Athens turns up twice this week, once in a public park and once in a museum rehang, alongside live art running across Hong Kong.

This week

SNF Nostos 2026: Signal, Interference (Athens, Greece). A site-responsive group show in the public Stavros Niarchos Park, free to enter, built around infrastructure and public space with an ecological and political edge. 21 to 28 June 2026. snfnostos.org

Elsewhere in Me: Live Art in the City (Hong Kong). Para Site spreads four new site-specific performances across the city, free, reading the urban condition through animist and queer perspectives. 20 June to 6 December 2026. para-site.art

Also worth a look

Angewandte Festival 2026 (Vienna, Austria). The festival reclaims public space, closing Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz to traffic under the theme "unfinished business". Free. 1 to 4 July 2026. angewandtefestival.at

MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival (Berlin, Germany). The 18th edition gathers 235 independent publishers from 46 countries around the idea of bibliodiversity, at silent green Kulturquartier. 23 to 28 June 2026. missread.com

EMST Athens: South by Southeast – Re-Orienting the Collection (Athens, Greece). Katerina Gregos rehangs the museum away from the western-centric canon and toward the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. On view since 11 June 2026. emst.gr

Onomatopee: How matter comes to matter (Eindhoven, Netherlands). The third show in the five-year programme The Future Commons, on co-creation and living together. Open Friday to Sunday, 12:00 to 17:00. 13 June to 30 August 2026. onomatopee.net

On the horizon

Three openings this June worth logging:
- A Pop-up of A Pop-up (Shanghai)
- NOT NOT: An Office, An Exhibition (Brooklyn)
- Upstate Art Weekend (Beacon, New York).

Further out
- OFFSCREEN returns to Paris in October
- Sharjah Architecture Triennial opens in November.

Eight openings this week, most of them outdoors and built for their sites: a war ruin in Hamburg, an Arctic clock in Oulu, land art in Scotland, sound art outside Copenhagen.

This week

FIRE: From the Cosmos to the Commons (Hamburg, Germany). The second chapter of Joanna Warsza's five-year cycle on the elements, set inside the war ruin of St. Nikolai. Politically charged and built for the site. 21 June to 21 September, opening weekend 20 to 21 June. e-flux

Climate Clock (Oulu, Finland). Permanent landscape work in Arctic Finland on the climate, with pieces by Superflex and Gabriel Kuri. Free. Opens 13 June. oulu2026.eu

Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Water read as political power, postcolonial and ecological, curated by Àngels Miralda at Framer Framed. 19 June to 30 August. Framer Framed

Nine Days of Green (Virum/Copenhagen, Denmark). A new biennial for sound art in public space, turning a suburban square into an instrument for ecological listening. 18 to 27 June. ninedaysofgreen.dk

Lassonde Art Trail (Toronto, Canada). A new free outdoor art path along the water, opening in phases, with work on land, water, and Indigenous relations to place by Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, and Kent Monkman. LAT East opens in June, LAT West in late July.

ELAF European Land Art Festival (Dunbar, Scotland). Land art made from natural materials, no trace left behind, fully free. 14 to 19 July. elafest.com

Medina Triennial (Medina, New York). An inaugural edition in a rural canal town: more than fifty site-responsive commissions placed in industrial ruins. Free. 6 June to 7 September. e-flux

Chale Wote Street Art Festival (Accra, Ghana). A grassroots street-art festival in the historic Jamestown district, with murals and performances out in the open. August 2026, dates to be confirmed.

Also worth a look

6th Kyiv Biennial: A Bird That Cannot Land (Kyiv, nomadic, with a chapter at KW Berlin). A politically loaded, travelling biennial. 11 June to 13 September. e-flux

Fotofestival Naarden (Naarden, Netherlands). A photography festival across the fortified town. 13 June to 6 July.

Serpentine Pavilion 2026 'a serpentine' (London, UK). This year's pavilion by LANZA atelier. On view from June. Serpentine Galleries

Woest en Bijster (Veluwe, Netherlands). Outdoor art along a cycling route on the Veluwe. 2026 edition, dates to be confirmed.

London Festival of Architecture: Belonging (London, UK). This year's festival runs under the theme Belonging. June 2026.

Youth Palace: or, some small acts of self-making (Shanghai, China). A group show at the Rockbund Art Museum. 1 June to 20 September. Rockbund Art Museum

On the horizon

Opening in the weeks ahead:
- 9th Triennial of Photography (Hamburg, opens 5 September)
- Pan-African Architecture Biennale (Nairobi, opens 7 September)
- East Africa Art Biennale (Nairobi, opens 15 September).

Further out:
- Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale (Korea, opens 18 September)
- Lagos Biennial (opens 17 October)
- Dak'Art (Dakar, autumn 2026).

A citywide photo triennial in Hamburg, contemporary art loose in a Mechelen park, and a new triennial along the Erie Canal. Four openings this week.

This week

9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany). A citywide photography triennial across eight institutions, with 279 artists under artistic director Mark Sealy, built around migration and justice. 5 June to 22 September 2026. e-flux

CONTOUR SERIES #3: First Floor (Mechelen, Belgium). Contemporary art set outdoors in Vrijbroekpark, site-specific between walls and moss, part of the open-air festival BROEK. A small Belgian one. 6 June to 30 August 2026.

Medina Triennial (Medina, New York). An inaugural edition in a rural town along the Erie Canal, with more than fifty site-responsive works in sandstone warehouses and public space. Curated by Conte and Laansoo. 6 June to 7 September 2026. e-flux

6th Kyiv Biennial: A Bird That Cannot Land (Berlin, Germany). A nomadic, politically loaded biennial; the Berlin chapter at KW takes on "Middle-East-Europe" and coloniality. 11 June to 13 September 2026. e-flux

Also worth a look

Dansbana! (Helsinki, Finland). A public installation at Amos Rex on Lasipalatsi Square. 12 June to 4 October 2026.

Aeroponic Acts 2026: DAWN SEEDS (Dro, Italy). The Dutch Art Institute's roaming program at Centrale Fies, working on ecology and performance. 17 to 21 June 2026.

Land Art Festival Grindelwald (Grindelwald, Switzerland). Alpine outdoor land art, organised by Grindelwald Tourism. 8 to 13 June 2026. artweek

SEAM Festival & Symposium (Berlin, Germany). Experimental interactive performance with a narrow curatorial focus, at Ernst Busch. 3 to 5 July 2026.

National Arts Festival (Makhanda, South Africa). Strong themes around decoloniality and AI, weighted toward performing arts, with visual art as one strand. 25 June to 5 July 2026. Music in Africa

On the horizon

Logged for later weeks:
- ELAF European Land Art Festival (Dunbar, UK)
- Guandu Nature Art Festival (Taipei, Taiwan).

Dates to be confirmed.