Art reveals to go away the home for in April 2026

In a stellar spring line-up, artists are turning their consideration to the techniques that form how we dwell now. From land and labour to reminiscence, identification, and resistance, these exhibitions transfer between the intimate and the structural.

Across totally different mediums, there’s a shared pull in the direction of what sits beneath the floor. These works don’t provide clear solutions, however as an alternative embrace ambiguity, contradiction, and the potential of one thing else rising. Until subsequent month!

Tangier-based artist Mohamed Saïd Chair phases Moroccan youth like historical past work, echoging artists like Géricault, Caravaggio, and Delacroix. Chair retains his faces hidden, leaving the our bodies to hold the narrative, and creating the ever-present sense that one thing is about to spiral.

Out of the Shadows runs 14 March – 9 May 2026 at AFIKARIS, Paris, France

London-based artist Rehana Zaman traces the quiet violence of commercial farming by the lives of those that maintain it. Moving between Scotland and Pakistan, the work follows migrant staff, sharecroppers, and day labourers as they harvest crops inside techniques constructed on extraction. Moments of intimacy sit alongside scences of collective resistence, coming collectively to type an immersive panorama the place time slips between documentary, reminiscence, and fantasy. Here Zaman asks what it means to dwell and work inside constructions that deplete each the land and the physique. 

Plantation runs from 20 February – 17 May 2026 at Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

In Dirty, British artist Zoe Williams pushes consumption previous the purpose of consolation.  Williams explores the fetishistic nature of supplies like butter, cake, satin, and bronze, which transfer from smooth and perishable to hardened, monumental types. What begins as seduction shortly turns: meals rots into spectacle, contact turns into rupture, extra curdles into waste. Drawing on Bataille’s thought of expenditure, Williams exposes capitalism as one thing viscous, erotic, and unstable.

Dirty runs 6 March – 18 April 2026 at NıCOLETTi, London, UK

Following its Miami debut, Global Pulse arrives in London as a collective snapshot of the current second. Spanning explorations of city life, ritual, unrest, intimacy, and curated by Dez Amakye, Global Pulse shuns a singular narrative thread to supply a extra numerous and expansive imaginative and prescient of the now.

Global Pulse (Vol. 2) at Brunswick Art Gallery, London, UK

Shot within the slipstream of 70s and 80s New York, Celebrity Skin captures a second when fame nonetheless felt reachable. Gary Lee Boas wasn’t paparazzi, however a fan with a digital camera who collapsed the space between himself and his topics. The ensuing pictures straddle devotion and intrusion, intimacy and projection, and hint a tradition simply earlier than entry grew to become (nearly) inconceivable. 

Celebrity Skin runs 15 April – 21 September 2026 at Tate Modern, London, UK

Here, a YouTube playlist turns into exhibition. In (video artwork) – curated by Ben Broome – Bangalore-based artist Nihaal Faizal gathers over 200 self-shot video recordings of seminal artwork installations. These choice – purely “motivated by (Faizal’s) fandom” – turn out to be a unfastened, residing archive of among the world’s most prestigious artists. Installed in a Greenpoint storefront, the exhibition sits in proximity to the establishments and galleries the place the works have been initially filmed, serving as each an archive of Faizal’s fascination and an academic archive for these excluded by the artwork world.

(video artwork) runs till 11 April 2026 at C.A.V.E., Brooklyn, New York, USA

Bringing collectively eight ladies and non-binary cross-disciplinary artists from throughout the African diaspora, together with Ufuoma Essi, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Aline Motta, Bernice Mulenga, and extra, Watering a Black Garden reframes pleasure as a form of labour – one thing which should be tended to. The exhibition foregrounds presence, therapeutic, and connection.

Watering a Black Garden runs 6 March – 6 May 2026 at OSCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Returning for a second iteration, The Many Within Her II retains its focus tight: womanhood as one thing a number of, unstable, and nonetheless below development. Bringing collectively a multigenerational, worldwide group, together with Jess Cochrane, Holly Rollins, Sara Berman, Jingyi Li, amongst others, the present resists mounted narratives and the singular “female experience” in favour of identification as lived, negotiated, and culturally particular.

The Many Within Her II runs 2 April – 16 May 2026 at Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK

We Others pairs Donna Gottschalk’s intimate images of queer life from the Nineteen Sixties onwards with texts by Hélène Giannecchini, which create a dialogue throughout generations. Mostly depicting Gottschalk’s personal mates and lovers, the photographs seize moments of care, relaxation, and resistance.

We Others runs 6 March – 7 June 2026 at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

An extended-overdue retrospective, An Ode to Things reintroduces Niki Kanagini as a key voice in post-war Greek artwork. Spanning 4 a long time, the present strikes from tapestry to set up, tracing her obsession with objects as carriers of reminiscence, gender, and lived expertise. 

An Ode to Things runs 2 April – 8 November 2026 at EMST, Athens, Greece

Rooted in heritage and formed by what’s not mentioned, French-Vietnamese photographer and artist Nhu Xuan Hua meticulously works by the gaps in her household historical past, versus making an attempt to fill them with solutions. Presented alongside trinkets, objects, and flower vases organized on decorative cabinets, Hua destablises her household archive by blurred, distorted and reimagined pictures.

Of Walking on Fire runs 16 April – 19 September 2026 at Autograph, London, UK

London-based composer, artist, and DJ, Ain Bailey’s The Jamaica Project unfolds as a sonic and visible journey by reminiscence, household, and place. Anchored in a trilogy of movies, the immersive exhibition strikes from archival fragments to a newly commissioned work filmed in Jamaica, tracing the artist’s first go to to her mom’s homeland. 

The Jamaica Project runs 10 April – 14 June 2026 at Camden Art Centre, London, UK

In Noorani Metal Sound, Pakistani interdisciplinary artist and researcher Zahra Malkani builds a sonic setting that serves as each shrine and archive. Combining sculpture, transferring picture and area recordings from Pakistan’s coastal areas, which seize lullabies, conflict cries and mourning rituals, Malkani creates a dense, immersive soundscape.

Noorani Metal Sound runs 27 March – 21 June 2026 at Auto Italia, London, UK

American artist Dean Sameshima’s Wonderland (1995–97) maps queer life by what’s hidden. Shot throughout LA throughout the Aids disaster, the photographs doc the facades of bathhouses, cruising grounds, and “tea rooms”. But right here, nothing is specific. Everything is implied by leaving folks out of the body. Sameshima shifts consideration to the areas themselves, working in plain sight, but nonetheless below the duvet of disguise. 

Wonderland runs 27 March – 23 May 2026 at Soft Opening, London, UK

From native dancefloors to world membership circuits, Australian photographer @capturecharles has constructed a heady doc of nightlife. From his early experiments in Australia, he has since travelled the world, turning into recognized for “translating moments of chaos into deliberate composition”. Shot on movie, his pictures transfer between sweat and stillness, creating an archive of celebration, group, and connection. 

A Shot in the Dark runs 17 April – 8 May 2026 at In Between Ibiza, Spain

Six painters contemporary out of the RCA and Slade push figuration past one thing steady, touchdown someplace extra slippery. In Gesture and Being, our bodies stretch, fragment, and carry out, whereas by no means fairly settling into something mounted. Expect work from Mia Wilkinson, Qian Zhong, Katja Farin, Anna Curzon Price, Poppy Critchlow, and Gala Hills.

Gesture and Being runs 18 February – 30 March 2026 at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK