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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch
Slide Nr 1From captivating retrospectives to breathtaking biennales, these art exhibitions and events deserve a spot on your cultural bucket list.
[Seijima Project-SAY YES. Tomotaka Yasui, Next. Photo: Shintaro Miyawaki via Setouchi Triennale: Autumn]
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 2For Children. Art Stories since 1968 – Stretching across the entrance hall, a colossal painting, Mega Please Draw Freely by Ei Arakawa-Nash, is a symbolic participatory piece created by visitors at Munich’s institutional art museum, Haus der Kunst. The curatorial team, led by director Andrea Lissoni, attempts to engage children – our partners of the future – with the urgent issues that we all face together. Artists featured in this playful yet thought-provoking exhibition for all ages include Olafur Eliasson, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto and many more. Through 1 February 2026
[KOO JEONG A, OooOoO Malmö, 2024. Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. Photo: Helene Toresdotter/AlexanderOlivera. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London © KOO JEONG A]1/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 3Koki Tanaka: Provisional Community – Recognised as a key figure in Japanese contemporary art, Koki Tanaka, who represented Japan in the 55th Venice Biennale, puts forth an exhibition curated by Neil Zhang at UCCA Beijing. The show explores alternative perspectives on social conditions, while questioning the frameworks of everyday life that Tanaka has explored throughout his career. Presented with several of his early video works, centring on themes of collaborative coexistence, viewers are invited to decipher the layered complexity of Tanaka’s oeuvre. From 27 September 2025 to 4 January 2026
[Koki Tanaka, Eating an Apple While Lucid Dreaming, 2022, collective act at Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time, Bangkok. Photograph by Koki Tanaka. Courtesy the artist.]2/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 4Setouchi Triennale: Autumn – Against the breathtaking panorama of the Setouchi Inland Sea and its islets, the sixth autumn edition of Setouchi Triennale unfolds this October, marking the final chapter of a year-long trilogy. Permanent installations join newly commissioned works spread across 17 key sites that can only be reached by ferry, turning each crossing into a reflective journey. More than just an art festival, it’s a true artistic odyssey. Newly opened in May 2025, the Naoshima New Museum of Art is also not to be missed. From 3 October to 9 November 2025
[Heather B.Swann +. Nonda Katsalidis, ‘Place for Sea Dreamers’. Photo: Keizo Kioku]3/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 5Otobong Nkanga – Nigerian-born, Belgium-based artist Otobong Nkanga’s first-ever solo exhibition of this scale showcases a myriad of works by the artist, spanning installations, sculptures, paintings and tapestries. Exploring the social, political and historical interconnections between nature and the human body, her visually striking, larger-scale pieces never fail to captivate. While you’re at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, don’t miss the parallel George Condo retrospective exhibiting the breadth of his diverse work across four decades. From 10 October 2025 to 22 February 2026
[Otobong Nkanga, From where I Stand, 2015. tapis, cônes, cristaux, poudre de mica, etc… Installation image: From Where I Stand, MIMA. Photo: Hynes Photography. Courtesy de l’artiste Otobong]4/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 6Collection in Focus: Robert Rauschenberg – Marking the centenary of the late American artist’s birth, this exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York offers a chance to trace how Rauschenberg challenged the boundaries of 20th-century art – both in movements, as well as mediums – thus influencing the trajectory of many contemporary practices that have followed. Highlights encompass some of the artist’s foremost works, including Barge, together with a dozen works from the Guggenheim’s own collection and more. From 10 October 2025 to 3 May 2026
[Robert Rauschenberg, Barge. Art © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]5/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 7Camera and the City – Street photography has long asserted itself as a genre in its own right, shaped by the contribution of masters such as Walker Evans, Diane Arbus and Fred Herzog – whose images are among those spotlighted by this exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Their profound imagery demands an immediate engagement, drawing viewers into moments where the urban environment reveals untold stories. From 12 December 2025 to 15 March 2026
[Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Garvey Day, Deedee in Car), c. 1965, printed 2021, inkjet print, 55.9 × 81.3 cm. Courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive and Jenkins Johnson Gallery. © The Kwame Brathwaite Archive, all rights reserved]6/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 8Art Here 2025 – Referencing the iconic architecture of the museum in which it is held, the 5th edition of Art Here at Louvre Abu Dhabi presents works exploring the interplay of light and shadow. The installations by six international artists, including YOKOMAE et BOUAYAD and Rintarō Fuse, encapsulate both the visual and conceptual nuances created by a symphony of contrasts. The dialogue between opposing elements – how they interrelate and challenge one another – emerges as a central theme of the exhibition by Swiss-Japanese curator Sophie Mayuko Arni. From 11 October to 28 December 2025
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 9Lee Miller – This autumn, Tate Britain will host one of the most extensive studies of the pioneering 20th-century photographer Lee Miller. Featuring more than 250 works, including some never before shown, this remarkable opportunity offers a comprehensive retrospective of Miller’s dramatic career. It traces her contributions to surrealism, fashion and war photography, as well as her lesser-known landscapes – all unified by her striking compositions and distinctive visual language. From 2 October 2025 to 15 February 2026
[Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London, England c.1943 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk]8/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 10Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 – Long underrepresented in art history, female Australian artists finally get their due in the first major exhibition of its kind in their home country, held at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales. Showcasing more than 200 works by Nora Heysen, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Margaret Preston and many newly rediscovered artists, the show redefines their contribution to Australian modernism and highlights their bold exchanges with key European art movements. From 11 October 2025 to 15 February 2026
[Hilda Rix Nicholas The pink scarf 1913, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 65 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia, gift of Mrs Roy Edwards through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 1993]9/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 11Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin – Through large, dystopian figures bathed in green light, multidisciplinary artist Sandra Mujinga creates an otherworldly sense of space at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, probing the fragility of human existence in a digitally saturated society. Her work confronts the imbalances and distorted realities that we have come to accept, offering a haunting vision of alternative ways of being. Widely exhibited at leading institutions and biennials around the world, Mujinga has emerged as a defining voice among a new generation of artists. Through 11 January 2026
[Photo: Installation view Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2025. Photo: Peter Tijhuis]10/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 12TOP Museum 30th Anniversary Exhibitions – The Tokyo Photography Art Museum has a full plate this year with celebrations commemorating the 30th anniversary of its founding. In addition to five omnibus exhibitions appropriately titled Continuity and Change, which re-examine the museum’s more than 30,000 photographic collections, the attractive line-up includes a retrospective of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri and a comprehensive study of the legendary Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. Throughout 2025
[Otsuka Chino, 1982 and 2005, Paris, France from the series Imagine Finding Me, 2005]11/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 13Opening of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building at MASP – Adding a wealth of space to the existing Lina Bo Bardi building, the newly inaugurated Museu de Arte de São Paulo’s new Pietro Maria Bardi building houses eclectic exhibitions – namely Isaac Julien’s video installation on Lina Bo Bardi, as well as selections of the museum’s collection of modern West African art and works by leading impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Revolving around the evolution of the museum, these retrospectives of the institution’s own history mark the beginning of a new era. From 28 March 2025
[Image: View of Pietro Maria Bardi Building, Photo: Leonardo Finotti]12/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 14Tatiana Trouvé: The Strange Life of Things – Intricate and ambiguous, Tatiana Trouvé’s visual investigations – manifesting through drawing and sculpture – fill the three floors of the Tadao Ando-redesigned Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Trouvé’s site-specific installations and newly made sculptures will be shown together with many of her previous drawings against this stunning backdrop, comprising the largest ever solo exhibition of the artist in the country of her birth. Until 4 January 2026
[Image: Tatiana Trouvé, Notes on Sculpture, April 27th, “Maresa”, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian. Photo: Robert McKeever. © Tatiana Trouvé, by SIAE 2024]13/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 15Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s – Now – After a successful show at the Haus der Kunst last year, installations of key female artists from past decades will be touring Hong Kong, offering a second chance for those who missed the initial show in Munich. This exhibition at M+ Hong Kong is a rare opportunity to encounter the full-scale reproduction of works otherwise only seen in archives. Playful and immersive, it’s a delightful exhibition for all ages. 20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 16The Dome, Aarhus – A work of art in its own right, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum’s new space, The Dome, will mark the largest of perceptual art pioneer James Turrell’s Skyspace series within a museum. It will be connected via an underground pathway to the main building, where exhibitions by Barbara Kruger, Isaac Julien as well as Picasso and Miró are in the pipeline for 2025. Opened 1 April 2025
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 17Bienal De São Paulo, São Paulo – The Berlin-based chief curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and his team attempt to reconsider the definition of humanity as a fluid entity – as “a place where different water currents meet”. The event, now in its 36th edition, embraces multiplicities and differences while evoking interconnectedness in our increasingly fragmented world. September 2025 to 11 Jan 2026
[Image: Conceptual team of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza © João Medeiros / São Paulo Biennial Foundation]16/17
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The Art Of The Matter: 17 Top Cultural Events To Catch.
Slide Nr 18Angelico, Florence – A trailblazer of the early Renaissance, Fra Angelico’s mastery of light and perspectival space – defining visual elements of the Quattrocento – takes centre stage in this comprehensive exhibition. Held at Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco, the four-month event will feature high-profile loans from institutions around the world. 26 September 2025 to 25 January 2026
[Image: Beato Angelico, Giudizio Universale, c. 1431, Florence, Museo di San Marco]17/17
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