The wars and migrant crises currently roiling the world have given renewed poignancy to Ship of Tolerance (2005-present), an international art project to unite children created two decades ago by the late conceptualist artist Ilya Kabakov (who died in 2023) and his wife and creative partner Emilia Kabakov, who has carried on their work.

What happens when art crosses real borders — and people get punished for it ?
In How Shilpa Gupta Reinterprets Lines of Control, Mark Rappolt explores the artist’s haunting soundscapes, smuggled textiles, and bottled poems that speak to censorship, exile, and resistance.
This isn’t just art about borders — it’s art that challenges their very existence.
Visually striking and politically urgent, Gupta’s work asks: can belief survive repression ?

At 72 years old, an artist like Rosemarie Trockel could easily stop trying to make important work, and instead lazily recycle her oeuvre to secure her legacy and cash in on her reputation. The fact that she is crafting exhibitions that, in some ways, surpass those she presented decades ago is a testament to Trockel’s singularity as an artist. Her latest show is a two-part presentation, with works displayed concurrently at Gladstone and Sprüth Magers in New York. There is a wholesome, libidinal pleasure—like a coy-yet-deliberate flash—to be derived from looking at these works. At a time when large swathes of conceptual art assume a crystal clear moral stance and a didactic tone, Trockel plays a different game.

Image and Reflection is Gerhard Richter's fifth solo exhibition at Sies + Höke. Forty works in a wide range of media are on view, including paintings, glass objects, mirror pieces, and tapestries. The show focuses on the motif of mirroring as a central principle within Richter's oeuvre. The artist not only uses mirroring as a physical phenomenon, with reflecting glass surfaces and actual mirrors, but also as a pictorial strategy, by repeating and multiplying structures and colours, as in his Strip paintings.

Through Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence. Inspired by Taoist philosophy, Shiota blurs the line between dream and reality. The artist installation at Beijing’s Red Brick Art Museum explores presence in absence. The butterfly wings, red threads, and ancient relics evoke cycles of life and time, inviting the public to meditate on connection, memory, and the spirit’s enduring essence.

This new artist’s book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers is a translation into book form of South African artist William Kentridge’s film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, which premiered at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice, during the 2024 Venice Biennale. In the nine-episode series, Kentridge employs a multidisciplinary approach—combining film with performance, collage, drawing, and music—to investigate the relationship between thinking and artistic creation and is a reflection on what might happen in the studio—and in the brain—of an artist today.

Galleria Continua welcomes contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta back to its San Gimignano space with a new solo exhibition. Recognised as one of the leading international voices of her generation, Gupta presents works centred on her continued exploration of 'mobility, control and acts of resilience' at the show running from May 3 – August 31, 2025. It also includes a newly commissioned art installation created specifically for the auditorium of the former cinema-theatre in Italy.

This month, audiences in South Korea will once again encounter the haunting, layered world of the South African artist known for collapsing the boundaries between drawing, film, music and performance. William Kentridge, whose diverse works have previously been showcased at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Asia Culture Center and the Amorepacific Museum of Art, returns to Seoul with two of his recent works under the GS Arts Center’s Artists series: "Sibyl," and multimedia symphonic project “Shostakovich 10: Oh To Believe in Another World” (2024).