10 Must-See Global Exhibitions in 2025

15 Nov 2024 10 Must-See Global Exhibitions in 2025

Potsdam: Cosmos Kandinsky: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century | Museum Barberini | 15 Feb - 18 May 2025

Geometric Abstractions features the work of over 70 artists, including Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, and Barbara Hepworth, showcasing how Geometric Abstraction has continually emerged as a radical expression in Europe and the USA.

Dallas: Marisol: A Retrospective | Dallas Museum of Art | 23 Feb - 6 Jul 2025

From the 1950s to the early 2000s, this internationally touring retrospective, the most comprehensive survey of Marisol Escobar’s work ever assembled.

London: Edvard Munch Portraits | National Portrait Gallery | 13 March - 15 June 2025

The first UK exhibition to focus on the artist's intimate and influential portraits, revealing how Munch's energetic brushstrokes and bold colour captured both personal connections and broader themes of the human condition.

Florence: Tracey Emin | Palazzo Strozzi | 16 Mar - 20 Jul 2025

A major exhibition will showcase historical and recent works exploring the legacy of an artist who has shaped contemporary perspectives on women, the body and pain.

New York: Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers | Guggenheim Museum | 18 Apr 2025 – 18 Jan 2026

Encompassing the museum’s rotunda, along with an outdoor sculpture, this mid-career survey explores themes of social alienation, rebirth, and escapism.

San Francisco: Masako Miki | ICA SF | May - September 2025

Masako Miki’s largest presentation to date, transforming her “Night Parades” paintings into immersive, experiential forms that merge her two- and three-dimensional practices.

Tokyo: Paul Cézanne and Auguste Renoir: Looking at the World | Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum | 29 May - 7 Sep

Showcasing masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay in France, this major exhibition explores these two painters’ careers, from the 1870s.

Chicago: Caillebotte. Painting Men | Art Institute of Chicago | 22 June - 5 October 2025

An exploration of the artist’s focus on masculine forms and portraits, examining his radical modernity through the evolving art historical lens on 19th-century masculinity.

Los Angeles: Made in LA | The Hammer Museum | From Autumn 2025

The acclaimed biennale, celebrated for capturing the diversity and vibrancy of the city’s art scene, returns under the curatorial leadership of Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha.

Washington DC: Amy Sherald: American Sublime | National Portrait Gallery | 19 Sep 2025 - 22 Feb 2026

The largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date includes the iconic portrait of Michelle Obama (2018) and her powerful portrait of Breonna Taylor (2020).