
A small display (23 February – 3 June 2018) of photographs and spreads from one of Perry's early photo albums. The Photographers' Gallery, London -
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14 February 2018
John Kørner: Tripoli – Lampedusa at Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
The exhibition (14 February – 29 July 2018) comprises a site-specific installation of works touching upon subjects ranging from global topics such as migration and inequality to more personal themes such as identity, relationships and happiness. EMMA, Espoo, Finland -
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14 February 2018
Alice Neel in The Ethics of Scrutiny at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Curated by artist Daphne Wright, this exhibition (15 February – 2 September 2018) examines the complex relationships between artist and sitter. IMMA, Dublin -
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13 February 2018
Hernan Bas: The Paper Crown Prince and Other Works at Colby Museum of Art
With loans from the de la Cruz Collection, this exhibition (13 February – 3 May 2018) considers the first five years of Bas’ career. Waterville, Maine -
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6 February 2018
Idris Khan creates a new work to mark the re-opening of Kettle’s Yard
The exhibition, titled Actions: The image of the world can be different (10 February - 6 May 2018), marks the opening of the new Kettle's Yard and seeks to reassert the potential of art as a poetic, social and political force in the world. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge -
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6 February 2018
Work by Isaac Julien is featured in More of an Avalanche at Wysing Arts Centre
The exhibition (11 February – 8 April 2018) considers what it takes for people in marginalised positions to speak out and the mechanisms that get used to stop them from doing so. Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire -
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3 February 2018
Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
A presentation (3 February – 27 May 2018) in the Focus Gallery of the award-winning 2007 film which portrays people attempting to cross continents. Aarhus, Denmark -
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1 February 2018
Wangechi Mutu in Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, coming to Haus der Kunst, Munich
Engaging the visceral and the cognitive, the exhibition (2 March – 19 August 2018) assembles around 25 international artists who deploy a variety of media in order to interrogate logics of truth, authenticity, opinion, and faith: Haus der Kunst, Munich -
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25 January 2018
Work by Stan Douglas featured in Faithless Pictures at Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
The exhibition (9 February – 13 May 2018) features around 40 international artists and explores the complex relationship between image and reality. Oslo, Norway -
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19 January 2018
Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate at ICA Boston
A new commission for the ICA Boston (19 January – 31 December 2018). ICA Boston
