Events
April 2026 / May 2026 / June 2026 / July 2026 / online + ongoing / current
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16-18 April 2026
Founded in Barcelona in 2001, OFFF is one of the largest gatherings of contemporary creativity. Over several days, the festival offers a programme of talks from big-hitting speakers, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, installations, exhibitions, a design market and creative sessions.
Tickets available here.
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
17 April – 23 May 2026
Les Krims: Fictcryptokrimsographs
Graces Mews presents ‘Fictcryptokrimsographs’, a series of Polaroids created between 1974 and 1975 by US artist Les Krims.
9-10 Grace's Mews, Camberwell, London, SE5 8JF
to 18 April 2026
Stefan Sagmeister: I Look Like This
This exhibition features not just any posters, but those that could be considered self-portraits. Images taken of graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister by other people, others designed by him or shaped by a studio and sent out into the world. Sagmeister says, ‘If that qualifies as a self-portrait, then this show is full of them.’
See ‘The perils of interdisciplinarity’ from Eye 107 and ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul’ from Eye 83.
Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
to 19 April 2026
RISO CLUB 100 celebrates almost ten years and 100 issues of the not-for-profit postcard project founded by designer Gabriella Marcella of RISOTTO. This retrospective exhibition will feature the work of 400 artists and designers from cities and creative communities around the world. Since 2017 unique artist postcard editions have been mailed to subscribers across the globe, spotlighting creativity, celebrating the joy of risograph and supporting artists and designers.
Now to celebrate the 100th issue, all artworks will be displayed together for the first time in this colourful playful exhibition at The Glue Factory. Dedicated workshops and studio tours of RISOTTO HQ will be the perfect introduction to vibrant, multilayered world of risograph.
The Glue Factory Galleries, 22 Farnell Street,
Glasgow, G4 9SE, United Kingdom
to 19 April 2026
The Weight of Being
Vulnerability, Resilience, and Mental Health in Art
Curated by Angela Thomas, this new exhibition will explore artistic expression and mental health. Through depictions of deeply personal and collective experiences, it examines the powerful ways in which artists capture vulnerability, resilience, and their search for solace.
Including the work of a diverse range of twentieth century and contemporary artists and their varying perspectives, The Weight of Being will showcase how artists have captured the psychological and emotional impact of societal pressures, resilience in the face of adversity, and existential uncertainty.
Admission is free.
Hours:
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11am-6pm
Wednesday: 11am – 9pm
Sunday: 11am – 4.30pm
Last entry is 20 mins before closing
*Please note we will be closed on Saturday 21 February
Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Image Above: John Wilson McCracken (1936-1982), Moving Torso, 1974, Oil on board. (c) Estate of the artist Image courtesy of Hartlepool Borough Council
20-26 April 2026
Founded in Turin in 2016 with the aim of promoting the cultural value of visual communication and its cross-fertilisation, Graphic Days annually hosts leading figures in Italian and international visual design. From April 20th to 26th, Graphic Days will host a pop-up edition of the festival in Milan during Milan Design Week at Superstudio Village, a new venue in the Bovisa district. It will be part of Super Playground: a space conceived as an open platform where design, research and contemporary visions meet.
Social design will be the underlying theme of the Milan edition of Graphic Days, which since 2020 has used visual design tools to promote local initiatives with social impact through urban regeneration projects, urban painting, and active citizenship activities.
Superstudio Village, Via Michele Pericle Negrotto, 59, 20157 Milano MI, Italy
CURRENTLY ON
to 26 April 2026
Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
By the time she left art school in New York in 1967, Christine Kozlov (1945–2005) was already contributing significantly to a radical new direction in art practice that became known as Conceptual Art. This exhibition reveals the scope of Kozlov’s activity, with a focus on her objects and ideas that contributed to Conceptual Art from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, shown with work by a network of her peers.
Conceptual Art emerged as a theoretical and left political position that rejected the Minimalism, high modernism and Pop Art that dominated the discourse of the mid-to-late 1960s. Materialised in ways that were resistant to the production of art objects, works of Conceptual Art were often produced using readily available materials such as office supplies and photocopies, and devices to hand such as typewriters and sound recorders. Works were sometimes readymades, or took the form of documentation or information. Many conceptual artists tilted toward the politics of daily life and antiauthoritarian protest. From 1968 through to the mid-1970s, the positions and camps of global Conceptual Art were represented predominantly in the form of group exhibitions, some of which Kozlov coorganised. Nearly all of the works Kozlov contributed to these exhibitions will be on view here.
A broader context for this way of working and Kozlov’s thinking is raised in the exhibition through the relationships between her artworks and those of her friends and interlocutors. These include stanley brouwn, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Adrian Piper and Lawrence Weiner. Collective and group work absorbed Kozlov from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s. This exhibition reflects her collaborations with psychedelic band The Red Krayola, as well as Art & Language, Joan Jonas and Robert Rauschenberg. Kozlov moved to the UK in 1977. The last of her works in this exhibition was made here, in response to the first Gulf War.
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London e1 7ls
Image: Christine Kozlov, Self-Portraits (detail), 1968–70, © Christine Kozlov Estate
to 30 April 2026
Tadanori Yokoo – Poster Art: Original Posters from 1965 – 2025
The exhibition features more than 200 original posters by Tadanori Yokoo (see Eye 83) — a legendary Japanese artist, graphic designer and painter, who turns 90 this year.
Since the 1960s, Yokoo’s poster design has evolved through a wide range of influences, from Pop Art and traditional Japanese painting to calligraphy, ukiyo-e, Japanese folk colours, Indian patterns, digital art, collage and photography. Over time, these diverse sources have converged into his singular graphic style and philosophy.
Admission: €3-5. Opening hours: Mon − Fri: 09 : 00 − 17 : 00, Sat : 12 : 00 − 18 : 00
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
to 2 May 2025
Paul Davis. God’s Chamber and other drawings.
