In a stellar spring line-up, artists are turning their attention to the systems that shape how we live now. From land and labour to memory, identity, and resistance, these exhibitions move between the intimate and the structural.

Across different mediums, there’s a shared pull towards what sits beneath the surface. These works don’t offer clean answers, but instead embrace ambiguity, contradiction, and the possibility of something else emerging. Until next month!

MOHAMED SAÏD CHAIR: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, PARIS, FRANCE

Tangier-based artist Mohamed Saïd Chair stages Moroccan youth like history paintings, echoging artists like Géricault, Caravaggio, and Delacroix. Chair keeps his faces hidden, leaving the bodies to carry the narrative, and creating the ever-present sense that something is about to spiral.

Out of the Shadows runs 14 March – 9 May 2026 at AFIKARIS, Paris, France

REHANA ZAMAN: PLANTATION, SHEFFIELD, UK

London-based artist Rehana Zaman traces the quiet violence of industrial farming through the lives of those who sustain it. Moving between Scotland and Pakistan, the work follows migrant workers, sharecroppers, and day labourers as they harvest crops within systems built on extraction. Moments of intimacy sit alongside scences of collective resistence, coming together to form an immersive landscape where time slips between documentary, memory, and myth. Here Zaman asks what it means to live and work within structures that deplete both the land and the body. 

Plantation runs from 20 February – 17 May 2026 at Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

ZOE WILLIAMS: DIRTY, LONDON, UK

In Dirty, British artist Zoe Williams pushes consumption past the point of comfort.  Williams explores the fetishistic nature of materials like butter, cake, satin, and bronze, which move from soft and perishable to hardened, monumental forms. What begins as seduction quickly turns: food rots into spectacle, touch becomes rupture, excess curdles into waste. Drawing on Bataille’s idea of expenditure, Williams exposes capitalism as something viscous, erotic, and unstable.

Dirty runs 6 March – 18 April 2026 at NıCOLETTi, London, UK

GLOBAL PULSE (VOL. 2), LONDON, UK

Following its Miami debut, Global Pulse arrives in London as a collective snapshot of the present moment. Spanning explorations of urban life, ritual, unrest, intimacy, and curated by Dez Amakye, Global Pulse shuns a singular narrative thread to offer a more diverse and expansive vision of the now.

Global Pulse (Vol. 2) at Brunswick Art Gallery, London, UK

GARY LEE BOAS: CELEBRITY SKIN, LONDON, UK

Shot in the slipstream of 70s and 80s New York, Celebrity Skin captures a moment when fame still felt reachable. Gary Lee Boas wasn’t paparazzi, but a fan with a camera who collapsed the distance between himself and his subjects. The resulting images straddle devotion and intrusion, intimacy and projection, and trace a culture just before access became (almost) impossible. 

Celebrity Skin runs 15 April – 21 September 2026 at Tate Modern, London, UK

NIHAAL FAIZAL: (VIDEO ART), NEW YORK, USA

Here, a YouTube playlist becomes exhibition. In (video art) – curated by Ben Broome – Bangalore-based artist Nihaal Faizal gathers over 200 self-shot video recordings of seminal art installations. These selection – purely “motivated by (Faizal’s) fandom” – become a loose, living archive of some of the world’s most prestigious artists. Installed in a Greenpoint storefront, the exhibition sits in proximity to the institutions and galleries where the works were originally filmed, serving as both an archive of Faizal’s fascination and an educational archive for those excluded by the art world.

(video art) runs until 11 April 2026 at C.A.V.E., Brooklyn, New York, USA

WATERING A BLACK GARDEN, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Bringing together eight women and non-binary cross-disciplinary artists from across the African diaspora, including Ufuoma Essi, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Aline Motta, Bernice Mulenga, and more, Watering a Black Garden reframes joy as a kind of labour – something which must be tended to. The exhibition foregrounds presence, healing, and connection.

