80 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See in Fall 2025

Throughout the course of his brief profession, Ulises Beisso exhibited few of the 300 works he made in his native Uruguay, however he has loved a wholesome afterlife, showing alongside younger artists in the latest version of Brazil’s Bienal do Mercosul. Now, he’s getting the survey remedy with this present, which charts how Beisso redirected his skilled work in graphic design and illustration towards spare work that dealt in coded methods along with his identification as a homosexual man. Periodically, nonetheless, he addressed his identification outright: one portray from 1992 includes a coronary heart above textual content studying “gay / solo partes humanes.”

By November 10, 2025

One memorable efficiency staged by Aki Sasamoto at New York’s SculptureCenter in 2016 concerned pushing a large ball of laundry sheets round utilizing her toes, an act that she stated was meant to imitate the conduct of dung beetles. Newer installations and performances by her from the previous decade have continued that creative line of inquiry, with the artist forming assemblages of on a regular basis objects to map the unusual workings of the pure world. This survey, her first in her house nation, is prone to enable her work to retain its mystique—a great factor, after all.

By November 24, 2025

Throughout the late Nineteen Sixties and early ’70s, Robert Grosvenor made a splash with gigantic metal and plywood sculptures that hung ominously over gallery areas, aligning him with the Minimalist motion. However he would go on to withstand that classification, producing oddball sculptures resembling unusually sized vehicles, boats, and basins for water. The American sculptor’s work is thus robust to put, however this survey could assist supply a strong grounding for viewing his artwork, partly as a result of Grosvenor has a lot historical past in Kassel, the place his artwork has appeared in two editions of Documenta.

By January 11, 2026

Because the Nineteen Sixties, Beatriz González has been portray photographs sourced from artwork historical past, popular culture, and the media, rendering them anew in fiery reds and funky blues. In so doing, she has made these footage appear unfamiliar and requested her viewers to see them with recent eyes. Although González has made work explicitly coping with problems with its time, most notably her work of the Eighties responding to abuses of energy in her house nation of Colombia, this retrospective asserts that each work she has made is a political gesture, even when it seems in any other case.

By February 1, 2026

In 1989, the long-reigning Emperor Shōwa died, ushering in a interval of financial growth and creative progress in Japan. This survey takes inventory of that interval, with a give attention to Japanese greats similar to Miwa Yanagi, Takashi Murakami, Tatsuo Miyajima, and the collective Dumb Kind. However intriguingly, the exhibition additionally contains foreigners drawn to Japan by its tradition, amongst them Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, who purchased the rights to an anime character named Annlee from a Japanese firm in 1999 after which made a sequence of movies involving her.

September 3, 2025–December 8, 2025

In 1998, Lee Bul kicked off her “Cyborg” sequence, a gaggle of sculptures resembling partially constructed our bodies whose curvy torsos had been clad in armor. The Korean sculptor had at all times been enthusiastic about how expertise formed need; now, it turned the first topic of her work. This 150-work survey takes these sculptures as its place to begin, exhibiting how Lee has continued to ascertain folks of the longer term, usually with a watch to the position that the male gaze will play within the remaking of girls’s our bodies.

September 4, 2025–January 4, 2026

The Uzbek metropolis of Bukhara is thought for its Islamic structure, however now it has the ambitions of turning into a recent artwork vacation spot, too. This new biennial ought to assist in that course of, with curator Diana Campbell Betancourt on faucet to arrange a healing-themed inaugural version. Its artist checklist is highlighted by a variety of well-known artists, from Gabriel Chaile to Tavares Strachan, however the true stars are prone to be Central Asians similar to Gulnur Mukazhanova, a Kazakh artist who marked the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s demise on the 2024 Venice Biennale by way of dazzling textiles.

September 5, 2025–November 20, 2025

In 2010, Anna-Stina Treumund tried to discover a lesbian artist in her native Estonia and stated she was unable to take action. Treumund had by then already dedicated herself to photographing members of Estonia’s lesbian group, however the expertise ignited a ardour in her that burned till her premature demise in 2017, when she was in her mid-30s. At this time thought-about an inventive pioneer in Estonia, Treumund is lastly getting a retrospective that options her personal artwork alongside queer artists who adopted in her footsteps.

September 5, 2025–January 11, 2026

For greater than three many years, Jennie C. Jones has been given visible type to sound in work and sculptures which can be spare, summary, and delicate. (A few of these sculptures resembling stringed devices debuted on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s rooftop this summer time.) Previous works have demonstrated a canny means to show the loudness of Minimalism quiet and subdued, a feat she’s going to carry out as soon as extra right here in a brand new set up responding a grand Ellsworth Kelly portray. That work shall be accompanied by new sound items, in addition to a separate present of others’ artwork curated by Jones, who has chosen items by Carmen Herrera, Mavis Pusey, Anne Truitt, and extra.

September 5, 2025–February 1, 2026

Along with his version of the Venice Biennale now behind him, Adriano Pedrosa returns with the newest iteration of his canon-expanding “Historiás” sequence, this one themed round environmental points and the pure world. As with different “Historiás” reveals, this one has an enormous scope evincing no single strategy to its wide-ranging topic. Among the many 117 artists featured listed here are Archigram, a Nineteen Sixties British avant-garde group that embraced new technological developments, and Carmézia Emiliano, a Macuxi painter identified for her colourful photographs of her group surrounded by towering bushes.

