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In this second installment of our Summer 2025 world agenda, we turn our gaze to the vibrant cultural landscapes of the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, highlighting key exhibitions and biennales in these regions (where, in some locations, winter is in full swing).
We hope this will inspire your upcoming travel plans throughout the next months!
For those interested in summer escapes in Europe and Africa, click here for Part 1 of our Summer Destinations 2025.
Have a great Summer!
(Opening photo: Opera performance "Sun & Sea" created by the three Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė)
AMERICAS
Santa Fe, United States
12th SITE Santa Fe International
Extending beyond Santa Fe's galleries to partner with institutions and unconventional venues across the city, the exhibition Once Within a Time is curated by Cecilia Alemani.
June, 27 2025 - January, 12 2026
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Toledo, United States
Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms at The Toledo Museum
Explore the intersection of art and technology in this group show, which highlights the innovative ways artists use code, systems, and generative processes to create visually striking works that challenge how we define creativity. Featuring Josef Albers, Sol Lewitt, Dmitry Cherniak, Operator, Sofia Crespo, Casey Reas and more.
July 10, 2025 - November 30, 2025
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New York, United States
Hamptons Fine Art Fair
Join the annual (now 19th year) well-curated gallery driven art fair, created specifically for enthusiastic “Hamptonsites”. Benefit from the East End’s widest and deepest selection of important primary and secondary market art. Featuring 130+ select galleries from all corners of the world.
July 10-13, 2025
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+ Geumhyung Jeong at Canal Projects
The nonprofit art present marionette limbs and cyborg visions of South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong. Her solo show explores the increasingly pressing tension between humanity and technology, probing themes not just of surveillance but of desire.
May 9 - July 26
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+ “Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures” at Bronx Museum
11 social practice artists and collectives create interactive tools that help foster community building around the South Bronx and beyond. Coding, gardening, listening, dancing are just some of the more unorthodox activities you might engage in.
April 11 - August 17
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+ “The Gatherers" at Moma PS1
Fourteen international artists come together to create sculptures that are hauntingly familiar yet created with garbage and surplus, waste and excess, drawing attention to a rising aesthetics of civil construction and deconstruction. Every Summer, MoMA PS1 - one of the best museums in NY - presents Warm Up, a series of great open-air parties. Buy tickets in advance.
April 24 - October 6
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Los Angeles, United States
Nancy Baker Cahill: Substrate at LACMA
A monumental interactive AR experience, Nancy Baker Cahill’s Substrate invites the viewer to consider connections between knowledge-making organizations by contributing their own descriptions of culturally significant artifacts. Borrowing imagery and examples from networks in nature, Baker Cahill depicts LACMA, the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library, and California’s system of community colleges as abstracted, interlocking trees with root systems and mycelial networks that produce essential nutrients for human health and well-being.
May 4–Aug 24
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+ Barbara T. Smith: Xerox 914 at The Marciano Art Foundation
The exhibit revisits the moment a Barbara leased a table-sized Xerox 914 copier in 1966 and, over eight months, ran more than 50,000 sheets through it. Treating the machine like both camera and press, Smith duplicated toys, family photos and her own body to create one-off prints, modular collages, sculptural stacks and poetry zines.
May 14, 2025 – August 17
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Mexico City, Mexico
Naturficial at Centro de Cultura Digital
Naturficial is an exhibition that surveys a decade of Jaime Lobato’s practice, curated by Julieta Agriano (Argentina). Through twenty works made between 2014 and 2025, Lobato explores the meeting points of science and art, investigating interspecies communication and the ancestral character of technological production from a phenomenological, emotionally engaged perspective.
April 10, 2025 - August 3
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+ Runtime by Algoritma Intima at Centro Cultural Afirme
A group show of 18 digital artists working with blockchain and other technologies, RUNTIME is an exhibition, an artist residency, workshops and parties. All you need in one place to feel the digital art vibe of Mexico City. Featuring artists like Helio Santos, Jaime Lobato, Neon Caron, Fabiola Larios and more.
June 21, 2025 - July 25, 2025
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São Paulo, Brazil
Luisa Strina Collection at Casa Bradesco
The group show Crivo gathers over 30 key artists from the contemporary scene who define the trajectory of gallery owner Luisa Strina, the biggest gallerist in Brazil, throughout her five decades of activity.
June 8 - August 3
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+ Monica Ventura at Pinacoteca de São Paulo
In the Pina Luz Octagon, the artist's symbols are associated with Afro-Amerindian cosmologies in dialogue with the monumental scale of the building’s central space. The artist proposes to the visitor a place where human connections can converge, receive and radiate energy, based on the relationship between body and architecture
March 25 - August 3
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
TeamLab Phenomena
International art collective TeamLab, which was formed in 2001, seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. The interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception. Their museum at the Saadiyat Cultural District opened last April.
Permanent exhibition.
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Beirut, Lebanon
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sfeir-Semler Gallery
The show revisits sonic landscapes from post-2013 Cairo and the Syrian Golan Heights, recently affected by the installation of wind turbines near residential areas. A video game installation, based on real audio recordings, explores the psychological effects of environmental sound. Elsewhere, electromagnetic fields and targeted surveillance amplify the imperceptible violence of digital life.
April 3 - August 1
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Beijing, China
“Underwater, of Fire” at UCCA
A two-artist exhibition featuring recent and new works by Shuyi Cao (b. 1990, Guangzhou) and Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) that show the artists’ engagement with the ancient medium of ceramics and their shared interest in materials and processes to explore themes of the transformation of matter, time, and myth.
