Thefall of 2025 promises to be a particularly rich and stimulating season for the national exhibition scene, with a range of exhibitions capable of attracting both contemporary art enthusiasts and connoisseurs of historical heritage and great artistic traditions. In this article we have collected the 25 most anticipated exhibitions of this season in Italy, highlighting a plurality of languages, with exhibitions dedicated to great masters of the past as well as to great contemporary artists, testifying to the vitality of a sector that continues to reinvent itself and to dialogue with the present.
These exhibitions stand out not only for the quality and resonance of the protagonists involved, but also for their novelty (several in fact are monographic premieres) and their ability to offer engaging experiences. It is an autumn that invites us to return to museum halls with fresh eyes, to rediscover established paths and to be surprised by projects that redefine the very concept of exhibition, confirming art as a vital element of contemporary cultural life. So here are the 25 most interesting exhibitions in Italy.
Where and when: Turin, Galleria Sabauda, from Oct. 11, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026
From October 11, 2025 to January 18, 2026, the Spazio Scoperte on the second floor of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin will host the exhibition Il “divino” Guido Reni nelle collezioni sabaude e sugli altari del Piemonte, curated by Annamaria Bava and Sofia Villano. The exhibition is intended as a tribute to the celebrated Emilian painter on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his birth and will recount, through works from the Royal Museums and important loans from the territory and from the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, the admiration of the Savoy court-since the first nuclei of the ducal collections-for Bolognese classicist painting and, in particular, that of Guido Reni.
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Where and when: Turin, Sale Chiablese of the Musei Reali, from November 8, 2025 to April 14, 2026
From November 8, 2025 to April 14, 2026, the Sale Chiablese of the Musei Reali in Turin will host the exhibition Orazio Gentileschi. A Painter on the Road, curated by Annamaria Bava (Royal Museums of Turin) and Gelsomina Spione (University of Turin). The exhibition will be dedicated to the extraordinary artistic and human story of Orazio Gentileschi, one of the most significant artists of the Italian seventeenth century, whose pictorial quality and fortune made him as famous as Caravaggio, Rubens and Van Dyck.
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Where and when: Turin, MAO, from Oct. 22, 2025 to June 28, 206
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin hosts the first major Italian monographic exhibition dedicated to Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) entitled The Soul Trembles. Curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo - from which the exhibition project originated - and Davide Quadrio, director of MAO (with Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti, assistant curators), the exhibition represents the national debut of this important artistic production in an Asian art museum.
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Where and when: Gallarate, MA*GA, November 30, 2025 to April 12, 2026
An extensive exhibition project dedicated to Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), among the pioneers of European abstract art. The initiative, realized by the MA*GA Museum in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, is curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, director of the Foundation and head of Ca’ Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, and Emma Zanella, director of the Gallaratese museum.
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Where and when: Milan, GAM, from September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026
More than a hundred years after the last Milan monographic exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, held in 1920 at the Galleria Pesaro, Milan returns to pay tribute to the Piedmontese artist (Volpedo, 1868 - 1907) with an exhibition at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, a museum that houses not only his masterpiece, The Fourth Estate, but also other major works of his production. Curated by Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti, the exhibition Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907). Masterpieces, is organized by the City of Milan - GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna together with METS Percorsi d’Arte, with the collaboration of the Pellizza da Volpedo Museums, lenders and creators of a tour itinerary that during the Milan exhibition will extend to Pellizza’s places.
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Where and when: Milan, Palazzo Reale, from October 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026
From September 23, 2025 to January 11, 2026, the Royal Palace in Milan will host an exhibition entirely dedicated to Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754 - 1817), among the greatest representatives of Italian Neoclassicism. The exhibition project, entitled Appiani. Neoclassicism in Milan, intends to restore an overall view of the author’s artistic path and the cultural context in which he worked, with particular attention to the role played by Milan in the artistic panorama between the Enlightenment and the Empire.
