Explore current and upcoming exhibitions highlighting Fluxus and Fluxus artists held in 2026. We will update this list throughout the year. Whether you discover these exhibitions while on vacation or plan a special journey to experience them, each offers a unique window into this fascinating art network and the myriad ways of exhibiting it. Have we overlooked an exhibition? We would be delighted to hear from you at activatingfluxus@gmail.com to keep this resource current.
PRESENT AND UPCOMING
france
Frac Sud – Cité de l’art contemporain, Marseille
The Ecology of Relationships—The Forest Is the Lover of the Sea
February 7, 2026— November 15, 2026
The Ecology of Relationships – The Forest in Love with the Sea brings together Japanese artists across generations to explore the emotional, ecological, and memorial ties that connect us to our environments. The exhibition includes works by Fluxusa artists Yoko Ono and Mieko Shiomi, alongside Keita Mori, Lieko Shiga, Atsuko Tanaka, and others, tracing ideas of interdependence, memory, and our relationship with the living world.
La Fondation du doute, Blois
Throughout 2026
This permanent Fluxus exhibition—the only one of its kind in France—presents around 350 works and documents by nearly 50 artists, including Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, and Wolf Vostell. Organised around eleven key Fluxus themes, it explores the movement’s playful, experimental, interdisciplinary, and international spirit.
Germany
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE Field Test #5: Saito – Ay-O
November 20, 2025—November 22, 2026
Field Test #5: Saito – Ay-O concludes Museum Abteiberg’s experimental series exploring Fluxus works from the ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE. Featuring playful works by Takako Saito, Ay-O, Tomas Schmit, André Thomkins, and others, the presentation highlights the central role of games, participation, and experimentation in Fluxus while inviting visitors to help shape the collection’s future display.
Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich
August 5, 2026—September 1, 2026
A solo exhibition of John Cage, the influential American composer, artist, and leading figure of the postwar avant-garde. Known for his experimental use of chance, silence, and unconventional sound, Cage profoundly influenced contemporary music, performance, and Fluxus.
documenta archiv, Kassel
Bazon Brock — 90 Years in Action
June 2, 2026—September 11, 2026
The documenta archive celebrates Bazon Brock’s 90th birthday with a presentation exploring the influential Fluxus pioneer, art theorist, and inventor of Action Teaching. Bringing together objects, films, photographs, and archival materials, the exhibition highlights Brock’s long relationship with documenta, with particular focus on his performances and groundbreaking visitor schools.
museum Fluxus+, Potsdam
Permanent Fluxus Documentation
Throughout 2026
Permanent historical presentation tracing the movement around Maciunas and its subsequent legacy.
Greece
FluxusMuseum, Paros
Again and Again and Again: A Fluxus Reading Room
June 12, 2026—September 31, 2026
A Fluxus reading room brings together books, scores, multiples, and archival objects in the museum’s cinema space, accompanied by a continuous screening of the FluxFilm Anthology courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2026
June 12, 2026—September 31, 2026
The third edition of the FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video presents works by eleven artists and collectives selected from more than 600 international submissions. Shown across the museum throughout the summer, the exhibition features single-channel and multi-screen video works and supports participating artists through development funding, fees, and awards totalling €45,000.
italy
Fellini Museum / Palazzo del Fulgor, Rimini
Antonio D’Agostino: Fluxus Images — Photographs from the 1970s, Basel
August 30—September 30, 2026
.Antonio D’Agostino. Fluxus Images: Photographs from the 1970s – Basel presents black-and-white photographs documenting Fluxus at the 1974 Basel Art Fair. Capturing performances, gestures, artists, and audience interactions, D’Agostino’s images offer a vivid record of a moment when Fluxus brought art, music, poetry, and everyday life into direct and often provocative exchange.
Korea
Nam June Paik Art Centre, Yongin
Moons: The Bright Rainbow Dots
July 16, 2026—October 4, 2026
Moons brings Nam June Paik’s “planetary thinking” into dialogue with contemporary artists to explore new ways of imagining the moon, Earth, and the wider cosmos. Featuring works including The Moon is the Oldest TV, Neptune, and Turtle, the exhibition moves beyond an Earth-centred perspective to consider shifting viewpoints, light, distance, and our place within the universe.
