Art news to be on your radar this week: 30 March - 5 April 2026
Art news to be on your radar this week includes Hulda Guzmán’s first European institutional exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Art Basel Hong Kong’s record-breaking edition, Saatchi Gallery revealing details of their installation at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a review of Michaelina Wautier at the Royal Academy of Arts, and a new installation by TAELON7 at Limbo Museum in Accra.
An exhibition by Hulda Guzmán to open at Turner Contemporary
The first European institutional exhibition of Hulda Guzmán will open at Turner Contemporary in May 2026. Please awake – asked Nature kindly presents a decade of the Dominican artist’s work alongside new paintings, introducing audiences to her distinctive vision of landscape shaped by mysticism, ecology and Caribbean identity. Drawing on influences from Mexican muralism, Caribbean vernacular traditions and Western art history, Guzmán creates vivid, dreamlike scenes in which human figures, animals and mythical beings exist in close dialogue with nature. Living in the rainforest mountains of Samaná, her practice is informed by this biodiverse environment, resulting in rich compositions that explore themes of belonging, climate change and the interconnectedness of life. Tracing the evolution of her work from intimate interiors to expansive landscapes, the exhibition positions Guzmán as a compelling voice in contemporary painting, inviting viewers to reconsider nature as an active, living force.
Date: 23 May – 13 September 2026. Location: Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent, CT9 1HG. Price: Free. turnercontemporary.org
Hulda Guzmán, I'm for the birds, 2025 Acrylic gouache on linn 94 × 152.4 cm. Private Collection. © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo by Eduardo Ortega
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 Ends on High Note with Strong Sales and Rising Global Influence
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 came to a close on Sunday 29 March. This year’s edition drew 91,500 visitors and showcased strong sales, cross-regional collector engagement, and expanding institutional participation from over 170 museums worldwide. Curatorial innovations, including the Encounters, Echoes, and Zero 10 sectors, highlighted both emerging and digital art, reflecting the fair’s growing influence in Asia and beyond. Galleries reported significant sales, Wendy Xu, Managing Director for Asia at White Cube, noted approximately £5 million in sales with around 20 works placed, including pieces by Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Etel Adnan, Mona Hatoum, Howardena Pindell, and Shao Fan, highlighting the strength of its programme in the region. The next edition will take place from 25 - 27 March 2027.
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. Image courtesy of Art Basel
Saatchi Gallery will present an interactive kinetic garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026
Saatchi Gallery will present its garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 in collaboration with kinetic artist Lucy Gregory, garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen, and supporter ING. The garden brings together contemporary art, interactive sculpture, and structured planting to form a dynamic setting. Gregory’s kinetic sculptures, inspired by Matisse’s The Dance and mechanical toys, feature spinning, anthropomorphic forms, while Ferrett-Cohen’s planting scheme complements the works and defines a circular route through the space. The project centres on ideas of community, connection to nature, and the relationship between art, movement, and horticulture.
Date: 19–23 May 2026. Location: Royal Hospital Chelsea, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4SR. saatchigallery.com
Image courtesy of Saatchi Gallery
Carta Magna announces first physical exhibition in Fitzrovia
Carta Magna presents A line has time in it, its first physical exhibition, taking place in April 2026 in Fitzrovia, London. Inspired by David Hockney’s reflection on drawing as a time-based act, the exhibition brings together over 40 emerging and established artists in a focused presentation of works on paper. Emphasising the intimacy, immediacy, and expressive depth of drawing, the show highlights paper as a medium that preserves each gesture and trace of the artist’s process. Through a range of drawing, ink, and mixed-media practices, Carta Magna continues its focus on works on paper, offering a closer, more direct way to engage with a historically significant yet often overlooked medium, while marking the beginning of its in-person exhibition programme.