Show of 30-odd drawings by Paul Davis (see Eye 55). Nearly all welcome. Enquiries: Lisa Baker.
Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BS
to 7 May 2026
Paper Engineering
with Kelli Anderson
What we can learn from paper engineering comes from non-overlapping disciplines of origami, book arts, compliant mechanisms, pop-ups, industrial design, volvelles, Victorian papercraft, and 16th c. astronomy books. These mechanisms and techniques originate from sources as disparate as Troublewit performance props, pre-television paper-based entertainment (like Meggendorfer’s linkage-based cards), and NASA’s deployable spacecraft design.
Students will be provided an overview of various cross-cultural paper engineering techniques and resources, as well as prototyping strategies and support for their independent final project. We will develop manual-folding and cutting skills—as well as discuss the challenges of documenting/presenting interactive paper pieces online. We will fold together, troubleshoot together and there will be lectures, artist presentations, software demos, and virtual field trips.
When:
6:30-9:30pm (Eastern Time)
Number of sessions: 10
Where:
Blended Format (Online & On-Campus)
Price: $1,170
RSVP here.
Cooper Type, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
to 10 May 2026
This exhibition brings together around 50 key
works that celebrate the playful and poetic career of Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019), one of postwar Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects. Born in Milan, Mendini worked with figures such as Robert Venturi and Ettore Sottsass in
addition to editing Casabella, Domus and Modo (which he founded), becoming a
central voice in postmodernism.
Monday and Tuesday: Closed; Wednesday - Saturday: 11.00-18.00; Sunday: 12.00-17.00; Open until 21.00 on the last Thursday of every month, with free entry for full time students after 17.00.
Adult £9.50; Concessions £7.50; National Art Pass £4.75; Full-time Students £4.00 (incl. access to library, by appointment only); Universal Credit £1.00; Free entry to Estorick Collection Members, Under 18s and Carers.
Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London, N1 2AN
Above. Alessandro Mendini, Untitled, 1986. Acrylic on wood.
to 10 May 2026
Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING
A multisensory experience of images, sounds, and scents that intertwines art, philosophy, and science. OGR Turin presents WE FELT A STAR DYING, an immersive installation by artist Laure Prouvost that explores the mysteries of quantum computing and its ability to redefine our relationship with reality.
Presented together with the group exhibition ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet (see Eye 108), the exhibition project traces a time span from the pioneering experiments of the late twentieth century to contemporary research on quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Admission: €5-7
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9am-6pm, Friday: 9am-10 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 10am-8pm, Closed on Tuesdays.
OGR Torino, Track 1, Corso Castelfidardo, 22, 10128 Torino TO, Italy
to 10 May 2026
Explore the beauty of everyday things in Hyakkō, a collection of almost 2,000 exquisitely hand-crafted items.
Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkō is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
This exhibition presents works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo – from ceramic matcha bowls to metal teapots and urushi lacquerware trays. Each item bears traces of its maker’s surroundings and nods to tradition while quietly incorporating both innovation and self-expression.
Discover the people and processes behind the craft of Japan’s every day, where form and function exist in harmony.
Admission is free, booking is recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street,
London, W8 5SA
to 10 May 2026
This is the first duo show by Ala Younis and Ali Eyal. Through works that interweave personal and collective experiences, Younis and Eyal expose the erosion of families, museums, and ideologies. They examine the traces left by the politically charged events in the Arab World creating spaces for affective solidarities. Can I Hug All These Flowers? is the third exhibition in the five-year programme Systems and Territories curated by Silvia Franceschini. The program focuses on monographic and thematic exhibitions, which stem from long-term investigations and collaborations between artists, researchers, and communities critically examining categories, structures and ideologies upholding global modernity.
Exhibition Opening Event: Doors 7pm / Event 7:30-10pm.
7 February to 10 May 2026: Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12-5pm.
Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB, Eindhoven
to 16 May 2026
A selection of 124 works from Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026 – primarily prize-winning and nominated pieces – will be exhibited on the first floor and basement (B1F) of Ginza Graphic Gallery.
The display at the B1F entrance commemorates Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates, a three-time TDC Grand Prix winner.
On the second floor, special screenings feature Ryo Orikasa’s prize-winning The Graffiti and Hiroki Mita’s RGB-nominated work. The second-floor library offers access to past TDC annuals.
Admission is free.
Hours: 11:00-19:00
Closed on Sundays and holidays (29 April, 4-6 May)
Ginza Graphic Gallery, DNP Ginza Bldg. 1F/B1F, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Exhibition graphics: Tsuguya Inoue
See ‘Tokyo type’ on the Eye blog.
to 16 May 2026
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
For four decades, Catherine Griffiths, designer and artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, has attentively examined the potentials of language, materiality and drawing in space. Her work operates at the nexus of an expanded, socially-engaged, interdisciplinary practice founded in graphic design, with a focus on typography, sculptural form and public art.
Griffiths reconfigures typographic context and meaning through shifts in scale and the immersive experience, transforming how we perceive and interact with language, from the concrete to the abstract.
Throughout her career, Griffiths has used language, light and sound as both a material and conceptual force. Through typographic installations, time-based media, and site-specific interventions, Griffiths encourages the viewer to read between the lines, engage in spatial dialogues and consider the alternative.
Curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty and touring from the Melbourne School of Design, Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line is the largest exhibition of Griffiths’ work presented in Australia to-date. The exhibition offers a unique chance to experience the provocations and physical qualities of Griffiths’ practice, where form and materiality are at once visible and tactile.
Admission is free.
Open Monday to Saturdays 11am-4pm.