September 5, 2025–February 1, 2026

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, director of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, helms this 12 months’s version of Latin America’s high biennial, which he has themed across the migratory routes of birds and the move of rivers. The formidable premise shall be illustrated utilizing works by a heaping of younger up-and-comers, from Josèfa Ntjam and Valuable Okoyomon. However like many different latest biennials, it additionally locations an emphasis on deceased artists now getting their due. One is Mohamed Melehi, a pacesetter of the modernist Casablanca Artwork College motion who posthumously made his Venice Biennale debut final 12 months.

September 6, 2025–January 11, 2026

The vast majority of fiber artwork filling galleries internationally in the present day has a raucous, celebratory high quality, however this exhibition sounds a extra subdued observe, spotlighting textiles that bear out a relationship to demise and survival within the face of it. It’s a giant matter, and one the present tackles ambitiously, traversing many eras and a number of continents. Anticipate to see a fraction from historic textile produced by the Nazca folks alongside latest work by Barbara Teller Ornelas, a Navajo weaver who survived the traumatic of expertise of being despatched to a government-run residential faculty as a baby.

September 6, 2025–March 15, 2026

The German-born, Ghana-based artist Zohra Opoku skilled in vogue design and now depends closely on textiles, onto which she prints pictures from her household archive. The resultant works, usually produced utilizing material in resplendent shades of blue, are meditations on how one’s identification is unstable, its elements woven collectively, stitched, and restitched over time. This survey of those works will characteristic such latest items because the 2020–24 sequence “The Myths of Everlasting Life,” for which Opoku responded to her most cancers analysis by printing textiles of legs, breasts, and arms.

September 11, 2025–October 4, 2026

The Kazakh artist Almagul Menlibayeva has described Central Asia as an unsettled area nonetheless reckoning with the lack of historical past, each in the course of the Soviet period and afterward. Her multimedia follow accordingly offers usually with the reclamation of data, however she does so not solely by way of analysis—one latest venture concerned utilizing AI to remake photographs of anti-government protests in Kazakhstan that had been censored by the mass media. (She has additionally labored in additional standard mediums, together with portray, the one through which she was skilled.) Menlibayeva thus reconstructs historical past as she excavates it, and her relationship to the previous is one core focus of this retrospective, one of many inaugural reveals held at Kazakhstan’s first-ever non-public museum.

September 12, 2025–Might 2026

This Turner Prize–successful artists is well-known for his deliberately unsettling sculptures of elongated human our bodies; one such determine featured prominently in 28 Years Later. The eerie impact is intentional, for they meditate on the strangeness of human existence. However his sculptures may be lovely, too, as this present goals to show. Alongside 4 many years’ value of artwork surveyed inside the Nasher’s partitions, Gormley is situating new sculptures on the roofs of Dallas buildings; onlookers beneath are requested to admire them with awe.

September 13, 2025–January 4, 2026

To mark the three hundredth anniversary of his beginning, Paris will rejoice Jean-Baptiste Greuze not with a retrospective however with a survey particularly centered on the methods he represented youngsters, whom he considered as symbols of purity. He was equally attentive to the position that children performed vis-à-vis their grownup dad and mom, whom he considered as educators that whipped children into form and taught them cause. No shock, then, that Greuze discovered favor with such philosophes as Denis Diderot, making him one of the fashionable painters of the Enlightenment period.

September 16, 2025–January 25, 2026

Yuko Mohri’s Japanese Pavilion was one of many extra uncommon sights at the very least 12 months’s Venice Biennale, the place her sculptures shaped from fruits, wooden furnishings, plastic piping, wiring, and extra struck a splendidly odd chord. With that pavilion, she displayed an curiosity in creating her personal makeshift programs, one thing the artist will try as soon as extra on this site-specific present.

September 18, 2025–January 11, 2026

Following a postponement and a curatorial turnabout, the Istanbul Biennial is again with curator Christine Tohmé on the helm. Her version facilities across the notion of “The Three-Legged Cat,” a tripedal being that should follow “new gymnastics, usually faltering but resolving with ceaseless grace,” very like the artists concerned, per her curatorial assertion. Accordingly, the biennial has itself been break up into three legs, the primary of which can characteristic works by artists similar to Simone Fattal, Lungiswa Gqunta, Khalil Rabah, and Jagdeep Raina.

September 20, 2025–November 23, 2025

The 2016 Kerry James Marshall survey that traveled the US was a revelation that spurred widespread curiosity in his house nation. Now, Marshall mania will cross the pond within the type of this survey, which can characteristic some 70 of his works revisiting and revising canonical artworks to inform new variations of Black historical past. However even those that noticed the US exhibition will need to pay this new survey a go to, for it includes a huge work that didn’t seem within the former present: Information and Marvel (1995), a 23-foot-long mural of youngsters gazing admiringly at a variety of sights that has by no means earlier than left its house on the Chicago Public Library.

September 20, 2025–January 18, 2026

When the 2022 Venice Biennale took its title from Leonora Carrington’s writings, it helped set off a renewed curiosity within the Surrealist painter, who turned one of the costly feminine artists at public sale final 12 months. Now, Carrington fever will retake Italy with this survey, which means that her dreamy work weren’t solely rooted within the tradition of Mexico, the place the British-born artist spent a lot of her profession. As a substitute, it proposes that Italy additionally made a big contribution to her artwork, with Renaissance work and an prolonged keep in Florence influencing her vastly.

September 20, 2025–January 11, 2026

Simply in time for spooky season, right here’s an expansive survey centered across the notions of specters, possession, and haunting as pictured by 80 artists energetic in the course of the nineteenth century and onward. Alongside up to date artists similar to Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Schütte, and Gillian Sporting, all of whom conjure eeriness by way of conceptual stratagem, the exhibition may also embrace mystically minded modernists similar to Meret Oppenheim, a Surrealist whose 1934 work Little Ghost Consuming Bread should have probably the most lovely apparition ever painted.

