{"id":1856555,"date":"2026-03-31T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1856555"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:36:00","slug":"art-shows-to-leave-the-house-for-in-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1856555","title":{"rendered":"Art shows to leave the house for in April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-1935-1290\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442788.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/70020\/1\/art-shows-to-leave-the-house-for-april-2026-exhibitions-london-paris-ny\" data-article-id=\"70020\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"15-Donna Gottschalk, Myla a\u0300 seize ans, Mission Di\" class=\"img\" height=\"2894\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1280\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442788.jpg\" width=\"1935\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Donna Gottschalk, Myla a\u0300 seize ans, Mission District, San <span class=\"nowrap\">Francisco (1972)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T13:36:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lists\">Lists<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Art shows to leave the house for in <span class=\"nowrap\">April 2026<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Dirty consumption, joy as labour, 60\u2019s queer life, and more in this month\u2019s <span class=\"nowrap\">unmissable exhibitions<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T13:36:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-31T13:36:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"31 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"31\">31,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/AshleighKane\">Ashleigh Kane<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In a stellar spring line-up, artists are turning their attention to the systems that shape how we live now. From land and labour to memory, identity, and resistance, these exhibitions move between the intimate and the structural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Across different mediums, there\u2019s a shared pull towards what sits beneath the surface. These works don\u2019t offer clean answers, but instead embrace ambiguity, contradiction, and the possibility of something else emerging. Until next month!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong>MOHAMED SA\u00cfD CHAIR: <em>OUT OF THE SHADOWS<\/em>, PARIS, FRANCE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Tangier-based artist Mohamed Sa\u00efd Chair stages Moroccan youth like history paintings, echoging artists like G\u00e9ricault, Caravaggio, and Delacroix. Chair keeps his faces hidden, leaving the bodies to carry the narrative, and creating the ever-present sense that something is about to spiral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/afikaris.com\/exhibitions\/56-out-of-the-shadows\/overview\/\"><em>Out of the Shadows<\/em><\/a><em> runs 14 March \u2013 9 May 2026 at AFIKARIS, Paris, France<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong>REHANA ZAMAN: <em>PLANTATION<\/em>, SHEFFIELD, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>London-based artist Rehana Zaman traces the quiet violence of industrial farming through the lives of those who sustain it. Moving between Scotland and Pakistan, the work follows migrant workers, sharecroppers, and day labourers as they harvest crops within systems built on extraction. Moments of intimacy sit alongside scences of collective resistence, coming together to form an immersive landscape where time slips between documentary, memory, and myth.\u00a0<\/span><span>Here Zaman asks what it means to live and work within structures that deplete both the land and the body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitegallery.org\/exhibition\/rehana-zaman\/\"><em><span>Plantation<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs from 20 February \u2013 17 May 2026 at Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><strong>ZOE WILLIAMS: <em>DIRTY<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In <\/span><em><span>Dirty<\/span><\/em><span>, British artist Zoe Williams pushes consumption past the point of comfort. \u00a0Williams explores the fetishistic nature of materials like butter, cake, satin, and bronze, which move from soft and perishable to hardened, monumental forms. What begins as seduction quickly turns: food rots into spectacle, touch becomes rupture, excess curdles into waste. Drawing on Bataille\u2019s idea of expenditure, Williams exposes capitalism as something viscous, erotic, and unstable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicoletticontemporary.com\/2026\/02\/zor-williams-dirty\/\"><em><span>Dirty<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 18 April 2026 at N\u0131COLETTi, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>GLOBAL PULSE (VOL. 2)<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Following its Miami debut, <\/span><em><span>Global Pulse<\/span><\/em><span> arrives in London as a collective snapshot of the present moment. Spanning explorations of urban life, ritual, unrest, intimacy, and curated by Dez Amakye, <\/span><em><span>Global Pulse<\/span><\/em><span> shuns a singular narrative thread to offer a more diverse and expansive vision of the now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Global Pulse (Vol. 2) at Brunswick Art Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>GARY LEE BOAS: <em>CELEBRITY SKIN<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span>Shot in the slipstream of 70s and 80s New York, <\/span><em><span>Celebrity Skin<\/span><\/em><span> captures a moment when fame still felt