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Jitish Kallat
WALL DRAWING SERIES BY THE MENIL COLLECTION – MENIL DRAWING INSTITUTE, HOUSTON
Solo Show
Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Texas
From September 10, 2026 to August 8, 2027
Jitish Kallat has been commissioned for the next and eighth ephemeral Wall Drawing Series by Menil Drawing Institute. He will take part in a conversation on Friday, October 30, at 12 pm, during which he will discuss the site-specific mural project with Edouard Kopp, chief curator of the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Daniel Dezeuze
ACQUISITIONS – MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, PARIS
Solo Show
Museum of Modern Art, Paris
From July 21 to January 4, 2026
The Museum of Modern Art has made an exceptional acquisition of a collection of works by Daniel Dezeuze. Twenty recent works are now entering the museum’s collections. To mark the occasion, Daniel Dezeuze is being celebrated in an exhibition tracing his career since 1982. It showcases his penchant for reusing materials (doors, panels, skis), assemblage, colour as a generator of form, and the significance of negative space.
Sudarshan Shetty
A BREATHE HELD LONG – LUDWIG MUSEUM, KOBLENZ
Solo Show
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
From June 12 to 16 August 2026
The exhibition is centered around the film A Breath Held Long, in which Sudarshan Shetty explores life in Mumbai in a compelling and poetic way. The 20- to 25-minute video is accompanied by objects based on nine to ten texts by the artist, some autobiographical, some fictional, reflecting various facets of urban life. Three new sculptural ensembles complement the presentation and symbolically encapsulate life in the city.
Gregory Crewdson
EVENINGSIDE – CHIOSTRI DI SAN PIETRO, REGGIO EMILIA
Solo Show
Chiostri di San Pietro
From October 10, 2026 to January 17, 2027
The touring retrospective dedicated to American photographer Gregory Crewdson arrives in Italy. As the final chapter of a trilogy, “Eveningside” explores the psychological and social dimensions of everyday places, set against the backdrop of provincial America and suspended in an ambiguous, timeless realm. Curated by Jean-Charles Vergne
Chiharu Shiota
THE SOUL TREMBLES – MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, MONTREAL
Solo Show
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
From September 26, 2026 to February 14, 2027
« The Soul Trembles » is the largest solo exhibition to date of Chiharu Shiota. Since its premiere at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2019, it has travelled to eight other venues around the world and makes its first stop in North America at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the fall of 2026. The Montreal presentation include the monumental thread installations Where Are We Going? (2017-2026), Uncertain Journey (2016-2026) and In Silence (2002-2026), among other installations.
Claude Viallat
CLAUDE VIALLAT – RONCERAY ABBEY, ANGERS
Solo Show
Ronceray Abbey, Angers
From June 25 to October 17, 2026
Having just reopened, Ronceray Abbey is hosting an exhibition of recent works by French painter Claude Viallat from June 25 to October 17, 2026. It features some twenty free-form, colorful, monumental paintings that bear the artist’s distinctive style.
Hervé Di Rosa
MIRAGES DU MONDE, LES PEINTURES D’HERVÉ DI ROSA – LA MALMAISON, CANNES
Solo Show
La Malmaison, Cannes
Du 17 juillet au 8 novembre 2026
This summer, the City of Cannes and La Malmaison are presenting a major solo show dedicated to the paintings of Hervé Di Rosa. Conceived as a journey in three chapters, the exhibition spans more than forty years of artistic creation, from the 1980s to his most recent works, including series inspired by his travels around the world. Opening on Thursday, July 16 at 6 pm.
Prune Nourry
VISIONNAIRES – CARTE BLANCHE TO PRUNE NOURRY – PETIT PALAIS, PARIS
Solo Show
Petit Palais, Paris
From October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027
The Petit Palais has invited Prune Nourry to take over the entire museum to shine a light on female sculptors who have been overlooked or forgotten by art history. The artist has sculpted portraits of 18 of these “visionary” women, which are displayed throughout the collections, including in the museum garden, as part of a living genealogy of faces that remain difficult to depict.
Abdelkader Benchamma
L’HORIZON DES ÉVÈNEMENTS – ESPAI D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLÓ
Solo Show
Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
From June 19 to October 31, 2026
Abdelkader Benchamma is presenting a solo show at the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain, for which a site-specific mural has been created, complemented by the Komentenbuch series on paper. The exhibition’s title refers to astrophysics: the “event horizon” is an imaginary border at the edge of the mysterious black holes that marks the limit of our knowledge, and from which no light can ever return nor escape. Abdelkader Benchamma’s work thus facilitates a passage between worlds and an encounter between the visible and the invisible.
Chiharu Shiota
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Solo Show
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba
From June 14 to November 15, 2026
On the occasion of the 16th Curitiba International Biennale – THRESHOLDS, Chiharu Shiota created a site-specific exclusive installation The Space Between Us. Created using approximately 300 km of string, it will feature letters sent in by the public. Curated by Tereza de Arid