Watering a Black Garden runs 6 March – 6 May 2026 at OSCAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands

THE MANY WITHIN HER II, LONDON, UK

Returning for a second iteration, The Many Within Her II keeps its focus tight: womanhood as something multiple, unstable, and still under construction. Bringing together a multigenerational, international group, including Jess Cochrane, Holly Rollins, Sara Berman, Jingyi Li, amongst others, the show resists fixed narratives and the singular “female experience” in favour of identity as lived, negotiated, and culturally specific.

The Many Within Her II runs 2 April – 16 May 2026 at Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK

DONNA GOTTSCHALK AND HÉLÈNE GIANNECCHINI: WE OTHERS, LONDON, UK

We Others pairs Donna Gottschalk’s intimate photographs of queer life from the 1960s onwards with texts by Hélène Giannecchini, which create a dialogue across generations. Mostly depicting Gottschalk's own friends and lovers, the images capture moments of care, rest, and resistance.

We Others runs 6 March – 7 June 2026 at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

NIKI KANAGINI: AN ODE TO THINGS, ATHENS, GREECE

A long-overdue retrospective, An Ode to Things reintroduces Niki Kanagini as a key voice in post-war Greek art. Spanning four decades, the show moves from tapestry to installation, tracing her obsession with objects as carriers of memory, gender, and lived experience. 

An Ode to Things runs 2 April – 8 November 2026 at EMST, Athens, Greece

NHU XUAN HUA: OF WALKING ON FIRE, LONDON, UK

Rooted in heritage and shaped by what’s not said, French-Vietnamese photographer and artist Nhu Xuan Hua meticulously works through the gaps in her family history, as opposed to trying to fill them with answers. Presented alongside trinkets, objects, and flower vases arranged on ornamental shelves, Hua destablises her family archive through blurred, distorted and reimagined images.

Of Walking on Fire runs 16 April – 19 September 2026 at Autograph, London, UK

AIN BAILEY: THE JAMAICA PROJECT, LONDON, UK

London-based composer, artist, and DJ, Ain Bailey’s The Jamaica Project unfolds as a sonic and visual journey through memory, family, and place. Anchored in a trilogy of films, the immersive exhibition moves from archival fragments to a newly commissioned work filmed in Jamaica, tracing the artist’s first visit to her mother’s homeland. 

The Jamaica Project runs 10 April – 14 June 2026 at Camden Art Centre, London, UK

ZAHRA MALKANI: NOORANI METAL SOUND, LONDON, UK

In Noorani Metal Sound, Pakistani interdisciplinary artist and researcher Zahra Malkani builds a sonic environment that serves as both shrine and archive. Combining sculpture, moving image and field recordings from Pakistan's coastal regions, which capture lullabies, war cries and mourning rituals, Malkani creates a dense, immersive soundscape.

Noorani Metal Sound runs 27 March – 21 June 2026 at Auto Italia, London, UK

DEAN SAMESHIMA: WONDERLAND, LONDON, UK

American artist Dean Sameshima’s Wonderland (1995–97) maps queer life through what’s hidden. Shot across LA during the Aids crisis, the images document the facades of bathhouses, cruising grounds, and “tea rooms”. But here, nothing is explicit. Everything is implied by leaving people out of the frame. Sameshima shifts attention to the spaces themselves, operating in plain sight, yet still under the cover of disguise. 

Wonderland runs 27 March – 23 May 2026 at Soft Opening, London, UK

A SHOT IN THE DARK, IBIZA, SPAIN

From local dancefloors to global club circuits, Australian photographer @capturecharles has built a heady document of nightlife. From his early experiments in Australia, he has since travelled the world, becoming known for “translating moments of chaos into deliberate composition”. Shot on film, his images move between sweat and stillness, creating an archive of celebration, community, and connection. 


A Shot in the Dark runs 17 April – 8 May 2026 at In Between Ibiza, Spain

GESTURE AND BEING, LONDON, UK

Six painters fresh out of the RCA and Slade push figuration beyond something stable, landing somewhere more slippery. In Gesture and Being, bodies stretch, fragment, and perform, while never quite settling into anything fixed. Expect work from Mia Wilkinson, Qian Zhong, Katja Farin, Anna Curzon Price, Poppy Critchlow, and Gala Hills.

Gesture and Being runs 18 February – 30 March 2026 at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK