At the beginning of 2026, artists’ engagement is clearly evident in the face of current environmental and geopolitical crises. Whether in galleries or within major cultural institutions, art and the environment appear to be taking on an ambitious role within this ecosystem, enabling us to approach the crises and possible futures of the Anthropocene in new ways. Accordingly, here is a selection of 14 international exhibitions that will cast 2026 and the years ahead in a new light.

 

Land and Soil. How We Live Together 

Havîn Al-Sîndy, Maria Thereza Alves, Asche Lützerathi (otherhosted by Sybling – JP Raether & Sarah Friend), Joseph Beuys, AA Bronson, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, CATPC), Liu Chuang, Simon Denny, Jan Dibbets, Nir Evron, Simone Fattal, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Jef Geys, Robert Gober, Dor Guez, Andreas Gursky, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Boris Mikhailov, Lutz Mommartz, Grace Ndiritu, Simone Nieweg, Chris Reinecke, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, Lin May Saeed, Shimabuku, terra0, Ron Tran, Franz West, Alex Wissel

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Germany
Until April 19th, 2026

For the first time, an exhibition will span the entire former parliament building of K21 and extend to the adjacent Ständehauspark. Around thirty international artists and collectives will present various models of administrating resources – from indigenous ways of planning to co-ownership and utopian blockchain projects.

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Manifesto of Spring 

Soun-Gui Kim, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, Seo Dongjin, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, ikkibawiKrrr, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, James Bridle, Zheng Bo, Chansook Choi, CATPC, Connie Zheng, Territorial Agency, Fernando Palma Rodríguez, Ho Rui An, 1995Hz

National Asian Culture Center (ACC) Gwangju, South Korea

Until February 22th, 2026

Manifesto of Spring commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Center’s opening. It seeks to invoke a new spring through the struggles of life and solidarity across species.

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The Womb Space 

Delcy Morelos

University Museum of Contemporary Art Mexico City, Mexico

Until June 28th, 2026

Delcy Morelos’ large-scale installations are made with materials obtained from the places she visits. The result is an experience that often involves sight, smell, hearing and touch, provoking an experience among its spectators that is as sensorial as it is mystical and transcendent.

Delcy Morelos – El espacio vientre | MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo

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Does the flower hear the bee?

Kim Adams; Abbas Akhavan; Allora & Calzadilla; Francis Alÿs; Ryoko Aoki; Carmen Argote; Shuvinai Ashoona; Alvaro Barrington; Lêna Bùi; Tania Candiani; Maxime Cavajani; Carolina Caycedo; Chen Ruofan; Cheng Xinhao; Sara Cwynar; Dan Er; Rohini Devasher; Miguel Fernández de Castro; Cristina Flores Pescorán; Theaster Gates; Abraham González Pacheco; Brett Graham; Hao Liang; d harding; Ho Tzu Nyen; Ngahina Hohaia; Hu Xiaoyuan; Huang Yongping; Ulala Imai; Aki Inomata; Brian Jungen; Lotus L. Kang; Amar Kanwar; Christine Sun Kim; Ragnar Kjartansson; Jaffa Lam; Lina Lapelytė; Liu Shuai; Sharon Lockhart; Liz Magor; Gordon Matta-Clark; Ari Benjamin Meyers; Audie Murray; Kosen Ohtsubo; Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham; Lisa Oppenheim; Plant South Salesroom; Qiu Shihua; R. H. Quaytman; Walid Raad; Shao Chun; Shao Fan; Heji Shin; Tan Jing; Shannon Te Ao; Luke Willis Thompson; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Gözde Mimiko Türkkan; Hajra Waheed; Evelyn Taocheng Wang; Xu Tiantian; Ami Yamasaki; Haegue Yang; Masaomi Yasunaga; Cansu Yıldıran; Gozo Yoshimasu; Zhou Tao.

Power Station of Art Shanghai, China

Until March 31st, 2026

At the Power Station of Art, this biennale shows more than 250 works from 67 artists and collectives around the world, inviting visitors to wander, listen closely, and tune into a world where everything—flowers, bees, people—seems quietly in conversation.

