This summer, Hauser & Wirth Menorca opens “Directionless,” a group exhibition running 21 June through 25 October, 2026, built around the idea that contemporary life has settled into a state of permanent disorientation. Organised by artist Rashid Johnson, the show treats exhaustion as a shared condition of the present, one that is shaped by frayed political certainties and deepening ecological anxieties. The artists gathered remain present with the uncertainty, considering ambiguity, opacity and fragmentation as states worth dwelling in.
The exhibition’s structure mirrors its subject. Johnson distributed curatorial authority by asking three artists, namely, Charles Gaines, Firelei Báez and Cristina Iglesias, to nominate peers from outside the gallery’s usual roster, so the show grew through invitation and affinity rather than a single guiding vision. Nearly thirty artists make up the resulting constellation, among them Julie Mehretu, Mona Hatoum, Wangechi Mutu, Georg Baselitz, Lorna Simpson, and Rineke Dijkstra, their work loosely grouped around each nominator’s selections. Recurring undercurrents connect the galleries, including themes of material memory stretched across time and the unresolved residue of colonial history.
