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Up Next: 2025
Pan Daijing
Sudden Places
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Jan 16–Jul 6
In her atmospheric exhibitions, Pan Daijing combines sound and moving images with impermanent materials, live choreography, and architectural interventions to elicit deeply emotive and sensory experiences. For her first US institutional solo show at the Walker Art Center, the Berlin-based artist and composer will construct a site-specific audiovisual landscape of old and new major works.
Ayoung Kim
Many Worlds Over
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Feb 28–Jul 20
Ayoung Kim is known for constructing simulated worlds using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video, and sonic fiction, merging her research of ancestral origins with technology and imminent futures. “Many Worlds Over” will be Kim’s first solo exhibition in a German museum. With themes of migration, xenophobia, queerness, and geopolitics, the exhibition will observe the symbiosis between data, humans, and the planet.
Ruth Asawa
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Apr 5–Sep 2
Ruth Asawa’s first posthumous retrospective will feature more than 300 works from her oeuvre, reflecting the full spectrum of her expansive practice. Featuring sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, design objects, and archival material, the exhibition will explore how her long-time San Francisco home served as central inspiration for her work.
Do Ho Suh
Walk the House
Tate Modern, London
May 1–Oct 9
Do Ho Suh’s work investigates shifting definitions of home and identity, and the ways we navigate or inhabit various spaces in the world. In a major survey observing the last three decades of the artist’s thought-provoking practice, the Tate Modern will debut new site-specific works alongside large-scale installations, sculptures, videos, and drawings.
Japanese Contemporary Art and the World 1989–2010
National Art Center, Tokyo
Sep 3–Dec 8
The first curatorial collaboration between the National Art Center, Tokyo and M+ in Hong Kong will survey the development of contemporary art through Japan’s recent history. Combining iconic works with lesser-known projects by Japanese and international practitioners, the exhibition will emphasize the far-reaching influence of the country’s art and visual culture in the first two decades of contemporary globalization.
Yuko Mohri
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
Sep 11–Jan 18, 2026
Japanese artist Yuko Mohri combines sound and movement with reconfigured found objects to form site-specific installations investigating imperceptible phenomena and transient energies or conditions around us. Her first institutional exhibition in Italy will activate Pirelli HangarBicocca’s industrial environment with numerous interactive installations and sound sculptures.
Tehching Hsieh
Dia Beacon, New York
Oct 3–ongoing
The first retrospective of Tehching Hsieh’s career will trace his practice from the late 1970s to the end of the ’90s, the period when the Taiwanese American performance artist created his durational One Year Performances series and Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen-year Plan). The exhibition follows the artist’s gift of 11 major works to Dia’s permanent collection in 2024.
Robert Rauschenberg and Asia
M+, Hong Kong
Nov 22–Apr 26, 2026
An avid traveler, Robert Rauschenberg was deeply impacted by the cultures he encountered. Strong ties with Asia consistently inspired his artistic practice and interest in cultural exchange. Marking the centennial of the artist’s birth, “Robert Rauschenberg and Asia” will feature a collection of Rauschenberg’s major works produced during and in response to his time on the continent.