Exhibitions Programme 2026-27

Transnational Diaries

26 October – 16 December 2026

The exhibition combines text and photo collages to portray the everyday lives, stories and journeys of Chinese migrant traders who run family-owned shops in Belo Horizonte, a city in southeastern Brazil and the capital of the state of Minas Gerais.

The exhibition began in the streets of Belo Horizonte, in an area known as the hypercentre, where the research project Globalisation from Below: Livelihoods, Trade and Transnationalism in the Brazilian Informal Economy was conducted. Historically a place of trade and a point of arrival for different migrant populations, the area is today marked by an intense concentration of popular commerce, catering largely to low-income and working-class consumers. It is also a space where the boundaries between formal and informal economies are often blurred, forming a kind of grey zone in which regulations are negotiated and state tolerance is uneven.

Pictures of Health: Mary Cassatt

22 January – 18 March 2027

What happened to Mary Cassatt’s paintings once they left her studio? Opening at the Peltz Gallery in January 2027, Pictures of Health explores this celebrated impressionist painter’s reproduction. Before her death in 1926, Cassatt’s paintings of mothers and children appeared as illustrations in women’s magazines, parenting journals, and health publications of early twentieth-century America. These paintings became powerful symbols within debates about parenthood, reproductive autonomy, and health. Featuring rare illustrated magazines, original archival material, and new research, the exhibition reveals how through this reproduction Cassatt’s paintings of mothers and children shaped - and were reshaped by - conversations about women’s bodies that still resonate today.

Summer 2027 exhibition to be announced.