The Fondation Beyeler will present Switzerland’s first major retrospective devoted to the renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Organised in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition brings together more than 300 works spanning over seven decades, including 150 never before shown in Europe. Alongside Kusama’s most iconic works, expect rare drawings and watercolours from Japan, her radical New York avant-garde pieces, and new large-scale installations – such as Illusion “Inside the Heart”, a new outdoor Infinity Mirror Room illuminated by natural sunlight, and “Narcissus Garden”, the installation of mirrored spheres shimmering across the museum’s pond.

Landscapes are subject to constant change, which in times of climate change unfolds with particular speed and destructive force. Can landscapes be both beautiful and endangered? The exhibition Solastalgia. Walks through changing landscapes explores the ambivalence between beautiful and wounded landscapes, and our conflicted relationship with the environment. With this exhibition, the Giersch Museum at Goethe University is celebrating its 25th anniversary as well as its 10-year affiliation with the university. Historical landscape paintings from the 18th to the early 20th century from the GIERSCH collection come into contact with contemporary artistic positions that are dedicated to the endangered landscape from different perspectives, with works by, among others, Asad Raza, Ilana Halperin and Marcus Maeder.

Sugar Valley, a new neighbourhood project in Munich-Obersendling, will be a mixed-use urban quarter developed by Salvis Consulting AG. The first construction phase is designed by the architectural studios COBE (Copenhagen) and J.MAYER.H (Berlin). Sugar Valley combines post-industrial architecture with green spaces, a strong focus on sustainability and a high quality of urban life. The neighbourhood has been awarded LEED-ND Platinum certification, making it one of the highest-rated sustainable developments of its kind in Germany. A total of 20,000 square metres of open space, including sports facilities and playgrounds, will provide leisure and recreation areas for residents and visitors. 

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein has invited artist Tony Cokes to engage in a dialogue with its collection, resulting in the exhibition Let Yourself Be Free. Cokes is best known for his now-signature videos, which combine quotes from a range of texts with brightly coloured backgrounds and music, creating sequences that encourage viewers to rethink how images and sounds shape our understanding of politics, culture and power. A defining feature of the exhibition, and central to Cokes’ practice, is the principle of (unexpected) juxtaposition, remix and reinterpretation. At its centre is a new three-channel video installation in which Cokes reflects on three figures: Rolf Ricke, Donald Judd and Harald Szeemann.

You step into a digital permaculture garden that grows through ecological care and is sustained by community engagement — which means it’s September and you’ve found yourself at the Crosslucid exhibition “The Way of Flowers” at OfficeImpart. The project reinvents environmental art through morphing digital botanicals that forge connections with real-world conservation efforts. Visitors will experience the digital plant-creatures and their evolutions first-hand, alongside physical works from the series staged with real plants.

The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung invites visitors to the “Come to the Building Site!” Festival to get better acquainted with the new museum annex designed by Staab Architects. The new building will house the museum, exhibition space and facilities for cultural education while the Walter Gropius building from the 1970s, currently under renovation, will house the extensive archive and library. The three-day festival, running from 19.9.-21.9. will conclude with two musical highlights as part of the Berliner Festspiele’s Berlin Music Festival at the Philharmonie. 

In an effort to question traditional museum narratives, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein has developed an ongoing exhibition series titled “In the Context of the Collection” that offers new perspectives on their own collection. For the exhibition Demons Are Tearing Me Apart the museum invited Henrik Olesen to participate, who in turn decided on engaging with the work of Isodore Isou, who would have celebrated his centenary this year. Both artists share an interest in deconstructing established categorisations in our everyday lives and demonstrating a ‘culture of in-between spaces’.

How can a city be read, questioned and inhabited differently through art? This is the leading question of NUKLEUS Kiel, an interdisciplinary art project that approaches the urban fabric of Kiel as a field of research. Between June and October invited artists Felix Kiessling, Esben Weile Kjaer, Annika Larsson, Sabine Zahn, and PIK Porree as well as local students from Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design will be developing site-specific interventions that explore questions of public space, democratic participation and urban coexistence.

Vitra Design Museum presents The Shakers: A World in the Making this June. Established in the eighteenth century the Shakers embraced social equality, egalitarianism and communalism. The design philosophy that sprang from their ideals and the radically simple and functional objects produced in the community have been critical in shaping modern design, inspiring generations of designers, artists and architects. The exhibition, designed by Formafantasma, will feature objects illuminating the Shakers’ cultural context paired with a selection of contemporary art and design positions that will engage the Shaker legacy in dialogue.

Vija Celmins’ works are best enjoyed in person as they resist the cursory gaze. This June Fondation Beyeler will devote the most comprehensive European solo exhibition to the American artist in the last 30 years. Viewers will have the chance to delve into her powerful and subtle visual language across painting, drawing and sculpture. Celmins’ interests vary in scales of magnification — oceans, deserts and galaxies — but all share the pursuit of “the impossible image”, in her words, “because they are nonspecific, too big, spaces unbound.”

Basel Social Club returns this June for its fourth iteration—indoors, downtown, and more immersive than ever. The 2025 edition inhabits a former private bank with over 100 rooms inside a historic townhouse in Grossbasel. Guided by the theme systems of value, the exhibition unfolds as a living cabinet of curiosities where distinctions blur: between currency and care, luxury and necessity, spectacle and service. With roles played equally by artists and attendants, the music and performance programme seeps in like a doll house quietly coming alive. Open to all and always free of charge, Basel Social Club continues to offer a playful, unconventional platform for contemporary art and community engagement.

On the Street explores how artists have transformed public space into a site of poetic action, resistance, and reflection since the 1960s. At Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, the exhibition spans four themed rooms—from gathering and walking to care and protest — revealing the street as a living space of interaction and social meaning. Through performative acts and site-specific works, the show invites visitors to rethink the boundaries between art, life and urban space.

Climate change is challenging our imagination: rising emissions and growing environmental fears are driving the search for new global models. Fixing Futures presents international artistic and scientific visions for shaping our futures. The exhibition understands the future as an interplay of visions by scientists, activists, authors and artists. It asks whether and to what extent technologies can help us build tomorrow.