Pierre Huyghe: Liminal expands on the French artist’s well-established and immersive artistic practice, engaging with relevant topics such as the relationship between the human and the non-human and the dichotomic realms of biology and technology. While this sophisticated show offers a unique aesthetic experience to visitors, it also provides a space for introspection and reflection on the future of humankind in the context of the ongoing ecological crisis.

Presented by London’s Unit Gallery, In Praise of Black Errantry proposes a counter-discourse about Black cultural production. Featuring 19 artists from Afro-diasporic contexts, the group exhibition alludes to the Martinique-born French writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s approach to the notion of errantry by emphasising the revolutionary and radical political nature of the works on display.

At Palazzo Grassi, Julie Mehretu: Ensemble presents an overview of Julie Mehretu’s extensive painterly practice in conversation with different artists who are her closest friends and collaborators or have somehow inspired her as an artist. The result is an expansive and stimulating exhibition that looks at the underlying elements behind Mehretu’s creative process through more than fifty works alongside the works of artists such as Tacita Dean, David Hammons, and Huma Bhabha, to name but a few.

The exhibition William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot provides a privileged view of Kentridge’s intimate artistic activities. Drawing on his periods of confinement whilst the pandemic, the show rethinks the relationship between the studio and the domestic and inner life of the artist through a range of personal objects such as drawings, diaries, writings, and poems. This rather small exhibition therefore operates as a studio, and visitors are encouraged to experience an intriguing space while delving into Kentridge’s brilliant mind.

This is the largest retrospective of Willem de Kooning ever held in Italy, and it traces the influence of Italy on the Dutch-American artist, famous for his role in abstract expressionism in the US. The exhibition focuses on two separate periods that de Kooning spent in Italy, in 1959 and 1969, demonstrating the impressive variety of motifs, techniques, and mediums utilised by the artist. The show also highlights his vivid relationship with different environments, captured through a series of paintings and sculptures that illustrate de Kooning’s visual encounters in the country.

The monographic exhibition Yoo Youngkuk: A Journey to the Infinite pays tribute to the life and work of Korean artist Yoo Youngkuk, a pioneering abstract artist interested in exploring the realms of geometric abstraction in tandem with glimpses of figuration. The show features paintings that are being displayed outside Korea for the first time, including archival records and documents that provide an insight into Youngkuk’s life and inspiring practice, influenced by the essence of natural elements and their surroundings.