Lisson

On Friday 19 June, Shirazeh Houshiary will be in conversation with Sir Gabriele Finaldi as part of The National Gallery's Friday Lates series, to discuss her practice in relation to 17th-century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán.

Formal elements of Renaissance painting can be found in Houshiary’s work in her composition, rhythm, structure and depiction of light. This is particularly evident in her digital animation, ‘A Cup and a Rose’ (2019) inspired Zurbarán’s still-life painting ‘A Cup of Water and a Rose’ (1630). In 2008, Houshiary was commissioned to design the East Window installed above the altar of the neighbouring St Martin-in-the-Fields, for which she cited the painting ‘The Veil of St Veronica’, which features in the exhibition ‘Zurbarán’, as a source.

Their discussion is interspersed by choral performances by St Martin’s Voices, featuring a selection of sacred music chosen in response to the exhibition.

🗓️ Friday, 19 June, 6.30 – 7.45 pm

📍 Pigott Theatre, The National Gallery, London

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Image: Portrait of Shirazeh Houshiary © Shirazeh Houshiary, Courtesy Lisson

Now open: Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery where he staged his first major UK survey almost 30 years ago.

Kapoor’s exhibition fills the entire gallery building with a series of immersive works, many of which press against the gallery walls and floors or descend from the ceiling to create an uncanny sensation of awe and wonder.

The exhibition features works from many of Kapoor’s most iconic series: flawless steel mirror sculptures that warp, distort and disorient; mysterious objects coated in Vantablack – the blackest known substance in the world – that mystify us with their extraordinary light-absorbing properties; and seemingly depthless voids opening within the gallery, drawing us in with a thrilling sense of vertigo.

The exhibition also introduces dramatic recent works: visceral paintings and sculptures that confront us with the fragility of human existence. In addition, the artist presents several new works that appear to turn the world inside out and upside down, including a pair of monumental installations in the artist’s signature red.

🗓️ 16 June – 18 October 2026

📍Hayward Gallery, London

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Shown here: Installation view of Anish Kapoor, 2026. Photo: Dave Morgan. Courtesy of the Hayward Gallery and the artist. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026.

Now open: 'Laure Prouvost: Nous, frissons d’étoiles' at the Grand Palais.

At the entrance to the exhibition, a tunnel leads you into a environment inhabited by a monumental kinetic sculpture. Animated by sound and light, and possessing six limbs that unfold in space, it is simultaneously omnipresent and evanescent, imposing and fragile, cosmic and terrestrial. At its center, a video entitled 'We Felt A Star Dying' connects you to matter in all its forms: living and non-living, natural and mechanical, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. Surrounding it, whimsical, meteorite-like elements (a nod to qubits, the units of quantum computing), evoke the phenomenon of entanglement.

🗓️ On view through 26 July at the Grand Palais, Paris

🔗 Explore here: https://lissongallery.visitlink.me/8BNltd

Shown here: Laure Prouvost Nous, frissons d'étoiles, Grand Palais © Grégoire Edouard pour GrandPalaisRmn, 2026 © Adagp, Paris, 2026

On June 20 at 11:30am, Fondazione Querini Stampalia presents a special book launch to mark the release of the exhibition catalogue ‘Cosmotechnics: Ding Yi as a Planetary Code.’ The event features an in-depth conversation in the Auditorium between artist Ding Yi and curators Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera, followed by a guided tour led by the curators at Area Scarpa.

Published by Skira, this catalogue brings together a wide range of voices engaging with Ding Yi’s practice across history, philosophy, and architecture, featuring essays by Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera, Cristiana Collu, Shane McCausland, Kuiyi Shen, and Sumayya Vally. It is complemented by a rich visual corpus, including full installation views from Carlo Scarpa’s Area at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia and a career-spanning selection of works dating from the 1980s to the 2020s.

Free admission, registration required via Fondazione Querini Stampalia here: https://lissongallery.visitlink.me/N6zaz_

‘Cosmotechnics: Ding Yi as a Planetary Code’ is presented by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in collaboration with Lisson and ShanghART, and is on view until 22 November 2026.

Images: Installation views of ‘Cosmotechnics’ and ‘Appearance of Crosses’ details © Ding Yi. Photo by Alessandra Chemollo and George Darrell