September 20, 2025–February 1, 2026

Three camels in the midst of a Brutalist constructing? It was an unlikely sight, nevertheless it was one which guests to the Whitney encountered again in 1969 after they witnessed these Nancy Graves sculptures made out of such supplies as wax and burlap. Fifty-six years later, these camels return to the Whitney because the introductory works to this survey, which traces Surrealism’s affect on American artwork between 1958 and 1972. That was a interval of turmoil through which artists sought to variously disarm and disquiet with works that channeled dream states, unseeable forces, and a weirdness distinct to this nation—matters usually skirted by dominant actions similar to Pop and Minimalism. The present is thus devoted primarily to nonpareils who couldn’t be categorized, amongst them Ching Ho Cheng, Shigeko Kubota, Luis Jimenez, and extra.

September 24, 2025–January 19, 2026

Lots of Gabriel de la Mora’s work are painstakingly constructed from supplies aside from paint: hundreds of obsidian fragments, many little butterfly wings, outdated posters and radio material. De la Mora, an assiduous collector of used treasures and discarded refuse, makes use of his artwork to indicate objects die solely to realize a second life—therefore the title of this survey, which puns the French phrase for “orgasm,” gesturing towards the sensuality of the Mexican artist’s work.

September 25, 2025–February 8, 2026

Throughout the ’80s, Leda Catunda started utilizing materials and graphics in her work, placing a lighter tone that was at odds with a lot of the steely conceptualism on supply in Brazil on the time. From the beginning, her work was gentle and buoyant, and the artwork she has produced since—a lot of it gentle work hung with components recalling appendages—has maintained that high quality. However her artwork is just not with out concepts: beneath all its vivid colours lies a bitter critique of consumerism. Her first main survey outdoors Brazil will discover why Catunda chooses visible resplendence as a conduit for that commentary.

September 26, 2025–February 8, 2026

Do you actually must be satisfied to see this once-in-a-lifetime present? If that’s the case, contemplate this: it’s the primary large-scale exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance painter within the metropolis the place he as soon as labored in roughly 70 years. In Florence, one can discover a great deal of Fra Angelico’s lush spiritual scenes, which situate Biblical material in settings that seemed and felt up to date—a departure from Medieval artwork, which frequently appeared to happen in a gold-leafed realm all its personal. However you’re unlikely to seek out so many works by him—140, to be precise, unfold throughout two museums—in Florence, or anyplace else in Italy, once more anytime quickly.

September 26, 2025–January 25, 2026

Carving: A Conventional Sculpture (1972), a conceptual work that concerned Eleanor Antin weight-reduction plan and photographing her nude physique because it modified, stays the artist’s calling card. The piece is deservedly proven usually and broadly, and is now considered a cornerstone of the feminist artwork motion. However this retrospective will show that Antin was no one-hit marvel, with loads of pictures, movies, and conceptual items concerning the efficiency of femininity that benefit simply as a lot consideration as Carving has obtained.

September 26, 2025–February 8, 2026

To ascribe anyone set of pursuits to Lutz Bacher—who labored underneath a pseudonym and by no means revealed her precise title—is nearly inconceivable. Listed here are a few of her numerous tasks: a chunk composed of surveillance footage shot on the gallery of her supplier Pat Hearn, a stack of big foam blocks, movies of the Empire State Constructing projected onto Plexiglas, abstractions derived from Donald Trump’s signature. Little of her work is straightforward to know, however almost all of it’s straightforward to like. Right here comes a retrospective which will or could not present some solutions about what she was actually as much as.

September 26, 2025–January 4, 2026

Anders Zorn could also be one of many few foreigners with work within the assortment of the White Home—a portrait of William Howard Taft, certainly one of two Presidents who modeled for him—and that’s as a result of at a sure level in his profession, Zorn was extra well-known within the US than he was in his homeland of Sweden. However this 150-work survey means that Zorn’s Swedishness is crucial to his work of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which image topics similar to a Midsummer dance and sun-dappled Baltic seas through wispy strokes clearly impressed by Impressionism.

September 26, 2025–January 25, 2026

Previously few many years, queer artwork historical past has are available for a rewrite, with better consideration paid to queer artists energetic earlier than the postwar period, a much less explored a part of this lineage. This survey seems to be so as to add much more new chapters to artwork historical past—not simply by specializing in queer artists like Romaine Brooks, George Platt Lynes, Richmond Barthé, Claude Cahun, and loads of others, but additionally by revisiting queer content material to be present in work by straight artists. One notably intriguing part of this present will give attention to representations of androgyny and intersexuality in Surrealist artwork by René Magritte, Max Ernst, and the like.

September 27, 2025–February 15, 2026

When Suzanne Jackson gave beginning to her son in 1971, she printed a ebook of her poetry and artwork known as What I Love, whose cowl was a painted heart-shaped face. The ebook’s title and canopy implied that Jackson’s artwork has at all times been heat with compassion—even when she’s working in abstraction and never explicitly representing folks—therefore why she tweaked that ebook’s title for her SFMOMA retrospective titled “What Is Love.” The present will discover how Jackson, the founding father of Los Angeles’s trailblazing Gallery 32, lends her artwork a human contact, with latest “anti-canvases” taking the type of hanging plenty of scavenged lace, netting, seeds, and extra that acquire new life in her fingers.

