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29/05/2026

🐇 “I would rather hide myself behind the work. To make myself smaller, and allow the work to become larger.”

In our latest interview, Shao Fan reflects on painting rabbits, the philosophy of repetition, Buddhism, Daoism, the I Ching, and why painting is less about expression than experiencing life itself.

Published to coincide with Refrain / 复沓 at White Cube Mason’s Yard, the conversation offers a rare insight into one of China’s most thoughtful contemporary artists.

Read the full interview on FAD.

28/05/2026

🏺 Tradition, community and making.

Our latest interview, Icheon and Beyond: Inside Korean Ceramics with Co-Curator Jaemin Cha, goes beyond the exhibition itself to explore the ideas shaping Korean ceramics today.

From Icheon’s post-war rebuilding and UNESCO status to the exchange between master ceramic artisans and contemporary artists, Jaemin Cha discusses how tradition remains something lived and continually evolving.

Read the full interview on FAD.

26/05/2026

Soho Solos arrives at Great Pulteney Street gallery this June with 4 solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners.

Featuring:
✨ Mandy Hudson
✨ James Robert Morrison
✨ Conor Quinn
✨ Alice Sheppard Fidler

Opening 10–28 June, the inaugural programme grows out of last year’s Soho Open and celebrates a broad range of contemporary practices.

More info on FAD Magazine

24/05/2026

This week’s Top 5 from is here 🎨

From Aleksandra Karpowicz transforming the realities of cancer treatment into a powerful and deeply personal exhibition, to Gabriel Abrantes’ ghostly and darkly funny films at Gasworks, Tabish Khan rounds up the London shows worth seeing right now.

Also featuring:
✨ Racheal Crowther at Chisenhale Gallery
✨ Eleanor May Watson at Soho R***e
✨ South Open 4 at OHSH Projects

Read the full round-up now on FAD Magazine

22/05/2026

Roni Horn returns to London for her first solo exhibition in a decade with Seizure of Hope at Hauser & Wirth.

Bringing together more than 45 new works on paper and a rare cast-glass sculpture, the exhibition centres around a repeated phrase: “I am paralyzed with hope.” Drawn, rewritten and blurred into shifting forms, Horn transforms language into something fluid, unstable and deeply emotional.

Running from 21st May – 1st August 2026. London

21/05/2026

Every National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale… reviewed in one sentence. 😅

While in Venice I attempted the impossible: seeing almost every national pavilion across Giardini, Arsenale and all the off-site locations scattered across the city.

What followed was a mix of art criticism, first impressions, exhaustion, confusion, delight and an increasing need for pizza.

From robot calligraphy and flying carpets to rubble, textiles and a chocolate Russell Crowe, here’s my rapid-fire guide to this year’s Biennale by Tabish Khan.

Read the full story on FAD Magazine

19/05/2026

The Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale returns to London for its sixth edition with WITH MY ROOTS, bringing together emerging and established Iranian artists from across the world.

Opening at Mall Galleries, the exhibition arrives at a particularly significant moment, creating space for conversations around identity, displacement, memory and cultural continuity through painting, photography, digital art, installation and video.

At the heart of the programme is Eternal Iran, exploring the country’s rich artistic heritage and how cultural identity continues to evolve across generations and borders. Alongside this, Art of Conflict presents works by artists currently living in Iran, offering deeply personal perspectives shaped by present realities.

📍 Mall Galleries, London
📅 23–30 May 2026
🕙 Open daily 10am–5pm
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15/05/2026

Photo London 2026 arrives at Olympia with a new sense of scale — and one of the strongest editions yet.

From Jo Ann Callis’ uncanny domestic scenes and Zofia Rydet’s powerful portraits of Eastern European life to Baud Postma’s AI-generated western landscapes and Edward Burtynsky’s painterly environmental photographs, this year’s fair explores photography’s shifting relationship to memory, technology, politics and time.

Paul Carey-Kent picks out the standout works, artists and themes from across the fair, including feminism, colonial histories, AI image-making and experimental photographic processes.

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Read the full review now on FAD Magazine.

15/05/2026

Five art fairs. Two days. One city overflowing with contemporary art.

From Frieze and NADA to Independent, 1-54 and Esther III, this year’s New York Art Fair Week revealed a growing return to craft, texture and materiality. Textiles, sculpture and hand-built forms dominated the fairs, while many artists pushed back against digital flatness and AI aesthetics through deeply physical works rooted in identity, history and storytelling.

Highlights included Kelly Tapia-Chuning’s deconstructed serapes at NADA, Alex Burke’s sculptural textile figures at 1-54, Eleanor Conover’s earth-laden canvases at Independent, and the immersive curation of Esther III.

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Read the full review now on FAD Magazine.

15/05/2026

Photo London 2026 marks a significant new chapter for the fair with its move to Olympia — and one of its strongest editions to date.

This year’s presentations explored environmental collapse, AI image-making, feminism, colonial histories and the evolving nature of photography itself. Standout works included Edward Burtynsky’s monumental Australian minescapes, Baud Postma’s AI-generated western imagery translated through analogue processes, and Ingrid Pollard’s reworking of colonial-era Jamaican postcards.

Paul Carey-Kent’s review for FAD Magazine examines the artists, themes and photographic practices that defined this year’s edition, alongside reflections on the fair’s ambitious new setting.

Read the full article on FAD Magazine.

Baud Postma: Untitled (Horses I), 2025 Conversations at this year’s Photo London (14th-17th May) often started with evaluation of the 11th edition’s move