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Alma Allen, Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor, will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Hudson's work is defined by a recurring vocabulary of shapes grounded in the language of abstraction, where organic and geometric forms drawn from both the external and internal world converge. In It's Alright Cause I Know My Own Way Back Home From Here, references to landscapes and still lifes sit alongside forms that channel ongoing themes of loneliness, hopefulness, darkness and positivity. His paintings layer these motifs into compositions that are at once meditative and playful,balancing introspection with optimism.
Opening on November 14, 2025, at the gallery's Bikini Berlin location, this immersive showcase invites visitors to explore the intricate relationship between perception, stillness, and the malleable nature of time. Drawing inspiration from the phenomenon of chronostasis, where a fleeting moment appears to elongate, the exhibition encapsulates the delicate dance between motion and remembrance. Through their distinctive practices, Wirths and Flad illuminate how focused attention can metamorphose our experience of time itself.
Stacks of flattened cardboard and bags of clothing are compressed into ceramic cubes, their bulging surfaces recording the tension of containment. Glass bubble-wrap sculptures from Hivert's Demi-Jour series line shelves-fragile objects posing as protective shells for absent contents. A bronze cast of work gloves rests nearby, monumentalizing gestures of past labor. In the background, torn collages evoke the weathered palimpsests of wheatpaste advertisements caught between removal and renewal.
Curated by Louise Déry, Director of Galerie de l'UQAM, the exhibition David Altmejd. Agora unites almost thirty heads and busts, which are emblematic of the artist's sculptural practice and were made between 1999 and 2025. Forming a remarkable assembly of mythological and real characters, spiritual and terrestrial figures, as well as human and non-human creatures, this body of work reveals the extent to which Altmejd brings about a metamorphosis of the living, induced by creative and unconscious forces, to construct a world.
Over the past two decades, the Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto has developed a unique performance/installation practice in which she produces installations of absurd sculptural devices-from haemorrhoid cushions to oversized fishing lures-that, in turn, serve as an object-based score and environment for improvised performances that combine humorous spoken narratives with physical actions and mark-making. The artist's first mid-career survey, Aki Sasamoto's Life Laboratory at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), traces the evolution of this practice through a sharp combination of installations, documentation and live performances.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1903 and working until her death in 1975 in St Ives, Cornwall, Barbara Hepworth lived through a time of astonishing technological and social change. She had a broad range of interests, from politics to music, poetry, science and spirituality-and a life-long engagement with landscape-which she brought into her work, alongside influences from her personal life.
Throughout her practice, Renée Condo draws on the philosophical tenets of her Mi'gmaq ancestry. The Montreal-based artist works with wooden beads that she sands, paints in bold acrylic, and nests into energetic compositions depicting juicy fruits, raindrops, and brilliant, golden suns. Condo is interested in mntu, or spirit, and what she refers to as heart knowledge, acts that emerge from empathy and love. Through sculptural pieces that emphasize interconnection and flow, the artist draws on Indigenous creation stories and myths, considering her beadwork a reimagining of various traditions.
In the lush gardens of L'Hôtel de Maisons, once the Parisian home of Karl Lagerfeld, designer Vikram Goyal unveils The Soul Garden, an installation that transforms India's ancient animal fables into a living, multisensory landscape. Presented by The Future Perfect for Design Miami/Paris 2025, the project, on view from October 21st to 26th, 2025, bridges sculpture, craft, design, and olfactory art in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Sissel Tolaas, who translates the invisible language of scent into a medium of storytelling and emotion.
A woman clutches a large red and white striped box of popcorn as she stares intensely at the cinema screen. Nearby a couple of men gaze in the same direction; one has his head slumped on the other's shoulder. Close behind, an older man with folded arms glares at them disapprovingly. This is Elmgreen & Dragset's installation, The Audience at Prada Mode, and the bodies are inanimate sculptures. They are rendered with such realism that
Hours after Princess Diana gave birth, she walked out onto the steps of the Lindo Wing, the private maternity ward of St. Mary's Hospital in London, where she was met with photographers from around the world. As she introduced Prince William, then a couple years later, Prince Harry, she looked radiant, with flawless makeup and flowing gowns. It was a portrait of maternal serenity.