Griffith University Art Museum, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, QLD 4101
to 17 May 2026
The most expansive North American exhibition of Keïta’s work to date, this features 280 works, brought to life with unique insights from his family. Keïta recorded Mali’s evolution through their choices of backdrops, accessories and apparel, from traditional finery to European suits. These bold yet sensitive photographs began to circulate in West Africa nearly 80 years ago. In the early 1990s, they reached Western viewers, rocking the art world and cementing Keïta as the premier studio photographer of twentieth-century Africa – a peer of August Sander, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052, US
Above: Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1954. Vintage gelatin silver print. © SKPEAC / Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art and Danziger Gallery, NY
to 25 May 2026
At a time when image manipulation using AI is attracting widespread attention, this exhibition demonstrates that altering images is nothing new – from the very beginnings of photography, images were being altered using scissors and glue. Featuring more than 50 historical photographic images from the museum’s own collection, the exhibition shows how photo manipulation developed from the birth of the medium up to the Second World War – and reveals the motives behind it.
Admission: Adults - £25 and free for visitors under 18.
Open daily from 9am to 5pm.
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam, Holland
Image above: French man carries head on a wheelbarrow, anonymous, ca. 1900-10.
to 31 May 2026
This exhibition of photographic portraits by American artist Catherine Opie is the first major museum exhibition of her work to be shown in the UK, bringing together more than 80 photographs spanning 30 years of Opie’s career, including her first major work, Being and Having (1991), ennobling portraits of LGBTQ+ friends inspired by court painter Hans Holbein and Baroque-like portraits of artists.
Admission: £19.50 / £21.50 with donation / Free for Members
Hours: Open daily: 10.30-18.00, Friday & Saturday 10.30-21.00
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
to 31 May 2026
Phillip Toledano
Edward Trevor: Never Seen the Light
When does a photograph become more than just an image? When does it begin to tell stories or reveal truths? In Never Seen the Light, American artist Phillip Toledano (see Eye 107) explores precisely this tension – between memory, fiction, and the persuasive power of photographic evidence.
At first glance, the exhibition tells a completely unknown story. Toledano’s father, who worked as an actor under the stage name Edward Trevor, was also a painter and sculptor. After his death, a box of previously unseen negatives revealed to his son an entirely new perspective on his father’s work. The images are remarkable, depicting 1930s and 1940s New York with cinematic precision and a subtle sensitivity to the bizarre. What initially appears to be a family archive gradually unfolds into a layered reflection on authenticity and construction.
Edward Trevor was, in fact, never seen holding a camera. Toledano generated the entire series using artificial intelligence. Images emerged without an event, without a camera, without traditional witness – yet they appear as if they were visual evidence of a past reality. The project poses a grand ‘what if’.
Visitors uncover this gradually, as Never Seen the Light begins like a conventional photography exhibition and only reveals its artificial DNA in the second half.
‘Some say it has no soul. But that’s exactly what people said about photography in the 1850s.’
– Phillip Toledano
Admission: 10-15€
Hours: Monday - Sunday 10:00–23:00, Last entry at 22:00
Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str. 54, 10117 Berlin - Mitte
to 7 June 2026
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, established in 1996, identifies and rewards artists that have made a significant contribution to photography in the past 12 months. The shortlisted artists for the Prize 2026 are Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić. The 2026 shortlisted features collaborative photographic projects; long-term investigative documentary photography; installations, video and sound pieces; and experimental conceptual photography. This exhibition explores themes of exile and memory; gender inequalities and advocacy; identity and belonging, subculture and class; and the shifting boundaries between photographic fact and fiction.
Jane Evelyn Atwood's Too Much Time explores the realities of women in prison through long-term documentary photography addressing social justice.
Weronika Gęsicka's Encyclopaedia reinterprets fake entries and highlights the tension between truth and invention, as well as the fragile line between fact and fiction.
Amak Mahmoodian's One Hundred and Twenty Minutes focuses on recurring dreams and the effects of exile on memory and identity.
Rene Matić's exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH reflects on identity, belonging, subculture, class and family through diaristic, snapshot-like photography.
The Photographers‘ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
Photo above by Weronika Gęsicka.
to 7 June 2026
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-1964: Eyes of the Storm
Between December of 1963 and February of 1964, The Beatles were catapulted from British sensation to global superstars. In stadiums, streets, and on The Ed Sullivan Show, their arrival in North America marked a major cultural shift. Greeted by screaming fans and press at every turn, Paul McCartney stood in the eyes of the storm and his photographs offer a unique perspective on what it was like to be a Beatle at the start of Beatlemania.
Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, from Paul McCartney’s personal archive, comes more than 250 photographs of this incredible moment in time. A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise of one of the world’s most celebrated bands, these images reveal Paul McCartney as a multifaceted artist.
These intimate and historic photographs, shown alongside video clips and archival materials, capture both the intensity of The Beatles touring schedule and the energy of the era, as well more intimate views of his bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Exclusive Members' Access: 18-26 February 2026
Members' & Annual Passholder Access: 27 February - 22 March 2026
Public Access: 24 March 2026
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada
Photo: Paul McCartney. Self-portrait. London, 1963. © 1963-1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archives LLP.
to 7 June 2026
CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books
CLICK! celebrates more than 90 photographic works and a selection of more than twenty rare children’s photobooks dating from the 1890s onward. The exhibition highlights three ways that photos enrich the visual language of picture books: Real Worlds, images that document aspects of the world around us; Concept Books: The Alphabet and Other Good Ideas, photos that illustrate first lessons such as the alphabet and numbers; and Photo Theater, staged depictions of imaginary worlds that surprise and delight readers. Featured artists include George Ancona, Peter Buckley, Nina Crews, Tana Hoban, Charles R. Smith Jr., William Wegman, Walter Wick, Mo Willems, and Ylla, among others.
