Climate Biennial, Avilés | Asunción Molinos Gordo

Asunción Molinos Gordo is participating in the first edition of the Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, which will be on view in Avilés, Asturias, Spain, from June 12 to September 20, 2026. The Climate Biennial is a meeting space open to the public. It is a place where people and organizations from very different backgrounds come together to reflect, converse, imagine, and debate the great challenges of our time.

Paper Tears, Catalonia in Venice | Claudia Pagès Rabal

“Paper Tears” by Claudia Pagès Rabal is the project selected for “Catalonia in Venice,” the Catalan cultural contribution to the Collateral Events of the Venice Biennale. The installation combines light, sound, imagery, and choreography, with a central element: an archive of watermarks—patterns visible only when held up to the light on paper. It will be on view through November 22. Learn more here.

Still Joy, PinchukArtCentre | Álvaro Urbano

Álvaro Úrbano is participating in *Still Joy — From Ukraine into the World*, an exhibition presented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre as part of the Collateral Events of the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition will take place at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac from May 9 to August 1, 2026.

RedSkyFalls, Biennale di Venezia | Alexandre Estrela

Alexandre Estrela: RedSkyFalls is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from May 9 to November 22, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau. The installation responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility.Learn more here.

 

 

NERO: Everything Leaves a Watermark

Paper Tears by Claudia Pagès Rabal, Catalonia in Venice 2026: “I was on the train back from Venice to Milan when, scrolling through my phone gallery, I realized that something in Claudia Pagès Rabal’s work continued to elude me”. Continue reading in NERO by Matteo Gari.

Art in America: New Talent 2026

The editors of Art in America selected a global group of 20 exciting artists to watch, including Claudia Pagès Rabal and Joeun Kim Aatchim. Learn more about them here.

 

 

CONDEDUQUE, Madrid | Mariela Scafati

Mariela Scafati presents Nombrar el mundo (Naming the World) at Contemporánea Condeduque in Madrid. This exhibition, the artist’s first solo institutional show in Spain, will be open to the public from April 24 to July 19, 2026.

MASP, São Paulo | Mateo López & Mariela Scafati

Mariela Scafati, together with her group Taller Popular de Serigrafía, and Mateo López, are participating in the group exhibition ACERVO EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO: DOAÇÕES RECENTES at the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil.

UmbigoSpace: RedSkyFalls, Portugal at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Alexandre Estrela

“Truth be told, the name came about in early 2001, in New York, for practical reasons. I needed a way to filter out the excess paper in my mailbox. I came up with a company called RedSkyFalls. Anything that arrived from that sender went straight into the unopened trash” says Alexandre Estrela to Matteo Bergamini on the reason why he titled the project he will be presenting at the Venice Biennale. Read the full interview at Umbigo.Space.

 

 

FRIEZE: Angela de la Cruz Breaks the Frame

“At Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, the artist’s career-spanning works behave like a dancer – precise, often painful and profoundly beautiful, even in moments of collapse. The two sculptures that greet us on the upper floor of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery have something alive about them.”  Read ful review by Tom Denman on Upright by Ángela de la Cruz in Frieze.

 

The Guardian: Ángela de la Cruz review – wonky chairs and busted pianos are monuments to resilience

“Crumpled and crumbling, Ángela de la Cruz’s artworks are all on the verge of collapse. Her canvases are broken and folded in on themselves, her sculptures are barely assembled junk, and look as if they might turn right back into rubbish if there’s a strong breeze.” Keep reading at The Guardian.

IKON, Birmingham | Ángela de la Cruz

IKON in Birmingham, United Kingdom, presents UPRIGHT, an exhibition featuring rarely seen works by artist Ángela de la Cruz, alongside a new project developed in collaboration with the Birmingham Royal Ballet. The exhibition runs through August 6, 2026.

Biennale di Venezia | Claudia Pagès Rabal

Under the theme In Minor Keys, following the project led by Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh. Paper Tears, a work by artist Claudia Pagès Rabal curated by Elise Lammer, has been selected as the Catalan cultural contribution to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in the Eventi Collaterali section of the Biennale, organized by the Institut Ramon Llul.

CAAC, Seville | Virginia Chihota

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain, presents, from March 19 to September 6, 2026, the exhibition “Kupinduka” by artist Virginia Chihota. Curated by Jimena Blázquez, the show is the artist’s first major solo exhibition in a European institution. The project brings together a group of works created specifically for the CAAC.

Museo Jumex, CDMX | Teresa Solar Abboud

Based on a selection of works from the Jumex Collection, Diffuse Visions evokes a threshold where the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep become porous. The group exhibition includes work by Teresa Solar Abboud and can be visited at the Jumex Museum, Mexico City, until July 19, 2026.

MASP, São Paulo | La Chola Poblete

La Chola Poblete: Pop Andino is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Brazil at MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. It is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director, and Leandro Muniz, assistant curator at MASP. It will be on view from March 6 to August 2, 2026.

ARTFORUM: Utopias are for birds. On the work of Álvaro Urbano

“Urbano’s work speaks to the need for each generation to reinvent the past and reimagine its ideals. Only in this way can the past be brought from the abstract world to the concrete one we touch and tread every day” says Javier Montes. Read the full article in Artforum. 

ARTNEWS: Friedrich Kunath on the Futility of Painting: ‘When You Deal With Beauty, You Can Only Lose’

“[…] These are tough times, and everyone can relate to that, even if each person experiences it differently. For Kunath, it is that ability to hold in his paintings this sense of discomfort and vulnerability alongside pleasure and beauty. It gets at the heart of the human predicament”. Read the article in Artnews by Kate Brown.

Art Review: "Manuela Solano’s Art Poptimism" by Gaby Cepeda

“So much of Solano’s prolific pictorial output has this type of psychological patina: many of the images she conjures on her large, unstretched canvases are derived from mass culture, but infused with her own subjectivity, or reflections of parts of herself.” Read the full article in ArtReview.