Mark Westall founder & editorial director of FAD Magazine picks six exhibitions to see as you jet around the world. New York, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, Paris & Zurich the exhibitions to see during the Summer including one that could go off with a bang this September.
TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END, June 28th – October 25th, apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River in Germantown, NY
Sky High Farm, presents its inaugural biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END, curated by founder and board president Dan Colen. TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END is a site-specific exhibition exploring the relationship between local ecology, history, and industry in the Hudson River Valley and its connection to New York City. It raises questions of legacy and impact — from tectonic shifts to colonialism — and asks: What do we carry with us and what do we leave behind?
Rooted in Sky High Farm’s community-centered mission to address interconnected issues such as nutrition security and systemic injustice, the exhibition demonstrates what’s possible when art, agriculture, and activism function as one — uniting the culture-shifting work of artists and the impact of a justice-driven organization.
Participating artists:
Autumn Ahn, Alvaro Barrington, Lauren Bon, Lizzi Bougatsos, Pia Camil, Anne Collier, CAConrad, Ann Craven, Sean Desiree, Natalie Diaz, Norman Douglas, Carroll Dunham, rafa esparza, Peter Fend, Yatika Starr Fields, Aaron Gilbert, Nan Goldin, Wade Guyton, Chase Hall, Lyle Ashton Harris, Harrison Studio, Roni Horn, Anne Imhof, Brian Jungen, Nance Klehm, Maia Ruth Lee, Stephen Lichty, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinley, Mark Armijo McKnight, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Andrew Moore, Paulo Nazareth, Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies Puppies), Grace Rosario Perkins, Ut Josephine Petit, Joey Piecuch (Family), Thiago Rocha Pitta, Myron Polenberg, Richard Prince, Sarah Rara/Lucky Dragons, Em Rooney, Marcos Saavedra, Michael Sailstorfer Salem, Tschabalala Self, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Rudolf Stingel, Elaine Stocki, quori theodor, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Banks Violette, Charline von Heyl, Ben Wigfall Estate/ Communications Village with Lauren Halsey. MORE
KAWS Therapy, Jun 13th – Aug 9th, 2025 Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present THERAPY, a solo exhibition of new works by KAWS at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. This is the artist’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery. Drawing inspiration from the vast fields of popular culture and art history, KAWS’ artistic lexicon revitalises figuration with big, bold gestures and playful intricacies. His prolific body of work straddles the worlds of fine art and consumer culture to include paintings, murals and sculptures, as well as graphic and product design. In the present exhibition, KAWS’ iconic hybrid cartoon characters populate a series of paintings and one larger-than-life sculpture. At once humorous and empathetic, these characters offer entryways into complex emotions and serve as prime examples of KAWS’ exploration of humanity.
Installed at street level in the gallery space at Bleibtreustraße 15/16, the stainless steel sculpture SPACE, 2023, presents an iteration of KAWS’ COMPANION, the original three-dimensional character first created by the artist as a small vinyl toy in 1999. MORE
Cai Guo-Qiang, 25th September – 9th November 2025 White Cube Bermondsey
Cai Guo-Qiang returns to London after two decades.- White Cube has announced a collaboration with internationally acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, Fujian, China), comprising a solo exhibition coinciding with Frieze London, along with the presentation of key works at the 2025 edition of Art Basel in June. MORE
Mike Nelson 27th June – 5th October 2025, Fruitmarket
British artist Mike Nelson has used Fruitmarket’s Warehouse as the machine room or driving force for this major new installation that extends across all three spaces of Fruitmarket. Turning the Warehouse into his studio since the start of May, he has transformed it into both a site of production and part of the setting for his work.
The work in the exhibition asks questions about photography and its validity or currency at present. In the early 2000s a major shift was taking place from analogue to digital photography. The world we live in now has shifted still further, with digital images that are ubiquitous, highly portable and endlessly accumulating in cloud storage. These shifts have rendered the position of photography within the artistic canon questionable. Playing with scale and our physical relation to it, Nelson attempts to investigate the possibility of bearing witness, of recording the swept away, the hidden and the covered up. MORE
Seth Price Free Fall, June 13th — July 26th, 2025 Galerie Chantal Crousel
For his 5th exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Seth Price presents a new series of paintings that introduces enigmatic figures such as cosmic textures, botanical forms, and hand-drawn symbols.
Several works contain representations of mirrored spheres that reflect real-world photographed scenes—Price’s studio, the sky, and landscapes—folding these external environments into the pictorial space. The exhibition includes a large-scale work from his ongoing Thought Comes From The Body series, as well as several drawings. MORE
Pat Steir, Song, Jun 13th – Sep 13th, 2025 Hauser & Wirth Limmatstrasse Zürich
Renowned for a pioneering approach to painting that synthesizes conceptual art, figuration and abstraction, celebrated New York-based artist Pat Steir unveils a suite of new paintings for her upcoming exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, her first solo exhibition with the gallery in Europe.
Opening during Zurich Art Weekend, the exhibition precedes Steir’s solo presentation in July at Hauser & Wirth’s location on Wooster Street in New York, in which the artist reimagines one of her iconic wall drawings almost 50 years after its first installation. MORE
