Group exhibitions May-September 2026

Current Exhibition 22.06.26

Group exhibitions May-September 2026

Summer is often an opportunity to travel to destinations near and far.

This summer, two group exhibitions and two new displays featuring works by Zao Wou-Ki are on offer for holidaymakers and art lovers alike:

1/ Shenzen Bay Culture Square, Shenzen, China

The new cultural space in Shenzhen presents, from 1^st May to 16 August 2026, exhibition “Through centuries: Masterpieces of French tapestry and Chinese resonances”. A selection of more than 40 French tapestries from the Mobilier national is presented alongside contemporary Chinese creations. An unprecedented dialogue is thus proposed: the works of Matisse, Picasso, Zao Wou-Ki, as well as Delaunay and Vasarely, carried by the excellence of the French manufacturing workshops, respond to the centuries-old traditions of Chinese weaving.

View of the “Through centuries: Masterpieces of French tapestry and Chinese resonances” exhibition at Shenzhen Bay Culture Square. In the centre, one of Zao Wou-Ki’s tapestries presented in this exhibition. Photo: All rights reserved

Link to the exhibition

2/ Museum of Modern Art, Troyes, France

The Book of English Elegies refers to a collection of poems that Léopold Sedar Senghor assembled in 1975 and entrusted to major contemporary painters for illustration. Alfred Manessier, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou-Ki, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Étienne Hajdu extend and interpret the poetic word through engravings and lithographs.

First exhibited in 1978 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, then at the Musée du Quai Branly in 2023 during the exhibition dedicated to Léopold Sedar Senghor, these works have since joined the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Troyes and are being presented for the first time in the new prints and drawings gallery. They offer an exceptional example of the fruitful dialogue between poetry and the visual arts.

“Léopold Senghor: Art and poetry in the 20^th century” is an exhibition on view until 6 September 2026 at the Troyes Museum of Modern Art.

Poster for the “Léopold Senghor: Art and poetry in the 20^th century” exhibition

About the exhibition

3/ New hang at British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Since the beginning of June, a selection of prints by Zao Wou-Ki has been on display in the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery at the British Museum, alongside significant pieces tracing the history of China from 5000 BC to the present day. Wind and dust (1957), along with three colour etchings and aquatints dating from 1969, 1971 and 1978, offer visitors an insight into the art of Zao Wou-Ki and complement the showcasing of the culture and richness of Chinese art. These graphic works, which are therefore fragile, will be replaced at the beginning of December by another selection of prints by Zao Wou-Ki, also donated in 2021 by Françoise Marquet-Zao, to add to the collection of works by Zao Wou-Ki already held at the famous encyclopaedic museum in London.

View of Zao Wou-Ki’s prints, new display at the British Museum. Photo Luk Yu-Ping

Link to the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery at the British Museum

4/ New hang at Orléans Fine Arts Musem, France

The city of Orléans takes a new step in the reorganisation of its Fine Arts Museum, which began in 2016 and will be completed at the end of September 2026. While waiting for this major project to be finished, 20^th-century galleries reopened a large part of their spaces on Friday 12 June, after a six-month closure.

125 works are spread across twelve rooms and spaces that lead the visitor through the great movements from the late 19^th century to modern and contemporary art, among them Lyrical Abstraction, Narrative Figuration, and French pop art. Among these works, 03.12.74 is a large, nearly square oil on canvas by Zao Wou-Ki, offering the eye a space flooded with light and open to contemplation.

Current Exhibition 22.06.26