Exhibition of the Week

LULLABY BLOSSOMS

@cosmos.cac

Lisbon, Portugal

14 April - 12 May 2026

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Paris / 2026

MAIN DE FER, GANT DE VELOURS

Association NOEMI- Espace Brownstone

Kraków / 2026

THE SHAPE OF A SCAR

Bonifraterska3/1

Warsaw / 2026

PARACHUTE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@przeciag_galeria

Lisbon / 2026

LULLABY BLOSSOMS

@cosmos.cac

Paris / 2026

CHEWING GUM IN THE MOTHERBOARD (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@lavolonte93

Vorarlberg / 2026

SUPPORTED FILES

@galeriebrugger

London / 2026

EVEN SPECTRES CAN TIRE

Xxijra Hii

Seoul / 2026

MIMICKING ETERNITY

@studiya.gallery

Dornbirn / 2026

47°24’35’’N / 9°44’20’’E

Kunstraum Dornbirn

Dortmund / 2026

CALL ME WE

SUPERRAUM

Buenos Aires / 2026

COAGVLA

@acefalagaleria

Offenbach am Main / 2026

CALL SOMEONE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@ayayay_________

Prague / 2026

SOFT_SIGHS SYNTHESIS

@clauda.cz

Nurnberg / 2026

LIMINALITY

@adbk_nuernberg

New York City / 2026

AUSSERKÖRPERLICHE ERFAHRUNG: WANDERING SPIRIT

@management.nyc

Berlin / 2026

COMMON LANDSCAPE(S) (GROUP SHOW)

@acudgalerie

Leipzig / 2026

MOONLIT BOTANICAL COLOUR THEORIES

@jochenhempel

Sardinia / 2026

BLUE BLOODED

@museo_nivola

Seoul / 2025-2026

GROWING BODY

@studiya.gallery

Seoul / 2026

THE COLLAPSE MANUAL_THE POST-HUMAN FIELD (GROUP SHOW)

@aodmuseum

Graz / 2026

DOUBLED PRESENCE IN A DISEMBODIED SPACE

@trost.spc

Seoul / 2025

MASSAGE PLATZ

Shower

Brussels / 2025-2026

WORK OF PROOF

FLⒶT$

Munich / 2026

MOTIONS TO UNFURL (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@gallery_thetigerroom

Lisbon / 2025

THE STAGES OF GRIEF

PADA Studios

Dornbirn / 2026

BUCOLICA

@kunstraumdornbirn

Brescia / 2025-2026

INCOMMUNICABILITY IS ITSELF A SOURCE OF PLEASURES

The Address

Berlin / 2025

WEAVING BACK TO COMMON GROUNDS (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@acudgalerie

Milan / 2025

MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@limbo.contemporary

Berlin / 2025

THRESHOLDS

@carliergebauer

Berlin-Schöneberg / 2025

PRESENCE BY PROXY

@schuetzenverein_

Paris / 2025

TISSU EXPANSÉ

@europa.nyc

Paris / 2025

PULSES WITHIN

@ds_galerie

Paris / 2025

PARADE

@romeropaprocki

Göteborg / 2025

TOMORROW'S FORECAST, WHITE CLOUDS GREY DOGS

Galleri Box

Kraków / 2025

CRASH PÆNDEMONIA

@_jak_zapomniec_

Shanghai / 2025

A BLADE UNHELD

Galerie Dengyun

Milan / 2025

FANTASY VANISHES IN FLESH

@francesca_minini

Seoul / 2025

THIRD SKIN

@dive.seoul.art

Madrid / 2025

DESIRING MACHINES

@riomenaka

Białystok / 2025

PARADISE ROT

@galeria_arsenal

Seoul / 2026

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENEMY

@artsonje_center

Prague / 2025

WITH FEATHERS AND FLESH

@holesovickasachta

Seoul / 2025

TACTICS FOR AN ERA (GROUP SHOW)

