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Viewing Mika Rottenberg, Vibrant Matter & Cindy Sherman The Women at Hauser & Wirth Menorca

The Wick Culture - Mika Rottenberg Spaghetti Blockchain (Video Still) 2019. © Mika Rottenberg Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Mika Rottenberg Spaghetti Blockchain (Video Still) 2019. © Mika Rottenberg Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The Wick Culture - Cindy Sherman Untitled #566 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Cindy Sherman Untitled #566 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The Wick Culture - Cindy Sherman Untitled #568 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Cindy Sherman Untitled #568 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Mika Rottenberg Spaghetti Blockchain (Video Still) 2019. © Mika Rottenberg Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Cindy Sherman Untitled #566 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Above Cindy Sherman Untitled #568 2016. © Cindy Sherman Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Mika Rottenberg, Vibrant Matter & Cindy Sherman The Women

Hauser & Wirth Menora
23 June – 26 October

If you’re in the Balearics this summer this double bill at Hauser & Wirth Menorca is worth a stop: side-by-side solo exhibitions that brings two contemporary art world titans to the pretty, uninhabited setting of Illa del Rei – ten minutes by boat from the port of Mahon in Menorca.

Both Mika Rottenberg and Cindy Sherman are known for their audacious image-making. Here, Rottenberg presents new and recent sculptures and video installations in Vibrant Matter, her first solo exhibition in Spain. The glowing Lampshares sculptures are a result of working with Inner City Green Team and Gary Dusek in New York, collecting and sorting the city’s waste. The sculptures include carved bittersweet vine and reclaimed plastic, reworked into beguiling, twisting mushroom-like shapes in Rottenberg’s signature bright palette.

Cindy Sherman’s The Women is the artist’s first show in Spain since the 1990s, curated by Tanya Barson. It features work spanning most of her career, starting with the more recent large-scale fashion and magazine commissions – like a spread created for Pop magazine using clothes from the Chanel archives. Working its way back through images that are eerily familiar and slowly get smaller the shows ends where Sherman began, while still a student at Buffalo in the 1970s, using makeshift props and staging that show how far she’s come.

Viewing Thirst: In Search of Freshwater at Wellcome Collection

The Wick Culture - M’hammed Kilito Before it's gone Photographic print © M’hammed Kilito Courtesy of the artist

Above M’hammed Kilito Before it’s gone Photographic print © M’hammed Kilito Courtesy of the artist

The Wick Culture - The Life-Giving Spring (Zoödochos Pege), c. 1700s Egg tempura paint, wood, gilding Courtesy of Wellcome Collection

Above The Life-Giving Spring (Zoödochos Pege), c. 1700s Egg tempura paint, wood, gilding Courtesy of Wellcome Collection

The Wick Culture - Adam Rouhana Ein Aouja, 2022 Photographic print © Adam Rouhana

Above Adam Rouhana Ein Aouja, 2022 Photographic print © Adam Rouhana

The Wick Culture - Chloe Dewe Mathews 11. Ganesh Visarjan, from ‘Thames Log’, 2015 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Above Chloe Dewe Mathews 11. Ganesh Visarjan, from ‘Thames Log’, 2015 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

The Wick Culture - Gilgamesh and Aga tablet, late 3rd Century BCE Clay Image provided by The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester.

Above Gilgamesh and Aga tablet, late 3rd Century BCE Clay Image provided by The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester.

The Wick Culture - Chloe Dewe Mathews 32. Mass Baptism, from ‘Thames Log’, 2013 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Above Chloe Dewe Mathews 32. Mass Baptism, from ‘Thames Log’, 2013 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Above M’hammed Kilito Before it’s gone Photographic print © M’hammed Kilito Courtesy of the artist

Above The Life-Giving Spring (Zoödochos Pege), c. 1700s Egg tempura paint, wood, gilding Courtesy of Wellcome Collection

Above Adam Rouhana Ein Aouja, 2022 Photographic print © Adam Rouhana

Above Chloe Dewe Mathews 11. Ganesh Visarjan, from ‘Thames Log’, 2015 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Above Gilgamesh and Aga tablet, late 3rd Century BCE Clay Image provided by The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester.