July 5 - October 12
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Dubai, UAE
Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd at Carbon.12
In Garden of Murmurs, Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd offers a deeply introspective view of self-identity, exploring the intersection of his Iraqi heritage and personal desires. Angelic figures, luminous and ethereal, are placed against vast, dark landscapes that evoke destruction and loss—creating a poignant contrast. Painting, drawing, and fiber art converge to form richly textured compositions.
May 31 - August 23
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Hong Kong
Trevor Yeung at M+
Yeung’s installations explore the relationships between human and aquatic ecosystems and comment on the emotional disconnections and power dynamics of contemporary society.
June 14 - October, 12 2025
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+ Ha Bik Chuen at Para Site
The Hong Kong-based artist coined the term ‘motherboard’ for his collagraph plates. Over his life, the artist created over 100 motherboards to produce over 3,000 editioned collographs which were kept from public view.
May 10 - August 10
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+ On Kawara at Tai Kwun
The show presents the artist's most iconic series, spanning five decades of work and marking the first institutional solo presentation of his work in the world conceived since his passing 10 years ago. Through distinct systematic approaches epitomised by his renowned Date Paintings, these works fundamentally reshape our understanding of time and existence.
May 23 - August 17
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Seoul, South Korea
Modern and contemporary Korean Art at MMCA Seoul
An excellent exhibition with more than 80 Korean artists that tells the story of recent modern and contemporary art in Korea.
May 1 - March 3, 2026
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+ The Radiance at SeMA Photography
The brand new Photography Seoul Museum of Art launches its inaugural special exhibition exploring photography’s journey to establish itself as an art form in Korea.The collection and research accumulated over the past decade since the Photo SeMA’s establishment plan was confirmed in 2015, has laid the groundwork for this exhibition.
May 29 - October 25
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+ Nam June Paik Art Center
“Play it Again, Paik” explores time as seen, heard, and experienced by the father of videoart. An excellent survey of his works and thoughts.
April 10 - February 22, 2026
Click here to read the review of our editor, Julia Flamingo
Taipei, Taiwan
“Umwelt: The Embodied World(s)” at MoCA
The exhibition gathers nine contemporary artists and art groups from Taiwan and abroad while collaborating with scientific partners to closely observe and gain insights into the diverse Umwelts of organisms such as paramecia, cats, pigs, whales, and mice, creating distinct observation logs documenting their experiences.
May 24 - September 7
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+ Turner at Chiang Kai Chek Memorial Hall
In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner’s birth in 2025, the largest global touring exhibition of his works. Organized by Tate, it features 80 original masterpieces by Turner alongside 28 outstanding works by leading contemporary artists.June 27 to October 12More info
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Tokyo, Japan
Looking at architecture 2025 at Teien Art Museum
The former residence of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, completed in 1933, is a rare example of early Showa-era Art Deco architecture and is designated as an Important Cultural Property. Held once a year, this unique exhibition explores the architectural space and how its functions have evolved over time.
June 7 - August 24
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+ Echoes Unveiled at Artizon Museum
Art by First Nations people from Australia is being given more importance and exposure than before as part of the recent international trend in contemporary art to reconsider works created in deeply rooted regional contexts. Through the work of seven artists and one collective, the museum introduces the diversity of contemporary artistic expressions and seeks a deeper understanding and awareness of First Nations art from Australia.
June 24 - September 21
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Singapore
“Between Declarations and Dreams of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century” at National Gallery Singapore
Starting in the mid-1800s, this exhibition takes you on a journey through Southeast Asian art, showing over 300 artworks that trace how local artists continually embraced new ideas and styles. They redefined what art could be while keeping the essence of their cultural traditions alive.
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Melbourne, Australia
History of Australian Art at The Potter Museum of Art
The museum has reopened to the public with a new exhibition recognising the great wealth of culture in this place: 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art. Celebrating the remarkable diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creativity, the exhibition showcases more than 400 artworks directly addressing the scars of colonial invasion.
May 30 - November 22
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+ Nocturnal: Museum After Dark at Melbourne Museum
Held on the second Thursday of each month. Nocturnal are adults-only evenings. After seeing exhibitions and taking part in curator's talks, enjoy drinks, play drag bingo and have a boogie with some local DJ favourites soundtracking the night. Each monthly event has a different themes and activities, so there's always something new to discover.
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+ Five Acts of Love at ACCA
It offers space for reflection and an opportunity to delve into profound internal and external truth telling through the exploration of various acts of love. The exhibition revolves around five acts: resistance, revolution, intimacy, memory and annihilation. Each act of love circles around what we ultimately relinquish when we love – and are loved.
June 27 - August 24
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Sidney, Australia
Cerith Wyn Evans at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Large-scale light and sound installations including an architectural wall of white neon three metres tall and ten metres wide which audiences are welcome to move around and through.
June 6 - October 19
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+Amongst the Clouds at Artspace
The exhibition profiles Australian and international artists who explore the ways in which digital realms are determinedly tied to the physical world. Featured artists: Liu Chuang (China), Nina Davies (Canada/UK), Archana Hande (India), Lawrence Lek (UK), Sophie Penkethman-Young (Australia), and Liam Young (USA).
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Wellington, New Zealand
Emily Wolfe at Page Galleries
Her paintings reference the process of recording archaeological excavations, something she became interested in after a period spent working on a variety of sites with the Museum of London Archaeology.
July 17 - August 9
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+ Site Seeing at City Gallery Welington
It brings together the work of contemporary Māori photographic artists Conor Clarke and Bridget Reweti, to consider hoe photography helped to construct early settler-colonial imaginings of ‘New Zealand’. It draws our attention to the artifice of the notion of ‘landscape,’ making apparent the ways it has been constructed through physical, photographic, and digital means.
April 12 - August 2
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