September 27, 2025–March 1, 2026

Curvaceous wood varieties and indirect references to American historical past recur all through the wealthy sculptures of Martin Puryear, an artist who focuses on sedateness. His work may be so sedate, in reality, that it’s generally exhausting to parse—one thing the artist has embraced, as soon as saying, “Probably the most attention-grabbing artwork for me retains a flickering high quality, the place opposed concepts may be held in a tense coexistence.” This survey, his first main one since representing the US on the 2019 Venice Biennale, affords a chief likelihood to make sense of that flickering high quality, with 45 of his works—together with some monumental sculptures—marshaled right here.

September 27, 2025–February 8, 2026

Slightly than name his teams of work “sequence,” as most artists do, the Austrian painter Tobias Pils prefers the phrase “households,” a time period that underscores the way in which his tangles of figures are all associated to 1 one other. Then once more, his work, usually finished in gray tones, are about how visible concepts modulate as they’re translated between areas, as maybe befits an artist whose work is so pleasantly odd. This survey will supply an opportunity to attempt to make sense of Pils’s uncommon painterly logic.

September 27, 2025–April 12, 2026

The title of this present implies that artmaking has at all times been a type of survival for the Anishinaabe, a gaggle of 21 tribes primarily based within the Nice Lakes area, and is prone to stay that means far into the longer term. Although the present contains such well-known artists because the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation painter Norval Morrisseau, many of the 60 artists included are nonetheless awaiting recognition. These artists, whose contributions vary from beadwork to sculpture, embrace Frank Huge Bear (White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa), Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), and Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa).

September 28, 2025–April 5, 2026

Katlijne Van der Stighelen, a Belgian artwork historian, recalled three years in the past that she found Michaelina Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus (1650–56) within the storage services of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which she stated had categorized the piece as a “second-class” work, partly as a result of it was by a girl. Now, the 12-foot-wide is the centerpiece of this retrospective, which goals to indicate that Michaelina Wautier was no run-of-the-mill artist. It should characteristic nonetheless lifes ample with flowers, bacchanal scenes rife with drunken figures, and portraits full of lavish materials, all in service of its thesis that Wautier deserves a spot among the many pantheon of nice Baroque artists.

September 30, 2025–February 22, 2026

Lee Miller’s colourful life included modeling work, pictures commissions for Vogue, and knowledgeable and romantic relationship with Man Ray that lured her into the orbit of the Surrealist motion. Renewed curiosity in feminine Surrealists has made Miller fashionable in recent times—and maybe could have been an oblique impetus for the making of a biopic through which Kate Winslet performed the artist. However exhibitions for Miller on the dimensions of this 250-work retrospective have been uncommon, and that makes it one thing of an occasion. Included amongst these works shall be her solarized self-portraits, for which Miller reversed the constructive and damaging qualities of her photographs to create photographs that had been intentionally off-kilter.

October 2, 2025–February 15, 2026

Many efficiency artists of the Nineteen Seventies positioned themselves in precarious conditions that required endurance. Few did so with such dedication as Tehching Hsieh, whose “One 12 months Performances” concerned enterprise tough duties for a complete 12 months: spending a 12 months on the streets, tying himself to the artist Linda Montano for seasons on finish, repeatedly punching a time clock. Partially due to the rigor concerned in making these works, Hsieh is one thing of a hero to efficiency artists working in the present day. Dia’s retrospective—astonishingly the primary one ever awarded to the artist—seeks to develop his following.

Opens October 4, 2025

The landscapes of Andrea Carlson, an Ojibwe painter of European descent, dazzle the attention, with loads of textual content, symbols, and pure varieties piled atop each other. However Carlson has warned that these portray is probably not so charming as they may seem, for as she not too long ago informed Artwork in America, “In the event you truly entered these landscapes, you’d be lower into items.” Thirty of her fraught meditations on the panorama style shall be featured right here.

October 5, 2025–February 16, 2026

The Hammer’s Made in L.A. biennial has at all times been a font of expertise to look at, however much more folks shall be watching this exhibition now than prior to now, for the present will inevitably must cope with the wildfires that wracked the town at first of the 12 months. From these blazes have sprung the seeds of creativity, and little question this present’s many great creators, from the photographer Widline Cadet to the filmmaker Na Mira, will attest to the continued richness of LA’s creative material. Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha will curate.

October 5, 2025–March 1, 2026

To curate this exhibition about sparse aesthetics, the Bourse de Commerce has correctly tapped Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Artwork Basis, the New York establishment that helped form the Minimalist motion. However regardless of the present’s title, this isn’t a Minimalism survey. As a substitute, it’s a extra expansive have a look at why artists all over the world made the choice to pare down their work in the course of the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, with the Korean Mono-ha motion, the Italian Arte Povera tendency, and the German Zero group all addressed alongside consultant Minimalist artworks.

October 8, 2025–January 19, 2026

Pleasure Gregory’s 1989–90 piece Autoportrait, a grouping of cropped photographs of herself staring again at her digicam, by no means affords a full image of the artist—which is intentional. For many years, Gregory has been utilizing pictures to indicate how our conceptions of Blackness, Britishness, and femininity are cobbled collectively, although she has solely not too long ago gained recognition for it. Having gained the £110,000 Freelands award in 2023, she’s going to now have a retrospective that can pay particular thoughts to her Jamaican heritage in sequence similar to 2018’s “I’m House,” for which Gregory shot household heirlooms and home areas to ascertain all that her dad and mom left behind after they got here to England.

