Summer has begun and we would like to offer you an itinerary dedicated to great art. You’ll start in Venice, continue on to Milan and then make stops in Florence and Rome. If you’re planning your vacation, you’re in the right place

IN VENICE, 8 EXHIBITIONS NOT TO BE MISSED
The many exhibitions currently on display in Venice are an excellent incentive to choose the city as a holiday destination. Until 27 July 2025, the Gallerie dell’Accademia will host the exhibition Corpi moderni. The Making of the Body in Renaissance Venice. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Giorgione, curated by Guido Beltramini, Francesca Borgo and Giulio Manieri Elia. A journey through the transformations that affected the human body during the Renaissance in Venice, combining anatomy, desire and culture.
Until 10 August 2025 and 6 January 2026 respectively you have the possibility to visit the exhibitions that Le Stanze della Fotografia on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore are dedicating to the photographs of Maurizio Galimberti and Robert Mapplethorpe. Both curated by Denis Curti, the exhibitions offer the public the opportunity to closely observe the famous works of the photographer born in Como and the career of the American artist, read through the lens of classicism.
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, about seventy works summarize the pictorial history of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in the exhibition curated by Flavia Frigeri, open until 15 September. The time span examined, which ranges from the 1930s to the end of the 1980s, encompasses Vieira da Silva’s entire artistic career and her ability to navigate the boundary between figuration and abstraction, giving life to an oeuvre that was independent from the Informal movement, which she was often grouped with.
Until 23 November 2025 and 4 January 2026, Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, the Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection, will respectively provide the backdrop for the works of Thomas Schütte – curated by Camille Morineau and Jean-Marie Gallais – and the interventions of Tatiana Trouvé, protagonists of the exhibition curated by Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood in collaboration with the artist herself. While the focus at Punta della Dogana is on the works in the Pinault Collection – a starting point for analyzing the themes addressed by Thomas Schütte ‒, Palazzo Grassi “reacts” to the new sculptures, drawings and site-specific installations by Tatiana Trouvé juxtaposed with works from the last decade.
The exhibition Controfacciata by German photographer Matthias Schaller, curated by Mario Codognato at La Casa dei Tre Oci, the lagoon headquarters of the Berggruen Institute Europe on the island of Giudecca, will also end on 23 November. Don’t miss this chance to admire the photographs taken by Schaller as an integral part of his investigation of Venice and its architecture, which began in 2004.
At Palazzo Diedo meanwhile, Berggruen Arts & Culture, the exhibition space of the Berggruen Arts & Culture galaxy, is hosting a collateral event to the Architecture Biennale 2025 ‒ The Next Earth. Computation, Crisis, Cosmology until 23 November. The exhibition shifts the gaze to the urgencies of today and aims to bring together two fundamental research initiatives, Planetary Sapience by Antikythera and Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet by the MIT Department of Architecture.

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Corpi moderni. The Making of the Body in Renaissance Venice. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Giorgione
until 27 July 2025
GALLERIE DELL’ACCADEMIA
Campo della Carità ‒ Dorsoduro 1050, Venice
https://www.gallerieaccademia.it

Maurizio Galimberti tra Polaroid/Ready Made e le Lezioni americane di Italo Calvino
until 10 August 2025
Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme del classico
until 6 January 2026
LE STANZE DELLA FOTOGRAFIA
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
https://www.lestanzedellafotografia.it

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space
until 15 September 2025
COLLEZIONE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro 701, Venice
https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/it/

Thomas Schütte. Genealogies
until 23 November 2025
PUNTA DELLA DOGANA
Dorsoduro 2, Venice
https://www.pinaultcollection.com/palazzograssi/it

Tatiana Trouvé. The strange life of things
until 4 January 2026
PALAZZO GRASSI
Campo San Samuele 3231, Venice
https://www.pinaultcollection.com/palazzograssi/it

Matthias Schaller. Controfacciata
until 23 November 2025
CASA DEI TRE OCI
Fondamenta Zitelle 43, Venice
https://berggruen.org/centers/venice

The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
until 23 November 2025
PALAZZO DIEDO
Cannaregio 2386, Venice
https://berggruenarts.org/
https://www.labiennale.org/it

Captions:

Corpi moderni. The Making of the Body in Renaissance Venice. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Giorgione, installation view, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice 2025. Photo Andrea Avezzù

Maurizio Galimberti tra Polaroid/Ready Made e le Lezioni Americane di Italo Calvino, installation view, Le Stanze della Fotografia, Venice 2025. Photo Matteo De Fina

Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme del classico, installation view, Le Stanze della Fotografia, Venice 2025. Photo Matteo De Fina (cover photo)

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space, installation view, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 2025. © Photo Matteo De Fina

Thomas Schütte, Mann im Wind II, 2018, Pinault Collection; Mann im Wind I, 2018, Pinault Collection; Mann im Wind III, 2018, Pinault Collection; DEKA Fahnen, 1989, Courtesy the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York/Paris. Installation view, Thomas Schütte. Genealogies, 2025, Punta della Dogana, Venice. Photo Marco Cappelletti © Palazzo Grassi – Pinault Collection © Thomas Schütte, by SIAE 2025

Tatiana Trouvé, Navigation Gate, 2024, Collection of the artist; Sitting Sculpture, 2024, Collection of the artist, courtesy Gagosian; Storia Notturna, 30 giugno 2023, 2024, Collection of the artist © Tatiana Trouvé, by SIAE 2025. Installation view, Tatiana Trouvé. The strange Life of Things, 2025, Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Photo Marco Cappelletti and Giuseppe Miotto / Marco Cappelletti Studio © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection

Controfacciata, installation view, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice 2025. Photo Massimo Pistore

The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology, installation view, Palazzo Diedo, Venice 2025. Photo Joan Porcel

IN MILAN, THE EXHIBITIONS BY TAREK ATOUI AND YUKINORI YANAGI
The summer at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan shines a spotlight on the artistic practices of Tarek Atoui and Yukinori Yanagi, protagonists of the exhibitions being stage in the Shed and Navate spaces respectively. Entitled Improvisation in 10 Days, curated by Lucia Aspesi and open until 20 July 2025, Tarek Atoui’s first solo exhibition in Italy is rooted in the concept of improvisation to explore the potential of sound ‒ the focus of the Lebanese electroacoustic artist and composer’s work ‒, establishing a dialogue with the material of the pieces, with the surrounding architecture and with the visitors who temporarily inhabit it.
ICARUS, on the other hand, is the name of the first major European anthology, curated by Vicente Todolí with Fiammetta Griccioli, dedicated to the artistic work of Yukinori Yanagi. Until 27 July, visitors to HangarBicocca will be able to observe works dating back to the 1990s and 2000s alongside more recent installations, capturing the key themes of Yanagi’s artistic philosophy – from nationalism to the paradoxes of today’s societies.

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Improvisation in 10 Days
until 20 July 2025
ICARUS
until 27 July 2025
PIRELLI HANGARBICOCCA
Via Chiese 2, Milan
https://pirellihangarbicocca.org

Captions:

Tarek Atoui. Improvisation in 10 Days. Exhibition view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo Rasa Juskeviciute

Yukinori Yanagi, Atomic Clouds over Ground Zero (Left) From the Ground, Hiroshima, 8:30 am, August 6, 1945 (Right) From the Sky, Hiroshima, 8:30 am, August 6, 1945 Cyanotype exposed by the sun of 8:30 am, August 6, 2024, 2024. Installation view, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2025 ©YANAGI STUDIO Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo Agostino Osio

IN FLORENCE WITH TRACEY EMIN
The exhibition staged in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi until 20 July 2025 is the largest Italian exhibition dedicated to Tracey Emin. Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude, curated by Arturo Galansino, retraces the career of the British artist from the 1990s to the present day, welcoming over sixty works including installations, paintings, drawings and sculptures. What stands out are the anchor points of Tracey Emin’s artistic philosophy: desire, sacrifice, the body and love.

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Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude
until 20 July 2025
PALAZZO STROZZI
Piazza Strozzi, Florence
https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/

CARAVAGGIO CONQUERS ROME
Curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi and Thomas Clement Salomon, the exhibition Caravaggio 2025 is being hosted at Palazzo Barberini, in Rome, until 6 July 2025. In addition to the most famous works, the exhibition offers new visibility to lesser-known paintings, exceptional loans and recent discoveries, such as the Ecce Homo rediscovered in Madrid. The goal? To describe and showcase Michelangelo Merisi’s extraordinary contribution to the pictorial history of his time.

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Caravaggio 2025
until 6 July 2025
GALLERIE NAZIONALI DI ARTE ANTICA ‒ PALAZZO BARBERINI
Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, Rome
https://barberinicorsini.org/

Text by Arianna Testino