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 May 3, 2026
First mid-career survey of the Berlin-based Deaf artist, gathering drawings, video, performance, and large-scale installations that probe sound, language, and access.
A multimedia installation by the Minneapolis-based Seneca choreographer and artist exploring memory, kinship, and Indigenous presence.
A focused look at the landmark 1979 collaboration between choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Robert Rauschenberg, who designed sets, costumes, and projections for the dance.
An evolving installation drawing from the Walker’s permanent collection that traces how artists shape and respond to place.
More than 170 masterpieces from the renowned Burke Collection, ranging from prehistoric works through the late 1800s, installed across the Burke and Hill galleries.
More than 160 floral arrangements throughout the museum’s galleries, paired with works of art. For 2026, programming extends across the full month of April.
A rotating selection from Mia’s prints and drawings collection presented in Gallery 344.
A long-running installation of works by American artists drawn from the Weisman’s collection that probe the contradictions of American experience.
An exhibition examining how artists have used the print portfolio as a form for sequencing ideas, themes, and collaborative projects.
Drawing on works from the WAM collection alongside design objects, the exhibition asks how artists envision the cities of tomorrow.
Contemporary textile work by Swedish artist Emelie Rondahl, rooted in the Scandinavian rya tradition and exploring themes of grief, labor, and slowness.
A traveling exhibition of 44 works by 24 contemporary artists from the Upper Midwest working in wood, textile, clay, metal, and mixed media that draw on Nordic heritage.
More than 200 toys, games, posters, comic books, and cultural artifacts from the 1950s to 1980s, drawn from collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
A selection of Soviet-era posters from TMORA’s permanent collection, tracing visual propaganda, advertising, and public art across the twentieth century.
Paintings, prints, and decorative objects depicting cats and dogs as workers, companions, and cultural figures across Soviet visual culture.
Profiles of eight women, including Marjorie Child Husted of Betty Crocker, Reiko Weston, Leeann Chin, Rose Totino, and others, whose work as chefs, writers, and entrepreneurs reshaped local dining.
A three-artist presentation pairing Kite’s beaded deer-hide wall works that double as scores for sonic performance with new paintings and sculpture by Matthew Kirk and recent work by Grace Rosario Perkins.
A group print exhibition exploring how artists use woodcut, screenprint, letterpress, lithography, and stenciling to circulate radical ideas, including protest posters made in response to the ICE occupation in Minnesota.
An annual juried survey of Minnesota artists working across media, with a juror’s talk and closing reception on Saturday, May 9, from 4 to 6 pm.
New paintings from Buettner described as a nod to one of the most basic forms of human happiness, the experience of tints, shades, and tones. Reception Saturday, May 2, from 7 to 10 pm.
Co-organized with SFMOMA, this retrospective presents more than eighty paintings and drawings from the 1960s to today, tracing Jackson’s innovative use of color, light, and structure.
Following major conservation work supported by a 2026 TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund grant, Mia’s monumental Renaissance tapestry depicting Dante returns to the galleries.
More than thirty portraits from the long-running collaborative photography series by Finnish-Norwegian artists Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth, picturing elders camouflaged in landscape.
Recent work by the 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows, with an opening reception May 8.
A focused presentation of work by Gordon Coons that draws on Ojibwe storytelling, language, and printmaking traditions.
An exhibition of violins recovered and restored from the Holocaust, presented in the Robert J. Brokop Gallery and accompanied by a June 7 concert.
Marks 50 years of WARM, the pioneering Minneapolis feminist art collective, with new and recent work by artists who have shaped the local and national scene.
Recurring exhibition where Minnesota collectors share a portion of their personal collections with the public. Opens after the Spring Fling fundraiser concludes the gallery’s 25th-anniversary kickoff.
Anchor venue for the 31st annual Art-A-Whirl, the nation’s largest open-studio crawl. Over 1,600 NEMAA artists open their doors across Northeast Minneapolis with hundreds concentrated at NKB.
Public Functionary opens its main gallery (144) and upstairs gallery (247) at the Northrup King Building for Art-A-Whirl, with new work from PF Studios resident artists.
Monthly evening open studios with hundreds of artists welcoming visitors. Next dates fall on May 7 and June 4, 2026, from 5 to 9 pm.