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We are inspired by and learn from others. To every project, we bring ideas from personal experiences, observation and research. Our Influences capture artworks, ideas and initiatives from our immediate environment that we believe bring new perspectives.

#congratulations @emermaryg Repost from @matthewhi #congratulations @emermaryg Repost from @matthewhiggs2015
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Some good news! As reported in The Art Newspaper. A new artist-founded and artist-led cultural center ‘The Arts Collective’ in the British city of Northampton (home of the British band Bauhaus!) Galleries, learning spaces and artists studios. ✊ Interesting in relation to Josh Kline’s recent essay centered on the unaffordability of New York. Imagine something along the lines of ‘The Arts Collective’ in every community! @castcornwall in Heston, Cornwall is another great model! … As The Fall suggested: “Leave The Capitol!” ✊ Follow them at: @artscollectivenn & Read the whole article at @theartnewspaper.official @mr.sam.talbot @artscollectivenn @joshklinejoshkline
#thankyou @gillianmcvey looking forward to this ta #thankyou @gillianmcvey looking forward to this talk Repost from @erinoconnor
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Me and the lovely @johnwilson14 will be on stage at the @nationalgallery TONIGHT @ 7pm!! 

We will be chatting about art, footie, failure, feminism, rebellion, religion, bling and nudity - but why stop there..
 
Most importantly - it is my absolute pleasure (and great privilege) to share personal thoughts on x3 exceptional paintings within the gallery. 

Remember, you can still join us online if you can’t make it out! 

‘Picture this’ #nationalgallery

#upthevilla
Save the date Repost from @aplusagallery • Count Save the date Repost from @aplusagallery
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Counterforms
Preview: 4 May 2026, 11:30 am - 8:00 pm
cocktail reception at 5:30 pm

Organised by Neue Alte Brücke and Matt Williams

Hannah Black @hannah_black___ 
Yvo Cho @yvo_cho 
Anna Clegg @annaclegg_ 
Racheal Crowther @rachcrowther 
Ufuoma Essi #ufuomaessi 
Nat Faulkner @nat_faulkner 
Amelia Gill #ameliagill 
Jason Hirata @hiratajason 
Anna Howard @a__howard 
Vincenzo Ottino #vincenzoottino 
Nina Porter @_inanina_ 

Exhibition Dates: 5 May - 26 July 2026

A plus A, Venice

Counterforms examines how meaning is structured through absence. As described by Ellen Lupton and grounded in principles articulated by Jan Tschichold, counterforms refer in typography to the spaces within and around letters that make them legible, defining proportion and rhythm and shaping how forms are read. This logic informs the exhibition, where
interstices operate as an organising condition.

Across film, photography, installation, painting and ephemera, fragmentation and mediation shape how works are produced and encountered. Images appear displaced or incomplete, objects register
traces of use, removal and redaction, and sound resonates as both presence and residue, unfolding through layered temporal and material
conditions. Systems of capture, processing and display further condition how these works take form and come into view. The exhibition extends counterform as a structuring principle, through which intervals, discontinuities and spatial relations determine encounter.

Image: artwork by Anna Howard @a__howard
Repost from @smac_venice • #AlighieroBoetti is a Repost from @smac_venice
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#AlighieroBoetti is a major exhibition dedicated to Italian post-war master Alighiero Boetti (Turin, 1940 – Rome, 1994), presented by SMAC Venice (@smac_venice). Curated by Elena Geuna and supported by Ben Brown Fine Arts (@benbrownfinearts), the exhibition will be on view from 7 May to 22 November 2026, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia @labiennale.

Bringing together approximately one hundred works across eight galleries, the exhibition offers an expansive survey of one of the most influential artists of the post-war period. Spanning more than twenty-five years, from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, it traces the full arc of Boetti’s artistic trajectory and highlights the breadth and complexity of his practice.

#AlighieroBoetti
SMAC Venice, Procuratie, Piazza San Marco, 105
May 7 – November 22

Images:
1 – Alighiero Boetti, ‘Mappa’, 1979 (detail)
2 – Alighiero Boetti, ‘Mappa’, 1979
3 – Photographed by Mike Merkenschlager
4 – Alighiero Boetti, ‘Aerei’, 1989 (detail)
5 – Alighiero Boetti, ‘Mettere al Mondo il Mondo’, 1973
6 – Alighiero Boetti, ‘Gemelli’, 1968.
7 – Elena Geuna, photographed by Laurence Rundell
Repost from @victoriamirogallery • Opening today Repost from @victoriamirogallery
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Opening today at Victoria Miro Venice — Looking Outwards to Look Inwards: Etel Adnan, Milton Avery, Ilse D’Hollander. This new exhibition features works by three artists who translate the living landscape into simplified, sometimes geometric, though always intensely charged passages of colour.

