Exhibitions and openings at Aspen Art Week 2026

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Adrián Villar Rojas: First Gods, Lost Animals

All day

Aspen Art Museum

Experience the opening of First Gods, Lost Animals, a massive multi-floor solo exhibition by Adrián Villar Rojas. The exhibition is grounded in the premise that humans, as finite intelligences, confront a universe whose complexity far exceeds their cognitive scale. In this condition, symbolic tools arise—gods, art, mathematics—as adaptive technologies that render the world navigable. These systems extend human cognition across time: mythology operates as an early interpretive scaffold, mathematics formalizes abstraction, and artificial intelligence marks the newest threshold in this lineage, externalizing thought to meet increasing complexity.

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Aspen Art Walk

4:00 PM

Discover the vibrant heart of Aspen's art scene with our curated gallery tour, designed to offer an immersive cultural experience that celebrates artistic diversity and creativity. This tour takes you through premier galleries, each showcasing a unique collection of modern and contemporary art. The art walk will feature educational talks by local experts, providing deeper insights into the works on display and the artists behind them.