Art shows to leave the house for in January 2025

New year, new shows! As 2026 begins, I’m particularly excited about exhibitions leaning into world-building, memory, desire and resistance – whether speculative futures, unsettled histories or intimacy, image-making and collective power.

A range of shows, from Meriem Bennani’s dystopian world-building staged inside a boxing gym in Morocco to Martin Parr’s posthumous reckoning with climate excess in Paris, what connects these shows isn’t a shared theme so much as ahellip;