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Whether you're lounging on a beach or hopping between cities, summer is the perfect excuse to soak up not only the sun but also some brilliant exhibitions.
We know many of our members are using this season to travel, recharge, and enjoy some much-needed inspiration. That’s why we’ve put together a special selection of exhibitions to see around the globe.
We’re starting with Europe, since most of you are based there, and many of you told us you're headed to European destinations this summer. So this section is more extensive.
Here, you’ll also find a few tips for shows in Africa, for those venturing further.
Part 2 will cover exhibitions across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Have a great summer!
Header Photo: Martin Parr, "Common Sense", Benindorm, Spain, 1997 (Credit: © Martin Parr/MAGNUM PHOTOS Copyright: © Martin Parr/MAGNUM PHOTOS)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pamela Rosenkranz at Stedelijk Museum
Known for her immersive environments, Rosenkranz transforms the museum into a charged sensory field, where the distinction between perception and matter dissolves, and light behaves as if it were thought itself.
May, 21 - August, 24 2025
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Barcelona, Spain
“Bodyscapes” at Load Gallery
Through the eyes of ten female artists working in photography, AI, video, and performance, the exhibition explores how artists approach the body not as an object, but as an environment: a mutable site shaped by memory, material experience, and emotional charge; a lived terrain.
July 17 - August 23
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Berlin, Germany
13th Berlin Biennale
Curated by Zasha Colah, with Valentina Viviani as assistant curator, the Berlin Biennale invites audiences to explore and engage through an extensive exhibition spanning four venues, and a program of side events.
June, 14 - September, 14
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+ Klara Hosnedlová at Hamburger Bahnhof
Impressions from post-communist architecture, films and novels and the futuristic images of her current performative interventions at various locations in East and West Berlin form the starting point. The expansive, sculptural scenery consists of flax fibers, embroidery, cast glass, sandstone, iron and concrete slabs.
May 1 - October, 26
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+ Feuerle Collection
Friends Summer Party on 17 July 2025, held in the magical setting of the museums private rooftop garden - on a bunker - designed by Désiré Feuerle as part of his total work of art.
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+ Cultures Sonic Pluriverses at HKW
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt offers an intense Summer program with concerts, DJs, talks and exhibitions.
June 27 - August 2
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Bilbao, Spain
Barbara Kruger at Guggenheim Bilbao
An expansive exhibition that explores how American artist Barbara Kruger harnesses the power of words and images to question the structures that shape our daily lives—identity, desire, truth, and control.
June 24 - September 11
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Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Biennial
The biennial brings outstanding contemporary art to Helsinki’s archipelago nature. The third biennial takes place on Vallisaari Island, in Esplanade Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum in Finland.
June, 8 - September, 21
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Lisbon, Portugal
Memória Material at Underdogs
Portuguese artist Add Fuel and Spanish duo PichiAvo come into dialogue to reflect on the ways in which material culture holds, transmits, and transforms memory across time. As the name suggests, it points to the notion that matter – tiles, ceramics, surfaces – acts as a vessel of both personal and collective memory.
June 27 - August 2
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+Vhils at Eterno
A new digital art gallery blending physical and NFT works that opens with “Threshold”, an exhibition by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. He presents two series that take his urban art, works with billboard and physical explosions to the digital realm.
May 30 - August 2
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+ Albuquerque Foundation in Sinta
The Albuquerque Collection is one of the most prestigious collections of Chinese export porcelain, Ming and Qing dynasty pieces, and imperial porcelain. The private collection is housed in a new museum in Sintra, which also showcases a ceramic solo show by contemporary British artist Theaster Gaters.
February 22 - August 31
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Liverpool, England
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
30 artists and collectives will respond to the theme “Bedrock” of the 13th edition of UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art. Taking place in historic buildings, unexpected spaces and art galleries, the Biennial has been transforming the city through art for over two decades.
June 7 - September 14
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London, England
Jenny Saville at National Portrait Gallery
“The Anatomy of Painting” is the largest major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to the monumental nudes one of the world’s foremost contemporary painters.
June, 20 - September, 7
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Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts
Celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2025, the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts is under the artistic direction of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus Martínez, and refers to the oracle in the sense of the ancient term for a place where we meet the future
June, 6 - October, 12
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Lyon, France
“Programmes Universes” at MAC Lyon
The exhibition takes a close look at how artistic practices have changed with the development of information technology, internet networks, artificial intelligence, and all the other new developments.
March 7 - July 13
Read here the review by our collaborator Marlene Corbun
+ Hayao Miyazaki at Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication
“Le musée ambulant. Lectures de Miyazaki.” is an exhibition made up of ten sets, each being dedicated to a Miyazaki film. Every film is presented alongside the director's main literary and visual inspirations.
April 12 - September 22
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+ Living Cloud by Sarah Meyohas
In the video “Cloud of Petals”, Sarah Meyohas features 16 employees digitizing 100k rose petals in the former Bell Laboratories, a hotbed of research and innovation in telecommunications and digital technology. In resonance with this dystopian film, works from the municipal collection come into dialogue, addressing the question of the the domestication of nature.
May 7 - July 5
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Madrid, Spain
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, at Reina Sofia
“Light Spectra” is the most comprehensive exhibition by the Guatemalan artist in Spain, mixing installations, video and performance. He evokes themes related to identity, the body and cultural history, opening a reflection on his own biography and on his country’s turbulent history, marked by different forms of violence and armed conflict.
