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Must-see Art Exhibitions & Opportunities You can't Miss (June 25th)
Published 30 days ago • 4 min read • Culture Weekly Dispatch
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After more than a decade in development, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum has unveiled James Turrell's As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace, his most ambitious to date and the largest ever realised within a museum. In Berlin, Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh transforms the Neue Nationalgalerie into a live sound installation with Danfotronics on July 2nd.
On the exhibitions side: Barbara Hepworth's Hepworth in Colour opens at The Courtauld Gallery in London, Project a Black Planet opens at the Barbican, and Jasper Johns' Night Driver continues at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
On the opportunities side: Terra Foundation Collections Grants worth up to $75,000, the Berlendis Venice Art Prize, a residency at Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Kent, and Hypertextile 2027's international performance open call.
Frida: The Making of an Icon invites visitors to step into the life and legacy of Frida Kahlo, a revolutionary artist whose impact continues to resonate around the world. This exhibition traces the extraordinary journey of how Kahlo became not only one of the most influential artists of the 20th century but also a cultural and commercial icon.
After more than a decade in development, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum has unveiled As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace by James Turrell, the American artist’s most ambitious Skyspace to date and the largest Skyspace ever realised within a museum context.
Rather than a conventional exhibition, Danfotronics is a live sound installation and public music event by Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh that transforms one of Lagos’s most recognisable urban symbols into a platform for cultural exchange.
The 2026 New Wight Biennial is an international group exhibition hosted by the New Wight Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They are seeking artists currently engaged in advanced educational pursuits in art practice with works that explore fugitivity as a movement toward freedom, resistance, and transformation. Read more and apply HERE.
🎪Fairs and Biennials
Currently on view - explore our guide to the major art fairs and biennials shaping the global calendar this week.
Contemporary Art Now Art Fair Ibiza returns for its fifth edition from 25–28 June 2026, bringing together 32 international exhibitors alongside an expanded OFF Program, CAN Local, public installations, acquisition awards, and citywide cultural programming across the island.
Polish Art Week 2026 takes place from 22–28 June 2026 across multiple venues in Berlin, expanding the format of the Avant Art Festival through a dedicated week-long programme celebrating contemporary Polish art and international artistic exchange. The 2026 edition brings together visual artists, musicians, performers, filmmakers, curators, and interdisciplinary practitioners working across contemporary art, sound, moving image, performance, and new media.
Hypertextile 2027 is inviting applications from artists and collectives worldwide for its international performance open call. If you work in any artistic discipline that incorporates performance, read more and apply for this opportunity HERE.
The Berlendis Venice Art Prize is an international open call for artists of any age and nationality working in painting, drawing, printmaking and graphic arts (intaglio printmaking, lithography, screen printing, woodcut, digital printing), Photography, Collage, Sculpture and Installation, Textile Art, Video Art. Read more and apply for this grant HERE.
Applications are now open for the Prospect Cottage residencies, offering creative practitioners and minds the rare opportunity to spend time at Derek Jarman’s extraordinary home and garden in Dungeness. Read more about this opportunity and apply HERE.
The Terra Foundation supports projects that engage the visual arts of the United States and Indigenous arts of North America, while questioning and broadening understandings of American art and transforming how its stories are told. Read the eligibility criteria and apply HERE.
This residency invites artists to explore the theme "Holding patterns". This residency is open to visual artists of different disciplines across the world. Read more about this opportunity and apply HERE.
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