Axis Gallery, NY & NJ

09/04/2026

Join us this fall for exciting exhibitions and artist talks! Don't miss out! 🎉

📸 Phyllis Galembo, 2022
Bailarines de la Danza de las Mascaritas,
Nochixtlán, Oaxaca

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07/02/2026

07/02/2026

We are delighted to announce that Gideon Mendel’s mendel new book dummy, “FLOOD & FIRE”, has been shortlisted for the dummy book award. Gideon worked with the legendary photo book designer .pez who has done an amazing job in interweaving the multiple narrative elements that Mendel has emphasized as part of his nineteen year climate focused project. Alongside him, .james.jaeckle from has beautifully integrated all the text elements. This is an extraordinary testament to Mendel’s long term project signaling his concerns in our heat wave times. Check this link 🔗 for a deeper dive into the shortlisted books.

For the 57th edition of the festival, the Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation are once again offering the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to

06/10/2026

03/30/2026

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03/26/2026

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02/10/2026

Kongo Astronauts’ “Waiting for the Sun SPACEWALKER”, 2023, has taken up permanent residence at the Seattle Art Museum amidst Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits” and a “Caterpillar Suit” by Walter Oltmann. According to curator Pamela McClusky, The KA Spacewalker stops many visitors in their tracks, before they move on to Monet’s “Water Lilies”—equally radical for its time—awaiting attention.

Kongo Astronauts construct their “Spacewalkers” from discarded electronic circuits loaded with gold, cobalt, copper and coltan, originally sourced from the mines in DRC and dumped back there. These fantastical performance constructions, reappropriate this e-waste, which Western countries ship to various countries on the African continent rather than paying to recycle. Kongo Astronauts’ innovation raising questions about the crises of late capitalism and climate change, has inspired an urban movement in Kinshasa of artists reactivating discarded materials.

If you’re in Seattle, Waiting for the Sun will light up your visit as part of the reinstallation of their permanent collection.

02/10/2026

Taking in visual connections, global and temporal overlaps with

02/06/2026

Happening now a public screening and Q&A with artist and director Hervé Youmbi’s of “Visages de masques” a film highlighting hid conceptual project that delves into the creation of hybrid masks designed to enrich and expand the canon of ritual societies in West Cameroon and beyond. The film highlights the characters, the challenges, and the rich collaborations that make it possible to produce formally ambiguous masks that move fluidly between the global contemporary art scene and African ritual ceremonial contexts. It interrogates the impact of colonization on the production of ritual life and masking in Africa today, and stands in opposition to the clichés and categorizations that confine the reception of signs and meanings from Africa. This film that focuses on the multiple relationships that collaborations entail, and profiles rich accounts from experts in the visual arts sector about the layers of meaning, critique, and innovation embedded in Youmbi’s unique vision. A taste of what is to come later this month when New African Masquerades opens at the San AntonioMuseum of Art