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46 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Summer

46 Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Summer

Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while Carsten Höller is planning a vast exhibition for Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, the details of which he has largely kept secret. Meanwhile, Tomás Saraceno will bring his monumental sculptures to Munich’s Haus der Kunst; a permanent land artwork by him is also going on view in his native Argentina. He is hardly the only artist considering the land and all the histories embedded within it. Carolina Caycedo is having a show at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, while the National Gallery of Canada is surveying contemporary Indigenous artists from Inuit Nunaat, Sápmi, and Denendeh. This is not exactly a new theme, of course, and Ana Mendieta was considering it before many others. Tate Modern is giving her a proper retrospective, in one of the season’s most …

75 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See in Spring 2026

75 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See in Spring 2026

All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance master in the US, shockingly. In Paris, at the Louvre, another titan of the Renaissance takes center stage: Michelangelo, whose sculptures will be shown alongside Rodin’s. In Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum is giving a big show to Canaletto and his nephew, Bernardo Bellotto. But back to the Biennale. That exhibition is the most high-profile biennial in the world and the star of a year that marks an astonishing convergence of biennials taking place the world over. New York alone is getting two this spring: the Whitney Biennial and Greater New York, at the Whitney Museum and MoMA PS1, respectively. Then, in Pittsburgh, there’s the Carnegie International, and farther afield, in Australia, there’s the Biennale of Sydney. Big group shows like these are great, of course, but there’s nothing better than …

Shows, Museum Openings, and Biennials to Visit

Shows, Museum Openings, and Biennials to Visit

While 2026 has barely even begun, the year already looks to be a busy one. The world’s biggest art festival, the Venice Biennale, is returning, headlining a year that will also see many more biennials staged from New York to Sydney. Long-awaited museums are finally set to arrive, and new fairs are launching. And that’s to say nothing of monumentally scaled retrospectives for some of art history’s biggest stars. What should you look forward to most this year? To help you plan, we’ve selected 20 art happenings to look forward to in 2026. Koyo Kouoh’s Posthumous Vision Is Realized at the Venice Biennale Image Credit: Dave Southwood for ARTnews Never before in the history of the Venice Biennale has a curator died during the production of their show, making the 2026 edition a first. That exhibition was conceived by Koyo Kouoh, a star curator of the African art scene who died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2025, having battled cancer in private. Kouoh did leave behind a framework for her show, which will be titled “In …