Mark Westall, founder and editorial director of FAD Magazine, selects six exhibitions worth travelling for this summer. From Paris and Antwerp to Menorca, Rome, New York, and finally Miami, these are the exhibitions to see now and throughout the summer.
1 Jesse Darling, The Ambassadors, 3rd April to 13th September 2026, Palais de Tokyo, PARIS
His new site-specific production for the Grande Verrière of the Palais de Tokyo invites viewers into an impressive landscape of posters and advertisements rendered illegible, inhabited by a ghostly crowd of lecterns topped with flags fluttering in the wind. These symbols of power are altered, erased, rendered inaudible, as if caught in an ongoing process of decay or derealization.
Tinted with a form of critical melancholy, this work connects us to the poignant precariousness of the material world around us, as well as to the fragility of the systems of production, consumption and domination that made it possible. This poetic recycling of reality is akin to disarmament, momentarily distancing violence to better neutralize it.
The title of the work, which references a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, alludes to Renaissance vanitas paintings, which allegorically represented the fragility of human life and the futility of symbols of power, culture and progress. Similarly, these physical fossils, ravaged by history, speak to the weariness of dominant narratives, which are challenged by the necessary renewal of values in a damaged world. It is through a “useful disorder”—in the literal sense of “undoing an order”—that he offers resistance to the norms of a productivist world. @jessedarling / @palaisdetokyo
2 The Antwerp Six, 28th March to 17th January 2027, MoMu, ANTWERP
The exhibition highlights the unique trajectory that connects these six exceptional designers. It began with their study at the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and resulted in six highly influential solo careers. In 1986, Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee put Antwerp on the fashion map when they each presented their own collections at the British Designer Show in London. This led to their international breakthrough and established the City of Antwerp as a capital of fashion. Their unique designs continue to influence international fashion today. @royalacademyantwerp
3 Martin Creed, 25th April – 7th June 2026, Hauser & Wirth, MENORCA
Hauser & Wirth Menorca has opened for a new season with a special presentation by Martin Creed. The exhibition brings together Creed’s ‘Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space’ and a selection of wall paintings. @martin_creed / @hauserwirth
4 Tracey Emin, 30th April to August 31st, 2026, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, ROME
Tracey Emin’s new exhibition in Rome presents a body of work made over the past year in her studios in London and Margate, and includes a monumental bronze sculpture, paintings, and works on paper.
There Is A Truth is a title which attests to the healing power of art in our lives. As Emin says,
“That’s a really good metaphor for life; how simple things can be. Cut out the crap, just get on with it. Stop making excuses. See what you have to do. Just see it. Once you see it, then you can do it.”
@traceyeminstudio / @gallerialorcanoneill
5 Hayden Dunham, Never Is Over, April 30th – June 13th, Company Gallery, NEW YORK
Hayden Dunham’s third solo exhibition with Company gallery, ‘NEVER IS OVER’ is neither a final judgment nor a resting state. It is without beginning or end: it is iterative, a continuous cycle, and a perpetual motion of which we are already a part.
Dunham channels the energies of earth and sky, research and ritual: a sculptor, performer, lyricist, musician whose work invites intimacy with the very forces that created the planet and the cosmos in which it spins. To get close to these forces is to slow down, open to mythic, elemental time. To revolve, evolve, and open to constant transformation. @haydendunham / @companygallery
6 Harmony Korine, Perfect Nonsense, April 15th – October 4th, 2026, ICA, MIAMI
“Perfect Nonsense” is the first US museum survey for the legendary and multifaceted work of Harmony Korine. The exhibition traces the full arc of Korine’s career, bringing together over 50 works and situating his practice within a broader continuum of image-making that collapses distinctions between cinema, contemporary art, and popular culture. @icamiami
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