Join us for the private view this evening from 5–7pm, including a talk at 5pm by Christopher Riopelle (Curator, National Gallery, London), who has written a new essay for the exhibition. All welcome.

See more via the link in bio

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Image: Milton Avery, Bird in Evening Sky, 1963. Oil on canvas board. 55.9 x 71.1 cm © 2026 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2026. Courtesy Victoria Miro

#miltonavery #eteladnan #ilsedhollander #victoriamirovenice #victoriamiro
@smac_venice @diaartfoundation Repost from @thear @smac_venice @diaartfoundation  Repost from @theartreporter
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A major retrospective dedicated to the Korean artist Lee Ufan will open as an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale in 2026 at the San Marco Art Centre. Organized by the Dia Art Foundation and curated by its director Jessica Morgan, the exhibition will trace more than seven decades of work by one of the most influential figures of postwar art.

Lee rose to prominence in the late 1960s as a central theorist of the Mono-ha movement, proposing that art emerges through the encounter between materials rather than through the artist’s control over them. His iconic From Point and From Line paintings from the early 1970s, built from repeated brushstrokes that gradually fade as pigment runs dry turned painting into a record of time, breath and gesture.

Today Lee Ufan stands as one of the key bridges between Asian and Western postwar art history. From his minimal steel-and-stone sculptures to his meditative canvases, his work has reshaped the language of minimalism, influencing generations of artists while quietly redefining what painting and sculpture can be.

Opening during the 2026 Biennale and coinciding with the artist’s 90th birthday, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to revisit a practice that continues to shape the global conversation around minimalism, materiality and space. A parallel presentation of Lee’s paintings and sculptures will also open at Dia Beacon in New York.

#leeufan #venicebiennale #monoha #koreanart
@davidhockneyandmore @davidhockneyofficial @serpen @davidhockneyandmore @davidhockneyofficial @serpentineuk @hansulrichobrist @bettinakorek @lizziect5 #thankyou for “David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting”, in addition to Hockney’s  monumental frieze, especially taken by “Another Abstraction Resting on a Blue and White Checkered Tablecloth”, 2025. Thank you @lucymarstonpaintings for being most excellent viewing companion and for the photo
#thankyou @awitalondon @sigridakirk @gillianmcvey #thankyou @awitalondon @sigridakirk @gillianmcvey @corkstreetgalleries @sara_mairi for an #inspiring evening of talks hosted by the galleries on Cork Street @flowersgallery @goodman_gallery @holtermannfineart @lehmannmaupin @massimodecarlogallery @messumslondon @nahmadcontemporary @tiwanicontemporary @waddingtoncustot to celebrate #internationalwomensday
Repost from @victoriamirogallery • Opening next Repost from @victoriamirogallery
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Opening next week at Victoria Miro Venice — Looking Outwards to Look Inwards: Etel Adnan, Milton Avery, Ilse D’Hollander

Private view: Saturday 14 March, 5–7pm, all welcome

An exhibition featuring three artists whose lives spanned the twentieth century, working across different generations and geographies yet united by their distilled observations of place and the journeys that inspired them — tap the link in bio to see more.

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Image: Ilse D’Hollander, Untitled, 1995. Oil on canvas. 35 x 38 cm, 13 3/4 x 15 in © The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander. Courtesy The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander and Victoria Miro.

#eteladnan #miltonavery #ilsedhollander #victoriamirovenice #victoriamiro
Repost from @scotlandvenice • As the 61st Intern Repost from @scotlandvenice
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As the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026 today reveals collateral events, we can share further detail about Bugarin + Castle’s presentation curated by Mount Stuart Trust to represent Scotland. 

From Scottish castles to Filipino cemeteries, in Shame Parade, Bugarin + Castle explore overlapping geographies and time periods in a contemporary queer and trans reimagining of public shaming rituals. The narrative unfolds not in a single scene, but in a carnival-like procession of subversion and defiance. 

Working across architecture, moving image, sculpture, and performance, their practice draws vibrant connections between queer and trans lives in Scotland and internationally, including diasporic connections to the Philippines. The artist’s work focuses on shared resonances as well as differences, shaped by personal and cultural histories.

