Ten Major Exhibitions Opening in May 2018 Span Berlin, New York, Barcelona, and Beyond

A slate of significant exhibitions opens globally in May 2018. At Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof, 'Hello World. Revising a Collection' reimagines the Nationalgalerie's holdings through a globalist lens, featuring 250 artists and addressing art deemed 'degenerate' by the Nazis. MoMA in New York presents the first major US retrospective of Congolese visionary Bodys Isek Kingelez, showcasing his fantastical architectural models made from humble materials. Melanie Smith's largest European survey opens at MACBA in Barcelona, exploring entropy and modernity through works like 'Spiral City' and 'Fordlandia'. Fresh from winning the 2017 Turner Prize, Lubaina Himid presents a new commission with East African kanga flags at Baltic in Gateshead, continuing her focus on marginalized narratives. Jutta Koether receives her first substantial survey, 'Tour de Madame', at Munich's Museum Brandhorst, featuring over 150 paintings. Karen Kilimnik's micro-retrospective at Sprüth Magers in London includes her 1992 installation 'Paris is Burning' / 'Is Paris Burning?'. Lena Henke shows new biomorphic sculptures at Galerie Emanuel Layr in Vienna. Julie Beaufils presents abstract paintings at Balice Hertling in Paris. Katrín Elvarsdóttir exhibits cinematic photographs at BERG Contemporary in Reykjavík. The 8th Bucharest Biennale, curated by Beral Madra and Răzvan Ion, opens under the theme 'Edit Your Future'.