Nam June Paik Art Centre, Yongin
Nam June Paik: Stars, Trigrams
July 16, 2026—February 14, 2027
This major Paik exhibition centred on Venus, Sirius and Rocketship to Virtual Venus, exploring Paik’s conjunction of cosmology, electronic media and systems of signs.
Multiple sites, Seoul
DMAF 2026 — Nam June Paik, Imagine 100 Years
July 20, 2026—August 30, 2026
DMAF 2026 celebrates the legacy of pioneering media artist Nam June Paik, bringing his visionary ideas into dialogue with contemporary digital and AI-based art. Marking 20 years since Paik’s death, the festival explores how his experimental approach to technology, communication, and media continues to shape art today.
UNITED STATES
Shirley Fiterman Art Centre, New York
June 10, 2026—August 15, 2026
At the Edge highlights the groundbreaking work of Carolee Schneemann, presenting four major works that reflect her radical approach to the body, performance, politics, and image-making. Her work appears alongside that of eleven other artists and one collective who similarly challenge established definitions of art and culture.
The Broad, Los Angeles
May 23, 2026—October 11, 2027
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind traces more than seven decades of Yoko Ono’s groundbreaking career, from her early text-based works in the 1950s and ’60s to recent large-scale installations informed by her ongoing campaigns for world peace. Organised in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, the exhibition—Ono’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California—explores her radical approach to art, language, and participation, challenging conventional ideas about the roles of artist and audience. Throughout the exhibition, Ono’s celebrated “instruction” pieces invite you to become a part of the art itself. Tie a wish to an olive tree. Hammer a nail into a painting. Write a note about your mother. Sometimes the work unfolds through physical action; other times, it takes shape in your imagination.
Grey Art Museum, New York
by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960-2022)
September 9, 2026—January 30, 2027
A founding member of Fluxus and a major figure of the postwar avant-garde, this exhibition together around 200 of Knowles’ works. The exhibition traces six decades of experimentation across performance, sound, sculpture, print, poetry, installation, and book art, including landmark projects such as The Big Book, The Identical Lunch, The House of Dust, and Make a Salad.
PAST
China
West Bund Museum / Centre Pompidou, Shanghai
September 25 — February 22, 2026
Fluxus, by Chance explores Fluxus’ rejection of traditional, unique objects in favour of experimental and idea-based practices. The exhibition also traces Fluxus back to Dada and looks at its influence on later artists, including Jonathan Monk, Claude Closky, Huang Yong Ping, and Geng Jianyi.
Denmark
Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Alison Knowles: Retrospective 1960-2022
April 25, 2026—July 26, 2026
Alison Knowles: A Retrospective 1960-2022 presents six decades of work by the pioneering Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. The exhibition highlights her experimental use of everyday materials, event scores, performance, poetry, sound, and participatory installations, showing how she combined Fluxus’s playful spirit with sensory and social experiences. Several of her key performances are also restaged as part of the exhibition.
france
MAMC+, Saint-Étienne
Alison Knowles: A Retrospective
November 8, 2025—March 15, 2026
Major retrospective of Alison Knowles, one of the central figures associated with Fluxus.
MAMC+, Saint-Étienne
La Galaxie Fluxus. Collection MAMC+
November 8, 2025—March 15, 2026
Le Galaxie Fluxus. Collection MAMC+ highlights the museum’s extensive Fluxus holdings, largely built through donations from Vicky Rémy and Ninon and François Robelin. Featuring more than one hundred works by around twenty artists, the exhibition traces the international network that reshaped ideas of art, authorship, and circulation.
MAMC+, Saint-Étienne
November 8, 2025—March 15, 2026
This display at the Jean Laude Library explores Vicky Rémy’s connections with the Fluxus movement through correspondence, posters, publications, photographs, and other archival materials. Echoing Le Galaxie Fluxus. Collection MAMC+ , it also pays special tribute to Ben Vautier, highlighting his vibrant artistic spirit and close ties to the Fluxus scene.
Germany
Museum Ludwig, Köln
Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly
October 3, 2025—January 11, 2026
Five Friends explores the close artistic and personal relationships between John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Bringing together works across art, music, and dance, the exhibition reveals how friendship, collaboration, and shared ideas shaped their influential contributions to postwar culture.
Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden
Fluxuriös! Kunst und Anti-Kunst der 1960er bis 1990er Jahre
November 8, 2025—March 8, 2026
Fluxuriös! Kunst und Anti-Kunst der 1960er bis 1990er Jahre explores Fluxus and action art as radical movements that blur the boundaries between art and everyday life. Featuring works by artists including George Brecht, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Takako Saito, Ben Vautier, and Wolf Vostell, the exhibition brings together performances, mail art, Fluxkits, multiples, graphic works, and archival materials to show Fluxus as a playful, open, and continually evolving artistic practice.
Barbara Wien, Berlin
March 7—April 15, 2026
This exhibition introduces the work and ideas of Robert Filliou, a central Fluxus figure known for concepts such as “Permanent Creation,” play, chance, and alternative forms of artistic exchange. The exhibition brings together original works, prints, multiples, books, texts, ephemera, film, and sound to explore Filliou’s experimental approach to art and everyday life.
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
MAKE NEW CREATURES TOGETHER – Fest für Takako Saito
May 30, 2026
A joyful tribute to Fluxus artist Takako Saito, celebrating her life, work, and collaborative spirit. At Kunstmuseum Bochum, performances, portraits, a picnic, a memory shop, and participatory activities bring her you and me principle to life.
italy
Galleria Susanna Orlando, Pietrasanta
YES WE FLUXUS! Party Chiari & Amicizie Fluxus
April 5—June 7, 2026
he exhibition celebrates Giuseppe Chiari, a key Florentine figure of Fluxus, on the centenary of his birth and the fiftieth anniversary of Susanna Orlando’s gallery. Centered on previously unseen works by Chiari, it brings them into dialogue with other artists and performers, highlighting the play, improvisation, chance, gesture, and fusion of art and life that define his practice.
Korea
Ewha Womans University / Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul
Nam June Paik, Ecologist of the Videosphere
May 11, 2026—May 16, 2026
Nam June Paik, Ecologist of the Videosphere celebrates Paik’s pioneering vision of media art and technology. Presented for Ewha Womans University’s 140th anniversary, the exhibition brings together media artworks and installations that explore Paik’s influential ideas about video, communication, and the interconnected media environment.
Switzerland
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
Daniel Spoerri «Wenn alle Künste untergehn…»
December 12, 2025—March 22, 2026
The Bündner Kunstmuseum presents a memorial exhibition dedicated to Daniel Spoerri, pioneer of Eat Art and a key figure of the Nouveaux Réalistes. Bringing together representative works, films, and archival documents, the exhibition highlights Spoerri’s lifelong exploration of food, dining, and everyday objects as artistic material, including his influential Trap Pictures and his groundbreaking Eat Art projects.
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
FLUXUS.GRAM – Event & Exhibition
February 28, 2026
The research project Activating Fluxus culminates in an exhibition and live event celebrating Fluxus’s playful and experimental spirit. Historical and contemporary Fluxus scores from FLUXUS.GRAM are presented and activated through performances, audience participation, discussions, and an open stage.
UNITED kingdom
Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester
February 6, 2026—June 7, 2026
This exhibition explores the legacy and continuing influence of Fluxus across visual art, dance, theatre, film, music, and performance. Featuring major works by John Cage, Alison Knowles, and Anna Halprin, the exhibition combines scores, documents, live performances, and changing installations to reflect Fluxus’s playful interdisciplinarity and the transient nature of performance.
UNITED STATES
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
October 18, 2025—February 22, 2026
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind traces more than seven decades of Yoko Ono’s groundbreaking career, from her early text-based works in the 1950s and ’60s to recent large-scale installations informed by her ongoing campaigns for world peace. Organised in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, the exhibition—Ono’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California—explores her radical approach to art, language, and participation, challenging conventional ideas about the roles of artist and audience. Throughout the exhibition, Ono’s celebrated “instruction” pieces invite you to become a part of the art itself. Tie a wish to an olive tree. Hammer a nail into a painting. Write a note about your mother. Sometimes the work unfolds through physical action; other times, it takes shape in your imagination.
Yale Centre for Collaborative Arts and Media, New Haven
February 24, 2026—February 26, 2026
A three-day interdisciplinary festival reactivates Fluxus through event scores, installations, happenings, and performances across Yale and New Haven. With an emphasis on contemporary activation, the program considers how Fluxus’s experimental and participatory spirit continues to resonate in artistic practice today.
Featured Image: George Maciunas, New Flux Year, 1983. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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