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.

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.