Art

Queer East Festival 2025
Celebrating Asian LGBTQ+ Culture

Calling all cinephiles! The sixth edition of the film festival lands in London with a wider programme including visual arts, literature, and performance, and premieres like Takeshi Kitano’s “Kubi.”

Zach Zono
Lived-in Paintings like Lived-in Jeans

“Letting chance be part of the process”, this bright young thing paints colour saturated memories of Cape Town from his studio in London. Paintings for which the operative word is flip.

Alake Shilling
Wonderland: Into Her Studio and Her World

Like a forgotten artefact from a dream, Alake’s marshmallow shaped works have delighted Marni and Marc Jacobs. She talks access to art and feeding our inner child.

Maurizio Cattelan: Bones
Gunning for Gold at Gagosian

The Italian’s new show is ominous and oracular. Whilst the artworks were made well before President Trump plunged global markets into freefall, these gold works take on a prophetic quality given the recent financial chaos.

Elsa Rouy: I Pictured Skin
A Taboo Pleasure

There is something uncomfortable in Elsa’s paintings, yet they draw you in like a horror movie. But you better check for yourself in her newest exhibition at Berlin’s GNYP Gallery.

Labours of Love
A Celebration of Queerness

On view at Portsmouth, this exhibition curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and Ricardo Reveron Blanco shows the many faces of queer love through works that are intersectional and intergenerational.

Muhcine Ennou
What Makes Art Linger

Muhcine Ennou reflects on human artistic creation, the tensions between analogue and digital, and the power of stories held by sunlit images.

Gucci: Bamboo Encounters
Celebrate the legacy

From 8 to 13 April, the House, alongside 2050+ studio, presents an exhibition in Milan that explores the dialogue between design, nature and sensoriality.

Ahn Sanghoon
Memory, Erasure, and the Unfinished Nature of Art

The Korean artist blurs the line between presence and disappearance, using layers of paint to explore the fleeting nature of memory, because nothing is ever truly complete.

Forecast 2025
The Art of Predicting the Creative Future

In a world where art is increasingly political, hybrid, and bold, Forecast 2025 proved that rethinking its limits is not just possible; it’s urgent.