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Sajal Sarkar, Imaginary Bridge, 2026, Oil on canvas, 48h x 55.75w in, © Sajal Sarkar, Courtesy the artist and Aicon Contemporary

ART CITIES:N.York-Sajal Sarkar

Sajal Sarkar’s practice explores transformation, identity, migration, and the fragility of human civilization. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, he combines …

Hejum Bä, Mosungchoosang, Oil on canvas, 2024-2026, 115 × 200 × 3.8 cm, 45 1/4 × 78 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches, © Hejum Bä, Courtesy the artist and MASSIMODECARLO Gallery

ART CITIES: Seoul-Hejum Bä

Hejum Bä’s understanding of contemporary communication – from both verbal and non-verbal language to the complex codes we navigate in everyday interactions …

Charles Ray: Bull, 2026, Photo: Nicolas Wefers, (Installation view Fridericianum, Kassel), © Charles Ray, documenta und Museum FrideriCharles Ray: Bull, 2026, Photo: Nicolas Wefers, (Installation view Fridericianum, Kassel), © Charles Ray, documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbHcianum gGmbH

ART CITIES: Kassel-Charles Ray

Charles Ray is an influential American artist celebrated for his disquieting, meticulously crafted sculptures and conceptual works. Beginning his career in the …

Violeta Maya, Pequeños resultados de un gran tema II, 2026, Cotton canvas, padding, feathers, semi-precious stones, glass beads, 25 x 29 x 26 cm, 9.84 x 11.42 x 10.24 in, © Violeta Maya, Courtesy the artist and NILS STÆRK Gallery

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Violeta Maya

Violeta Maya’s paintings act as a direct channel for her immediate emotions and personal memories. Her creative process merges artistic intent with …

Rudy Loewe, The Search for Care / The Lack of Care’, Rudy Loewe, 2026, Commissioned by Wellcome Collection. “Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility” exhibition at Wellcome Collection-London, 2026, © Rudy Loewe, Courtesy the artist and Wellcome Collection, Photo: Benjamin Gilbert

ART CITIES: London-Rudy Loewe

Rudy Loewe is a multidisciplinary artist who blends painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine a complex web of socio-political dynamics. Through their …

Hito Steyerl, Mechanical Kurds (Still(, 2025, Single-channel HD video installation (color, sound), Duration: 13 min, © Hito Steyerl, Courtesy the artist and MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma)

ART CITIES: Rome Hito Steyerl

For more than two decades, Hito Steyerl has been one of the most influential artists, filmmakers, and theorists of contemporary art. Her …

Exhibition view, “Shuang Li: Alliance”, Kunsthalle Basel – Basel, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Kunsthalle Basel, Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

ART CITIES: Basel-Shuang Li

Through videos, performances, and installations, Shuang Li examines how digital technologies shape relationships, bodies, and desire. She investigates the entanglements of humans, …

Dana Schutz, Eaters, 2026, Aquarell-Monotypie mit handschriftlichen Ergänzungen in Gouache und Kreide auf Lanaquarelle-Papier, 126,7 x 101 cm, Courtesy the artist, Two Palms, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin - Basel, and David Zwirner, Photo: Stephen Arnold

ART CITIES: Munich-Dana Schutz

Dana Schutz’s work blends vivid colors, distorted figures, and emotional intensity to explore themes such as identity, memory, and human experience. Schutz …

Piero Dorazio, L’incarnato, 1991, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm - 59,05 x 78,74 in, reverse: signed, dated and titled Piero Dorazio / 1991 / L’incarnato, Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

ART CITIES: Paris-Moving Colors

Color has always been one of painting’s most powerful instruments, but throughout the twentieth century it underwent a radical transformation: it ceased …

Helen Marden, Spring, 2025, Resin, shells, and glass on linen, in 3 parts, overall: 50 × 150 inches (127 × 381 cm), © Helen Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: N.York-Helen Marden

Helen Marden’s paintings feature a vivid palette informed by her travels to Greece, India, and Morocco. Using resin to bind color-saturated acrylics …

Mika Tajima, 24 Hour Cosmos (Prototype), 2026 © Mika Tajima

ART CITIES:N.York-Mika Tajima

At the heart of Mika Tajima’s multidisciplinary practice, which spans performance, sculpture, painting, and new media installation is a profound inquiry into …

Doug Aitken, Lighstcape (2024) (still). Video. © Doug Aitken Workshop

ART CITIES: N.York-Doug Aitken

Beginning in the 1990s, artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken has developed a boundary-defying multimedia oeuvre that both studies and leads into new …

Michaël Borremans, Killer, 2026, Oil on linen, 16 1/2 x 20 7/8 inches (42 x 53 cm), Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed verso, © Michaël Borremans, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Michaël Borremans

Few contemporary artists manage to weaponize technical mastery quite like Michaël Borremans. The creates works that are instantly mesmerizing—reminiscent of Old Master …

Liang Hao, Orchid, 2026, 40 × 60 cm, 78 3/4 × 78 3/4 inches, Oil on linen, © Liang Hao, Courtesy the artist and Massimodecarlo Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Liang Hao

Liang Hao’s paintings stage a drama of the hand—its hesitations, its tests, its suspended intentions. What emerges is not a narrative of …

Marilou Schultz weaving Geo XX Diné Computer Chip Weaving, 2026, Photo Credit: Gabby Usinger

ART CITIES: Basel-Labouring Bodies

In the history of industrial modernity, the relationship between humans and machines has often been narrated through the image of the male …

Chloe Wise, Extrasensory, Exhibition view, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, 2026, Photo: Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G

ART CITIES: Basel-Chloe Wise

Chloe Wise’s work is grounded in an interest in the history of portraiture and examines the multiple channels through which the Self …

Anish Kapoor, Tsunami, 2025. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026. Photo: Dave Morgan

ART CITIES: London-Anish Kapoor

Few contemporary artists have challenged our understanding of space, materiality and perception as profoundly as Anish Kapoor. Over the course of four …