October 8, 2025–March 1, 2026

Irrespective of the place it sprung up, modernism was made, not born, and this 250-work present examines the way it was constructed, portray by portray, artist by artist, in Nigeria. In curator Osei Bonsu’s conception of the motion, forging a contemporary aesthetic started in Nigeria as an anti-colonial gesture in the course of the Nineteen Forties, with artists like Ben Enwonwu making use of the visible language of European abstraction to distinctly African topics. Many artists adopted after him, reimagining Igbo motifs and Yoruba lore for a brand new period. The modernist canon, as soon as restricted largely to Western Europe, has grown to incorporate many extra views prior to now couple many years; this present already appears poised to be a gargantuan contribution to that venture.

October 8, 2025–Might 10, 2025

Artist Jeffrey Gibson follows his US Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennale with a much less standard venture: an exhibition co-curated with Jenelle Porter, primarily based on their ebook of the identical title, that gives an intergenerational constellation of Indigenous artists. There are simply 15 artists featured within the present itself—a fraction of the multitude surveyed in its printed counterpart—however the exhibition is decidedly a metonym, not an all-encompassing endeavor. These artists embrace George Morrison, the late Ojibwe painter who labored alongside the Summary Expressionists, and Teresa Baker, a Mandan and Hidatsa artist who makes her abstractions out of fiber and astroturf.

October 9, 2025–March 8, 2026

In 2007, when the Trinidadian painter Boscoe Holder died, Peter Doig bought the artist’s complete file assortment and immersed himself within the sounds of the Caribbean music Holder held so expensive. Doig is often mentioned as a painter with a watch for coloration. Would possibly he have fairly a refined ear, too? This present suggests he does, implying that music has at all times been extra central to his work than many have thought. It should characteristic at its core a Western Electrical / Bell Labs sound system that can play tunes all through the present, which may also be activated all through its run by musically inclined artists similar to Lizzi Bougatsos and Brian Eno.

October 10, 2025–February 8, 2026

From 1948 to 1963, within the Malian capital of Bamako, Seydou Keïta operated a pictures studio; the photographs he shot there, that includes fashionably dressed kids garbed in dazzling patterns, act as essential paperwork of their time. Keïta, who went on to work for his nation’s authorities, is now generally thought-about a pillar of African pictures, although he has not often been given flashy retrospectives within the US—the final one was staged on the Studio Museum in Harlem greater than 20 years in the past. Thank goodness, then, for this Brooklyn Museum present, whose 275-item guidelines contains loads of his pictures alongside the garments that impressed them.

October 10, 2025–March 8, 2026

Retrospectives at all times supply moments for profound reflection, however this one will present that extra so than most: its topic, the photographer Erwin Olaf, died unexpectedly following a lung transplant in 2023, forsaking a video known as For Life that can right here make its debut in an unfinished type. Whereas the content material of that video nonetheless hasn’t been made public, the Stedelijk has stated it’ll cope with demise and survival within the face of it—a subject that at all times pervaded Olaf’s oeuvre, a lot of which handled queer self-expression within the Netherlands.

October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026

Claude Monet’s title calls up ponds in Giverny, a cathedral in Rouen, the seaside of Le Havre. What it probably doesn’t call to mind is Venice, the Italian metropolis that this present proposes is extra central to the Impressionist’s oeuvre than most think about. Throughout the exhibition’s 100 works are many photographs of the town’s canals, which Monet rendered in his signature brushy means, permitting church buildings and palazzos to dissemble into bluish strokes. Monet stated he left Venice with a “higher eye”; the hope of this present is that viewers will depart it with a greater eye for his work.

October 11, 2025–February 1, 2026

First there was the Met mega-exhibition “Manet/Degas”; now there’s one other two-person blockbuster centered round Édouard Manet, this one dedicated to Berthe Morisot, a French painter who was near him. Till very not too long ago, Morisot was thought-about a secondary determine of the Impressionist motion, however surveys dedicated to her have helped elevate her profile. This present means that her unfastened painterly fashion, along with her strokes left disparate and tough, owed one thing to Manet—who could even have realized a factor or two from her.

October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026

The usage of the phrase “divine” on this present’s title refers to its material—the 1,500-plus gods of historic Egypt as represented in artwork—however it is usually probably be an apt adjective to explain the exhibition as a complete, for the reason that Met has a wealthy historical past of doing wonderful blockbusters. The greater than 200 items included right here will run the gamut from grand statues to small steel and wooden objects. Although the primary attraction right here is the masterworks on mortgage from different establishments, a number of the exhibition’s true gems shall be items held within the Met’s unequaled assortment of Egyptian artwork.

October 12, 2025–January 19, 2026

Surprisingly, this Yayoi Kusama retrospective is being touted not along with her immensely fashionable “Infinity Mirror Rooms”—certainly one of which can determine right here, concern not—however with the promise of providing Europeans a uncommon view of her early work of the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, which are inclined to get much less play. In works of that period, Kusama foreshadowed her future curiosity in obsession through assemblages of air mail stickers and mesh-like items that she known as “Infinity Nets.” They rapidly established repetition as a fixture of her oeuvre, which has since gone on to mull matters just like the male gaze and her personal hallucinations.

October 12, 2025–January 25, 2026

What imaginative and prescient of America ought artists to place ahead proper now? It’s a query being debated broadly proper now, and nowhere extra so than on the Smithsonian Establishment, whose museums have been derided as “woke” and unpatriotic by the President of the USA. However lengthy earlier than that was a subject of mainstream dialogue, the self-taught artist Grandma Moses was considering by way of it in her personal odd means, with work that symbolize quaint photographs of rural life within the Northeast. Throughout the postwar period, her work gained widespread consideration fashionable within the mainstream media—and polarized artists and the general public alike, since few may agree on what she actually meant with them. The controversy is now prone to proceed with this survey.