Guest curated by Leonard Marcus
Wednesday – Friday, 10.00–16:00*; Saturdays, 10:00-17:00; Sundays, 12:00-17:00
*Open until 8pm on the first Thursday of each month, November to June.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA 01002
Above: Walter Wick, Illustration for A Ray of Light: A Book of Science and Wonder (Scholastic). Courtesy of the artist. © 2019 Walter Wick.
to 14 June 2026
Garry Fabian Miller: Our Garden. Growing. Making. Living.
Kestle Barton presents an exhibition of camera-less photographs by Garry Fabian Miller, whose work over four decades has expanded the language of contemporary photography.
This exhibition focuses on works made directly from and about the artist’s garden made with his partner Naomi on the edge of Dartmoor. Working without a camera, Fabian Miller places plants and translucent materials directly onto light-sensitive photographic paper.
At Kestle Barton, art and land are similarly intertwined. The gardens and surrounding fields are cultivated as part of the gallery’s programme, shaping how artworks are encountered.
The opening on Saturday 28 March from 2-5pm will include a conversation between Garry Fabian Miller and Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford at 3pm. All are welcome.
Read Reputations: Garry Fabian Miller in Eye 103.
Kestle Barton, Manaccan, Helston, Cornwall. TR12 6HU. Telephone 01326 231 811. [email protected]
to 28 June 2026
Michelle Thompson Papercuts: 30 Years of Collage & Illustration
Papercuts presents a retrospective of Michelle Thompson’s three-decade career, showcasing original collage pieces alongside her printed illustration work. The exhibition traces her evolving approach, from early cut-and-paste experiments to contemporary digital compositions.
Michelle has been a freelance illustrator and collage artist since graduating with a First Class degree in Illustration from Norwich School of Art, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1996. Her work combines analogue collage with digital illustration, creating bold, layered pieces that explore texture, narrative, and found imagery. Clients include The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Channel 4, The New York Times and The Guardian.
Gibson Room, The Fry Art Gallery, 19a Castle St, Saffron Walden CB10 1BD.
to 28 June 2026
Noel Carrington: Nothing Need Be Ugly
Curated by writer and publisher Joe Pearson (Design for Today), this exhibition tells the story of publishing’s unsung hero Noel Carrington (1895–1989).
Schooled in Bedford, Noel Carrington (see Eye 85) became one of the most influential figures in design of the twentieth century. Through Puffin Picture Books and Country Life he commissioned, edited and published some of Britain’s best loved children’s picture books. He saw the genius in artists such as Kathleen Hale, whose series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat he published, and he championed emerging artists such as Hilary Stebbing. With Eric Ravilious he published High Street; with Edward Bawden he wrote and published Life in an English Village; and with Mervyn Peake he commissioned the tale of the wild pirate Captain Slaughterboard.
The exhibition features publishing classics such as the Kynoch Press Notebooks and Country Life Gardener’s Diaries as well as 120 Puffin Picture Books. The work of his sister Dora Carrington will also be included as it was Noel Carrington who brought her back into the public eye. Through much loved children’s books, forgotten gems and original artwork, this exhibition will take Noel Carrington out of the footnotes and into the spotlight.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11am-5pm, Sunday: 2pm-5pm, Closed on Mondays
The Higgins Bedford, Wixamtree and Connections Gallery, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD
to 28 June 2026
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942 – 2021) whose oeuvre is built around the sculptural possibilities of language and highlights the radical position of Weiner, taking as its starting point Weiner’s artistic practice of the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time when the prevailing notions of art, the role of the artist and the collector were critically interrogated, as were traditional structures like museums, galleries and art fairs. As an artist and thinker, Weiner represents a key figure both within this period and within the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert.
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS shows how Weiner’s work can be installed on a wall; can be translated to books, posters or videos; or can be recorded as audio. By bringing about a dialogue between the different presentation forms, visitors are introduced to his multifaceted oeuvre.
See Eye 29.
Hours: 3pm-7pm
Admission is free.
Herbert Foundation, Coupure Links 627A, Ghent
Above. Lawrence Weiner, LA MER ET LE CIEL, Eric Linard, Strasbourg, 1986)
to 28 June 2026
Michelle Thompson
Papercuts: 30 Years of Collage and Illustration
For the first half of the 2026 season in the Gibson Room, the Fry Art Gallery is delighted to host for the first time local artist and illustrator Michelle Thompson MA (RCA), whose eye-catching collage work has been seen across national media and galleries, as well as at the Fry’s own November picture sale.
Michelle has been a freelance illustrator and collage artist since graduating with a First Class degree in Illustration from Norwich School of Art, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1996. Her work combines analogue collage with digital illustration, creating bold, layered pieces that explore texture, narrative, and found imagery. Clients include The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Channel 4, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
Papercuts presents a retrospective of Michelle’s three-decade career, showcasing original collage pieces alongside her printed illustration work. The exhibition traces her evolving approach, from early cut-and-paste experiments to contemporary digital compositions.
Hours: Closed Mondays, Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday 2:00pm-5:00pm and Saturdays 11:00am-5:00pm
The Fry Art Gallery, 19a Castle St, Saffron Walden CB10 1BD
to 30 June 2026
AWDA, AIAP Women in Design Award
The call for entries for the sixth edition of AWDA, AIAP Women in Design Award is now online. This biennial award is open to visual communication designers from all over the world.
Eligible projects include visual communication design works produced from 2023 to the present by by professionals, researchers, or students. The deadline for participation is June 30.
The AWDA International Award is open to all individuals who identify as women, regardless of sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation or any transition journeys.
to 19 July 2026
This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Art of Noise, an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century. Organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation.
From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, this exhibition takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years. On view across the museum’s entire third-floor gallery, the exhibition will feature more than 300 artworks drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.
More info on tickets and hours here.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, US
Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. Lithograph on paper; 72.8 × 51.5 cm (28 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.).
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
to 26 July 2026
A major retrospective to Lee Miller (1907-77), organised in partnership with Tate Britain. The exhibition brings together more than 250 vintage and modern prints, complemented by magazines, archives and period documents.