See the exhibition here

 

Arts of the Earth 

Claudia Alarcón, Vicente Ameztoy, Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, David Bestué, Heidi Bucher, Gabriel Chaile, Mel Chin, María Cueto, Patricia Dauder, Mar de Dios, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Haacke, Agustín Ibarrola, Inland/Campo Adentro, Richard Long, Ana Lupas, Isa Melsheimer, Ana Mendieta, Asier Mendizabal, Fina Miralles, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Delcy Morelos, Frederick Ebenezer Okai, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Giuseppe Penone, Claire Pentecost, Perejaume, Solange Pessoa, Benedetta Pompili, Asad Raza, Oscar Santillán, Jorge Satorre, Daniel Steegman Mangrané, Tomás Saraceno, José María Sicilia, Michelle Stuart, Paulo Tavares, Unión Textiles Semillas, José Luis Uribe, Sumayya Vally, Meg Webster, and Héctor Zamora.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

Until May 3rd, 2026

Tracing out a diverse cartography across multiple disciplines, this exhibition with historical art works aims to present a potential inventory of tools, prototypes, and hypotheses about climate crisis. Rather than being “prescriptive” by dictating what should be done, thought, or felt, they hold a documentary stance displaying signs of the shift that, over the last 60 years at least, has affected aesthetic production in terms of both the materials used and awareness of them.

Isa Melsheimer Wardian Case, 2023 Glass, potting soil, seeds, plants (installation view) Courtesy the artist and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris © Isa Melsheimer, Bilbao 2025 Photo: Studio Isa Melsheimer

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Erasure

Laís Amaral, Solange Pessoa, Dana Awartani

Goodwood Art Foundation West Sussex, UK

Until April 12th, 2026

This exhibition brings together three international artists whose work confronts the intertwined destruction of ecological systems and cultural heritage. Through painting, sculpture, installation and moving image, it deals with prescient themes such as deforestation, cultural extraction and the erasure of histories, inviting visitors to reflect on the steps we can take towards more sustainable and equitable futures.

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A Sounding of the Earth 

Alia Farid

Glyptotek Copenhagen, Denmark 

Until May 31st, 2026

The exhibition presents Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid, whose work explores the many intertwined past and present histories of the Arab Gulf. Linking ancient artefacts with today’s oil industry, Farid traces how ecosystems, material cultures and social structures are shaped by political forces and extractive economies, and how communities adapt and resist within these pressures.

See the exhibition here

 

Normale Katastrophe (Normality Bias) 

Julius von Bismarck 

kunsthaus  Vienna, Austria

Until March 8th, 2026

In powerful images facilitated by technological inventions and radical experimental settings, Julius von Bismarck explores human perception and the relationship we humans have to what we call “nature”.

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Ecología social 

Minerva Cuevas

MASP São Paulo, Brazil

Until April 12th, 2026

The artworks included in the exhibition, collectively articulate the notion of “social ecology,” a concept that was formulated by the anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), and which lends its name to this show. Pursuing an archeology of the present, Cuevas often reworks and appropriates logos, advertisements, and slogans from major corporations to examine issues of ownership and allow us to visualize major economic forces.

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Poor Harvest  

Wilfrid Almendra

Galeria Municipal de Arte Almada, Portugal

Until February 14th, 2026

This exhibition presents aluminum and bronze sculptures depicting a landscape suspended between a vacant lot and an abandoned vegetable garden, evoking the silent presence of human labor.

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Mark Dion

Tanya bonakdar gallery, New York, USA

UNTIL February 12th, 2026

Mark Dion’s solo exhibition presents new sculptures, installations, and works on paper that use humor, childhood imagery, and pseudo-scientific formats to question systems of knowledge and authority inherited from the Enlightenment. By juxtaposing the whimsical with the macabre and animals with human-made detritus, the exhibition offers a pointed critique of environmental degradation, political behavior, and humanity’s fraught relationship with the natural world.

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Echoes of tumult  

Cathy van Eck, Dror Feiler, Essa Grayeb, Fragmentin, Hoda Afshar, Interspecifics, Ioana Vreme Moser, Isuru Kumarasinghe, Jaeha Ban & Soyun Park, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Nikita Kadan, Sissel Marie Tonn & Jonathan Reus, Zhanna Kadyrova

CTM Festival, Daadgalerie & Kunstraum Kreuzberg Berlin, Germany

Until March 22th, 2026

The exhibition brings together artistic positions that not only document violence, systemic failure, and vulnerability, but also seek ways of dealing with the painful realities they address.

See the exhibition here

 

Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years,  

David Claerbout 

Konschthal Esch, Luxembourg

Until February 22th, 2026

Among a wide-ranging exhibition of selected works by David Claerbout entitled Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years, his latest work will be exposed : The woodcarver and the forest, a performative film installation operating like a ruthless deforestation machine.

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Selected by Alice Audouin, Pauline Lisowski, Juliette Soulez and Eloi Salmon

Cover image: © Christoph Weber

Impact Art News, janvier 2026

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