October 14, 2025–July 12, 2026

Of all of the retrospectives going down this fall, none are fairly so momentous as this one for a pacesetter of the Neoclassical motion in 18th-century France. It’s attainable partly as a result of solely the Louvre may ever mount such a present: the museum owns a number of the best David works, together with Oath of the Horatii (1784) and The Coronation of Napoleon (1805–7), which resurrected the prospers of historic Greek and Roman artwork to evangelise order and moderation for audiences of David’s day. However this exceptional museum has additionally flexed its would possibly to realize some essential loans for the present, together with The Loss of life of Marat (1793), which is commonly housed in Brussels. For as soon as, it’ll be a part of the extra broadly seen reproduction model held by the Louvre.

October 15, 2025–January 26, 2026

Smeary recreations of pictures present in newspapers, squeegeed abstractions, stunning meditations on the specter of Nazism, melancholy photographs of candles: Gerhard Richter has finished all of it after which some, revolutionizing portray time and again. The 93-year-old German artist has been specific about the truth that he’s finished making new work, proclaiming that his 2023 David Zwirner exhibition in New York was his final present. And so, all we are able to do now’s look again on Richter’s many inventions and take inventory of them. This 270-work retrospective is a chief alternative to just do that.

October 17, 2025–March 2, 2026

Following two well-received reveals in Amsterdam earlier this 12 months, Anselm Kiefer embarks on one more huge museum present with this survey, which locations his monumentally scaled landscapes of the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s alongside newer works which can be even bigger. These new work, just like the outdated ones, ponder Germany’s stricken postwar consciousness whereas providing loads of eye sweet by making heavy use of gold leaf. However it’s the quieter, much less visually interesting items of the ’70s and ’80s that act because the present’s centerpieces. These work had been controversial throughout their time for reviving Nazi beliefs whereas additionally obliquely commenting on them; for higher or for worse, they continue to be potent in the present day.

October 18, 2025–January 25, 2026

The notion that Europeans invented abstraction—a pervasive one ever for the reason that days of modernism—has more and more come underneath scrutiny, with many artists in the present day reviving age-old kinds derived from Indigenous and non-Western cultures as a rejoinder. A type of artists is Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), whose work forged conventional Lakota motifs at a grand scale. However greater than merely exposing the Western canon’s limits, White Hawk’s artwork additionally affirms the worth of girls’s labor: she usually produces her work utilizing labor-intensive processes involving quillwork and beadwork, and has often enlisted Native collaborators. Three years after a star flip within the Whitney Biennial, the Minneapolis-based artist is now getting a mid-career survey within the metropolis she calls house.

October 18, 2025–February 15, 2026

Billed as the largest present of Indigenous Australian artwork ever staged within the US, this epic exhibition will see greater than 200 works from the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria make a uncommon journey to a different Nationwide Gallery throughout the Pacific. The exhibition takes its title from the abstractions of Yolŋu artist Gulumbu Yunupiŋu, whose beautiful summary work characteristic clusters of white dots as stand-ins for stars. The present’s artist checklist is thus a constellation, and it additionally contains individuals who labored in a way more conceptual vein, such because the late Future Deacon, a photographer who shot photographs of dolls depicting Aboriginal those that she labeled “Koori kitsch.”

October 18, 2025–February 28, 2026

Maybe due to the queasy means Henri Rousseau painted dark-skinned figures as a locus of intrigue, there hasn’t been a significant US present dedicated to the Frenchman in almost 20 years. However this exhibition that includes almost 60 of his works means that Rousseau’s dreamy jungle scenes could also be extra complicated than some understand. Whether or not suspicious viewers shall be swayed stays to be seen, however the present does at the very least embrace some spectacular loans: The Sleeping Gypsy (1897), a famed portray of a lion and a dozer in a desert panorama, is making the uncommon journey from MoMA for the exhibition.

October 19, 2025–February 22, 2026

Guggenheim Museum deputy director and chief curator Naomi Beckwith is tough at work on the 2027 version of Documenta, however within the interim, she’s on the brink of unveil one other main curatorial endeavor, this survey of the ways in which American artists have drawn on French idea. With an intergenerational artist checklist starting from Cindy Sherman to Char Jéré, the exhibition proves that thinkers like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Frantz Fanon proceed to retain a robust attract for People.

October 22, 2025–February 15, 2026

In an govt order earlier this 12 months, Donald Trump wrote of a necessity for “solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind People of our extraordinary heritage,” and remonstrated those that needed to forged the nation in what he described as a “damaging gentle.” Curator Hamza Walker had been at work on this survey of monuments and their discontents lengthy earlier than Trump’s govt order, nevertheless it now appears poised to make an excellent greater splash. The exhibition will characteristic decommissioned monuments from throughout the US, inserting them alongside up to date artworks similar to a newly commissioned Stan Douglas video set up that remakes a portion of Delivery of a Nation.

October 23, 2025–April 12, 2026

Lots of Truman Lowe’s sculptures concerned taking symbols and objects related along with his Ho-Chunk heritage—totems, canoes, headdresses—and remaking them in varieties so spare that they appeared barely there in any respect. His artwork suggests a fascination with what disappears throughout time. His first-ever retrospective ought to make sure that his work doesn’t get forgotten. It’s a homecoming for the late artist, who was as soon as a curator at this very establishment.