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 11 avenue du President Wilson, Paris, FR 75116, France
Read ‘Art of war and peace’, John L. Walters’ review of the Tate exhibition in Eye 109 and ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107.
Photo: Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London ca. 1943. © Lee Miller Archives.
to 26 July 2026
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more.
Admission: £9.84-19.69
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Photo: Model of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL © Thierry Stefanopoulos – La Cinémathèque française
to 23 August 2026
Serpentine’s First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026
Serpentine is honoured to announce an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney (see Eye 42). Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, will also feature in the show.
Admission free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W. Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
to 28 August 2026
Na Kim, Oblique Time / 김영나, 느슨한 시간
Weekdays, 10am to 5pm
KAIST Art Museum, Exhibition Terrace 6 & 7
E9, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
to 6 September 2026
This exhibition features new and recent works by Cecily Brown, a homecoming for a British artist who has lived and worked in New York for the past 30 years. ‘Picture Making’ brings together works inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.
Hours: Monday – Closed, Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
At Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
to 6 September 2026
Lella and Massimo Vignelli A Language of Clarity
Major exhibition about the Vignellis (see Eye 83), curated by: Francesca Picchi, Marco Sammicheli, Thomas Kronbichler and Martin Kerschbaumer (Studio Mut). Exhibition design: Jasper Morrison Office for Design with David Saik. Catalogue and graphic design: Norm. In collaboration with: Vignelli Center for Design Studies, RIT New York, and the Vignelli family.
Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milano
to 6 September 2026
Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS
This exhibition explores how graphic design shaped New York’s grassroots response to AIDS from 1979 to 2003. Public health campaigns, agitprop, benefit flyers, and club handbills offer more than messages—they map how communities built survival systems from below, often before the state would act.Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
Above Safe Sex!, 1987 Keith Haring
to 6 September 2026
Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen
Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded and many of the movies that featured all-Black casts are now considered ‘lost films’ (films for which no copy is known to survive), advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and the 1940s.
The posters in this exhibition allow viewers to consider how Black storytelling was transferred and transformed during its transition from stage to screen. They also document aspects of the historic innovations of playwrights, composers, directors, and producers for Black actors as they sought to represent life and experiences for Black audiences through their own creative perspectives.
This exhibition is rated PG-13 for racist imagery, violence and sexual content.
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
to 15 November 2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. In Aardman’s 50th anniversary year, peek behind the scenes of your favourite stop-motion animations and find out how Aardman brings clay to life. Visit Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph as many times as you like with your exhibition pass.
Admission: £11
Hours: Open daily 10am-5:45pm
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
to April 2027
Art deco: the golden age of poster design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage.
Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display, and explore the art deco and modernist architecture of Charles Holden in changing the face of London with his remarkable Tube station designs.
More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection, alongside loans from significant collections are on display. This includes posters from designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with your Museum admission.
See the ‘The purpose of posters’ on the Eye blog.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
APRIL 2026
16-18 April 2026
Founded in Barcelona in 2001, OFFF is one of the largest gatherings of contemporary creativity. Over several days, the festival offers a programme of talks from big-hitting speakers, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, installations, exhibitions, a design market and creative sessions.
Tickets available here.
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
18-19 April 2026
Introduction to Lettering
with Ken Barber
Lettering has become an increasingly marketable, if not essential, skill for artists working in design and advertising. The warmth and personality of hand-drawn letterforms can hardly be matched by off-the-shelf fonts. In this workshop, attendees will learn how to get the most out of lettering in a variety of applications.
Participants will begin by gaining a solid basis in the main principles that make for successful lettering. Referring to familiar typographic models and helpful specimens, students will then learn how to customise letterforms as they draw their own logos and wordmarks. Comprehensive slide presentations, informative sketching demonstrations, skill-building exercises, professional case studies, and valuable one-on-one critiques will provide further guidance as attendees acquire a practical foundation for implementing one-of-a-kind lettering in numerous design contexts.
When:
Saturday 18 April and Sunday 19 April 2026
10:00am-5:00pm (Eastern Time)
Number of sessions: 2
Where:
41 Cooper Square at Cooper Union
Entrance on East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003
Price: $535
20-26 April 2026
Founded in Turin in 2016 with the aim of promoting the cultural value of visual communication and its cross-fertilisation, Graphic Days annually hosts leading figures in Italian and international visual design. From April 20th to 26th, Graphic Days will host a pop-up edition of the festival in Milan during Milan Design Week at Superstudio Village, a new venue in the Bovisa district. It will be part of Super Playground: a space conceived as an open platform where design, research and contemporary visions meet.
Social design will be the underlying theme of the Milan edition of Graphic Days, which since 2020 has used visual design tools to promote local initiatives with social impact through urban regeneration projects, urban painting, and active citizenship activities.
Superstudio Village, Via Michele Pericle Negrotto, 59, 20157 Milano MI, Italy
23 April 2026
Circular Reasons
With Underware’s Bas Jacobs
In today’s world of Unicode standards and QWERTY keyboards, the uniform approach to text can create the impression that writing is fixed: that letters are static, that typography is a fully developed discipline, and that the work of type designers will remain fundamentally unchanged in the decades to come. This associative lecture on writing, language and letters invites to question the dominant, rational, constructed narrative. If history, too, is a constructed narrative, then perhaps it need not only be written, but can also be assembled.
What follows is not a straight line. Through a series of uninhibited thought experiments, this lecture explores whether not just the history of writing, but maybe also its future, can be ambivalent when multiplied. While doing so, it proposes design as a form of historiography and asks how alternative perspectives can shape our understanding of letterforms, of language and of typographic practices. After all, if a circle is round because it is a circle, where does it actually begin?
The European design collective Underware (see the Eye blog) focuses on designing letters from a formalistic and formative perspective. Their practice manifests itself in design, performance, publication, education and installations. In this lecture, they attempt to offer a different perspective on their own work by placing it in a different context each time.
