Thursday, September 24
first day on view
Catch-All by Erika Terwilliger
SooVAC · on view through November 8
A rolling list of what is on view at the museums, galleries, and project spaces across Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Refreshed monthly. If we missed an opening you care about, send us a tip.
Last updated July 26, 2026
The nights the art world is actually in the room. Go to one; nobody checks credentials at a gallery door.
Works from the Walker’s collection organized around the idea of home, spanning three galleries with sections on community, urban environments, and natural landscapes — Edward Hopper to Julie Mehretu and Mark Bradford.
Textile works by the Tehran-born artist drawing on ancient practices of the Iranian plateau and Mesopotamia, exploring the emotions that follow grief, with a soundtrack and cushions inviting collective reflection.
Francesco Salviati’s monumental 1540s tapestry of Dante and Virgil at the start of the Inferno, in storage at Mia for nearly 70 years and newly conserved through a TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund grant.
Paintings, sculptures, and religious images framing California as a meeting point of American and Latin American cultures, with artists such as Diego Rivera, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, and Miguel Covarrubias.
More than thirty surreal portraits from the duo’s long-running series: everyday people — farmers, scientists, surfers, philosophers — camouflaged in organic materials sourced from each location, shot on analog cameras.
Hundreds of polystyrene foam pieces collected from the Mississippi River address plastic pollution, alongside drawings made with mushroom markers on beaver-chewed wood handles.
The M’s long-term installation of its permanent collection, arranged around human connection, with George Morrison, Louise Nevelson, Jim Denomie, Jacob Lawrence, Cara Romero, and more.
The paradox of the Soviet poster — breathtakingly artistic yet unapologetically ideological — traced from the experimental early years through Stalin-era formula to later modernist aesthetics.
About thirty works spanning early Soviet-era drawings to recent oil paintings and photos of buildings Mednikov designed, where architectural precision blends with the freedom of fine art.
Landscapes, roads, and imagined environments marked by instability, reflecting on moments of disruption and what endures beyond them.
Explores collaboration and connection between Black, Indigenous, and Chicano communities and their movements for autonomy, self-determination, and liberation in the post-civil-rights era.
Woodcut and linocut prints about returning home, which Otero frames as a return to one’s essence rather than a physical place; the crow recurs as a navigational and reflective motif. Threshold Gallery.
Many of the building’s studio artists open their doors every Saturday afternoon — stop by and stroll through. Fall brings Summer Sizzle (August 15), Northrup King Nights (September 26), and Art Attack (November 13 to 15).
An installation of milled-wood reliefs and carved sculptures presented as an archive from a speculative river enclave, blending African diasporic cosmologies and Indigenous water knowledge across river systems from the Niger to the Mississippi.
Contemporary designers from around the world who engage societal challenges — technology, environment, community building, and social justice — through design innovation.
Close to 20 works from the past decade by the Colombian artist, who builds monumental scenes by layering hand-cut Japanese paper onto canvas. Organized by Mia and the San José Museum of Art.
Paintings Kaphar made for his feature film Exhibiting Forgiveness, a deeply personal exploration of healing from generational trauma through art.
Mia’s curators again select standouts from the Minnesota State Fair’s crop art showcase — more than 20 works, including the five Best in Show ribbon winners.
More than 80 haute couture masterpieces from the Palais Galliera in Paris, spanning the late 19th century to today, with icons like Dior, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, and Grès.
A comprehensive survey of Chung’s embroidered and drawn maps plus sculptures, videos, and installations examining landscapes shaped by climate change, war, colonialism, and migration.
Honors Indigenous resistance across indoor and outdoor installations, re-examining 250 years of Indigenous history and emphasizing community resilience and connection to Minneapolis (Bde Óta Othúŋwe).
Drawings, paintings, sculpture, and design plus archival material on Jones’s life as a Black artist in Minnesota, centered on community and placemaking.
Pulled daily from the independent galleries. Openings land on the calendar.
On view through Oct 24, 2026
On view September 25, 2026 , November 14, 2026