Exhibitions

At the Louvre, an exhibition leads to the discovery of ancient Mesopotamia through the theme of water

From May 20, 2026, to March 15, 2027, the Louvre in Paris will host the exhibition Primordial Water: Lessons from Mesopotamia, curated by Ariane Thomas, director of the Department of Oriental Antiquities and head of the collections of Recent Mesopota...
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Rome, an exhibition at Palazzo Merulana focuses gaze on Gaza's children and childhood under siege

In the contemporary world, millions of children grow up in conditions marked by war, violence and loss. According to UNICEF data, more than 41,000 serious violations of children's rights were recorded in 2024 alone, while more than 520 million childr...
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Palazzo Blu dedicates an exhibition to the Gioli brothers and painting in Pisa between the 19th and 20th centuries

Palazzo Blu in Pisa presents in its exhibition halls from May 16 to September 6, 2026 the exhibition I fratelli Gioli e la pittura a Pisa fra Otto e Novecento, curated by Stefano Renzoni. With this exhibition, Palazzo Blu continues its path of resear...
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Lulu Nuti at Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc with CORE, a site-specific exhibition in Thouars

From April 25 to August 30, 2026, Chapelle Jeanne d'Arc in Thouars, Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Intérêt National in France, presents CORE, a solo exhibition by Italian artist Lulù Nuti. The exhibition will open Saturday, April 25 ...
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Lee Ufan stars in Venice with a major exhibition by Dia Art Foundation

Dia Art Foundation brings to Venice one of the most important exhibitions dedicated to Lee Ufan (Haman, 1936) in recent years. Starting May 9, 2026, SMAC Venice, the San Marco Art Centre inaugurated in 2025 in the Procuratie of St. Mark's Square, wil...
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At the Capitoline Museums an exhibition on Angels, from archaeology to the contemporary, in tribute to Pope Francis

One year after the passing of Pope Francis, the Capitoline Museums pay tribute to him with the exhibition ANGELS. Messengers, Guardians and Wayfarers. Sublime Creatures from the Ancient to the Contemporary, on display from May 13 to Nov. 1, 2026 in t...
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Chihuly returns to Venice: three monumental installations on the Grand Canal in 2026

Thirty years after Chihuly Over Venice, the project that helped redefine the relationship between contemporary art and the Venetian glassmaking tradition in the 1990s, Dale Chihuly returns to the lagoon city with a new diffuse intervention conceived ...
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In Rome, Marshall Vernet's photographs dialogue with Piranesi's Vedute

Opening on May 14, 2026 in the spaces of Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art, in Rome, is the exhibition Vernet meets Piranesi, a photographic project by New York-based artist Marshall Vernet (New York City, 1956) dedicated to a comparison with one of th...
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From Vienna, Klimt's Nuda Veritas will be featured in an exhibition in Passariano di Codroipo (Udine)

One of Gustav Klimt 's most famous paintings will be featured in an exhibition hosted at Villa Manin, in Passariano di Codroipo (Udine). It is Nuda Veritas, a work exceptionally on loan from the Vienna Theatermuseum. Emblematic of the Vienna Secessio...
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Paolo Scheggi at MA*GA in Gallarate, an exhibition on the artist's environments.

From May 24 to October 11, 2026, the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate (Varese) presents Here and Elsewhere. The Environments of Paolo Scheggi 1964 - 1971, an exhibition dedicated to Paolo Scheggi, a central figure in the experimental artistic research of th...
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MUSE of Trento participates in the Venice Biennale with Ronald Ventura's collateral dedicated to the Moon

MUSE - Museo delle Scienze di Trento is participating in the 61st International Art Exhibition in Venice as the co-organizing institution of Ronald Ventura: Luna, an official collateral event of the Biennale that interweaves contemporary art, scient...
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South Korean video art on display at MASI in Lugano with "K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today"

The Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano opens the 2026 exhibition season with K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today, a project dedicated to the contemporary scene in South Korea through the language of video art. The exhibition, on view from March...
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Mario Ceroli on display in Florence: forty works at Tornabuoni Arte

An exhibition in Florence traces more than 40 years of Mario Ceroli's research. The Tornabuoni Arte gallery is hosting, at its headquarters on Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini 3, the exhibition Mario Ceroli. Myth and Matter, which can be visited until May ...
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Marcel Duchamp and Sturtevant: a conceptual dialogue at Milan's Thaddaeus Ropac

Thaddaeus Ropac Milan opened on March 17, 2026 the exhibition Marcel Duchamp & Sturtevant. Dialogues are mostly fried snowballs, a direct confrontation between two central figures of the 20th century, distant in age but united by a critical appro...
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An exhibition in Salo traces the history of the Magnifica Patria under Venice

In 1426 the political community of the Brescian Riviera of Lake Garda entered the orbit of the Republic of Venice, inaugurating a phase destined to last until 1797, the year of the fall of the Serenissima. Six hundred years after that entry into Vene...
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Siena, an exhibition in the Palazzo delle Papesse recounts the interiors of the Sienese Renaissance

It will be presented on May 21, 2026 at 12 noon in Siena, in the halls of Palazzo delle Papesse, the exhibition Abitare il Rinascimento. Domestic Furniture in Siena from the 15th Century to the Age of Mannerism, scheduled from May 22 to November 1, 2...
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