This is an in-person and online event.
In-Person Timings (BST):
Doors/Bar: 18:15pm
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm
Online Timings via Zoom (BST):
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm
Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
In-Person Tickets: £9, £12, £14
Online Tickets: £7, £9
Book tickets HERE.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London EC47 8 EQ
23 April 2026
International Assembly is back online for a special edition, connecting you through an online conference and series of workshops with some of our favourite designers from 6 continents.
This is an online event.
Timings:
9:00 Los Angeles / 12:00 New York City / 17:00 London / 18:00 Berlin / 19:00 Cairo / 23:00 Bangkok
Tickets: Early Bird Pricing £25
Book tickets here.
23 April 2026
Counter Session #7. With Olivier Arcoili, Pascal Glissmann, Andreas Henrich, and Guests …
How can research, personal experiences, and complex ideas be translated into concise visual language? 45 Symbols—Clay to Code, published by Slanted Publishers in January 2026, examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to visual language, inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history: the 3700-year-old, still-undeciphered Phaistos Disc, embossed with 45 distinct symbols.
Talks will be in German, some in English
Followed by drinks at our green bar counter
A—Z, Torstrasse 93
10119, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany
25 April 2026
Sonic Playground: A Day of Music and Making
Join Cooper Hewitt for hands-on experiences and creative play in celebration of Art of Noise.
Tune in to gallery tours, experience Devon Turnbull’s listening room, pull your own letterpress concert poster, or try your luck at music bingo. All ages are invited to drop in throughout the day—no registration required.
Timings:
12:00-5:00pm – Print your dream concert poster
1:00-4:00pm – Experience the listening room
2:15-2:45pm and 3:30-4:00pm – Play music bingo
1:30-2:15pm and 4:30-5:15pm – Exhibition tours of Art of Noise
Admission: Free with museum admission.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
25 April – 31 May 2026
The Cosmic Collage of Harry Smith
In celebration of what would have been his 103rd solar return, The Philosophical Research Society is proud to present THE COSMIC COLLAGE OF HARRY SMITH, a series dedicated to the boundless, unruly imagination of Harry Everett Smith – artist, filmmaker, folklorist, collector and self-described alchemist of culture—co-presented and co-curated by the Harry Smith Archive, and presented in collaboration with 7th House, Los Angeles Filmforum, The American Museum of Paramusicology, The Getty Research Institute, Zebulon, and 2220 Arts + Archives.
Opening night of the exhibition series, features an immersive presentation led by Harry Smith scholar and Harry Smith Archives director Rani Singh, weaving together rare images and footage from Smith’s life and work + live performance by Devendra Banhart & friends!
Admission: $25
Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
MAY 2026
7-9 May 2026
Celebrating their 10th Anniversary edition, Digital Design Days is a live experience bringing together thousands of professionals from around the world, with insightful keynotes, top-notch content and networking opportunities.
With three stages, speakers include Stefan Sagmeister (see Eye 107 and Eye 83), Paula Scher, (see Eye 77), Dilshan Arukatti, Yates Buckley, Emily Rickard, Felix Chilvers, Valeria Moreiro and many others over the three days.
Tickets available here.
Superstudio Village, Via Michele Pericle Negrotto, 59, 20157 Milano, Italy
7-8 May 2026
Apertivo: Spanish Design in Conversation
As part of the World Design Capital 2026 initiative, a group of design and creative professionals will bring a conversation-based and process-driven exhibition format to Frankfurt, fostering dialogue between Spain and the German creative ecosystem.
The Ministry of Culture, the Valencian Community Design Foundation, and the Spanish Network of Design Associations (READ) present ‘Aperitivo: Spanish Design in Conversation’, an initiative that will bring Spanish design to the international stage at World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026.
The project aims to showcase the talent and diversity of contemporary Spanish design, as well as to foster connections with the German creative and business ecosystem, in a strategic context for the sector’s international projection.
WDC-Hub, Frankfurt RheinMain
7-10 May 2026
Pictoplasma: 22nd International Conference on Character Creativity
The 22nd edition of the ‘world’s leading conference on contemporary character-driven creativity’ (see ‘emotion graphics’ in Eye 62) focuses upon storytelling. Across four days, Pictoplasma explores the art and impact of adventurous figurative practices across creative genres and cultures. Artists and producers gather for a transdisciplinary exchange bridging illustration, animation, art, games, storytelling, branded worlds and social media personas.
Contributing artists include: Christoph Niemann (DE, see Eye 72); cartoonist Gemma Correll (UK / US); Karlotta Freier (US); Zohar Dvir (IL/DE); Jun Ioneda (BR/ES); Berlin-based illustrator Jack Sachs (UK) and the duo Form Play (UK).
There is a visitors’ day on 10 May 2026, open to the broader public.
9-10 & 16-17 May 2026
Weaving Trust Letterpress Exhibition
Weaving Trust is a new letterpress installation by Michelle Dwyer of Nice & Graphic studio, commissioned by Amott Road Baptist Church for the Dulwich Festival. The work brings together voices from across Peckham to explore trust, belonging and connection. The project began with a live Weaving Trust event, where participants engaged in one-to-one conversations to build understanding across differences. Guided by simple but meaningful questions about community, relationships and what people would like to change in their neighbourhood, participants shared personal reflections and stories rooted in everyday life in Peckham.
Admission is free.
Exhibition Dates: May 9th–10th & 16th–17th, 2026
Opening Times: 11:00am-6:00pm
Location: 47 Amott Rd, SE15 4HU, London, U.K
13-15 May 2026
Head on up to Kanteena for three full days of talks, workshops and networking events (and lots of good vibes). Everyone with a curiosity for creativity is welcome!