Above Chloe Dewe Mathews 32. Mass Baptism, from ‘Thames Log’, 2013 C-type print, dry mounted onto card © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

Wellcome Collection
26 June – 1 February, 2026

The Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition explores the human connection with freshwater – which makes up only 3% of the water on earth but is essential for the land and living beings. The exhibition takes a global, individual look at the universal role of freshwater through 125 objects ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to modern day London, looking at the water crisis and its consequences and solutions.

The show, curated by Janice Li, features a visually compelling and through-provoking range of approaches to the theme, from artistic work, new commissions, as well as artefacts, research and more. Wellcome have also partnered with Wonderwater to create a menu to reveal the water footprint behind what you order in the cafe.

Among the exhibition highlights are a transporting multimedia installation by Raqs Media Collective inspired by the incredible historic step wells of Rajasthan and Delhi – structures which can descend up to 100 feet, and were built to capture and store rainwater – some date back to 200 to 400 AD. Closer to home, see Chloe Dewe Mathews’ Thames Log, a photographic series that captures the daily routines and religious rituals of diverse communities that live along the River Thames.

Viewing More than Human at Design Museum

The Wick Culture - Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian (3)

Above Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian (3)

The Wick Culture - Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian

Above Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian

The Wick Culture - Alusta Pavilion_Photo by Maiju Suomi

Above Alusta Pavilion_Photo by Maiju Suomi

The Wick Culture - Micrographia by Johanna Seelemann. Credits Nicola Colella-Park Association

Above Micrographia by Johanna Seelemann. Credits Nicola Colella-Park Association

The Wick Culture - Basketry by the Ye'Kuana Tribe. Courtesy of the artists and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

Above Basketry by the Ye’Kuana Tribe. Courtesy of the artists and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

The Wick Culture - Kelp Council by Julia Lohmann. Courtesy Julia Lohmann Studio and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

Above Kelp Council by Julia Lohmann. Courtesy Julia Lohmann Studio and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

The Wick Culture - Pollinator Pathmaker in Human Vision 2023. Credit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Above Pollinator Pathmaker in Human Vision 2023. Credit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Above Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian (3)

Above Accalmie Table_© Corentin Mahieu x Bento x Sonian

Above Alusta Pavilion_Photo by Maiju Suomi

Above Micrographia by Johanna Seelemann. Credits Nicola Colella-Park Association

Above Basketry by the Ye’Kuana Tribe. Courtesy of the artists and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

Above Kelp Council by Julia Lohmann. Courtesy Julia Lohmann Studio and the Design Museum. Photo credit Richard Round-Turner

Above Pollinator Pathmaker in Human Vision 2023. Credit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

More than Human

Design Museum
11 July – 5 October 2025

Octopi, seaweed and giant hanging baskets – the Design Museum’s latest exhibition delights and surprises through radical rethinking of what it means to be human now. Created in collaboration with the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, Future Observatory, the exhibition’s premise is that for humankind to thrive, other species must too.

The show’s concept is rooted in the ‘more-than-human’ design movement, and focuses on the creations and thinking of more than fifty designers, artists, architects and tech experts working across the globe to think beyond human needs and habits to the wider living and natural world as a source of inspiration, guidance and knowledge.

This is all tracked through some 140 pieces on display and divided into three sections, each encouraging visitors to think about “how humans can relearn to design with and for the natural world in the face of climate emergency.” Look out for the octopi – by revered Japanese artist Shimabuku, and an immersive seaweed installation courtesy Julia Lohmann, created specially for the show. The incredible baskets, meanwhile, come from the artisans of the Ye’kuana community in the Venezuelan Amazon.