reachable. Gary Lee Boas wasn\u2019t paparazzi, but a fan with a camera who collapsed the distance between himself and his subjects. The resulting images straddle devotion and intrusion, intimacy and projection, and trace a culture just before access became (almost) impossible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/celebrity-skin-gary-lee-boas\"><em><span>Celebrity Skin<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 15 April \u2013 21 September 2026 at Tate Modern, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NIHAAL FAIZAL: <em>(VIDEO ART)<\/em>, NEW YORK, USA<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Here, a YouTube playlist becomes exhibition. In <\/span><em><span>(video art)<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013\u00a0curated by Ben Broome \u2013 Bangalore-based artist Nihaal Faizal gathers over 200 self-shot video recordings of seminal art installations. These selection \u2013 purely \u201c<\/span><span>motivated by (Faizal\u2019s) fandom\u201d \u2013 become <\/span><span>a loose, living archive of some of the world\u2019s most prestigious artists. Installed in a Greenpoint storefront, the exhibition sits in proximity to the institutions and galleries where the works were originally filmed, serving<\/span><span> as both an archive of Faizal\u2019s fascination and an educational archive for those excluded by the art world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>(video art) runs until 11 April 2026 at C.A.V.E., Brooklyn, New York, USA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>WATERING A BLACK GARDEN<\/em>, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span>Bringing together eight women and non-binary cross-disciplinary artists from across the African diaspora, including Ufuoma Essi, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Aline Motta, Bernice Mulenga, and more, <\/span><em><span>Watering a Black Garden<\/span><\/em><span> reframes joy as a kind of labour \u2013 something which must be tended to. The exhibition foregrounds presence, healing, and connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscam.nl\/portfolio-item\/oscamxartnoir-watering-a-black-garden-copy\/\"><em><span>Watering a Black Garden<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 6 May 2026 at OSCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>THE MANY WITHIN HER II<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Returning for a second iteration, <\/span><em><span>The Many Within Her II<\/span><\/em><span> keeps its focus tight: womanhood as something multiple, unstable, and still under construction. Bringing together a multigenerational, international group, including Jess Cochrane, Holly Rollins, Sara Berman, Jingyi Li, amongst others, the show resists fixed narratives and the singular \u201cfemale experience\u201d in favour of identity as lived, negotiated, and culturally specific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillianjason.com\/exhibitions\/52-the-many-within-her-ii\/\"><em><span>The Many Within Her II<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 2 April \u2013 16 May 2026 at Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>DONNA GOTTSCHALK AND H\u00c9L\u00c8NE GIANNECCHINI: <\/strong><strong><em>WE<\/em><em>OTHERS<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em><span>We Others<\/span><\/em><span> pairs Donna Gottschalk\u2019s intimate photographs of queer life from the 1960s onwards with texts by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Giannecchini, which create a dialogue across generations. Mostly depicting\u00a0Gottschalk&#8217;s own friends and lovers, the images capture moments of care, rest, and resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/whats-on\/we-others-donna-gottschalk-and-helene-giannecchini\"><em><span>We Others<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 7 June 2026 at The Photographers\u2019 Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NIKI KANAGINI: <em>AN ODE TO THINGS<\/em>, ATHENS, GREECE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A long-overdue retrospective, <\/span><em><span>An Ode to Things<\/span><\/em><span> reintroduces Niki Kanagini as a key voice in post-war Greek art. Spanning four decades, the show moves from tapestry to installation, tracing her obsession with objects as carriers of memory, gender, and lived experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/niki-kanagini-an-ode-to-things-retrospective\"><em><span>An Ode to Things<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 2 April \u2013 8 November 2026 at EMST, Athens, Greece<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NHU XUAN HUA: <em>OF WALKING ON FIRE<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Rooted in heritage and shaped by what\u2019s not said, French-Vietnamese photographer and artist Nhu Xuan Hua meticulously works through the gaps in her family history, as opposed to trying to fill them with answers. P<\/span><span>resented alongside trinkets, objects, and flower vases arranged on ornamental shelves, <\/span><span>Hua destablises her family archive through blurred, distorted and reimagined images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autograph.org.uk\/exhibitions\/nhu-xuan-hua\"><em><span>Of Walking on Fire<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 16 April \u2013 19 September 2026 at Autograph, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>AIN BAILEY: <em>THE JAMAICA PROJECT<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>London-based composer, artist, and DJ, Ain Bailey\u2019s <\/span><em><span>The Jamaica Project<\/span><\/em><span> unfolds as a sonic and visual journey through memory, family, and place. Anchored in a