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Where and when: Milan, Palazzo Reale, from September 20, 2025 to January 11, 2026
From September 20, 2025 to January 11, 2026, the halls of the Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the exhibition Leonora Carrington, a retrospective (the first in Italy) featuring more than 60 works that reconstructs the life and career of British surrealist Leonora Carrington (Clayton Green, 1917 - Mexico City Mexico City, 2011), an artist who, starting in her native Lancashire, with her Celtic roots, lived in Florence, Paris, southern France, Spain and New York, and finally in Mexico, where she settled permanently and where she has long been celebrated as one of the most important artists, alongside Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo.
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Where and when: Milan, from September 24, 2025 to January 11, 2026
From September 24, 2025 to January 11, 2026, Milan’s Palazzo Reale hosts Man Ray. Forms of Light, an extensive retrospective dedicated to one of the great protagonists of 20th century art. Man Ray, a visionary innovator of visual languages, left an indelible imprint that still influences photography, art, design and contemporary culture today. His works, steeped in irony, elegance, provocation and free spirit, retain an extraordinary relevance and testify to the essential role the artist played in transforming the boundaries of modern art.
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Where and when: Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, from September 18, 2025 to February 15, 2026
From September 18, 2025 to February 15, 2026, the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia will host in its exhibition rooms the exhibition Matthias Stom. A Caravaggesque in the Lombard Collections, curated by Gianni Papi and promoted by the Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and Alleanza Cultura. The unprecedented exhibition will present all the works by Matthias Stom kept in Lombardy. Four important paintings from a private collection will arrive in Brescia from Bergamo: The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Daedalus Gives Wings to Icarus, The Healing of Tobias and Christ among the Doctors. These are joined by three key masterpieces from the Carrara Academy, including two night-lit scenes, a genre in which Stom excelled in technical mastery and luministic intensity. Completing the Bergamasque nucleus is a Saint John the Baptist from the convent of San Bartolomeo.
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Where and when: Cremona, Diocesan Museum, October 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara?, 1462/ante August 22, 1466 - Cremona, 1525), the Diocesan Museum of Cremona presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist, scheduled from October 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026. The exhibition’s scientific direction is entrusted to Francesco Ceretti and Filippo Piazza, assisted by a scientific committee that includes Gabriele Barucca, Francesco Frangi, Maria Cristina Passoni, and Cristina Quattrini. The exhibition, organized with the collaboration of the ABAP Superintendency for the provinces of Cremona, Lodi and Mantua and under the patronage of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of Cremona at the University of Pavia, is an opportunity to deepen the study and knowledge of an artist little known to the general public, but of significant importance in the artistic panorama of the Renaissance in northern Italy. Boccaccino, described by Giorgio Vasari in his famous Lives as a “rare” and “excellent painter,” proposed himself on the scene as a remarkable interpreter of the lesson imparted by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan and Giorgione in Venice.
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Where and when: Rovereto, MART, from September 27, 2025 to March 1, 2026
The MART in Rovereto dedicates the largest and most important exhibition ever mounted on Eugene Berman (St. Petersburg, 1899 - Rome, 1972) to his life and work, helping to bring international attention back to one of the leading figures of the 20th century neo-romantic movement, a cosmopolitan figure and multifaceted intellectual. An eclectic artist, Berman was a painter, illustrator, set designer, collector and travel photographer. Born in Russia in 1899, he lived between Europe and the United States before settling permanently in Rome in the 1950s, where he remained until his death in 1972.
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Where and when: Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, from October 11, 2025 to March 2, 2026
From October 11, 2025 to March 2, 2026, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents Mani-Fattura: the Ceramics of Lucio Fontana, the first museum exhibition entirely devoted to the ceramic works of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and iconic artists. While most famous for his cut and pierced canvases that have marked the history of contemporary art, Fontana emerges in this exhibition by showing his deep connection to the material of clay, a fundamental element in his artistic research since the 1920s in Argentina.
