Daily Art Brief — 25 September 2026
Three forthcoming presentations put distinct forms of artistic practice in focus: a major Vienna fair returning to its original home, Lap-See Lam’s layered engagement with shadow theatre and migration, and Dorothea Prühl’s carved and formed jewelry in Houston.
FAIR FOR ART to Return to Its Original Vienna Location in October 2026
Vienna’s Künstlerhaus will host FAIR FOR ART from 7 to 11 October 2026, its first return to the venue in ten years. The fair will bring together 28 galleries and art dealers, presenting around 800 paintings and sculptures by more than 250 artists. Announced participants include Alex Katz and Andy Warhol, alongside Austrian artists Maria Lassnig, Kiki Kogelnik, Hermann Nitsch, Wolfgang Hollegha and Erwin Wurm. The event is dedicated to modern and contemporary art and returns to the location where it was originally held.
Lap-See Lam’s ‘Ombres’ scheduled for June 2026
At the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Lap-See Lam’s “Ombres” will run from 11 June 2026 through 3 January 2027. The exhibition combines established works with new commissions, including blown-glass sculptures developed during Lam’s residency at CIRVA in Marseille. Two large shadow-play installations will be shown in dialogue as one continuous spatial work. Drawing on Cantonese opera, shadow theatre and her family’s migration history, Lam explores how cultural heritage changes between generations. “Ombres” is curated by Isabella Maidment and Xiaoyu Weng.
‘The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl’ Marks First U.S. Exhibition Dedicated to the German Artist
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is presenting “The Jewelry of Dorothea Prühl,” on view through 3 January 2027 and described as the first U.S. exhibition devoted to the German artist. The show spans necklaces and brooches made between 1976 and 2025, following a gift from the Rotasa Collection Trust that gave the MFAH the world’s largest public collection of Prühl’s jewelry. Known for bold forms in wood and metal, Prühl trained in the Bauhaus tradition and later led the jewelry and metalsmithing department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. The presentation remains on view through January 3, 2027.