Autumn is historically essentially the most thrilling season within the worldwide artwork calendar, as museums and galleries unveil their most bold exhibitions alongside the return of collectors, curators and artists from the summer time break. The 2026 autumn artwork season is not any exception. Galleries and museums in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Mexico are presenting an amazing choice together with landmark retrospectives of pioneering artists and main institutional debuts, whereas a wholly new cultural vacation spot can be revealed in Santander.
Whether or not you’re planning an art-focused metropolis break or following the worldwide exhibition circuit, her are among the most fun exhibitions to go to this autumn.
London: Amar Kanwar at Serpentine, Nan Goldin at Hayward Gallery, Khalif Tahir Thompson at Victoria Miro and Cindy Sherman at Hauser & Wirth
London’s autumn programme displays the town’s enduring power in each modern artwork and pictures. The Hayward Gallery presents the long-awaited return of Nan Goldin together with her first UK institutional exhibition in additional than twenty years. Opening in November as a part of the Southbank Centre’s seventy fifth anniversary celebrations, the exhibition combines pictures, shifting picture works and a significant new movie, reaffirming Goldin’s unparalleled skill to rework deeply private tales of affection, grief, habit and queer id into universally resonant artworks.
On the Serpentine, Indian artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar transforms Serpentine North into an immersive visible and sonic setting centred on the premiere of The Charcoal Man, a brand new seven-screen set up. Kanwar’s poetic explorations of reminiscence, justice and ecology proceed his distinctive apply of mixing documentary, cinema and set up.
In the meantime, Victoria Miro presents new work by Khalif Tahir Thompson, whose richly textured home scenes discover Black id, intimacy and on a regular basis life with extraordinary color and psychological depth.
Images takes one other intriguing flip at Hauser & Wirth London, the place Cindy Sherman debuts works from her new Material Matrons sequence. Persevering with her lifelong investigation into constructed id, Sherman examines ageing, visibility and femininity by elaborately staged portraits that blur the boundaries between trend pictures, portraiture and efficiency.
Cindy Sherman at Hauser & Wirth London
13 October – 23 December 2026
Nan Goldin at Hayward Gallery
24 November 2026 – 7 March 2027
Amar Kanwar at Serpentine North
23 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
Chromogenic shade print
106.7 x 159.7 cm / 42 x 62 7/8 in
© 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
New York: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s autumn programme locations efficiency and visible artwork into dialogue by its bold Met Stay Arts season, however one exhibition stands out above all: Krasner and Pollock: Previous Steady.
Quite than retelling the acquainted mythology surrounding Jackson Pollock, the exhibition re-examines one in all fashionable artwork’s most influential inventive partnerships by putting Lee Krasner firmly at its centre. Operating from October by January, the exhibition traces how each artists regularly influenced each other whereas creating radically particular person inventive languages, providing a extra nuanced understanding of Summary Expressionism.
Krasner and Pollock: Previous Steady at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York
October 4, 2026 to January 31, 2027
Paris: Alexander Calder at Hauser & Wirth Paris and ‘Keep in mind Me’, Masterpieces of Images from the Pinault Assortment
Paris delivers two of the season’s highlights. At Hauser & Wirth Paris, Calder: François Premier revisits a pivotal interval in Alexander Calder’s profession following his return to France through the early Fifties. Monumental mobiles, delicate gouaches and infrequently exhibited sculptures reveal the outstanding inventiveness of an artist whose work continues to redefine the connection between sculpture, motion and house.
In the meantime, the Pinault Assortment presents a significant new pictures exhibition on the Bourse de Commerce. ‘Keep in mind Me’ options masterpieces of pictures from the Pinault Assortment from a stellar forged of photographers together with Man Ray, Barbara Kruger, Annie Leibovitz and Claude Cahun. The exhibition opens through the bicentenary 12 months of pictures, and reinforces the establishment’s rising fame for bold shows exploring the evolving function of pictures in modern inventive apply.
Curated by Matthieu Humery, Advisor for Images of the Pinault Assortment, with the collaboration of Lola Regard, Initiatives Officer, “Keep in mind Me” takes its identify from an unique work by Barbara Kruger that can be proven within the Rotunda of the museum. The exhibition will function 700 works by greater than 70 artists.
