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ArtReview January and February 2026

ArtReview January and February 2026

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In the January & February 2026 issue, ArtReview presents its annual Future Greats special, in which it asks artists and writers to nominate someone they feel is doing work that deserves more attention: artists to look out for in the years to come. Under the coverline ‘Life Outstrips Our Vocabulary’ (a quote from sometime ArtReview contributor John Berger, taken here as an argument for why one might look to art as a way to describe and perhaps understand the world), this edition highlights the work of six artists and collectives, from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America. The issue also includes profiles of the artists Emilija Škarnulyte and Berenice Olmedo; an evaluation of the posthuman present through the practices of three artists; an annotated extract of A Square’s (Edwin A. Abbott) 1884 text Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, columns on Black cultural value and the coming crisis in museology; reviews of current exhibitions from around the world; and a look at new books, from the latest English translation of Geetanjali Shree to the (invented) love letters of Jacques Lacan; and a comic strip by Woshibai.

What's inside the issue?

 
Art Observed
Black Cultural Value by Clive Chijioke Nwonka
Expanded Practice by Richard Phoenix
Collector / Collected by Jenny Wu
Creative Destruction by Alistair Hudson

Art Featured

Future Greats
Svetlana Romanova, selected by New Red Order
Leah Ke Yi Zheng, selected by Martin Herbert
Kopiisme, selected by Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
Kulpreet Singh, selected by Emily Jacir
Collin Sekajugo, selected by blaxTARLINES
Cocina Colaboratorio, selected by Campo Adentro

Emilija Škarnulyte by Stephanie Bailey
The Posthuman Present by Kat Benedict
Berenice Olmedo by Oliver Basciano
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square (Edwin A. Abbott) annotated by Chris Fite-Wassilak & Mark Rappolt


Art Reviewed

Exhibitions
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, by Kai Jabir Friese
My Barbarian, by Louis Bury
Leda Bourgogne, by Ramona Heinlein
Enrico David, by Mariacarla Molè
Joseph Yaeger, by Tom Denman
Peng Zuqiang, by Tendai Mutambu
Hito Steyerl, by J.J. Charlesworth
Iván Navarro, by Stephanie Bailey
Lygia Pape, by Mateus Nunes
Annika Kahrs, by Martin Herbert
Ava Woo Kaufman, by Jenny Wu
Seydou Keïta, by Qingyuan Deng
Made in L.A., by Claudia Ross
Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural, by Lydia Eliza Trail
Cheng Yen Pheng, by Ong Kar Jin
Vivono: Art and Feelings, HIV-AIDS­ in Italy. 1982–1996, by Mariacarla Molè
Sequences Real Time Art Festival XII, by Laura Robertson
Bridget Riley, by J.J. Charlesworth

Books
The Roof Beneath Their Feet, by Geetanjali Shree, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
The Once and Future Riot, by Joe Sacco, reviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
Envois / The Complete Correspondence: Love Letters from Jacques Lacan to Sharon Kivland, 1953–1981, by Sharon Kivland, reviewed by Frank Wasser
Terry Dactyl, by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, reviewed by Chiara Wilkinson
Some Monologues, by Tyler Coburn, reviewed by Michelle Santiago Cortés
Ai Weiwei on Censorship, by Ai Weiwei, reviewed by J.J. Charlesworth

Backpage
COMIC STRIP BY WOSHIBAI

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