If you're considering bathroom renovations, I would perhaps advise against hiring Lisa Herfeldt to do the work. Yes, it's true, she's something of a whiz with a silicone gun creating compelling sculptures from this unlikely art material. But the more you look at her creations the more you realise that something is a little off. The thick lengths of sealant she produces stretch beyond the shelves on which they sit, sagging off the edges towards the floor. The knotty foam pipes bulge until they split.
Known for her conceptual practice that incorporates familiar objects and symbols from Black visual culture-including football equipment, peacock chairs, lowriders and butterflies-Mohamoud reimagines her source materials by transforming their scale and layering cultural references to recontextualize their interpreted meaning. The exhibition's title comes from Gil Scott-Heron's spoken word poem Comment #1 (1970), which earnestly describes the violence of racial and social inequality in America during that time.
At its core, NO PARKING is about presence through absence. While no human figures are depicted, the works are rich with the suggestion of workers, commuters, and residents whose lives intersect in the city's dense, chaotic streets. Each vehicle becomes a portrait - not of a person's face, but of their story, their routine, and their resilience. Burned vans and scorched sports cars hint at destruction and renewal, while RVs and idle food trucks evoke themes of mobility, survival, and urban transience.
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We feel frustrated and helpless - but as an artist, I feel I have a responsibility to move people to act with generosity. I'm hoping the sculpture I created will move people even a little bit and might, in this case, encourage them to make a contribution towards saving Gaza from further starvation and desolation.
Undulating in a Utah Museum of Fine Arts gallery, thousands of glimmering casts seem to float throughout the space. For his large-scale installation "Stone on Boundary," Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi has suspended 5,000 copper foils that he molded over river rocks in both Osaka and Salt Lake City. Begun in the artist's studio in Osaka-a city where Japanese copper has been refined for export for around two centuries-the installation then traveled to the museum, which sits less than an hour's drive from the world's largest operational open-pit copper mine.
Through millennia of artistic expression and within the natural world, the ubiquitous spiral continues to mesmerize. In ancient traditions, the form often represents cycles. The triskele, for example, consists of three interlocking spirals thought to symbolize death, life, and rebirth or the triad of mind, body, and spirit. Spirals also emerge naturally in seashells and plants, sometimes linked to the concept of the golden mean, also known as the " divine ratio."
In a remote monastery perched perilously on top of a crag in Piedmont, Italy, an old man lies dying. Thirty-two monks stand vigil at the deathbed; Mimo Vitaliani has lived among them for 40 years, yet few of them know exactly why. Nor did Vitaliani come alone, but with a mysterious statue that is kept under lock and key in the depths of the Sacra di San Michele,
Mönch (Monk) is a solid polyester figure, life-sized and jarringly lifelike in its details, depicting a somewhat gaunt man dressed in roughly Franciscan habit: a floor-length cowled robe, a rope cintura with three knots around his midsection. He hunches ever so slightly forward but otherwise is just standing, with his arms loose at his sides. His eyes are closed. From head to toe he is a perfect matte black; he drinks the light and returns virtually none of it.
"A major work by the artist Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red (1943), will stay in the UK after a public appeal raised £3.8m to save the piece, including 2,800 donations from members of the public."
The trail features stories that highlight the reasons why ocean conservation is needed. Meaden said: "We see wildlife on land, and it triggers emotion: it is visible, tangible, and easy to connect with. The ocean is too often out of mind, and yet it is the beating heart of our planet - the force that sustains all life forms. If the ocean dies, so does the planet. It's that simple, and that urgent."
KAWS' outdoor exhibition will spotlight large-scale works across the NYBG estate, creating an interactive open-air museum experience in a naturally curated landscape.
Madeleine LeBrun creates art by combining bas-relief sculpture and digital photocollage, starting from sketches that transform into colorful, textured works with a 3D appearance.