20 must-see exhibitions that are closing this summer

Through September 3, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town is hosting When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, an exhibition exploring black self-representation and celebrating black subjectivity and consciousness from pan-African and pan-diasporic perspectives. More than two hundred paintings from 26 countries tell the story of how artists of African descent have imagined and told the story of a continent and its descendants around the world, highlighting parallel aesthetic dimensions - as curator Koyo Kouoh calls them - that have arisen from the relationship between artists and works in different geographic, generational, and conceptual contexts.

The first solo exhibition in Switzerland by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo (Bogota, 1958) is on view through September 17 at Fondation Beyeler: eight series of works from international institutions and private collections describe her work, which faces the consequences of globalization, violent conflicts around the world and social injustice. While Salcedo's ready-mades, sculptures and installations arise from an interest in specific events in recent and past history, they take on a universal significance that is often made explicit in the artist's reflections on individual suffering and the processing of collective pain.

Tomás Saraceno's first solo exhibition in England, entitled Web(s) of Life, is an invitation to consider multiple forms of knowledge and nonhuman perspectives through a series of artworks and experiences. The Argentine artist and architect's work embraces interdisciplinarity and the interconnection of ecosystems. The project presented at the Serpentine Gallery, through September 10, builds on Saraceno's longstanding research into the world of spiders as a source of inspiration. Visitors are here invited to consider the longterm effects of local actions, digital interactions and capitalism, in search of new ways of coexisting on our planet.

Isaac Julien's first retrospective in England, titled What Freedom Is to Me, is an ambitious exhibition that portrays the breadth of the British artist's pioneering work in film and installations, from the beginning of his career in the 1980s to the present. The artist's critical thinking and the ability of his work to break down barriers between different artistic languages are the focus of this major exhibition at Tate Britain through August 10. Among the installations presented is Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement 2019, which celebrates the figure of this great architect who dedicated her life to promoting the cultural and social potential of art, architecture and design.

C/O Berlin is hosting until September 7 one of the largest retrospectives ever dedicated to photographer Daido Moriyama, for the first time in Europe, organized by Instituto Moreira Salles in collaboration with the Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation. The sixty-year career of the great Japanese photographer is traced through more than two hundred photographs and large-scale installations, which tell how even today, his pioneering spirit in art and his visual intensity remain innovative.

More than a hundred vintage prints in dialogue with a selection of Johan van der Keuken's short films are on view at the Jeu De Paume in Paris through September 17 for the retrospective Le Rythme des Images. The study of movement and rhythm through photography and film has characterized the long career of the Dutch filmmaker and photographer, who has never been afraid to experiment even in the representation of feelings. In the works on display, a very direct contact with reality emerges, as well as his free and open editing style of experimentation, constantly searching for new visual languages.

South Korean artist Haegue Yang's first solo exhibition in a Belgian institution is on view through September 10 at S.M.A.K., Ghent. Her refined approach to art, which is revealed in large-scale sculptures and installations as well as works on paper and video, is among the most recognizable and interesting in contemporary art. In Several Reenactments the artist investigates the dark and intense qualities of the mechanism of repetition, which is very present in his work. A process of continuous movement of interconnection between the works themselves and between the visitor and the works.

The museum as a place where the relationship between humans and planet earth finds new coordinates and modes of interaction: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's vision is on view in Finland for the first time at Kiasma in Helsinki through September 10. The immersive installation attracts visitors through an exceptional use of light and color, engaging all the senses. An opportunity for the Spanish artist to play with visitors' senses and overturn all customary ways of seeing and experiencing his works.

For his first exhibition in Asia, Alex Da Corte presents eleven video installations accompanied by other works, some of which are new and made especially for the occasion. His images projected on large screens appear light, humorous and amusing, but also possess a mysterious charm that plays with the viewers' minds. Fresh Hell is an exhibition that also explores the relationship between desire, memory and perception, which has defined consumer culture in our contemporary society, in which the overabundance of stimuli and images engulfs us without being able to resist.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris continues its exploration of the world of Jean Michel Basquiat - begun in 2018 - with the exhibition Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands in which the collaboration between the American artist and Andy Warhol is at the center of the narrative. More than three hundred works and documents, including the eighty canvases made "four hands" jointly signed by the two artists, tell of a conversation between the two that "takes place through paint, rather than words." The context of 1980s New York is also evoked through the presence of works by other artists such as Futura 2000, Michael Halsband, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, and Kenny Scharf. The exhibition will run through August 28.

