From major museum exhibitions and international biennials to new commissions, solo presentations and experimental projects, Delfina alumni continue to be active across the international art world. Here, we take a look at what some of them are up to across the globe, from Gwangju to Barcelona.

Busan Biennial
South Korea
29 August – 1 November 2026
Former residents and past Delfina programme artists showing include: Moe Satt, Guely Morató Loredo, Julien Cruezet, Lara Ögel, Luiz Roque, Nkisi and Yazan Khalili.

Gwangju Biennale
South Korea
5 September – 15 November 2026
Former resident Geumhyung Jeong is showing.

• Pavilion of Brazil: Manuela Manauara, Vivian Caccuri and Yhuri Cruz
• Pavilion of Syria: Muhammad Ali, Nisrine Boukhari

Andrea Ferrero
Copperfield, London
14 September – 18 September 2026
Extending recent summer 2026 resident Andrea Ferrero’s investigations into architecture’s impact on the way we understand, imagine and move through the world, The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last considers our first encounters with the spatial logics of power.

Lawrence Lek
V&A Storehouse, London
3 September – 3 October 2026
Artist Lawrence Lek, who was a Delfina resident through Performance as Process in 2015, continues to develop his distinctive combination of film, gaming, virtual environments and speculative fiction. He is currently presenting Guanyin II: The Caretaker at V&A East Storehouse, London. The work extends Lek’s ongoing exploration of artificial intelligence, automation and machine consciousness.

Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
MACBA, Barcelona
14 February – 28 September 2026
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom brings together nearly two decades of work by Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, who were in residence at Delfina in 2009. Centred on a new audiovisual installation exploring the resilience of former Palestinian prisoners through song and poetry, the exhibition brings together sound, moving image, text and performance to consider memory, resistance and the ways histories are continually reconstructed. The exhibition is their first in Spain and is co-produced by MACBA, Nottingham Contemporary, The Bell/Brown Arts Institute, Brown University and Kunstinstituut Melly.

Hrair Sarkissian
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
18 June 2026 – 24 January 2027
Former Delfina resident Hrair Sarkissian presents Stolen Past as the centrepiece of Shape of Absence at the Boghossian Foundation. Responding to the destruction and disappearance of Syria’s cultural heritage since 2011, Sarkissian’s monumental installation brings together 48 archaeological objects that went missing from the Museum of Raqqa, recreated through 3D printing. Presented alongside immersive imagery of Palmyra by Iconem, the exhibition reflects on disappearance, memory and the urgent work of preserving cultural heritage.

Kyriaki Goni
IMPAKT, Utrecht
28 August – 15 November 2026
Former Delfina resident Kyriaki Goni is participating in Data Never Dies: Digital Traces and AI Afterlives at IMPAKT in Utrecht. Bringing together artists examining the afterlives of digital data, the exhibition considers what happens to our digital traces in an increasingly automated world. Goni’s research-driven practice brings together installation, sound, digital media and speculative narratives to explore technology, ecology, surveillance and the infrastructures connecting human and non-human worlds.

Wael Shawky
Fondazione Merz, Turin
Until 26 September 2026
Former Delfina resident Wael Shawky is presenting work at Fondazione Merz in Turin in 2026. Working across film, theatre, opera, puppetry and performance, Shawky’s practice revisits historical narratives and cultural myths, questioning how histories are constructed, transmitted and remembered. His activity this year also extends into artistic leadership, having served as Artistic Director of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar in Doha.

Anna Costa e Silva
ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro
16 – 20 September
Former resident Anna Costa e Silva presents Where do our silences go?, a public art installation in Rio de Janeiro. The work emerged from the project “Please read it for me to rest in peace”, which the artist developed during her residency at Delfina Foundation as part of our thematic science_technology_society season 3. You can read more about this work during her residency on Delfina’s Platform.

Lydia Ourahmane
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto
11 July – 25 October 2026
Following her participation in this year’s Venice Biennale, former Delfina resident Lydia Ourahmane is presenting For Voice at Galeria Municipal do Porto. Created in collaboration with her sister, composer and musician Sarah Ourahmane, the work takes the form of a musical composition written for two visually impaired female singers, with its score embedded directly into the gallery walls in Braille. Responding to the architecture of the space, the work explores voice, movement, accessibility and the relationship between bodies and their surroundings.

Gala Porras-Kim
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK), London
25 September – 31 December 2026
Former resident Gala Porras-Kim is included in The Unclassified, a group exhibition of four leading contemporary Korean and Korean-heritage artists. The exhibition interrogates the limits of the systems and assumptions through which museums produce cultural knowledge, with works that challenge what can be collected, classified and contained.

Nadia Kaabi Linke & Ali Cherri
CCA Tashkenet, Uzbekistan
6 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
Two former residents, Nadia Kaabi Linke and Ali Cherri are included in the inaugural exhibition Hikmah at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent), a flagship initiative of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF). The Centre is the first institution of its kind in Central Asia, providing a permanent home for contemporary art, research and public engagement in Uzbekistan while positioning the country within global contemporary art discourse.

Musquiqui Chihying
Hayward Project Space, London
15 September – 18 October 2026
Former resident Musquiqui Chihying presents A Life of Navigation. All underpinned by a sense of humour and performativity, these new works explore Chihying’s recent interest in unpacking the rarely discussed modern-day colonial attitudes at the centre of our pursuit of technological advancement.