May 28 - October 20
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+ Ecenas de Verano
Eleven municipalities in the region of Madrid will host free, participatory artistic interventions, bringing contemporary creation to all audiences outside traditional spaces.
July 18 - September 7
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Moss, Norway
Momentum 13
The 13th edition of the MOMENTUM biennale will be an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds.
June 14 - October, 12
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Munich, Germany
Shu Lea Cheang at Haus der Kunst
Survey exhibition “KI$$ KI$$” takes the taiwanese-american net artist and filmmaker’s first feature film, Fresh Kill (1994), as a starting point to present the artist’s world-building practices.The internet-based installation, software interaction, and multiplayer performance invite the audience to explore and to play.
February 14 - August 3
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+ Vhils at MUCA
“Strata” presents a comprehensive comprehensive selection of our beloved Portuguese artist from the past two decades.
March 12 - November 30
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+ Five Friends at Museum Brandhorst
An exhibition of the circle of artists who had a decisive influence on post-war art in the fields of music, dance, painting, sculpture and drawing: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly
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Paris, France
Wofgang Tilmans at Pompidou
Just before the Beaubourg building goes into hibernation, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is taking over with his unique activist photographs in the exhibition “Nothing Could Have Prepared Us”.
June 13 - September 22
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+ Anna Maria Maiolino at Picasso Museum
The acclaimed Brazilian artist who was recently awarded a Golden Lion for her entire career at Venice Biennale 2024, will be exhibiting more than one hundred works, including previously unpublished drawings, sculptures, paintings and videos.
June 14 - September 21
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San Gimignano, Italy
Shilpa Gupta at Galleria Continua
Indian acclaimed artist Shilpa Gupta presents a great number of installations rooted in her ongoing critical engagement with themes of mobility, control, and acts of resilience.
May 3 - September 7
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Sardinia, Italy
Giardino Sonoro in San Sperate
An open-air museum and sound garden created by artist Pinuccio Sciola merging a horizon of megalithic stones and a timeless artistic space that allows visitors to take a walk in nature and hear the unique sounds of his stone artworks.
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Strasbourg, France
Musée Tomi Ungerer
In “Evidence”, Mounira Al Solh, Nino Bulling, Neïla Czermak Ichti and Mazen Kerbaj reflect the common strategy of weaving connections between inner lives and the political sphere. All four artists share a deep concern for history and the subject of time and narration.
+ L'Été dans les musées
The museums are free the first Sunday of every month. Discover the full summer programming at all museums in Strasbourg in this special summer guide.
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+ FARse - Festival des Arts de la Rue (FARse)
From August 29 to 31, 2025, Strasbourg transforms into an open-air theater where artists from all over France present performances mixing theater, dance, and music.
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Venice, Italy
Biennale Architettura 2025
The 19th edition is titled “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” as an invitation to experiment with intelligence beyond today’s limited focus on AI and digital technologies. Curated by Carlo Ratti, the biennale features over 300 contributions from more than 750 participants.
May 10 - November 23
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Vienna, Austria
Damien Hirst at Albertina Modern
An insight into Hirst’s creative processes, starting with drawings and sketches produced from the 1980s onward. These images, many of which were produced in preparation for his pioneering works, will be shown together with a selection of related sculptures and paintings.
May 7 - October 12
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+ Mika Rottenberg at KunstHaus Wien
“Antimatter Factory”, refers to the name of a research department at CERN, where Mika Rottenberg partly filmed her celebrated Spaghetti Blockchain (2019). The exhibition presents Mika's worlds of fantasy which vibrate with a seductive sensuality and an irritating logic, and her best-known films and installations from the years 2003 to 2022.
February 26 - August 10
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Cape Town, South Africa
Tuan Andrew Nguyen at Zeitz MOCAA
“The Other Side of Now” is a solo exhibition of film and sculpture by Vietnamese American artist, which explores the transnational entanglements created by colonisation and war. Attending to the erased voices of Vietnamese, Senegalese, and Moroccan history, it proposes a space for communal healing and remembrance.
August 22 - September 25
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation
“Structures” brings together artists and architects from the Global South who explore how space, place, and race intersect in both tangible and intangible structures. From the immersive South African Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale to a city made of couscous, interactive installations and historical works from the 1980s,it gathers acclaimed artists in an unusual setting. Booking is required.
May 31 - November 15
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Marrakech, Morocco
“Seven Contours, One Collection” at MACAAL
Following major renovations, the Museum of African Contemporary Art - Al Maaden is a feminist, decolonial and conscious museum that now presents its collections in seven chapters rethinking the very notion of ‘contemporary African art’.
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Ouidah, Benin
Joël Andrianomearisoa at Fondation Zinsou
A solo exhibition titled “Promisse” by the celebrated artist from Madagascar who works with black paper for his stunning site-specific installations.
December 7, 2024 - August 31
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Tunis, Tunisia
Yumna Al-Arashi at B7L9 Art Centre
Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist presents a series of photographs focused on ancestral tattoos. Inspired by her great-grandmother, the images portray older women from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco in an immersive environment.
May 30 - July 31
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Part 2 of this guide will cover destinations across the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
If your summer destination isn’t on the list, let us know - we’ll be happy to include it for you!