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Where and when: Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Sept. 19, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026
The Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice announces the opening of the exhibition Stupor, Reality, Enigma. Pietro Bellotti and Seventeenth-Century Painting in Venice, which will be on view from September 19, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Curated by Francesco Ceretti, Michele Nicolaci and Filippo Piazza, the exhibition offers an in-depth analysis of the figure of Pietro Bellotti (Volciano di Salò, 1625 - Gargnano, 1700), a Brescian painter active in the Serenissima for most of his career. Bellotti is an artist who, although still little known to the general public, emerges with considerable fascination in the panorama of seventeenth-century Venetian painting.
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Where and when: Bassano del Grappa, Civic Museums, from October 25, 2025 to February 22, 2026
The Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa will host the major Giovanni Segantini exhibition from October 25, 2025 to February 22, 2026, which aims to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest exponents of Italian Divisionism. Curated by Niccolò D’Agati and promoted and organized by the City Council and the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa, under the patronage of the Veneto Region, with the support of the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz and the Galleria Civica G. Segantini di Arco and in collaboration with Regione Lombardia and Dario Cimorelli Editore, the exhibition aims to reconstruct the figure of the painter through an unprecedented reinterpretation of his work by comparing it with art contemporary to him, in order to recount a career that in just 20 years, from the “scapigliati” beginnings to the last Symbolist impulses of capturing Nature, was able to influence the major artistic movements of his time.
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Where and when: Bologna, Palazzo Fava, from November 14, 2025 to February 15, 2026
From Nov. 14, 2025 to Feb. 15, 2026, Palazzo Fava in Bologna will host the exhibition Michelangelo and Bologna, an exhibition project promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna and part of the cultural project Genus Bononiae, produced by Opera Laboratori. The initiative, curated by Cristina Acidini, president of the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, and Alessandro Cecchi, director of the same foundation, proposes an original focus on the relationship between Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) and the city, with special attention to his youthful sojourns and Renaissance Bologna. The exhibition opens on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the master’s birth and will be open for the entire period indicated.
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Where and when: Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, from October 11, 2025 to February 8, 2026
From October 11, 2025 to February 8, 2026, Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara will host a major exhibition dedicated to Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul de Vence, 1985). Chagall, Witness of His Time, this is the title of the exhibition curated by Paul Schneiter and Francesca Villanti and promoted by Fondazione Ferrara Arte and Arthemisia, is proposed as an exhibition of intense emotional power that invites visitors to explore the poetic universe of one of the most beloved artists of the 20th century.
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Where and when: Genoa, Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Sept. 20, 2025 to Jan. 17, 2026
Genoa welcomes an exhibition dedicated to one of the great protagonists of Italian Mannerism, Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi de’ Iannuzzi; Rome, 1499 - Mantua, 1546). In fact, from September 20, 2025 to January 17, 2026, the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts is promoting an exhibition and scholarly project entitled Giulio Romano, pupil of Raphael in Genoa - The Stoning of St. Stephen by Giulio Pippi, which involves the city’s main cultural institutions together with domestic and foreign partners, and revolves around the altarpiece depicting The Stoning of St. Stephen, a masterpiece created by Giulio Romano, preserved in the Abbey of St. Stephen, just a stone’s throw from the Academy Palace.
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Where and when: Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026
From September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026, Florence pays tribute to Fra’ Giovanni da Fiesole, universally known as Beato Angelico, with a major exhibition spread between two venues: Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco. The exhibition, titled simply Beato Angelico, is an ambitious project that is the result of a collaboration between the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, the Regional Directorate National Museums Tuscany of the Ministry of Culture and the Museum of San Marco. It is the first major retrospective in Florence on the Dominican painter in more than seventy years, and represents a cultural and scientific operation of international significance, designed to rediscover, restore and enhance the figure of one of the fathers of Renaissance art.
