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SP LIST: ART EXHIBITIONS & BOOKS
Roni Horn, Seizure of Hope, at Hauser & Wirth, London
from May 21 to August 1, 2026
For her first exhibition in London in a decade, the American artist will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new series, which explores Horn’s preoccupation with repetition and the utilization of the written word as a medium. Accompanying her drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects. Featuring throughout the works on view, the phrase ‘I am paralyzed with hope’ comes from a monologue by the stand-up comedian Maria Bamford. The quote was first used by the artist in her 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020),’ a large-scale installation conceived of 406 individual works on paper that function as a record of the world around her and evolved into the Seizure of Hope series.
Left Roni Horn, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Right Seizure of Hope (1), 2024, Colored wax pencil, graphite on paper, pictures by Ron Amstutz, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Left from top to bottom : Seizure of Hope (91), Seizure of Hope (78) and Seizure of Hope (70), 2025, Colored wax pencil, graphite on paper, pictures by Ron Amstutz, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Right Untitled (“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”), 2022, Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces, pictures by Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Björk: Echolalia, at National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
from May 30 to September 20, 2026.
Staged as part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival, and created with long-time collaborator and artist James Merry, this much-anticipated multi-sensory exhibition features three installations, giving audiences a rare opportunity to engage intimately with works of phenomenal visual, aural, and emotional depth.
Three songs are presented at the museum on a theatrical scale for the first time – Ancestress and Sorrowful Soil, taken from her 2022 album, 'Fossora', are composed and arranged by Björk in honour of her mother, the environmental activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who passed away in 2018. The third work is taken from her as yet unannounced “forthcoming album.”
She's also throwing a rave to coincide with the exhibition and the total solar eclipse on August 12. Set to take place at Víðistaðatún sculpture park in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, it forms part of the Echolalia festival.
Left Björk, 2024, ©Viðar Logi
Right James Merry, Greenman, 2017, ©Tim Walker
Sophie Calle at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
from to September 6, 2026
Occupying the museum’s entire West Wing, this exhibition brings together seven of Calle’s major series, including several recent works, and features more than 300 individual pieces spanning photographs, texts, and videos.
Renowned for her distinctive blend of fact and fiction, emotional intimacy and conceptual rigor, Calle continues to shape some of the most compelling narratives in contemporary art. Curated by Tine Colstrup, this show brings together "The Blind series" (now part of the museum’s permanent collection) alongside works shaped around “absence,” including "Voir la Mer", and the final section, "Unachieved", focuses on projects never completed, postponed, or censored.
Domino Leaha, Unfulfilled, published by Blurring Books.
This collection of intimate portraits by the photographer spans just over a decade, from 2013 - 2024, paired with writings and poems by her subjects and other collaborators. It reveals the private lives of the artists, actors, models and musicians that are among Domino's closest friends, including muses and lovers. Deeply sensual in their raw intensity, the images capture the subjects' vulnerabilities as well as their emotional spirit – in choosing her subjects, Domino is drawn to darkness as much as to beauty.
All pictures by Domino Leaha from the book Unfulfilled
All pictures by Domino Leaha from the book Unfulfilled
Jameson Green, Fishing for the Moon in a Well, at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels
from March 26 to May 16, 2026.
This marks the second solo show with the galley for the American artist who soared into the contemporary art world back in 2022. This next outing features new, distinctively styled oil paintings, and as the gallery muses, "he unsettles, challenges, disturbs certainties. His mystery remains intact, and his paintings, though seductive and so free and virtuosic, rival the greatest. Even in the suffering of creation, he splashes us with his unique and multifaceted personality."
Left Traveling Man, 2026, oil on linen, ©Hugard&Vanoverschelde
Right Untitled, 2026, oil on linen, ©Hugard&Vanoverschelde
Left Groove 2.E4, 2026, oil on linen, ©Hugard&Vanoverschelde
Right Groove 2.E1, 2026, oil on linen, ©Hugard&Vanoverschelde
Kim Gordon, Count Your Chickens at Amant, New York
from to August 16, 2026.
Best known as the bassist/vocalist for Sonic Youth and for her extensive visual art practice, this exhibition surveys Gordon's work from 2007 to the present.
Bringing together a new film commissioned by Amant, it also spans paintings, drawings, sculptures, and noise art, exploring themes of consumerism, gender, and music culture. Examining how intimacy and private experiences are staged for public consumption though multiple mediums – Gordon looks to desire, spectatorship, and how built environments shape bodies, perception, and social experience.
Left Ladies of the Paradise #8, 2015, Spray paint, glitter, Aqua-Resin and fiberglass on canvas, Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Right Airbnb Series 1, 2019, Drawing on tracing paper, Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Left The Bonfire 17,2019, Glazed ceramic on cocktail table, Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Right The Collective, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Jimmy Robert & Franz Erhard Walther, The Intensity of Softness, at Villa Franz Erhard Walther, Fulda, Germany
from to March 29 to September 6, 2026.
This show explores a shared materiality in the work of Franz Erhard Walther and Jimmy Robert, both employing fabric and paper in their work, as well as common themes of bodily presence, movement, and the impermanence of forms.
Walther is a pioneer of an art form that emphasised presence, relationship and the impermanence of forms. These terms can also be applied to the work of Robert, whose oeuvre since the early 2000s has manifested the presence of the artist’s body in performances, photographs and videos that interlace poetic references to literature, choreography and art through quotations and allusions that signal his relationship to beloved figures.
Camille Bidault Waddington, The Office, published by Empire Books.
Expect the unexpected, as the stylist turns an iPhone camera on the people who construct fashion, in a book of snaps she took on set, in studios, on location. Over the past decade she's quietly captured photographers at work, and the result is a showcase of 200 photos that reveal the medium as a collaborative craft, an interplay of authorship, gesture, and the unseen effort that shapes every final image.
Pictures of The Office by Camille Bidault
Pictures of The Office by Camille Bidault
Text by Kate Lawson