Nov 1–Mar 29, 2026
Taipei Biennial 2025
Whispers on the Horizon
Taipei Fine Arts Museum

The 14th Taipei Biennial, titled “Whispers on the Horizon” and curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, is conceptually inspired by three objects from Taiwanese literature and cinema: a puppet from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1993 film The Puppetmaster, a diary from Chen Yingzhen’s 1960 short story My Kid Brother Kangxiong, and a bicycle from Wu Ming-Yi’s 2015 novel The Stolen Bicycle. Featuring 54 international and local artists—including Mona Hatoum, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Ni Hao, Musquiqui Chihying, Monia Ben Hamouda, and Rana Begum—the event presents 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that explore the dimensions of yearning as a force suspended between memory and imagination.

Nov 6–Mar 15, 2026
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
The Bouquet and the Wreath
Jameel Arts Centre
Dubai

Staged at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai as well as Chiang Mai’s MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, “The Bouquet and the Wreath” marks the first large-scale survey of Thai multimedia artist, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. The Dubai chapter forms the second half of the two-part show, which probes the entanglements of desire and loss, joy and tragedy, through the recurring motifs of flowers, beds, and words. Featuring works from the past 45 years of Rasdjarmrearnsook’s career—including her acclaimed video series, The Two Planets Series – Millet’s The Gleaners and The Thai Farmers (2008)—alongside new commissions, the exhibition posits emotional ambivalence as an inevitable, if not essential, aspect of the human condition. 

Nov 8–Jun 7, 2026
Saodat Ismailova
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead

For Saodat Ismailova’s UK solo debut, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art showcases works across video, sound, installation, and sculpture from the last two decades of the Uzbek artist-filmmaker’s career. Drawing on the complex history of Central Asia, Ismailova’s oeuvre drifts between dreamlike memory and reality to explore the spiritual, sociopolitical, and environmental upheavals in the region. The exhibition’s centerpiece is Swan Lake (2025), a new two-channel film based on the eponymous ballet, which was endlessly televised during the gradual collapse of the Soviet Union—an unexpected cultural emblem that captures the turbulence, transitions, and metamorphosis throughout this period. 

Nov 11–Feb 8, 2026
Tang Yongxiang
A Tree, a Group of People, and Some Feet
Tank Shanghai

“A Tree, a Group of People, and Some Feet” features around 10 paintings by Tang Yongxiang, a Beijing-based midcareer artist known for his quasi-abstract style that explores the tension between image and abstraction. Since 2012, Tang’s process has involved him taking spontaneous mobile phone photographs of everyday scenes and sketching these images onto canvas. He then repeatedly paints, erases, and adds color and textural adjustments over extended periods of time, creating surfaces that embody traces of his decisions and hesitations. The resulting paintings embrace chance alongside control, unfolding physically and conceptually as a record of time, gesture, and daily existence. 

Nov 21–Apr 26, 2026
Data Dreams: Art and AI
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sydney 

Part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26, “Data Dreams: Art and AI” is the first exhibition of its kind to be presented in a major Australian museum and centers on contemporary concerns in the age of artificial intelligence. The show features prominent international artists whose works consider how this burgeoning technology might impact our existence, whether through subliminally powerful algorithms that alter our perception, or the environmental devastation caused by the data economy. It will feature new commissions and major artworks spanning various media throughout the museum’s interconnected galleries, prompting reflections on human agency, and our relationship with machines and each other in this unprecedented digital era. 

Opens Nov 22
Robert Rauschenberg and Asia
M+
Hong Kong

“Robert Rauschenberg and Asia” at Hong Kong’s M+ museum celebrates the centennial of the late American artist’s birth, presenting important works produced during and in response to his time in Asia. With a particular focus on the legacy of his Asian Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) projects—which brought impactful shows to Beijing, Lhasa, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur—the exhibition charts the various influences on his practice, such as gathering textiles and working with paper makers and ceramicists across China, India, and Japan. Additionally, the survey includes works by Asian artists inspired by Rauschenberg, embodying the American Pop artist’s interest in cross-cultural dialogue.