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Where and when: Livorno, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, September 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026
On the bicentennial of the birth of Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908), Livorno is preparing to celebrate one of its most illustrious sons with a major cultural event. From Sept. 6, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the Tuscan city will host a series of initiatives dedicated to the painter who revolutionized 19th-century Italian painting. The beating heart of the celebration will be the major exhibition Giovanni Fattori. A Revolution in Painting, curated by Vincenzo Farinella, set up at Villa Mimbelli, home of the Museo Civico named after him, which will reopen specifically for the exhibition after rearrangement work.
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Where and when: Pisa, Palazzo Blu, from October 14, 2025 to April 7, 2026
From October 14, 2025 to April 7, 2026, Palazzo Blu in Pisa will host a major exhibition dedicated to the Belle Époque, organized by the Palazzo Blu Foundation in collaboration with MondoMostre and with the support of the Pisa Foundation. The exhibition, curated by Francesca Dini, aims to offer a look at the most elegant era in European history. On display are works from major Italian and international museums-including the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Uffizi Galleries, and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte-along with private collections that have never before been shown to the public.
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Where and when: Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, October 24, 2025 to May 3, 2026
It will be one of the most eagerly awaited exhibitions of autumn 2025 and of the entire Italian cultural season that will open on October 24 at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. Treasures of the Pharaohs, this is the title of the exhibition organized by the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities in collaboration with the Scuderie del Quirinale, proposes a journey through millennia of pharaonic civilization, offering Italian and international audiences a unique opportunity to admire 130 masterpieces coming directly from Egypt’s leading museums.
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Where and when: Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, from October 11, 2025 to January 18, 2026
This is what the 18th edition of the Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, one of the most anticipated events in the Italian contemporary art scene, will look like: it will be called Fantastica, it will be held from October 2025 to January 2026 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, it will be curated by five different curators (Luca Massimo Barbero, Francesco Bonami, Emanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera, Francesco Stocchi, and Alessandra Troncone), and its outline was announced yesterday by Quadriennale President Luca Beatrice. The exhibition promises to uncover and explore our country’s art scene through a selection of young and mid-career artists who have characterized Italian cultural production in recent decades.
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Where and when: Rome, Palazzo Cipolla, October 17, 2025 to February 1, 2026
Dalí. Revolution and Tradition is the new exhibition opening to the public on Oct. 17 at Palazzo Cipolla, at the Museo del Corso - Polo Museale in Rome. In fact, Dalí’s entire creative journey, from his early years to his last works, continually moves between two only seemingly contrasting extremes: revolution and a call to tradition. Promoted by the Fondazione Roma with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, organized by MondoMostre and open until Feb. 1, 2026, the exhibition will be curated by Carme Ruiz González and Lucia Moni, with scientific direction by Montse Aguer.
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Where and when: Rome, MAXXI, from October 29, 2025 to March 1, 2026
From October 29, 2025 to March 1, 2026, MAXXI-the National Museum of XXI Century Arts-in Rome opens its doors to 1+1. The relational years, the first major retrospective entirely dedicated to Relational Art. The exhibition, housed in Gallery 3 and curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, the theorist of relational art, with the collaboration of associate curator Eleonora Farina, aims to retrace more than 30 years of a phenomenon that has profoundly marked the dynamics of contemporary art.
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Where and when: Naples, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, July 24 to Nov. 2, 2025
From July 24 to November 2, 2025, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte is hosting an exhibition of special significance: Capodimonte Doppio Caravaggio, which brings to Naples Ecce Homo, recently attributed to Caravaggio and now housed at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The work, rediscovered in 2021 during an auction by the Spanish house Ansorena, after having been exhibited in Rome at the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition, comes exceptionally to Naples for a direct comparison with the Flagellation of Christ, a famous painting by Merisi kept at Capodimonte, where it has been in storage since 1972 for reasons of protection, although it is the property of the Fondo Edifici di Culto of the Ministry of the Interior.
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