Alexander Calder at Hauser & Wirth Paris
19 October – 19 December 2026
‘Keep in mind Me’, Masterpieces of Images from the Pinault Assortment is on the Bourse de Commerce, Paris from 7 October to 31 December 2026.
Gouache and ink on paper29 3/4″ x 41 1/2”
© 2026 Calder Basis, New York / ADAGP, Paris
Courtesy of Calder Basis, New York / Artwork Useful resource, New York
Amsterdam: Robert Zandvliet at GRIMM Gallery
The opening of GRIMM’s new Amsterdam gallery is marked by a solo exhibition from Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet.
His Paradaidha sequence transforms the concept of the backyard into expansive, virtually summary landscapes composed of layered greens and shifting fields of color. Drawing inspiration from Claude Monet’s Nymphéas, Zandvliet strikes effortlessly between statement and abstraction, creating meditative work that reward extended trying whereas questioning how nature is represented by paint.
Robert Zandvliet at GRIMM Amsterdam
September 5 – October 3, 2026
Hong Kong: Lucio Fontana at Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents one of many 12 months’s most vital surveys of Lucio Fontana, specializing in the revolutionary Buchi (Holes) and Tagli (Cuts) works that remodeled post-war artwork.
Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Spatialism: Pioneering the Up to date explores how Fontana rejected the normal image airplane in favour of works that bodily opened the canvas to mild, motion and infinite house. Greater than half a century after their creation, these iconic slashed canvases stay astonishingly modern.
Lucio Fontana Spatialism. Pioneering the Up to date at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong
17 September – 19 December 2026
Mexico Metropolis: Richard Prince, Álvaro Urbano and Raúl Silva at Museo Jumex
Museo Jumex presents the primary main survey of Richard Prince in Latin America, providing audiences a possibility to rethink one in all modern artwork’s most provocative figures.
Alongside Prince’s retrospective, the museum continues its dedication to supporting new inventive practices by an immersive set up by Álvaro Urbano created particularly for the museum, whereas Raúl Silva receives his first solo exhibition in Mexico, highlighting the establishment’s stability between internationally established artists and rising voices.
MUSEO JUMEX autumn/ winter exhibitions
RICHARD PRINCE: TELL ME EVERYTHING
26 September 2026 to 7 February 2027
ÁLVARO URBANO: HELEN
16 October 2026 to 7 February, 2027
RAÚL SILVA: GATEWAY
16 October 2026 to 7 February, 2027
Santander: Reveal of Spain’s New Cultural Landmark
Maybe the season’s most vital cultural opening is Faro Santander, a significant new arts centre housed inside the remodeled former Banco Santander headquarters in northern Spain.
Its inaugural exhibitions are remarkably bold. Masterpieces from the Banco Santander Assortment spans 5 centuries, bringing collectively works by Titian, Rubens, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró and Antoni Tàpies, whereas Trendy Mexico within the Gelman Santander Assortment options masterpieces by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo and Leonora Carrington.
The opening programme is accomplished by The Symptomatic Surreal, an exhibition exploring Leonora Carrington’s formative interval in Santander through the Second World Conflict. Collectively, these exhibitions set up Faro Santander not merely as one other museum however as one in all Europe’s most necessary new cultural locations, combining historic collections with an bold imaginative and prescient for the way forward for modern artwork.
Faro Santander dates:
Masterpieces from the Banco Santander Assortment
8 September 2026 – February 2027
Trendy Mexico within the Gelman Santander Assortment
8 September 2026 – 10 January 2027
The Symptomatic Surreal: Leonora Carrington
8 September 2026 – 10 January 2027
Throughout continents, the strongest exhibitions of autumn 2026 share a typical thread: they place historic masters into dialog with modern voices whereas difficult established narratives. From Nan Goldin’s intimate chronicles of lived expertise and Amar Kanwar’s poetic political installations to Lee Krasner’s long-overdue reassessment and Lucio Fontana’s revolutionary spatial experiments, this season demonstrates that essentially the most compelling exhibitions are people who encourage audiences to look once more—at artwork historical past, at society and at themselves.
For anybody planning a global gallery itinerary or looking for a dose of tradition throughout their travels, autumn 2026 has a variety of cultural highlights for lovers or artwork and pictures.