trilogy of films, the immersive exhibition moves from archival fragments to a newly commissioned work filmed in Jamaica, tracing the artist\u2019s first visit to her mother\u2019s homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camdenartcentre.org\/whats-on\/the-jamaica-project\"><em><span>The Jamaica Project<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 10 April \u2013 14 June 2026 at Camden Art Centre, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>ZAHRA MALKANI: <em>NOORANI METAL SOUND<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In <\/span><em><span>Noorani Metal Sound<\/span><\/em><span>, Pakistani interdisciplinary artist and researcher Zahra Malkani builds a sonic environment that serves as both shrine and archive. Combining sculpture, moving image and field recordings from Pakistan&#8217;s coastal regions, which capture lullabies, war cries and mourning rituals, Malkani creates a dense, immersive soundscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autoitaliasoutheast.org\/projects\/noorani-metal-sound\/\"><em><span>Noorani Metal Sound<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 27 March \u2013 21 June 2026 at Auto Italia, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>DEAN SAMESHIMA: <em>WONDERLAND<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>American artist Dean Sameshima\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Wonderland (1995\u201397)<\/span><\/em><span> maps queer life through what\u2019s hidden. Shot across LA during the Aids crisis, the images document the facades of bathhouses, cruising grounds, and \u201ctea rooms\u201d. But here, nothing is explicit. Everything is implied by leaving people out of the frame. Sameshima shifts attention to the spaces themselves, operating in plain sight, yet still under the cover of disguise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Wonderland runs 27 March \u2013 23 May 2026 at Soft Opening, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>A SHOT IN THE DARK<\/em>, IBIZA, SPAIN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"8598b30d-2914-4c9b-a500-b41e00c229e9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/824\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442786.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a shot in the dark\" class=\"img\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442786.jpg\" width=\"824\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @capturecharles<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>From local dancefloors to global club circuits, Australian photographer @capturecharles has built a heady document of nightlife. From his early experiments in Australia, he has since travelled the world, becoming known for \u201ctranslating moments of chaos into deliberate composition\u201d. Shot on film, his images move between sweat and stillness, creating an archive of celebration, community, and connection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inbetweenibiza.com\/\"><em><span>A Shot in the Dark<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 17 April \u2013 8 May 2026 at In Between Ibiza, Spain<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>GESTURE AND BEING<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Six painters fresh out of the RCA and Slade push figuration beyond something stable, landing somewhere more slippery. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In a stellar spring line-up, artists are turning their attention to the systems that shape how we live now. From land and labour to memory, identity, and resistance, these exhibitions move between the intimate and the structural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Across different mediums, there\u2019s a shared pull towards what sits beneath the surface. These works don\u2019t offer clean answers, but instead embrace ambiguity, contradiction, and the possibility of something else emerging. Until next month!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong>MOHAMED SA\u00cfD CHAIR: <em>OUT OF THE SHADOWS<\/em>, PARIS, FRANCE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Tangier-based artist Mohamed Sa\u00efd Chair stages Moroccan youth like history paintings, echoging artists like G\u00e9ricault, Caravaggio, and Delacroix. Chair keeps his faces hidden, leaving the bodies to carry the narrative, and creating the ever-present sense that something is about to spiral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/afikaris.com\/exhibitions\/56-out-of-the-shadows\/overview\/\"><em>Out of the Shadows<\/em><\/a><em> runs 14 March \u2013 9 May 2026 at AFIKARIS, Paris, France<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong>REHANA ZAMAN: <em>PLANTATION<\/em>, SHEFFIELD, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>London-based artist Rehana Zaman traces the quiet violence of industrial farming through the lives of those who sustain it. Moving between Scotland and Pakistan, the work follows migrant workers, sharecroppers, and day labourers as they harvest crops within systems built on extraction. Moments of intimacy sit alongside scences of collective resistence, coming together to form an immersive landscape where time slips between documentary, memory, and myth.