October 24, 2025–January 2027

Most artists acquire media consideration for placing their work on view; Beau Dick, a Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief, turned the topic of nationwide information in Canada when he eliminated his artwork. In 2012, Dick eliminated his carved masks from a gallery in Vancouver and returned them to his group in Alert Bay. They had been then ritually danced and burned, an act that he stated “retains them alive.” How he did simply that with all of his masks is the topic of this present, billed as his first US survey.

October 25, 2025–January 18, 2026

Juan Uslé as soon as known as his summary work “cartographies of types, mapping the psychological, the natural, and the scientific.” Many viewers have seen in them imagined areas—his final main Reina Sofía present, in 2003, was even known as “Rooms.” Core to the Spanish painter’s celebrated artwork is an inquiry: can a grouping of strokes type a complete world? Discover out on this retrospective.

November 25, 2025–April 20, 2026

At the same time as President Trump turns up the stress on museums that present artwork about xenophobia and racism alongside the US-Mexico border, this establishment is just not shying away. One in every of its huge shows this fall is a survey for Alejandro Cartagena, a photographer born within the Dominican Republic and primarily based in Monterrey, Mexico, the place he has shot memorable photographs of border partitions and suburban sprawl. This retrospective will characteristic these works alongside more moderen movies made utilizing AI.

November 22, 2025–April 19, 2026

Robert Therrien stays most fondly remembered for his 1994 sculpture Beneath the Desk, which takes the type of a 10-foot-tall kitchen desk that towers over viewers. That work, like many others by Therrien, takes home objects after which enlarges them, questioning whether or not this stuff nonetheless appear acquainted when their scale is so dramatically altered. Fittingly, the scale of this present is sort of massive. At 120 works, it’s the sculptor’s largest present since his demise in 2019.

November 22, 2025–April 5, 2026

Can watching a movie—or performing in a single, for that matter—assist revive misplaced historical past? That is the query that has animated Yang Fudong’s video installations, which have poetically and cryptically thought-about cultural amnesia in China. His work has struck a chord internationally, and it’s prone to show much more shifting when seen in his house nation at this survey, which can embrace works from his “Library Movie Challenge,” a cycle of works that was conceived in 2005 as a 22-film sequence. Yang stated on the time that the venture requested: “The place is everybody’s non secular life?” He’s nonetheless looking for solutions; the venture stays incomplete.

November 22, 2025–April 5, 2026

With this survey, curator Alison M. Gingeras makes an attempt to distill 475 years of artwork by ladies into only a grouping of works by 130 artists—not precisely a small job. Gingeras’s venture is formidable and epic in scope, and she’s going to strategy it by dividing all this historical past into eight sections, every with their very own fascinating mixture of artists. One space about self-portraiture, for instance, will characteristic the Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana alongside Somaya Crtichlow, a younger British painter whose small-scale photographs of nude Black ladies meditate on centuries of feminine illustration.

November 21, 2025–Might 4, 2026

Think about a portray of a wintry panorama, and you could nicely think of a Lawren Harris canvas depicting a snow-capped mountain beneath a gleaming solar. Work like these are well-known in Canada, the place they’re generally admired for his or her opulence—however this present proposes that Harris—and others like him—hid quite a bit beneath the blankets of snow. Accordingly, this survey pairs works by him and Europeans like Camille Pissarro with Indigenous artists similar to Pitseolak Ashoona, an Inuit printmaker whose works depict the animals that Harris cleaned from his landscapes.

November 21, 2025–March 22, 2026

A present of Tom Lloyd’s sculptures kicked off the Studio Museum in Harlem’s inaugural program in 1968, and now, they are going to assist usher this venerable New York establishment into a brand new period when it reopens in November, following a seven-year closure and the completion of a $300 million new house. His sculptures of the ’60s tended to characteristic gentle bulbs stowed behind plastic lenses; they had been a response, he stated, to the pervasiveness of sunshine in our trendy media setting. It’s legal that Lloyd stays lesser identified than Chryssa and Dan Flavin, who additionally took gentle as their sculptural medium, although this present could assist elevate his profile.

Opens November 15, 2025

As a child, Minnie Evans was stored awake at evening by visions so intense that she discovered herself compelled to attract them beginning in 1935. Full of kaleidoscopic vegetation and mysterious faces, the resultant drawings and work channeled what she known as “the misplaced world.” She would go on to realize fairly just a few followers for these works. In 1975, she turned one of many first Black artists to have a Whitney Museum solo present; subsequent 12 months, that very same New York establishment will give her a full-dress retrospective. However earlier than happening view there, the exhibition will make its debut on the Excessive Museum, which has a fame for its first-class shows of people and self-taught artwork, a class into which Evans has regularly been lumped.

November 14, 2025–April 19, 2026

It’s exhausting to have a look at Teresa Margolles’s work, and likewise exhausting to look away from it. Maybe that solely is sensible, on condition that Margolles has lengthy been enthusiastic about that which can’t be seen, whether or not by alternative or not, in her house nation of Mexico—specifically, all of the carnage throughout her. In work, sculptures, and installations that recall Minimalist artwork objects, she makes use of actual blood and different ephemera related to demise to deal with such matters as femicide and the drug battle. The toughness of her materials could clarify why, till this exhibition, nobody had ever organized a complete present of her artwork in Mexico.

November 13, 2025–March 2026

The long-awaited Museum of West African Artwork is lastly right here. Touted as a Nigerian establishment that may home returned Benin Bronzes and masterworks of contemporary artwork alike, the museum formally kicks off its programming at its David Adjaye–designed house in Benin Metropolis with an expanded model of the Nigerian Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennale, which thought-about all of the methods the nation’s tradition and other people have filtered out past its borders. Recent to this iteration of the present is a site-specific set up by Modupeola Fadugba, whose work cope with the lack of historical past.

