As galleries increasingly seek to liberate art from traditional settings, new hybrid spaces are emerging that unite contemporary art with exceptional dining, landscape design and community engagement. From island outposts to former industrial buildings, these environments are redefining how we experience culture.

If 2024 had a defining characteristic, it was pluralism. From Adriano Pedrosa's divisive Venice Biennale that championed forgotten voices to Refik Anadol's data-driven rainforests and Julie Mehretu's racing portal into the future, the year refused linear narratives in favour of something richer and more layered. What emerged was a willingness to embrace alternative art histories, diverse perspectives and the understanding that art remains our most powerful platform for questioning everything.

At Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leonardo Drew's Number 360 transforms the 18th-century Chapel into a site of explosive contemplation. I travel up there to meet the New York-based artist who discusses the visceral power of abstraction, the ongoing evolution of materials, and why getting out of the way is essential to his practice.

In Alto Adige, Italy's northernmost wine region, Cantina Girlan has spent a century perfecting an approach that marries Germanic precision with Italian creativity. Perched on the slopes of the Tyrolean Alps, this collaborative winery has become one of Italy's most respected Pinot Noir producers by listening carefully to terroir, history and the cultural fusion that defines South Tyrol.

At the Stefan Gierowski Foundation in Warsaw, curator Joachim Pissarro stages a conversation between the Polish modernist Stefan Gierowski and Irish painter Sean Scully. He argues the two share more than geometric abstraction; they carry histories of resistance. Their layered paintings explore space and colour with meticulous precision and intuitive freedom, revealing how art becomes both escape and response to the political moment.

Nikkei cuisine — the century-old fusion of Japanese precision and Peruvian warmth — presents a unique challenge for wine pairing. At Chotto Matte, founder Kurt Zdesar is taking this layered gastronomy born from migration on another culinary world journey, exploring how diverse flavour profiles from spice to citrus to umami can find harmony with everything from Sicilian whites to California Syrah.