📍 Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
📷 Bugarin + Castle, Mr. Mimic [Submit to Sound], 2026, Photo (detail), Courtesy the Artists and Scotland + Venice © Bugarin + Castle.

#BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys
Repost from @smac_venice @pacegallery • #LeeUfa Repost from @smac_venice @pacegallery 
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#LeeUfan will be the subject of a major solo presentation organized by Dia Art Foundation (@diaartfoundation) at SMAC Venice (@smac_venice), an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia @labiennale. 
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Developed in close partnership with the artist, the exhibition traces the evolution of his iconic visual language with works ranging from new and historical paintings to large-scale installations and a site-specific commission. 
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Lee Ufan 
Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 
SMAC Venice, Procuratie, Piazza San Marco, 105 
May 9 – November 22 
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Presented by Dia Art Foundation and curated by Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, the exhibition will open concurrently with a new display of Lee’s paintings and sculptures at Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York, in celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday. 
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Tap the link in bio to learn more about the forthcoming presentation. 

#ContemporaryArt #Venice #Monoha #BiennaleArte2026 

Images: 
1-3 Lee Ufan, “Relatum (formerly Iron Field),” 1969/2019. , Photo by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York 
4 Lee Ufan, 2025 © Paolo Roversi, Courtesy Pace Gallery 
5 Lee Ufan, “From Line,” 1980, Photo by Kei Miyajima ©️Lee Ufan/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. 
6 Lee Ufan, “From Point,” 1982, Photo by Kei Miyajima ©️Lee Ufan/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Repost from @thecosmichouse • ✨We are reopenin Repost from @thecosmichouse
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✨We are reopening on Wednesday 22 April ✨

The Cosmic House will welcome back visitors this spring for self-guided tours Wednesday to Friday and a guided tour once a month. We’ll continue to release tickets on a monthly basis, every third Friday of the month at 12pm.

Tickets for April will be available on our website (link in bio) on Friday 20 March at 12pm. We recommend setting a reminder as tickets tend to sell out quickly!

📸 The Sundial Arcade at The Cosmic House. Photo by Sue Barr.

#TheCosmicHouse #CharlesJencks #MaggieKeswickJencks #PostModernism
Repost from @scotlandvenice • Scotland + Venice Repost from @scotlandvenice
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Scotland + Venice will soon reveal more about Bugarin + Castle’s presentation for the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026, curated by Mount Stuart Trust.

Bugarin + Castle will create a multi-layered new project that uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex legacies of shame, sound and voice. Their work will be presented at Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122 from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026, before journeying back to Mount Stuart in 2027.

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📷 On set during the production of Bugarin + Castle’s new film for the Scotland + Venice presentation at The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Photograph by Jassy Earl. Image courtesy the artists, Forma and Mount Stuart.
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Gladstone Gallery and Victoria Miro congratulate Wangechi Mutu (@wangechistudio), who is invited to the 61st International Art Exhibition of @LaBiennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh.

Learn more via the link in bio

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Image: Portrait of Wangechi Mutu. Photo: Khadija Farah

#WangechiMutu #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys
Repost from @victoriamirogallery • Join us tonig Repost from @victoriamirogallery
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Join us tonight at Victoria Miro for the private view of Isaac Julien: All That Changes You. Metamorphosis. 6–8pm, all welcome.

In his latest film installation, ‘@IsaacJulien constructs a path that does not follow linear logic, but a temporal choreography in which the places themselves transform (or transform those who pass through them),’ writes Lorenzo Giusti in an extensive new essay for the exhibition.

Commissioned to celebrate 500 years of @Palazzo_Te, Mantua, Italy (where it is currently on view), All That Changes You. Metamorphosis is exhibited at Victoria Miro for the first time as a five-screen installation, accompanied by new photographic works.

See more via the link in bio

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Image: installation view, Isaac Julien: All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, Victoria Miro, Gallery I, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, 13 February–21 March 2026 © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

#isaacjulien #victoriamiro
Repost from @scotlandvenice • Introducing Mount Repost from @scotlandvenice
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Introducing Mount Stuart’s Contemporary Visual Arts Programme, now celebrating 25 years of presenting contemporary art to audiences in Bute and Argyll. 

Dr Morven Gregor, Curator of Contemporary and Learning, will curate work by duo Bugarin + Castle for Scotland + Venice at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026 and back at Mount Stuart in 2027. 