K&L Museum

Busan / 2025

AFTERLIFES

@hongtiartcenter

London / 2025

THE SIGNAL. THE NOICE (GROUP EXHIBITION)

@greatorexstreet_e1

/ 2025

SWEET WORLD 1

@sweet.world.gallery

Bratislava / 2025

BEGONE ESTRONE

MEDIUM

Bratislava / 2025

BEGONE ESTRONE

@medium_gallery

London / 2025

CHOICE DIRT

Xxijra Hii

Hamburg / 2025

DIE SPRACHE DER VÖGEL

@westwerk_hamburg

Brno / 2025

LOVE

Zaazrak|Dornych

New York City (NY) / 2025

EXUVIAE

Management

Berlin / 2025

EDGES THAT BLUR, BODIES THAT FOLD INTO SOMETHING OTHER

ACUD

Warsaw / 2025

THE LAST DRAWER ON THE LEFT

@przeciag_galeria

Århus / 2025

JUST ABOUT AND NEVER

SpLab

/ 2025

THE ROOM I

@ifocenter

Santiago / 2025

ENCUENTRO

@sagradamercancia

Arnsberg / 2025

VITALS VAPORS

@kunstverein_arnsberg

New York / 2025

LUCA

@management.nyc

Bratislava / 2025

DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM

@vunugallery

Milan / 2025

METAL MEMORY

@limbo.contemporary

Kraków / 2025

WHEN DOORS CLOSE, WALLS RISE

Jak Zapomnieć Gallery

Berlin / 2025

GREEN GROWTH

@kuenstlerhaus.bethanien

Vienna / 2025

SWEET GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES

@dieangewandte

Milan / 2025

FALENE

@limbo.contemporary

Berlin / 2025

THE NEOLIBERAL URGE TO CURATE A FRIENDSGROUP

@acudgalerie

Montpellier / 2025

METEMPSYCHOSIS

MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain

Ljubljana / 2025

TAR STAR

@cukrarna.art

Jung-gu, Seoul / 2025

FARM

@biogalleryseoul

/ 2025

DEEP SEA FISH

@dieselartgallery

Innsbruck / 2025

TIPPING POINT PHANTOMS

@kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol

/ 2025

LOST ENCOUNTERS, THEY CLING

@parallelvienna

Stockholm / 2024-2025

DIALECTS OF THE DEEP

@bonnierskonsthall

Warsaw / 2024-2025

GRASS ON ROADSIDE 4

Przeciąg Gallery

London / 2024

LIMO

The Split Gallery

Prague / 2024

PETRICHOR

Prám

Wroclaw / 2024

EUTROPHY

Bulvary

Geneva / 2024

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, 2024

@halle_nord_geneve

Berlin / 2023

HUMAN IS

Schinkel Pavillion

Barcelona / 2024-2025

LUNAR ENSEMBLE FOR UPRISING SEAS

@macba_barcelona

London / 2024

TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION

@zerui.g

Shanghai / 2024

CONTEMPT

@capsuleshanghai

Tartu / 2024

ENTER WOODLAND SPIRITS

Estonian Literary Museum and the University of Tartu Natural History Museum

Budapest / 2024

SKELETAL SCENES

@amprojects_byanimolnar

/ 2024

METEMPSYCHOSIS: THE PASSION OF PNEUMATICS

@schinkelpavillon

Vilnius / 2024

KETEROS

@meduza.fyi

/ 2024

EXTERNAL CRYOGENICS

@hyperlink_athens

/ 2024

TRANSPARENCY REPORT

/ 2024

BIDIM BLO!