The lineup includes the likes of Claire Blyth, Emma Barratt, Bryan Edmonson (See Eye 72 and the Eye blog), Sana Iqbal, Dan Mather and many more!This year's theme is HERITAGE. Heritage is about where we come from and how that shapes what we create. It encompasses the skills, stories, and traditions passed down through generations, as well as the cultures and experiences that make each of us unique. Our backgrounds and journeys influence how we think, make, and share ideas, shaping who we are as creatives today. By keeping these connections alive, learning from the past while creating for the future, we celebrate what makes creativity truly our own.
Admission is free. Sign-up here.
Kanteena, Brewery Ln, Lancaster LA1 1QL
13-16 May 2026
Global Design Forum İstanbul is launching a new programme of talks, installations and citywide experiences taking place 13–16 May 2026 in İstanbul, Türkiye.
Organised in collaboration with People & Places & Ideas (PPI), this is a new design platform where global perspectives and İstanbul's living cultural landscape meet. The Forum brings global voices into conversation with local contexts, traditions and futures - creating an innovative space for design, culture and ideas in one of the world's most layered cities.
At its core, Global Design Forum İstanbul is a thought leadership programme, featuring two days of curated keynotes, panels and in-conversations shaped around the theme Worlds in Contact.
Across the four days, the programme extends beyond the Forum through citywide programming including İstanbullar: Design Route, public installations, and a design competition, creating encounters that move between ideas, places and people across the city.
More info available here.
Istanbul, Türkiye
13 May 2026
The global Art Directors Club is excited to announce that world-renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister will serve as host for this year’s prestigious ADC 105th Annual Awards ceremony, taking place in New York as part of Creative Week 2026.
See ‘The perils of interdisciplinarity’ from Eye 107 and ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul’ from Eye 83.
The ADC Annual Awards is heading to Manhattan’s breathtaking Capitale for a grand gala honouring the year’s best work in design, illustration, photography, motion, advertising and beyond.
Find tickets here.
Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY
11-15 May 2026
Creative Week 2026
By day, Creative Week features speaker sessions, workshops and reviews, designed to foster discussion, reflection and connection in the advertising and design industries. By night, Creative Week rolls out the red carpet as it recognises the very best work of the past year by way of four internationally acclaimed award shows: the lauding of ‘big ideas’ at The One Show; the celebration of design and craftsmanship at the ADC Annual Awards; and the salute to the next generation of talent at the Young Ones Student Awards.
Tickets for Creative Week events can be found here.
New York, NY 10001
16 May 2026
Mapping What Matters,
an international graphic design conference
The event brings together a conference, a curated exhibition, and a small book fair, and is centred on graphic design as a critical and research-driven practice — particularly in relation to public communication and contemporary visual culture.
The programme includes speakers such as Ruben Pater (see Eye 103), Sandra Kassenaar, and Adrien Vasquez (See Eye Books received #33), whose work engages with design beyond its formal outcomes, addressing broader social and political contexts.
More info available here.
Aréna Theatre, Viedenská cesta 10, Bratislava
16 May 2026
Rhizome and the New Museum announce the 2026 iteration of Seven on Seven (7x7), the landmark art and technology program returning to the New Museum on May 16.
Each year, 7x7 pairs artists with technologists for a day-long collaboration and gives them a simple challenge: make something new. The results are presented at a public conference.
Initiated in 2010, 7x7 has traditionally been held at the New Museum, where Rhizome has been an affiliate-in-residence since 2003. This year’s edition is the first to take place at the Museum following the opening of its OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas-designed expansion.
See more info here.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
23 May – 16 August 2026
Olivia Plender: Little Fennel’s Complaint
This major solo exhibition by Olivia Plender (b. 1977, London), explores historic and ongoing inequalities in women’s healthcare – from early modern witchcraft to contemporary debates on reproductive rights and medical authority. Plender developed the exhibition through research with leading Oxford institutions, including the Bodleian Library, Oxford Botanic Garden and John Radcliffe Hospital.
Across embroidered textiles, watercolours, drawings, mobiles, and sound works, she examines how women’s healthcare has been recorded, classified, and practised over time. The exhibition combines new commissions, existing works, and historic manuscripts to highlight Plender’s multidisciplinary, research-led practice. Installations trace shifting approaches to medicine and diagnosis, opening with a presentation inspired by contemporary hospital architectures and waiting rooms.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 1BP
Above: Olivia Plender, title TBC, 2026, embroidered textile © Olivia Plender
27 May – 18 July 2026
Finding Bob Linney: an exhibition of a graphic life
The first comprehensive look at the the work of the graphic artist Bob Linney 1947-2023.
Over 50 years Bob drew, painted, printed and designed an extraordinary range of distinctive posters and other material for music, film, theatre, festivals, activism, and founded the charity Health Images using visual aids for health and development far and wide.
Read ‘Selecting Bob Linney’ by Nigel Ball.
The Cut Arts Centre, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY
Opening event, 12pm, Sat 30 May; closing lecture, 2pm, Sat 18 July.
30 May 2026
A conference (in English) that includes talks, discussions, and typography love, with Astrid Stavro, Tobias Frere-Jones, Flavia Zimbardi (see above) and a publishing panel that includes Eye editor John L. Walters, Julia Kahl (Slanted), Alexandre Dimos (B42) and Elliot Jay Stocks.
See schedule for details.
Venue: Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse
257 rue de Vaugirard , 75015 Paris France
JUNE 2026
to 7 June 2026
We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini
Spanning over five decades, Donna Gottschalk‘s photographs offer intimate portraits of queer life, capturing the daily lives of her chosen family — friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists. Shaped by her early life in 1950s New York, marked by violence and homophobia, her work presents a raw and immediate vision of the world.