Set within extraordinary Neo-Gothic architecture and grounds on the Isle of Bute, this unorthodox building, housing extensive collections and archives, has provided the inspiration and location for an acclaimed programme. Mount Stuart’s CVA Programme has invited presentations by Scotland-based and international artists since 2001, alongside a programme for learning including emerging artist residencies. Exhibiting artists have included Martin Boyce, Monster Chetwynd, Alberta Whittle, Christine Borland, Mischa Haller and more. 

This year, as well as curating the work of Bugarin + Castle in Venice, back on Bute Mount Stuart will present the largest solo show in Scotland to date by artist Veronica Ryan OBE, RA opening on Saturday 30 May. 

📷 1. Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Courtesy Mount Stuart Trust. 2. Abbas Akhavan: A study for a garden, 2022. Photo by Keith Hunter 3. Ilana Halperin: There is a Volcano Behind My House, 2021. Photo by Keith Hunter. 4. Linder: A kind of glamour about me, 2025, photo by Hazel Gaskin, Courtesy Mount Stuart Trust and @edartfest. 5. Lucy Skaer: A Proposal for Mount Stuart, 2013. Photo by Keith Hunter, Courtesy Mount Stuart Trust
One not to miss Repost from @victoriamirogallery
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next week at Victoria Miro for the private view of @IsaacJulien’s latest solo exhibition — Friday 13 February, 6–8pm, all welcome.

The exhibition features the world premiere of the five-screen installation of Julien’s acclaimed film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, accompanied by new photographic works.

This vivid, sweeping, visual poem draws inspiration from thinkers who explore how transformation shapes who we are and how we live. The work moves between science fiction, philosophy, ecology, and art.

Commissioned to celebrate 500 years of @Palazzo_Te, Mantua, Italy (where it is currently on view) and exhibited here for the first time as a five-screen installation — see more via the link in bio.

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Image: Isaac Julien, Satellite - Orpheus (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025. Inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss mounted on aluminium. 110 x 147 cm, 43 1/4 x 57 7/8 in © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

#isaacjulien #victoriamiro
Repost from @tmagazine @victoriamirogallery #congr Repost from @tmagazine @victoriamirogallery #congratulations @emil.sands 
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The British artist @emil.sands often paints bodies, many of them reflecting art history’s long tradition of bathers — and of voyeurism. In “Ripley’s Ladder” (2025), for example, a man lies on a sandy shore, watching others frolic in the distance. In “The Invitation” (2024), three young men wade half-clothed in a river while a fourth gazes at the viewer from the foreground. “I’ve spent my whole life looking at other people’s bodies,” says Sands, whose cerebral palsy has made him acutely aware of what’s considered normal. “I’m trying to work out why they’re different from mine, how I can ape them.”

Sands’s solo show “Watchmen” opens tomorrow at @victoriamirogallery’s Venice outpost. Tap the link in our bio to read the full story about the artist’s new work and inspirations. 

Written by Rose Courteau. Photos by @danilo.scarpati.
Repost from @curatorial.school • OPEN CALL Inter Repost from @curatorial.school
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OPEN CALL International Summer Programme in Curatorial Practice, Venice

Application deadline: 1 March 2026

The International Summer Course in Curatorial Practice is an English-taught program focused on the study and practice of contemporary exhibition-making. The course takes place in Venice during the Venice Biennale, offering direct engagement with one of the most significant contexts of international contemporary art. Limited spots are available.

The program integrates curatorial theory, exhibition history, and professional practice through lectures, research-based activities, studio visits, and workshops with curators, artists, and museum professionals. Particular attention is given to critical writing, project development, communication strategies, and institutional frameworks.

The course culminates in the realization of a curated exhibition in Venice, curated by the participants during the Biennale.

For further information, to apply, or to arrange an introductory meeting, please contact us via DM or email curatorialschool@gmail.com

The course is organised by School for Curatorial Studies Venice.

#curatorialstudiesvenice #opencall
Lovely ladies lunch Repost from @amandafreeman63
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Happy belated Birthday darling @msmirandasawyer 🥳🤸🏿‍♀️❤️🥂🍾🤩 in the company of these splendid women L to R: @janeiopop @marina_gask_media @louisemckinney 🥰🥰🥰 Fabulous lunch
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An ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris sp.) on a yarrow (Achillea millefolium) spotted during an excursion in Berlin. Photo: Frederic Griesbaum © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.Courtesy Gaia Art Foundation

 
 
 
 
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