November 11, 2025–April 11, 2026

Even earlier than the Surrealist canon was expanded considerably prior to now decade, the Cuban-born Wifredo Lam was thought-about a fixture of the motion for his work of human-animal hybrids. His proximity to European Surrealists—he was primarily based for a part of his profession in Paris—actually helped in that regard. However this retrospective, billed as his largest up to now within the US, asserts that he retained a robust connection to Afro-Cuban traditions, even whereas he was primarily based overseas. Paying particular thoughts to his work’s ties to Cuba, the present seeks to supply a proof for why Lam as soon as described his artwork as “an act of decolonization not in a bodily sense, however in a psychological one.”

November 10, 2025–March 28, 2026

For the primary time ever, the Shanghai Biennale, Asia’s most high-profile biennial, is being led by a girl: Kitty Scott, who has picked Daisy Desrosiers and Xue Tan to serve alongside her as curators of the occasion. The biennial hasn’t launched an artist checklist but, however its idea, centered across the notion of information-gathering, sounds juicy sufficient. Scott has promised that her present, titled “Does the flower hear the bee?,” may also flip its consideration to nonhumans, showcasing “a wider community of communicative brokers collectively shaping the world,” as she not too long ago informed the Observer.

November 8, 2025–March 31, 2026

Der Blaue Reiter, the German artists’ group credited with serving to to launch Expressionism in the course of the 1910s, tends to be considered a motion headlined by males, most notably Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky. However this survey shines a lightweight on certainly one of its few feminine members: Gabriele Münter, who has usually been reductively labeled Kandinsky’s associate in trendy artwork surveys, if she has been talked about in any respect. Like her colleagues, Münter was fascinated by all that coloration may signify, portray mountains in unnatural shades of crimson and blue. Intriguingly, this present means that she was influenced to take action not solely by her German compatriots but additionally by sights seen whereas touring the US early on.

November 7, 2025–April 26, 2026

In 1981, Eric Fischl painted a younger man fishing his means into a handbag whereas an older, nude lady sprawls out earlier than him. What did Fischl imply by that? It wasn’t clear then, it isn’t clear now, and the strangeness of tableaux like this one has continued to unsettle. And his work has grown ever stranger in recent times with its specific references to up to date hot-button points. Among the many works featured on this survey, staged within the metropolis the place Fischl was raised, is October 7: Heading Out (2023), which includes a lady wearing enterprise apparel looking at a laptop computer which will or could not show photographs of that day’s Hamas assault, which killed 1,200 folks in Israel.

November 7, 2025–June 14, 2026

This imaginative Korean artist is having fairly a second, having not too long ago obtained the Guggenheim Museum’s $100,000 artwork and expertise prize and a present on the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. At that museum, Kim confirmed movies about battling supply employees in Seoul, rushing round landscapes which can be partly generated with AI and online game engines. These movies, a part of a trilogy known as “Supply Dancer,” will right here make their US debut. Additionally this November in New York, Kim will debut a brand new efficiency on the Performa biennial.

November 6, 2025–March 16, 2026

Who higher to curate a present concerning the relational aesthetics motion than Nicolas Bourriaud himself? In 1998, Bourriaud theorized the influential fashion, which he stated was artwork primarily based largely round social interactions fairly than objects—a squishy definition, to make certain, but additionally a versatile one. Practically three many years later, Bourriaud has now returned to the motion, amassing key works by lots of its best adherents, amongst them Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pierre Huyghe, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerester.

October 31, 2025–March 8, 2026

Summary Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptualism all handed Alice Neel proper by. Whereas her colleagues devoted themselves to those kinds, Neel remained dedicated to portraiture, highlighting all of the folks she noticed round her in New York in a figurative mode that bucked the traits of her day. This retrospective thus presents her as a humanist, one whose perspective, as a girl working throughout male-dominated instances, led her to give attention to the marginalized.

October 31, 2025–April 5, 2026

Kazuko Miyamoto, an artist born in Japan in 1942 and lengthy primarily based in New York, is having an unlikely second within the German capital, the place she presently seems within the Berlin Biennale. Now, she’s having this survey centered round her items of the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s composed from segments of string which can be nailed or affixed to partitions. Seen from afar, these strings appear like strong blocks of matter; up shut, nonetheless, the items are semi-transparent and flimsy-looking. The present positions these works as essential, if under-recognized, contributions from an period when artists had been making much-needed edits to the masculinist impulses of Minimalist sculpture.

October 31, 2025–January 18, 2026

Understandably, Lisette Mannequin is mostly related to the American artwork scene, along with her quirky pictures of bathers at Coney Island rating among the many most memorable New York footage ever snapped. However in reality, she was Austrian by beginning, and this retrospective marks an try and reclaim the artist, who redefined road pictures in the course of the postwar period with off-kilter photographs of New Yorkers going about their enterprise: jazz musicians at work, outdated ladies at lunch, folks traversing metropolis streets, and extra.

October 30, 2025–February 22, 2026

Whereas battling a heroin dependancy in the course of the Nineties, Joyce McDonald discovered that working with clay helped occupy her fingers and put her thoughts relaxed. Artwork turned a therapeutic pressure for her, and has continued to be ever since. An ordained minister since 2009, she has crafted beautiful sculptures of moms and kids, in addition to galvanizing items responding to latest police killings. Finally, McDonald is having a survey within the metropolis she calls house, whose populace will now get an opportunity to see how her HIV analysis and her upbringing knowledgeable her heat, compassionate physique of labor.

September 5, 2025–January 11, 2026