Art Spectrum 2026 
ARoomWhereEveryRadioIsTunedtoDifferentStations
Hoam Museum of Art, Seoul
Sep 1–Dec 27

The 2026 edition of Art Spectrum attends to the hidden frequencies that define our present moment. The biennial survey—launched in 2001 by the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul and co-curated this year with Paris’s Palais de Tokyo—takes place at the Hoam Museum of Art for the first time, gathering 23 Asian artists and collectives, including Lêna Bùi, Musquiqui Chihying, SIDE CORE, Jasleen Kaur, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, and Rachel Youn. With works across various disciplines and media, the exhibition taps into the multifocal nuances of language, history, and technology to expose how the ripples of the past continue to interfere with the contemporary world.

Amar Kanwar
Serpentine North Gallery, London
Sep 23–Jan 31, 2027

Over the past three decades, New Delhi-based artist-filmmaker Amar Kanwar has built a lyrical moving-image repertoire examining the social, political, and ecological aftermath of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent. His retrospective at London’s Serpentine features recent films, including Such a Morning (2017) and The Peacock’s Graveyard (2023), alongside a new seven-screen installation titled The Charcoal Man (2026), which engages with the lingering scars of the 1947 Partition. As the works on view shift between poetic spectacle and documentary realism—blending archival footage, sensuous visuals of nature, and South Asian folklore—the exhibition captures not only a fractured collective consciousness, but also the unflinching human spirit amid ongoing turmoil.

Som Supaparinya 
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Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Sep 26–Feb 21, 2027

For her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chiang Mai-born artist Som Supaparinya uncovers the historical and political remains embedded within the landscapes of Thailand. Across rural and urban terrains, ancient sites, and rivers, her research-driven films highlight the ruinous environmental impacts of industrial infrastructure—bridges, railways, dams—while connecting them to global geostrategic events. The show features two recent video installations: Melted Stars (2026), delving into the oft-overlooked Thai involvement with Japan’s military campaigns during World War II; and Mo num en ts (2025), which probes the enduring legacy of Cold War ideologies in Southeast Asia.

Huguette Caland
A Life in a Few Lines
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Sep 27–Feb 28, 2027

Born as the daughter of Lebanon’s first post-independence president, Huguette Caland left behind her political lineage and homeland in 1970 to become an artist in France, eventually moving to the US. Through playful yet subtly provocative renderings of the human body, she established herself as a leading abstract modernist, garnering further acclaim after her participation in the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. biennial in 2016. A decade later, the Los Angeles institution mounts a sprawling survey, gathering around 150 works spanning various media—from drawings and paintings to sculptures and textiles—to chart her nearly 50-year engagement with transgressive notions of beauty and sexuality.

What Lingers in the Artist’s Mind: The Experiments and Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Oct 25–Feb 6, 2027

“What Lingers in the Artist’s Mind” maps the trailblazing endeavors of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which was formed in 1951 by artists Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said in the long shadows of British rule. Working under the ethos istilham al-turath (”seeking inspiration from the past”), the collective was active through the early 1970s and advocated for aesthetic innovation beyond the dominant grasp of European modernism. The exhibition presents sketches, paintings, and sculptures alongside archival material largely drawn from Mathaf’s collection, demonstrating a visual language rooted in Islamic cultural memory and heritage while capturing Iraq’s budding postcolonial identity.

Bangkok Art Biennale 2026
Angels and Mara
Multiple venues, Bangkok
Oct 29–Feb 28, 2027

Titled “Angels and Mara”—partly referencing the Thai meaning of Bangkok, “City of Angels”—the fifth Bangkok Art Biennale explores the tensions between desire and abjection, purity and corruption by setting diverse cultural concepts of “divine messengers” against the demonic Mara, a Buddhist deity that symbolizes death, temptation, and fear. Across 10 citywide venues spanning sacred temples and landmarks, cultural institutions, and public urban spaces, the exhibition features 40-plus local and international artists—including Channatip Chanvipava, Mandy El-Sayegh, Sin Wai Kin, Hannah Woo, and Sun Yuan and Peng Yu—whose works confront the troubling spiritual and material conditions of our current times.