11 Unmissable Exhibition Openings in 2026
Brooke Wilson, Frieze
December 2025
‘Multiple Conversations’ by Montserrat-born British artist and Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan is set to be one of the artists most extensive presentations to date. The exhibition will feature more than 100 works spanning four decades of her capacious and materially diverse career, with a special focus on recently rediscovered works from the 1980s. These include the thought-to-be-lost piece Attempts to Fill Vacant Spaces (1986), which has not been presented since the year it was created.
The exhibition takes its title from the work Multiple Conversations (2019–present), which will be displayed on a long shelf running the entire length of the Whitechapel gallery. It comprises a variety of palm-sized sculptures and assemblages: stacks of plaster cast leaves bound with green thread, clusters of dissected and carefully reconstructed teabags and the artists recurring motif of seed pods. In this work, and in the exhibition as a whole, various modes of expression are set to converge, highlighting the interlinking threads that continue to define the artist’s delicately crafted oeuvre. […]