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.

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.

Titled after the silver wedding anniversary, the exhibition highlights silver’s lustre, strength and lasting value. Marking Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein’s 25th anniversary in 2025, it symbolically presents 25 collection pieces. Additionally, three works by younger artists, proposed for acquisition, explore socially relevant themes, offering perspectives for the future.

Every demolished building is a lost opportunity. HouseEurope! is a European Citizens’ Initiative demanding new EU laws to prioritize renovation over demolition. By reducing costs, supporting local industries and cutting CO₂ emissions, renovation can transform urban development in Europe. With 1 million votes, we can push the EU to act. The vote is open until January 2026 — be part of the change!

Daniel Spoerri — ballet dancer, explorer of the ‘multiple’, Nouveau Réaliste, occasional master of chance — would have been celebrating his 95 birthday this year. LEVY Galerie and alexander levy are opening a two-part exhibition titled “Kein Freund Von Stillstand.” Thomas Levy and the artist developed a friendship for over 45 years that led to a life-long collaboration. Spoerri, despite being known for his trap-pictures, bread-dough objects and eat-art, loved subverting expectations and favoured change and experimentation over the tried and tested. 

The boreal forest — one of the world’s largest primeval forests, expanding north and south of the Arctic Circle — was the common source of inspiration for the 13 artists from Scandinavia, Finland and Canada whose work will be exhibited in “Northern Lights” at Fondation Beyeler. For the first time in this configuration, the exhibition will feature masterpieces, dating from 1880 to 1930, by Hilma af Klint, Akseli Gallen-Kallela or Edvard Munch among lesser known positions such as Anna Boberg, Harald Oskar Sohlberg or Iwan Schichkin.

After over two decades of Loop Barcelona, the format rendering tribute to the moving image has consolidated and crystalised. Split into three pillars—Festival, Fair and Symposium—the programme attracts video art specialists, art world professionals at large and a curious, broader public every November. The Festival, sprinkled throughout the city, will feature artists such as Laure Prouvost, Metahaven and Thomias Radin. The Fair, housed in the rooms of the Almanac hotel, will host more than 40 exhibiting galleries. In parallel, the Symposium curated by Filipa Ramos will dig deeper into the world of commissioning, exhibiting and collecting Artists’ Cinema.

Photographer and video artist Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959) focuses on depicting identity in her portraits. Rineke Dijkstra. Still — Moving. Portraits 1992 – 2024, her solo show at the Berlinische Galerie will give an overview of her work, concentrating on the theme of ‘transition’. By isolating people from their everyday contexts and searching for glimmers of individuality she encourages the viewer to look closely at people, pared down to essentials, focusing on their posture and gaze.

Ana Lupas has been an outstanding figure in Eastern European art since the 1960s. Despite state repression until 1989 her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Europe and America for the past 50 years—against all odds she has created an independent oeuvre. In 2024, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are dedicating what will be the most comprehensive solo show so far to Ana Lupas, Intimate Space — Open Gaze, featuring hitherto unseen works from the 1960s to the present.

Draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities is opening at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg. Containing some 60 architectural models and around 100 drawings by the Berlin-based architectural team sauerbruch hutton, the double exhibition shows work produced over the space of three decades, setting it in dialogue with historical visions from the Akademie’s Architectural Archives. This revised concept for the retrospective draw love build, expands it to include a key component: a view of the archive itself.

Since 2021, the Bauhaus-Archiv has explored the link between Bauhaus and music through the ‘Bauhaus Music’ project. This year’s festival, themed ‘Freedom,’ will feature five concerts over three days. A highlight is the debut of excerpts from Marc Blitzstein’s lost 1929 opera Parabola and Circula, discovered during research into Bauhaus’ musical history. The festival will also showcase works by composers like Schönberg, Bartók, and Berg, with performances by artists including Claudia Barainsky, Kolja Blacher, and the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin.

The young satellite fair Minor Attractions, running parallel to Frieze London, returns this Autumn together with some of the most exciting contemporary art galleries and non-profit art spaces from North America to Central and Eastern Europe. Following the footsteps of the original Armory Show or Loop Barcelona and non-traditional fairs such as Basel Social Club or Spring/Break, the second edition will take over the rooms and common areas of The Mandrake and offer a robust performance and evening program.

Luxury, peace and pleasure (luxe, calme et volupté) −the poetic leitmotifs of Charles Baudelaire’s poem «Invitation to the Voyage», dating 1857− capture the very essence of Henri Matisse’s artistic output. This Autumn, the Fondation Beyeler departs from these guiding principles to invite visitors on a journey spanning the full range of the modern artist’s career. The much-awaited retrospective features 70 iconic and rarely-seen works including sculptures, paintings, drawings, and cutouts from major museums and private collections.