A huge reopening exhibition asking what becomes of the human body, mind and imagination in an age of machines, mutations and AI.
Do not try to absorb everything. Treat it like a future atlas: choose a few threads — body, machines, architecture, ecology, AI — and follow them across the floors.
A dense, ambitious New York exhibition for visitors interested in art after the human: uneven by nature, but essential as a reopening statement.
Inside the exhibition
New Humans: Memories of the Future is on view at the New Museum in New York, United States, opening with the museum’s expanded building on 21 March 2026. The exhibition brings together work by more than 200 artists, writers, scientists, architects and filmmakers to look at how new technologies have reshaped definitions of the human.
The show spans modern and contemporary art, science fiction, experimental architecture, moving image and speculative design. Its subject is not only technology, but the changing body: robots, cyborgs, alien forms, future habitats and imagined post-human worlds. Several sources describe it as the first exhibition to occupy the entirety of the expanded New Museum, making the building’s new scale part of the curatorial statement.
What makes New Humans especially relevant is its timing. It arrives as AI, automation, biotechnology and climate instability are turning old questions about identity into everyday realities. The exhibition does not offer one answer; it gathers many competing visions of what humans have been, and what they might become.
New Humans: Memories of the Future
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