November is off to a strong start, with a flurry of fairs, biennials, and exhibitions marking milestones across continents: from Helsinki and Cologne to Taipei. Here’s your round-up of what’s happening this week.
🎨 Alic Brock: When Shadows Forget Their Master
📍 Plato Gallery, 202 Bowery, New York | Through 15 November 2025
Alic Brock paints like someone flipping through the photo album of a dream. Using airbrush and acrylic, the artist collages fragments of memory into surreal Americana, think gas stations, motel signs, and desert skies, all blurred and beautiful in their dislocation. When Shadows Forget Their Master invites viewers into that liminal world where nostalgia and invention meet.
🇩🇪 ART COLOGNE Returns
📍 Koelnmesse, Cologne | 7–10 November 2024
Europe’s oldest art fair returned this week, bringing with it the buzz of collectors, curators, and the simply curious. The vernissage opens this evening, 7 November, followed by public days from 8–10 November. Expect a full programme of daily art talks, public tours (including special kids’ editions over the weekend), and a series of prize ceremonies celebrating Christian and Karen Boros, Anna Boghiguian, Thea Kleinhempel, and more. 👉 Full programme and tickets at artcologne.com
🇬🇧 The Long Now at Saatchi Gallery
📍 Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London | Through 1 March 2026
Celebrating forty years of contemporary art at Saatchi, The Long Now bridges the gallery’s defining moments with a new generation of voices. Expect Richard Wilson’s iconic installation 20:50, alongside works by Jenny Saville, Olafur Eliasson, Polly Morgan, Gavin Turk, and more. It’s both a retrospective and a renewal, a testament to the endurance of experimentation.
👉 @saatchi_gallery
🌏 Taipei Biennial 2025: Whispers on the Horizon
📍 Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Through 29 March 2026
The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial gathers 72 artists from 37 cities, tracing how realist photography in the 1980s Taiwan paved the way for the island’s New Wave cinema. Whispers on the Horizon explores how local and global narratives intertwine — intimate, political, and cinematic all at once. Expect a show that listens as much as it speaks.
👉 @tfam_museum
🇫🇮 Tove Jansson: The Moomins and the Architecture of Home
📍 🗓️ Architecture & Design Museum, Helsinki | Through 27 Sep 2026
To celebrate 80 years of the much-loved Moomins, @arkkitehtuuri_ja_designmuseo has opened a new retrospective on the life and work of Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson. The exhibition unites architects and designers to explore how the Moomins’ challenges mirror our own, perhaps explaining why our bond with Jansson’s gentle characters remains so enduring.
