July

Arles in the first week, Mendieta in the second, Venice Danza in the third.

Arles absorbs the calendar in its opening week. London opens a Mendieta retrospective a few days later. Everywhere else runs the summer hang.

Show of the month

Official key visual for Les Rencontres d'Arles 2026, themed Des mondes a relire (Worlds to Re-read).

Les Rencontres d'Arles 2026: Worlds to Re-read

6 JUL Citywide Arles

The fifty-sixth edition, under the theme Des mondes à relire. Forty exhibitions across the town. Africa and the Mediterranean lead the selection. The opening week runs to 12 July with night projections at the Théâtre Antique. LUMA's halls open in parallel.

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Also this month

9 JUL · LONDON · TATE MODERN

Ana Mendieta

The first major UK survey in over a decade. The silhueta films have been newly remastered for the show.

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Lead image from Tate Modern's Ana Mendieta retrospective, opening 9 July 2026.

17 JUL · VENICE · VARIOUS

Biennale Danza 2026: Time Does Not Exist

Directed by Wayne McGregor

The twentieth edition. McGregor programmes around the Rovelli book. Sixty events across two weeks, including nine premieres.

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Production still from Terrain at the Sydney Opera House, presented as part of Biennale Danza 2026 directed by Wayne McGregor.

6 JUL · ARLES · LA MÉCANIQUE GÉNÉRALE, LUMA

Stan Douglas: Bodies Never Lie

New film and photographic work, programmed to coincide with the Rencontres opening week.

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Stan Douglas, Vancouver, 15 June 2011 (2021), large-format photographic restaging of street footage from the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot.

Footnote

— La Grande Halle, LUMA. Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective's Correspondences runs through the festival. The door on the Avenue Victor Hugo side stays open until dusk.