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Hey Prazzlers,
Welcome to this week's edition of The Culture Dispatch!
Art Basel is ongoing in Basel, bringing together 289 premier galleries from 42 countries for one of the biggest weeks on the art calendar. If you're there, our guides to the best gallery booths and other events worth experiencing have you covered. We're also on the ground. Please reach out if you would like to collaborate.
On the exhibitions side: Ruth Asawa's retrospective continues at the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg continues to unfold across multiple venues, including Deichtorhallen and PHOXXI, and Yinka Ilori opens at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London.
On the opportunities side: the Future Generation Art Prize is offering $100,000 to support the next generation of artists, alongside the VH Award for Media Artists in Seoul, the Liu Shiming Artist Grants in New York, and an open call to exhibit with Hacoco in Dubai.
Editor’s Picks
21 June - 21 September 2026
Group Exhibition
'FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons'
Willy-Brandt-Straße 60, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
St. Nikolai Memorial, Hamburg
(Opening in 2 days) FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons brings together eleven international artists at Hamburg’s St. Nikolai Memorial for a public art exhibition that examines fire as a force of destruction, transformation, memory, and renewal.
5 June - 3 July 2026
Gwendolyn Phillips
'A Brownie Hawkeye'
Schlüterstraße 80, 20146 Eimsbüttel, Germany
M.Bassy, Hamburg
A Brownie Hawkeye is the first public presentation of photographs from the archive of American photographer Gwendolyn Phillips after more than four decades. The exhibition brings together newly produced prints, restored vintage works, slide projections, archival materials, and recent self-documentation, offering a long-overdue introduction to a remarkable photographic career that unfolded across several notable cities.
27 March - 30 August 2026
Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch
'Flow of Paint = Flow of Life'
Glockengießerwall 5, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
This exhibition explores the remarkable parallels between two artists separated by half a century, tracing Munch’s influence on Lassnig’s oeuvre while simultaneously opening up new ways of understanding Munch through the lens of Lassnig’s work.
🎪Fairs and Biennials
Currently on view - explore our guide to the major art fairs and biennials shaping the global calendar this week.
Messe Basel, Basel
18 - 21 June 2026
Art Basel 2026 is live in Basel, Switzerland, from 18–21 June 2026, featuring over 289 premier galleries from 42 countries and territories, presenting works ranging from early twentieth-century modernism to contemporary artistic production. Check out our guides for the best gallery booths and other events worth experiencing.
Featured Exhibitions
5 June - 11 July 2026
Yinka Ilori
'Joy Through Resistance: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best'
43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG, United Kingdom
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
19 March - 13 September 2026
Ruth Asawa
'Ruth Asawa: Retrospective'
Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Abando, 48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
5 June - 22 September 2026
Group Exhibition
'Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other'
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
21 June - 13 September 2026
Hew Locke
'Passages'
1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
5 June - 1 November 2026
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
'Residual Sky Under Contamination'
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
PHOXXI – Temporary House of Photography, Hamburg
Opportunities of the Week
The following are current art opportunities that you may be interested in:
Deadline: Jul 21, 2026
The VH AWARD 7th edition supports emerging and mid-career media artists whose practice engages with the context of Asia. If you work in the intersections of audiovisual experimentation and critical storytelling across contemporary digital and screen-based art forms, read more and apply for this opportunity HERE.
Deadline: Rolling
HART HAUS is accepting year-round exhibition proposals from local and international artists, artist collectives, and curators to support emerging and established creative practitioners. Read more and apply for this grant HERE.
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
The Liu Shiming Artist Grants 2026 aims to support visual artists in the first decade of their professional careers, awarding up to five grants annually to help emerging artists develop and realize ambitious creative projects across disciplines and geographies. Read more about this opportunity and apply HERE.
Deadline: Jun 28, 2026
The Future Generation Art Prize is a biennial global award in contemporary art, aimed at identifying, recognizing, and providing long-term support to the next generation of artists, with a total award of US$100,000. If you fit into this category, read more and apply HERE.
Deadline: Jun 30, 2026
Hacoco Art is curating a contemporary art showcase in Dubai this August and is inviting emerging and contemporary artists with a distinct visual language to apply. Read more about this opportunity and apply HERE.
As always, if you know of an exhibition or opportunity we should feature, or simply want to give us feedback, just reply to this email.
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See you next week,
The Prazzle Team.