\u00a0<\/span><span>Here Zaman asks what it means to live and work within structures that deplete both the land and the body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitegallery.org\/exhibition\/rehana-zaman\/\"><em><span>Plantation<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs from 20 February \u2013 17 May 2026 at Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<h1><strong>ZOE WILLIAMS: <em>DIRTY<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In <\/span><em><span>Dirty<\/span><\/em><span>, British artist Zoe Williams pushes consumption past the point of comfort. \u00a0Williams explores the fetishistic nature of materials like butter, cake, satin, and bronze, which move from soft and perishable to hardened, monumental forms. What begins as seduction quickly turns: food rots into spectacle, touch becomes rupture, excess curdles into waste. Drawing on Bataille\u2019s idea of expenditure, Williams exposes capitalism as something viscous, erotic, and unstable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nicoletticontemporary.com\/2026\/02\/zor-williams-dirty\/\"><em><span>Dirty<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 18 April 2026 at N\u0131COLETTi, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>GLOBAL PULSE (VOL. 2)<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Following its Miami debut, <\/span><em><span>Global Pulse<\/span><\/em><span> arrives in London as a collective snapshot of the present moment. Spanning explorations of urban life, ritual, unrest, intimacy, and curated by Dez Amakye, <\/span><em><span>Global Pulse<\/span><\/em><span> shuns a singular narrative thread to offer a more diverse and expansive vision of the now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Global Pulse (Vol. 2) at Brunswick Art Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>GARY LEE BOAS: <em>CELEBRITY SKIN<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span>Shot in the slipstream of 70s and 80s New York, <\/span><em><span>Celebrity Skin<\/span><\/em><span> captures a moment when fame still felt reachable. Gary Lee Boas wasn\u2019t paparazzi, but a fan with a camera who collapsed the distance between himself and his subjects. The resulting images straddle devotion and intrusion, intimacy and projection, and trace a culture just before access became (almost) impossible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/celebrity-skin-gary-lee-boas\"><em><span>Celebrity Skin<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 15 April \u2013 21 September 2026 at Tate Modern, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NIHAAL FAIZAL: <em>(VIDEO ART)<\/em>, NEW YORK, USA<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Here, a YouTube playlist becomes exhibition. In <\/span><em><span>(video art)<\/span><\/em><span> \u2013\u00a0curated by Ben Broome \u2013 Bangalore-based artist Nihaal Faizal gathers over 200 self-shot video recordings of seminal art installations. These selection \u2013 purely \u201c<\/span><span>motivated by (Faizal\u2019s) fandom\u201d \u2013 become <\/span><span>a loose, living archive of some of the world\u2019s most prestigious artists. Installed in a Greenpoint storefront, the exhibition sits in proximity to the institutions and galleries where the works were originally filmed, serving<\/span><span> as both an archive of Faizal\u2019s fascination and an educational archive for those excluded by the art world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>(video art) runs until 11 April 2026 at C.A.V.E., Brooklyn, New York, USA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>WATERING A BLACK GARDEN<\/em>, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span>Bringing together eight women and non-binary cross-disciplinary artists from across the African diaspora, including Ufuoma Essi, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Aline Motta, Bernice Mulenga, and more, <\/span><em><span>Watering a Black Garden<\/span><\/em><span> reframes joy as a kind of labour \u2013 something which must be tended to. The exhibition foregrounds presence, healing, and connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscam.nl\/portfolio-item\/oscamxartnoir-watering-a-black-garden-copy\/\"><em><span>Watering a Black Garden<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 6 May 2026 at OSCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>THE MANY WITHIN HER II<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Returning for a second iteration, <\/span><em><span>The Many Within Her II<\/span><\/em><span> keeps its focus tight: womanhood as something multiple, unstable, and still under construction. Bringing together a multigenerational, international group, including Jess Cochrane, Holly Rollins, Sara Berman, Jingyi Li, amongst others, the show resists fixed narratives and the singular \u201cfemale experience\u201d in favour of identity as lived, negotiated, and culturally specific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillianjason.com\/exhibitions\/52-the-many-within-her-ii\/\"><em><span>The Many Within Her II<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 2 April \u2013 16 May 2026 at Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>DONNA GOTTSCHALK AND H\u00c9L\u00c8NE GIANNECCHINI: <\/strong><strong><em>WE<\/em><em>OTHERS<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><em><span>We Others<\/span><\/em><span> pairs Donna Gottschalk\u2019s intimate photographs of queer life from the 1960s onwards with texts by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Giannecchini, which create a dialogue across generations. Mostly depicting\u00a0Gottschalk&#8217;s own friends and lovers, the images capture moments of care, rest, and resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/whats-on\/we-others-donna-gottschalk-and-helene-giannecchini\"><em><span>We Others<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 6 March \u2013 7 June 2026 at The Photographers\u2019 Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NIKI KANAGINI: <em>AN ODE TO THINGS<\/em>, ATHENS, GREECE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>A long-overdue retrospective, <\/span><em><span>An Ode to