Beat the heat: exhibitions to see this summer
Explore our guide to summer exhibitions that include works by UBS Art Collection artists
This summer, works by UBS Art Collection artists can be found in landmark exhibitions across Europe and the United States, from James Turrell’s immersive fields of light in Denmark to Andy Warhol’s intimate Polaroids in New York, from Anish Kapoor’s expansive installations in London to Cao Fei’s digital futures in Basel.
Follow our shortlist like an itinerary—along the way, you'll encounter monumental sculptures, immersive environments, intimate portraits and visionary digital worlds to enrich your summer travels.
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery, London
Until October 18th, 2026
Begin in London, where Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery for a major exhibition spanning new and seminal works across the entire gallery and its terraces.
Kapoor’s practice has long explored the tension between material and immaterial, presence and disappearance, volume and void. At the Hayward, visitors encounter works that press against walls, descend from ceilings and transform architectural space into a sensory field. The exhibition is an encounter between body, object and architecture and traces the fragile boundary between what is seen, sensed and imagined.
You can also encounter the Turner Prize-winning artist’s work in Venice, where a concurrent exhibition presented on the occasion of the Venice Biennale is on view at Palazzo Manfrin until August 8th, 2026.
A work by Lucy Skaer at the Sainsbury Centre, Norfolk
Until October 4th, 2026
The UBS Art Collection has loaned a watercolor, ‘Cell #1 (with rules and exceptions),’ by British artist Lucy Skaer for this exhibition, which places contemporary art in dialogue with medieval objects and ideas.
Rooted in “The Rule of St Benedict,” a 6th century guide for communal living, the exhibition reflects on the “rules” that shape life today—from routine and regulation to shared forms of work, belief and care. Medieval artifacts are shown together with works by contemporary artists including Tacita Dean, Andrea Büttner, Ingrid Pollard, Elizabeth Price and Danh Vo.
James Turrell at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
Permanent installation
A celebration of light and color, James Turrell’s ‘As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace’ (2025) has been permanently installed at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark. Measuring 16 meters in height and 40 meters in diameter, the work is Turrell’s largest Skyspace in a museum context and invites visitors to immerse themselves in color.
A central circular window opens the architecture of a vast domed chamber to the sky, while Turrell’s precisely calibrated light sequences bathe the space in color. Turrell has described his practice as shaping “the context of vision,” and this installation makes that idea tangible as the artist asks us to reconsider the act of seeing through light, atmosphere and time.
Lucian Freud at the Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Until September 27th, 2026
Stay in Denmark and travel to Humlebæk, where the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents “Lucian Freud – Everything is a Portrait.”
The exhibition focuses on Freud’s lifelong fascination with faces and bodies, tracing his work from the 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century and bringing together drawing and previously unseen archival research.
The show’s title echoes Freud’s own belief that “everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait,” suggesting that even the most ordinary subject can become a record of presence, intimacy and time.
Cao Fei at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Until October 11th, 2026
For anyone still missing Art Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel offers another major reason to visit the city: “Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future,” the artist’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland and her largest survey exhibition in Europe to date.
A leading voice in contemporary Chinese art, Cao Fei works in video, digital media, photography, installation and sculpture. At Kunstmuseum Basel, she transforms the building into a total work of art in the form of a city, blending immersive installations and video universes from nearly three decades of practice—an oeuvre that captures the strange beauty, humor and possibility of a globalized world in flux.
“Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Until September 20th, 2026
Crossing the Atlantic, the next stop is Washington, D.C., where the National Gallery of Art asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be American?
“Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience” brings together more than 100 works on paper spanning 250 years, considering the American experience through depictions of land, community and freedom. Artists represented include Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Carleton Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Ansel Adams, Gordon Parks, Ruth Asawa and many others. Don’t miss photographs by Arthur Rothstein and Marion Post Wolcott from the UBS Art Collection’s donation of ‘Land Use in America’ themed works to the NGA.
Ruscha’s work has long distilled the visual language of America—its roads, signs, gas stations and cinematic horizons—into images that feel both familiar and mysterious. In the context of this group show, his work becomes part of a larger conversation about national identity: not as a fixed answer, but as a set of shifting images, symbols and experiences.
Haegue Yang at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Until August 2nd, 2026
From Washington, continue west to Los Angeles, where MOCA presents “Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous.” The exhibition brings together the work of the Seoul and Berlin-based artist with her engagement with the Korean composer Isang Yun, unfolding as a collaboration between MOCA and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Yang’s practice often transforms everyday materials into complex sensory systems. Composed with materials including aluminum venetian blinds, moving lights and sound, Yang’s installation ‘Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun’ (2024) creates an immersive environment in which visual abstraction meets musical composition.
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum, New York
Until October 19th, 2026
End the journey in New York with “Andy Warhol Family Album” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition presents Polaroid photographs from 1972–73, drawn from one of six Holson “family albums” that Warhol assembled as a personal archive. These images capture collaborators, celebrities, friends, visitors to his home in Montauk, travels in Europe and even his dog Archie.
After a journey through sculpture, medieval manuscripts, light, portraiture, digital worlds, national identity and sound, Warhol returns us to the image—instant, social, personal and endlessly reproducible. His “family album” reminds us that art is often from the everyday acts of looking, recording and remembering.
Throughout this summer itinerary, these UBS Art Collection artists invite us to experience museums as places of reflection and discovery. From Kapoor’s organic forms to Turrell’s changing skies, from Freud’s intimate portraits to Cao Fei’s speculative cities, each exhibition proposes a different way of moving through the world.
So, whether your travels take you to London, Norfolk, Aarhus, Humlebæk, Basel, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles or New York, step inside.