ZOE LEONARD is part of 'The Social Life of Things', on view through September 27, 2026 at MGKSiegen.
Bringing together works by Zoe Leonard, Nina Beier, and David Hammons, the exhibition explores how everyday objects can reflect social experiences, cultural meanings, and power structures. Through sculpture, photography, installation, and video, familiar things are transformed into new ways of seeing the world around us.
Images: Installation view, 'The Social Life of Things', MGKSiegen, 2026. Courtesy the artists. Ph: Philipp Ottendörfer
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RODNEY MCMILLIAN is part of 'SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection', on view at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles through September 6, 2026.
Taking its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra (1914–1993), a Black American experimental jazz composer and musician known for his radical and esoteric approaches to Black liberation, the exhibition considers “space” as a conceptual framework through themes of Afrofuturism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space.
Images: Installation views, 'SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026. Ph: Jeff McLane
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LEYLA YENIRCE’s first solo museum exhibition, 'Werdegang', at the Landesmuseum Oldenburg is on view through August 23, 2026.
Through painting, installation, and video, Yenirce intertwines personal memory with themes of migration, feminist self-assertion, and collective voice. Rooted in her return to the city where she grew up, the exhibition traces movement as both biography and becoming.
Images: Installation views, 'Leyla Yenirce. Werdegang', Landesmuseum Kunst & Kultur Oldenburg, 2026. Ph: Sven Adelaide
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On a boat in Venice? Berlin is loud on Karl-Marx-Allee.
@CapitainPetzel is showing @Rodney.McMillian : In Other Realms — his first solo exhibition with the gallery.
McMillian is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, performance and text. His Black Paintings are among his best-known works: heavily worked surfaces of vinyl and fabric, folded, seamed, painted in black that is never merely formal. They speak to Black identity, visibility and invisibility, and to the social and historical power structures that run through both American society and art history. An ongoing, urgent conversation with the tradition of abstract painting — and a challenge to what that tradition preferred not to see.
The exhibition is anchored by a new film, Plantation Bride, in which McMillian performs a speech by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the journalist and civil rights activist who campaigned against lynching. The speech was originally delivered at the first annual conference of the NAACP in 1909. Around it, new sculptures and paintings open into what Monopol describes as utopian counter-proposals to a disturbingly current dystopia.
📌 On view through 13 June.
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Hannah Silver writes on SANYA KANTAROVSKY’s must-see Venice exhibition, 'Basic Failure', in the June 2026 issue of Wallpaper*, available from 7 May in print on newsstands and online at wallpaper.com.
Image: Sanya Kantarovsky photographed in April 2026 in his New York studio. Ph: Tina Tyrell
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SEAN LANDERS' 'Sperm Whale Skeleton I' (2023) is currently on view at 'Body Fragment' at The Power Station, Dallas through June 13, 2026.
What does it mean to live in pieces? As Linda Nochlin suggests, fragmentation defines modern life–socially, psychologically, even metaphysically.
'Body Fragment' traces this idea across centuries, where broken bodies–torsos, limbs, fragments–become more than loss. They hold tension: between absence and presence, violence and beauty, rupture and meaning.
Here, the incomplete isn’t lacking–it’s charged. A reminder of vulnerability, and a quiet resistance to ideals of perfection.
Images: Installation views, 'Body Fragment', The Power Station, Dallas, 2026. Courtesy of the artists and The Power Station
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Sanya Kantarovsky’s solo exhibition ‘Basic Failure’ at Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, Campo Santo Stefano, Venice, opens tonight with a private view from 6-8pm, and continues until 22 November 2026.
Images: Sanya Kantarovsky, Basic Failure, 2026, oil on linen, 139.7 x 100.3 cm, 55 x 39 1/2 in
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For his first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Rodney McMillian presents a group of new sculptures as well as paintings from his Black Paintings series, which are among his most well-known bodies of work.
Their heavily worked surfaces are marked by folds, seams, and vivid colors. McMillian often uses unconventional materials such as vinyl or fabric, which he paints and manipulates so that their physical properties remain visible. Rather than functioning as mere supports, they appear structured, worn, and materially present.
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Starting from today, May 1, in New York City: YAEL BARTANA’s 'Farewell' (2024) is on view as part of 'Midnight Moment' in Times Square, through May 31, 2026.
Presented within the world’s largest public digital art program, the work unfolds nightly across more than 90 synchronized billboards, transforming Times Square into a collective cinematic experience.
A meditation on departure, hope, and transformation, 'Farewell' envisions the final moments before humanity embarks on a fictional journey to distant galaxies. Through choreographed ritual and striking visual language, Bartana reflects on crisis, renewal, and the possibility of beginning again.
Images: 1-3. Yael Bartana, 'Farewell', 2024 (video stills). Courtesy of Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Petzel Gallery, New York; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam; Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan and Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm
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