For the past two decades, Cao Fei's projects have explored the human experience of the everyday by intersecting surreal and spectacular dimensions to delve into what it means to be human nowadays, when technology is increasingly invading human space. The Chinese artist's works arrive in Berlin, for the exhibition Duotopia at Sprüth Magers Gallery, where they will be on display until August 19, 2023. The exhibition space hosts several works that, following Cao Fei's practice, expand into the metaverse, virtual reality and machine interaction.

An exhibition designed as a playlist of love songs to dedicate to a loved one, Love Songs includes photographic works that in their own way narrate different visions of intimacy and love. The exhibition hosts several series of photographs made between 1952 and 2022 by some of the best-known photographers of our time, who have also dedicated their work to exploring love, with its complexities and controversies. Curated by Sara Raza, the exhibition will be on view through September 11 at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Through September 3, Stockholm's Moderna Museet is hosting works by the legendary Laurie Anderson, a pioneer of multimedia experimentation. In the exhibition Looking into a Mirror Sideways the American artist explores the potential for presenting new narrative modes in museum space. Works from recent decades and new productions, for a reflection on time and existence, the present and the future.

On August 12, the unmissable exhibition that MoMA New York has dedicated to Georgia O' Keeffe will draw to a close. Watercolors, charcoals, pastels and pencil drawings, in her works on paper O'Keeffe explores new forms and phenomena, from abstract rhythms to natural cycles. Approximately one hundred and twenty works, created over more than forty years, tell the story of how the artist developed and explored subjects in which the line between observation and abstraction becomes increasingly blurred.

Pure Painting is the exhibition that the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth devotes to the works of the American artist who made a fundamental incisive mark on postwar painting, Robert Motherwell. More than fifty works created using a variety of techniques are featured in the museum's collection, which has long-standing ties to the American painter. Curated by Susan Davidson, the exhibition aims to highlight the evolution of Motherwell's painting with a path from the abstract-figurative works of the first decade of his career, through all the key series that defined his artistic body of work. Through September 17, 2023.

Bangkok's SAC Gallery, through August 19, is hosting a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Akira Ishiguro, featuring previously unseen works from his latest series, twenty paintings of his dystopian-inspired landscapes. His passion for geology has led him to develop a unique perspective of the world: the paintings in the Marblesque series depict the thermal metamorphosis that occurs in the formation of the technosphere, as a geological formation peculiar to the Anthropocene that will fascinate geologists of the future.

At the Leeum Museum in Seoul (whose buildings are signed by three European architects, Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, and Rem Koolhaas), Irish artist John Gerrard's installation Farm (Council Bluffs, Iowa) (2015) will be on view until August 20: a work made using 3D technology and based on a game engine representing a simulation of a Google data center, updated in real time. The artist enacts the metaphor of the data center as a huge farm where the Internet is being cultivated, by the billions of users who are constantly online, and Gerrard's project makes this infrastructure visible. Using 3-D computer graphics to create simulations and visual worlds, the artist presents a work that shows the gigantic physical foundations underlying seemingly intangible data.

The New Museum's summer programming presents a great solo exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, through September 17. The second floor of the Japanese Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA-designed building hosts Osorio's sculptures and installations rooted in the political, social, and cultural issues of Latino and working-class communities in the US. Many iconic large-scale works made from the 1990s to the present are at the core of an exhibition that chronicles the artist's inclusive environments, that illustrate personal stories as metaphors for larger social issues.

MoMA PS1 through September 4 is hosting the first solo exhibition in the United States of Finnish photographer Iiu Susiraja (b. 1975), A Style Called A Dead Fish. Over fifty photographs and videos unfold Susiraja's practice since 2008, when she began photographing and filming herself in interior spaces. In her images, often set in her apartment in Turku, the city where she has lived most of her life, Susiraja selects objects to accompany her image in the scene, both familiar and funny. In this exhibition, the artist highlights her unique way of navigating between slapstick and deadpan as she explores self-representation between physical and psychological interiors.

A master of early 20th-century art on view through August 20 in Tallin, at the Estonian venue of Fotografiska. Light Play is the title of the exhibition, which brings together sixty-eight works ranging from his early experiments in photomontage, made between 1922 and 1945, to stills, personal images taken on trips to Europe and the United States, color photographs from his later career (including rare images of the artist himself and unpublished photographs of his sculptures) and two films. This photographic exhibition highlights a lesser-known side of László Moholy-Nagy, historically known for his work in painting, sculpture, and design.