@basisfrankfurt

/ 2023

KASSANDRA

@kunsthalle.ost

/ 2023

THE WORM AT THE CORE

@setsetsetsetsetset

Lisboa / 2023

A CERTAIN INSTANCE OF VERRITION

Leal Rios Foundation

London, United Kingdom / 2025

Choice Dirt

Xxijra Hii / Richard Dean Hughes

In Choice Dirt, Richard Dean Hughes offers a meditation on the raw material of existence. Deliberately ambiguous, the title evokes a terrain both literal and conceptual: dirt as the ground beneath our feet, but also as a vessel of legacy, conflict, spirituality, longing. It is where things begin and where they are buried.

This new body of work delves into our deeply human desire to find place, to make choices and to question their consequences. Sculptures appear caught between states of emergence, erosion, suspense - as if always in the process of becoming. Hughes explores how history and the present collide, allowing sculpture and light to carry the weight of both. The result is a shifting archaeology of lived experience, one that questions not just where we are, but how we got here and whether we are truly home.

Light plays a crucial role in the exhibition acting not as embellishment but as a structuring force. In Embering, illumination becomes time itself - flickering between mortality and memory, touching on the unfinished as a site of emotional truth. The work draws upon Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà, a sculpture intended for the artist’s own tomb, left incomplete and later deliberately damaged in an act of personal frustration. That raw emotion - of a master confronting decline, doubt, and impermanence - echoes through Hughes’ treatment of the piano as both relic and portal. A sense of mortality settles quietly into an object made for resonance. The piano, with its potential for beauty and song, becomes a site for reflection - its presence domestic, but its atmosphere spiritual. Light moves through it as though passing through the oak it was once carved from; conjuring a vision of the tree alive and casting time in overlapping moments. The work connects the past, present and the self: inviting the viewer into the role of ancestral witness - someone who feels history not as something distant, but as something internal and continuous. This experience links us to places we’ve never stood and lives we somehow remember.

Elsewhere, in works like Super Tuscan and Soltrace, the body, vessel and landscape blur. Hughes’ hallmark vessels reference amphorae. Weathered and dislocated yet transformed through contemporary processes rooted in ancient function. Masks trace the physical effects of imagined journeys evoking both the tourist and the time-traveller, the fertility figure and the fractured self. Super Tuscan draws the viewer into the space with an active and directional force, passing through the mask and into the portals of Embering. These forms do not arrive or depart - they hover, held in suspension and hinting at movement without closure or cessation.

Tundra and I Don’t Know Clouds at All examine what it means to endure across landscape and time. In Tundra, a baguette becomes a site of tension, marked by exaggerated drops that suggest decay, digestion and desire just beyond reach. Its cracked surface resembles a scorched or frozen terrain, evoking a topographic map of an inhospitable landscape. Inspired by depictions of food in Mantel’s Wolf Hall, the work speaks to human hunger, not only for sustenance but for connection and power. I Don’t Know Clouds at All extends these ideas into a colder, more atmospheric register. Resting on a plane of newspaper and surrounded by leaves, it draws from the same logic of written history; markers that attempt to locate us in time and place. Both works navigate landscapes shaped by absence, where material and language operate as codes for what we long for but can’t fully hold.

Hughes’ practice persistently engages with dualities: objects that are made and unmade, forms that are at once domestic and sacred, ideas that are solid yet speculative. Across the exhibition, there’s a sense of psychic excavation and a search for grounding within the unstable. Themes of legacy, ancestry and anxiety thread throughout the work, reflecting a world in flux and a deep internal grappling with belonging, purpose and time.

Choice Dirt offers a space where time feels unstable and existence blurs. Memory shapes the ground and the pull of what might have been sits quietly beneath the surface. It’s a place where meaning is never fixed and reinvention feels both necessary and inevitable. Hughes does not provide fixed answers, instead he cultivates a space where the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the present coexist and where meaning seeps in slowly, like water through earth.

Choice Dirt installation view 2 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 3 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 4 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 5 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 6 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 7 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 8 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 9 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 10 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 11 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 12 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 13 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 14 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 15 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 16 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 17 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 18 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 19 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 20 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 21 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

Choice Dirt installation view 22 — Installation view. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson

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