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.
Silver Suits You
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.
House Europe! – A Call for Sustainable Renovation
Mythology and Meatballs
Northern Lights — Battling the Dark
Loop Barcelona, the format for artists cinema returns
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.
Depicting Identity — Rineke Dijkstra Embraces Human Complexity
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’ Work as Covert Resistance, Against All Odds
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.
Drawings in Dialogue — sauerbruch hutton meets the archives
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.
DESIGN ARCHIVE MEETS MUSIC CLASSICS AT BAUHAUS MUSIC
LONDON’S NON-FAIR ART FAIR
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.
How to Just Do It
The Vitra Design Museum explores the five-decade ascent from a grassroots start-up to a global phenomenon of international sportsbrand Nike. The focus is on the company’s design history: from the beginnings in the 1960s and the design of its famous »swoosh« logo, to iconic products such as Air Max and Flyknit, and current research devoted to future materials and sustainability. »Form follows Motion« will emphasise the importance of sports for design innovation and social change, while also shedding light on the almost mythical devotion to sneakers and sportswear in popular culture and social media.
HENRI MATISSE EN ROUTE
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.
A DRAMATIC TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
WANNA SEE WANNSEE?
Much visited, sung about, admired and filmed: The Wannsee lido is a Berlin icon and its architecture is a listed building. What most Berliners don’t realise, however, is that most of the complex is now empty. While up to 12,000 bathers enjoy the sandy beach on summery days, a unique architectural monument — and a large spatial resource with great potential — is falling apart just metres behind it. The exhibition Wanna See Wannsee? will show how architecture and history can be combined with sustainable reuse: to save and restore the monument and, in doing so, carry the torch of the social idea of the lido and its founder Herman Clajus.