'Ghosts: Visualising the Supernatural' — Kunstmuseum Basel, Germany — Ends 1 February 2026
Artists include: Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Thomas Schütte, Gillian Wearing, Meret Oppenheim, Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, and Paul Klee.
Keywords (themes): haunting, spiritualism, surreal, 19th century, contemporary
Mike Kelley, Ectoplasm Photograph 5, 1978-2009. © Nachlass des Künstlers / estate of the artist Credit line: Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Tony Oursler, Fantasmino, 2017. Image Courtesy of Tony Oursler. Photo by Andrea Guermani.
Maty Biayenda: Le carrousel — Frac Île-de-France, Project Room, Paris, France — Ends 2 November 2025
Exploring Black female bodies and nocturnal iconography through paintings, installations, textile, weaving personal memory with collective imagination.
Keywords (themes): Black identity, nightlife, body politics, memory, popular culture
Marisol — Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark — Ends 22 February 2026
First major European retrospective of Marisol’s satirical Pop Art sculptures.
Keywords (themes): Pop Art, sculpture, gender, identity, satire
Marisol, La visita (The Visit), 1964. Museum Ludwig, Cologne / Donation Sammlung Ludwig 1976. © Estate of Marisol. Photo: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, rba_2024.
Marisol Couple No. 1 (1965-66). Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women © Estate of Marisol Foto: Courtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Noir Matters — Château de Montgoger - Collection Margaux et Raphaël Blavy & Musée de Saint Épain, Centre-Val de Loire, France — 18–26 October 2025
Artists include: Michael Armitage, John Akomfrah, Zanele Muholi, Kudzanai Chiurai, Gonçalo Mabunda, Igshaan Adams, and Chada.
Keywords (themes): resistance, colonial memory, queer and feminist struggles, materiality, Africa, diaspora
Michael Armitage, Ewaso Niro, 2016.
John Akomfrah, Expeditions One: Signs of Empire (Still from video), 1983. © Smoking Dog Films. Courtesy of : Smoking Dog Films and Lisson Gallery.
Saodat Ismailova: Chillahona — M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium — Ends 11 January 2026
Three-channel video installation reflecting on ancestral practices and memories of Central Asia during the turbulence of the perestroika era.
Keywords (themes): memory, Central Asia, perestroika, ancestral rituals, video installation, mysticism, identity
Saodat Ismailova, Chillahona, 2022 (video still). Şağylys collection, developed by Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture and M HKA.
Saodat Ismailova, Chillahona, 2022 (video still). Şağylys collection, developed by Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture and M HKA.
Leonora Carrington — Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy — Ends 11 January 2026
First comprehensive Italian retrospective of Carrington’s career.
Keywords (themes): Surrealism, folklore, feminism, Mexico, occultism
Leonora Carrington, Chez les masques, 1936 – Private Collection © Estate of Leonora Carrington, by SIAE.
Leonora Carrington, Sous la rose des vents, 1955. Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.
Quiet Grounds: Tyburn Foundation Residencies 2025 — PIASA, Paris, France — 17–22 October 2025
Group exhibition during Art Basel Paris week, presenting new works by Primrose Panashe Chingandu, Driaan Claassen, Michele Mathison and Mbali Tshabalala, developed during residencies in Italy and Zimbabwe.
Keywords (themes): African contemporary art, residencies, identity, ritual, community, transnational dialogue
A work by Mbali Tshabalala.
Primrose Panashe Chingandu, Tsamba kune akandiruka(A Letter to the one who wove my parts). Courtesy the artist and Tyburn Foundation.
Maruja Mallo: Máscara y compás — Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain — Ends 16 March 2026
Chronological overview of around 90 works, from her early magical realism to surrealism and geometric, symbolic configurations.
Keywords (themes): modernity, avant-garde, Spain, women artists, vision
Maruja Mallo, Oro (retrato bidimensional), c. 1951. Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo - Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid. Técnicas Reunidas, S.A.
Maruja Mallo in her studio in Buenos Aires with her serie La Religión del trabajo, 1939. Jose Ignacio Abeijion. Madrid.
Yuko Mohri: Entanglements — HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy — Ends 11 January 2026
Large-scale in-situ systems combining assemblage and sound.
Keywords (themes): kinetic, assemblage, Venice Biennale, systems, sound
Yuko Mohri. “Entanglements”. Exhibition view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2025. Foreground: Magnetic Organ, 2004–ongoing. Background: You Locked Me Up in a Grave, You Owe Me at Least the Peace of a Grave, 2018 (detail). Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo Agostino Osio.
Yuko Mohri, Moré Moré (Leaky): Variations (Flow #1, Flow #2, Flow #3), 2018 (detail). Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan Photo Agostino Osio.
Lawrence Lek: Life Before Automation — Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK — Ends 14 December 2025
Largest UK institutional exhibition to date by Lawrence Lek, interweaving film, video games, installation, and his ongoing Sinofuturist cinematic universe.
Keywords (themes): AI, Sinofuturism, worldbuilding, gaming, immersive installation, machine consciousness, speculative futures
Lawrence Lek Installation View, Game Society, MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 12 May - 10 September 2023 © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and National Musuem of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). Photo: Hong Cheolki.
Lawrence Lek NOX, 2023 [Still] CGI videos x 4, video game, soundtrack dimensions variable © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and LAS Art Foundation, Berlin.