Her works meet Hélène Giannecchini‘s illuminating texts, creating a powerful dialogue about visibility, memory and the enduring courage to be seen. Despite their forty-year age difference, an immediate bond formed as archives were unearthed and stories shared. Deeply moved by Donna‘s life and photographs, Hélène set out to give Donna and her subjects a voice.
The Photographers‘ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
5-21 June 2026
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
Glasgow International is a collective endeavour. The festival programme includes projects conceived and organised by Glasgow-based arts organisations, artist-led initiatives, artists, and curators, alongside the Glasgow International team. These projects span exhibitions, performances, research initiatives, community organising, and forms of publishing. The festival also includes a series of Gatherings, a programme of workshops, talks and discussions that will provide opportunities to engage more deeply with points of exchange and recurring themes across the festival.
Glasgow International, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, Scotland G41 2PE, United Kingdom
11 June 2026
typo26 is the 2026 University of Reading BA Graphic Communication degree show. It celebrates the class of 2026 through the building blocks of typographic craft – the 26 letters of the alphabet. Alongside the BA show, there will also be a showcase of practical work from our MA course, to show the full range of programmes within the Department.
Private view on 11 June 2026, 5–8pm.
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, TOB2, 2 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6BZ
17-21 June 2026
Entering its third decade of fostering cutting-edge creativity, the fair has long been a springboard for emerging talent and an incubator for ideas that shape the future of contemporary art. Located just a two-minute walk from Art Basel and the central Messeplatz, VOLTA Basel 2026 is set to showcase a dynamic mix of established and emerging artists and gallerists from across the globe.
Hall 4.U, Congress Center, Basel
26-27 June 2026
A design festival for people who use type.
This 2-day series of talks is the central event of the Typographics Festival, focused on the use of type across all design disciplines. Now in its eleventh year, the conference will be in-person in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, New York City.
The conference will include speakers such as Kiel D. Mutschelknaus (see Eye 100), Anna Kulachek, Amy Papaelias (see Eye 109), Bijan Berahimi, Julien Priez, Kelli Anderson and many more.
More details about the conference are available at 2026.typographics.com.
Tickets available here.
The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003
11-13 June 2026
European Design Festival and Awards
As part of the European Design Festival, the European Design Awards honour creativity, craftsmanship and excellence across European design.
More info coming soon here.
National Palace of Culture (NKD), Sofia, Bulgaria
JULY 2026
28 July – 4 October 2026
Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
In summer 2026, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present a major new exhibition, bringing together more than 100 landmark works by some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition will chart the dramatic evolution of American city life from the early 1900s to the close of the 20th century. Featuring images from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, the exhibition draws exclusively from the DNB Saving Bank Foundation’s collection in Norway.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 7AD
Above: Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, California, 1987 © Mary Ellen Mark, Courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation / Arthur Leipzig, Divers, East River, 1948 © Estate of Arthur Leipzig, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York / Saul Leiter, Harlem, 1960 © Saul Leiter Foundation / Helen Levitt, New York¸1972 © Helen Levitt, Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.
22 June – 3 July 2026
Now in its third year, TipoItalia will guide you on a typographic excavation and digital revival of hand-painted signs from the streets of Venice, inscriptions from the Renaissance and Tipoteca’s collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco wood and metal typefaces. We’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts. Type historians, printers and designers Riccardo Olocco, Rory Sparks, Mitch Blessing and Dan Rhatigan will be your guides on this alphabetic excursion as you unearth and refresh the best of Italian lettering and typography.
TipoItalia encourages learners to see the alphabet in its myriad forms and trace their evolution to the type collection held by Tipoteca. This program fosters a ‘typographic archaeology’ that can then be translated into printed works and digital type, allowing the participant to bring Italian typography to life.
Taught by Rory Sparks, Dan Rhatigan, and Riccardo Olocco and Mitch Blessing. This residency hosts a maximum of 12 participants.
This session includes 12 workshop days, including studio time at Tipoteca Italiana and day trips throughout the region.
The days at Tipoteca Italiana will include a mix of organised demos, presentations and self-guided work in the studio.
Pricing + due dates:
• Registrations by March 15, 2026 - €2,299.00
• Registrations by May 1, 2026 - €2,499.00
• Registrations after May 1, 2026 - €2,699.00
The fee covers the cost of the workshop and transportation for daytrips. Participants pay airfare, lodging and ground transportation to Cornuda where Tipoteca is located.
Apply for a 2026 scholarship here.
For more information, please email [email protected].
Tipoteca, Via Canapificio, 3, 31041 Cornuda TV, Italy
11 June 2026
Confessions of a Designer: Design, Decisions and Impact
The International Council of Design (ICoD) is delighted to announce its first-ever Regional Meeting in Balkan Europe. The theme, Confessions of a Designer: Design, Decisions and Impact, invites participants to candidly discuss the realities of decision-making in design. We will delve into the tensions, uncertainties, instincts and trade-offs shaping everyday practice amidst current geopolitical, economic and technological disruptions, including artificial intelligence (AI).
Decision-making is rarely unbiased and constantly changes as our knowledge, values and accountability evolve. Today, our perceptions of the ‘right’ design choices are influenced by human sensitivity, AI, and institutions. In this meeting, we will explore how we set the criteria, who gets to decide, and what makes them decide. It will also explore how awareness or blind spots affect public life and tangible benefits.
The Regional Meeting will take place on 11 June 2026 at the National Palace of Culture (NKD) in Sofia, and will be held as part of the European Design Festival.
National Palace of Culture (NKD), Sofia, Bulgaria
16 May 2026
Grids and Layout
with Ellen Lupton
Create structured layouts and elegant details while designing a typographic poster/broadside. Use grids to organize content, build hierarchies, and generate visual elements. Explore alignment, balance, grouping, color, type choice, and tension. Hone your individual approach to typographic thinking and receive active feedback.
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm (Eastern Time)
Price: $270
Where:
41 Cooper Square at Cooper Union
Entrance on East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003