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The final instalment of the RWA’s elements series, ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’ is a major exhibition spanning four centuries of artwork. The group exhibition tackles the most expansive and urgent of subject matters, bringing together important modern, historical and contemporary artworks.

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec presents group exhibition 'America: Between Dreams and Realities' featuring over 100 works drawn from the prestigious collection of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. 

'52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone' celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition 'Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists', curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971.

Group exhibition ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past’ brings together more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by 58 artists. Featuring artists primarily from Europe, the United States, and Japan, the exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body.

'Set It Off' brings together work by Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Karyn Olivier, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kennedy Yanko. Often combining multiple elements of paintings, sculpture, installation, sound, and language, each artist in 'Set It Off' engages the monumental, the site-specific, or the immersive in their practice.

Curated by Dakin Hart with Alberto Rios de la Rosa, Assembly’s inaugural exhibition is devoted to cultural, social and economic exchange. 'Assembly 1: Unstored' features artworks 'rescued from the isolation of storage crates' and re-entered into the world, where they can 'play their role in the marketplace of ideas'. 

'Women Painting Women' is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, 'Women Painting Women' recognises female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. 

Group presentation ‘The Circus We Are’ explores the influence of the circus world on art. Situating imagery of clowns, merry-go-rounds, fairground games and tightrope walkers alongside contemporary artworks, the exhibition poses the question ‘Are we in the circus?’.

On the occasion of the institution’s 30th anniversary, Kunstmuseum Bonn presents a comprehensive survey of its collection of contemporary art across twenty rooms. ‘Space for imaginative actions’ offers fresh perspectives on key figures, movements and subjects, as well as showcasing some of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists.

The first show from the new international curatorial cooperative Radicants, founded by Nicolas Bourriaud, explores how climate change influences today’s art – specifically through the lens of the sublime, as defined as “a delight tinged with terror” by the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke.

Group exhibition 'Shifting the Silence' features dynamic works by thirty-two women artists, including 'T.N. (Arte...)', 2015 by Rivane Neuenschwander. Named after artist Etel Adnan’s 2020 book about history and existence, 'Shifting the Silence' embraces experimentation, impermanence, and subjectivity.

Presented in celebration of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary’s twentieth anniversary, ‘Abundant Futures’ explores the motivations behind the foundation’s two decades of investigation, collaboration, and experimentation. The presentation includes ‘Eu desejo o seu desejo (I Wish Your Wish)’, 2003 by Rivane Neuenschwander. Comprised of hundreds of brightly coloured ribbons, each carries a quote expressing a personal desire, hope, or dream.

Group exhibition ‘Why can't we live together’ explores migration and cultural identity
alongside the consequences of colonialism and environmental destruction. The presentation features ‘Arch (Growing Assertiveness)’, 2006 by Thomas Hirschhorn, 'a triumphal arch of journalism, topicality, opinions, comments and information'.

'Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear' is the first major V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. Contemporary looks by legendary designers and rising stars will be displayed alongside historical treasures from the V&A's collections and landmark loans: classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, iconic photographs, and powerful film and performance.

Featuring around one hundred original prints, 'The Future is Blinking' considers the key themes in the history of photography in West and Central Africa with a focus on its peculiarities and its connections with other local art forms.

The first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art, ‘Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art’ examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices. The presentation includes ‘The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 4’, 2019 by Jeffrey Gibson and ‘The Ghost of Eliza Jumel’, 2015 by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA.

Now in its 5th edition, ‘Artists’ Fair Kyoto’ is an independent artist showcase that positions new works by internationally acclaimed artists alongside up-and-coming artists across multiple venues in the city. Japanese artist Izumi Kato will exhibit a scroll and a small stone sculpture at Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto.

Whitechapel Gallery presents a 100-year survey of the studio through the work of artists and image-makers from around the world.

'Captured Beauty' features contemporary works of art drawn from the Arts Council Collection, with paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Denzil Forrester, Ryan Mosely, Mowbray Odonkor, and Caroline Walker. 

'Crazy: Madness in Contemporary Art' is a group exhibition comprising 11 new site-specific installations across the historic, interior and exterior spaces of Chiostro del Bramante, Rome. Curated by Danilo Eccher and featuring over 21 international artists, the presentation explores divergent portrayals and perceptions of reality in contemporary art.