Date: 24–26 April 2026. Location: 65a Charlotte Street, W1T 4PQ, Fitzrovia, London. Website: cartamagna.art. Instagram: @cartamagna.art
Image courtesy of Carta Magna
Marco da Silva Ferreira returns to the UK with of F * cking Future at Sadler’s Wells East
Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira returns to the UK with the premiere of F * cking Future at Sadler’s Wells East in June 2026. The high-energy work examines over-militarisation and toxic masculinity, exploring how systems of power shape bodies and behaviour. Drawing on contemporary dance alongside house and techno influences, the piece builds intense physical momentum through rhythm, movement, and collective energy, performed by Ferreira alongside seven dancers. Presented on a quadrifrontal stage, of F * cking Future merges protest, ritual, and club culture to create a charged, visceral experience that invites audiences to confront power, desire, and solidarity.
Date: 4–6 June 2026. Location: Sadler’s Wells East, 2 John Walsh Close, London E2 9NX. Price: £18 – £32. Book now
Marco da Silva Ferreira’s F * cking Future © José Caldeira
South London Gallery reveals details of upcoming shows by Paulo Nimer Pjota and Ranti Bam
South London Gallery will open two new exhibitions in May 2026. Brazilian artist Paulo Nimer Pjota presents Encantados in the Main Building, featuring paintings and a large mural of mythical creatures, hybrid plants, and musical motifs. Drawing on his graffiti and Brazilian hip-hop background, Pjota challenges cultural hierarchies, creating fantastical scenes.
Ranti Bam, In Hearthlands, 2022. Video Still from Performance in Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Osogbo, Nigeria. Courtesy Ranti Bam and James Cohan, New York.
At the same time, British Nigerian artist Ranti Bam will show her first solo institutional exhibition, Sacred Groves, in the Fire Station Galleries. Working with sculpture, film, performance, and photography, Bam explores the human connection to the environment, presenting her Ifas and Abstract Vessels series alongside a new film shot at Ọṣun-Ọṣogbo, a sacred Yoruba site. Both exhibitions explore imagination, ritual, and the natural world.
Date: 1 May – 23 August 2026. Location: South London Gallery, Main Building, 65–67 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UH; Fire Station Galleries, 82 Peckham Road, London, SE15 5LQ. Price: Free.
Paulo Nimer Pjota, Duplo, 2025. © Paulo Nimer Pjota. Image courtesy Maureen Paley, London and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo. Photo by Gui Gomes.
Review
Michaelina Wautier at the Royal Academy of Arts, London / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Royal Academy of Arts opened last week with the first UK exhibition dedicated to Baroque painter Michaelina Wautier (c.1614–1689). Featuring around 25 of her works alongside pieces by her brother Charles Wautier and contemporaries such as Peter Paul Rubens and David Teniers the Younger, the exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of her career to date. It highlights Wautier’s pioneering achievements in seventeenth-century Brussels and seeks to bring recognition to her previously overlooked legacy.
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Date: 27 March – 21 June 2026. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD. Price: from £15, concessions available. Book now
Gallery view of the Michaelina Wautier exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (27 March - 21 June 2026), showing The Triumph of Bacchus, about 1655-59. On loan from Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry
Visit
LIMBO Museum, Accra
Last week, we visited Limbo Museum in Accra to check out their current exhibition. Limbo Engawa, an installation by TAELON7 under the direction of architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer, is on display as the first phase of a two-part collaboration with Art Omi. Set within the museum’s unfinished concrete structure, the project reimagines the Japanese concept of engawa, a threshold between interior and exterior, using lightweight steel frames and woven panels crafted from salvaged billboard materials. These elements create shaded, human-scale spaces for rest, gathering, and interaction, taking inspiration from the improvisational furniture often found in West African urban environments.
Click here for a preview of Limbo Engawa by TAELON7. The exhibition is on view at Limbo Museum until 12 April. Instagram: @limbomuseum
Limbo Engawa by TAELON7, Limbo Museum, Accra, Ghana . Image credit MTotoe/FLO London