Things<\/span><\/em><span> reintroduces Niki Kanagini as a key voice in post-war Greek art. Spanning four decades, the show moves from tapestry to installation, tracing her obsession with objects as carriers of memory, gender, and lived experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/niki-kanagini-an-ode-to-things-retrospective\"><em><span>An Ode to Things<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 2 April \u2013 8 November 2026 at EMST, Athens, Greece<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>NHU XUAN HUA: <em>OF WALKING ON FIRE<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Rooted in heritage and shaped by what\u2019s not said, French-Vietnamese photographer and artist Nhu Xuan Hua meticulously works through the gaps in her family history, as opposed to trying to fill them with answers. P<\/span><span>resented alongside trinkets, objects, and flower vases arranged on ornamental shelves, <\/span><span>Hua destablises her family archive through blurred, distorted and reimagined images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autograph.org.uk\/exhibitions\/nhu-xuan-hua\"><em><span>Of Walking on Fire<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 16 April \u2013 19 September 2026 at Autograph, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>AIN BAILEY: <em>THE JAMAICA PROJECT<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>London-based composer, artist, and DJ, Ain Bailey\u2019s <\/span><em><span>The Jamaica Project<\/span><\/em><span> unfolds as a sonic and visual journey through memory, family, and place. Anchored in a trilogy of films, the immersive exhibition moves from archival fragments to a newly commissioned work filmed in Jamaica, tracing the artist\u2019s first visit to her mother\u2019s homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camdenartcentre.org\/whats-on\/the-jamaica-project\"><em><span>The Jamaica Project<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 10 April \u2013 14 June 2026 at Camden Art Centre, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>ZAHRA MALKANI: <em>NOORANI METAL SOUND<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>In <\/span><em><span>Noorani Metal Sound<\/span><\/em><span>, Pakistani interdisciplinary artist and researcher Zahra Malkani builds a sonic environment that serves as both shrine and archive. Combining sculpture, moving image and field recordings from Pakistan&#8217;s coastal regions, which capture lullabies, war cries and mourning rituals, Malkani creates a dense, immersive soundscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autoitaliasoutheast.org\/projects\/noorani-metal-sound\/\"><em><span>Noorani Metal Sound<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 27 March \u2013 21 June 2026 at Auto Italia, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>DEAN SAMESHIMA: <em>WONDERLAND<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>American artist Dean Sameshima\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Wonderland (1995\u201397)<\/span><\/em><span> maps queer life through what\u2019s hidden. Shot across LA during the Aids crisis, the images document the facades of bathhouses, cruising grounds, and \u201ctea rooms\u201d. But here, nothing is explicit. Everything is implied by leaving people out of the frame. Sameshima shifts attention to the spaces themselves, operating in plain sight, yet still under the cover of disguise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Wonderland runs 27 March \u2013 23 May 2026 at Soft Opening, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>A SHOT IN THE DARK<\/em>, IBIZA, SPAIN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"8598b30d-2914-4c9b-a500-b41e00c229e9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/824\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442786.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a shot in the dark\" class=\"img\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442786.jpg\" width=\"824\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @capturecharles<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>From local dancefloors to global club circuits, Australian photographer @capturecharles has built a heady document of nightlife. From his early experiments in Australia, he has since travelled the world, becoming known for \u201ctranslating moments of chaos into deliberate composition\u201d. Shot on film, his images move between sweat and stillness, creating an archive of celebration, community, and connection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inbetweenibiza.com\/\"><em><span>A Shot in the Dark<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 17 April \u2013 8 May 2026 at In Between Ibiza, Spain<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>GESTURE AND BEING<\/em>, LONDON, UK<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instagram-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-instagram\" data-script-depends=\"instagram-embeds\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Six painters fresh out of the RCA and Slade push figuration beyond something stable, landing somewhere more slippery. In <\/span><em><span>Gesture and Being<\/span><\/em><span>, bodies stretch, fragment, and perform, while never quite settling into anything fixed. Expect work from Mia Wilkinson, Qian Zhong, Katja Farin, Anna Curzon Price, Poppy Critchlow, and Gala Hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchigallery.com\/exhibition\/gesture-and-being\"><em><span>Gesture and Being<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span> runs 18 February \u2013 30 March 2026 at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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