The must-see exhibitions of 2025, we recommend them to you!
After the great successes of 2024, a year that concluded with a significant public turnout for Italian museums, here are the exhibitions not to be missed to properly kick off 2025.
Here you will find a brief selection of the must-see exhibitions of 2025 that, in our opinion, deserve a visit but for all the others, there is always Artsupp.
CARLO SCARPA AND THE ARTS AT THE BIENNALE: Works and Glass from the Gemin Collection until January 11 in Possagno
The Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova in Possagno dedicates an exhibition to Carlo Scarpa (Venice 1906-Sendai, Japan 1978), one of the most authoritative figures in 20th-century architecture and exhibition design, documenting his connection with the arts within the context of the Venice Biennale, with which he collaborated for nearly forty years, from 1934 to 1972.
The exhibition features a rich selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by prominent artists such as Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio Morandi, Arturo Martini, Alberto Viani, Osvaldo Licini, and others; around twenty glass pieces created by Carlo Scarpa for Cappellin and Venini, some of his previously unpublished drawings, and three sculptures. All the works on display come from the collection of the Treviso architect Luciano Gemin, a student, friend, and collaborator of Carlo Scarpa.
SCULPTED GESTURES by JAGO until May 3, 2026 at the Ancient Theatre of Taormina
The exhibition, open to the public from September 4 to May 3, 2026, brings together four works by Jago — Impronta Animale (2012), Memoria (2015), Prigione (2016), and David (2024, bronze) — in a context like Taormina, a crossroads of civilizations and a theater of ancient memories. Jago’s works are presented as sculpted gestures in time, witnesses to a continuous expressive necessity that transcends epochs and languages.
The first three sculptures, carved in statuary marble, revolve around the theme of the hand: a symbol of contact, creation, and personal affirmation. It is through the hand that humans leave a mark, delve into matter, and construct memory. Not just a tool, but a self-portrait: a living presence that traverses time.
EXTRA: Ancient Signs/Contemporary Visions until January 6 at Palazzo Baldeschi in Perugia
EXTRA: Ancient Signs/Contemporary Visions is the latest project by Fondazione Perugia that presents an original exhibition proposal to create a dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary in an exhibition that can also be considered double, as it investigates the relationship between image and sign, icon and words.
PAOLO DI PAOLO: Rediscovered Photographs at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa until April 6, 2026
On the centenary of the birth of Paolo Di Paolo (1925–2023), Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, in collaboration with Marsilio Arte, presents a retrospective dedicated to one of the great masters of 20th-century Italian photography. The exhibition PAOLO DI PAOLO: Rediscovered Photographs from October 23, 2025, to April 6, 2026, brings back to the public the forgotten work of an author who has been able to tell, with delicacy and depth, the Italy of rebirth in the post-war period.
Over 300 photographs – including many unpublished and for the first time also in color, along with archival materials, period magazines, and original documents – make up a journey that encompasses the entire artistic trajectory of Di Paolo, from his beginnings in 1953 to his intense activity with the most important publications of the time.
CHAGALL: WITNESS OF HIS TIME at Palazzo dei Diamanti until February 8, 2026
Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara hosts from October 11, 2025, to February 8, 2026, the major exhibition Chagall, Witness of His Time, an exhibition path of surprising emotional intensity that invites the public to immerse themselves in the poetic universe of one of the most important and beloved masters of 20th-century art.
An extraordinary journey that reveals how Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul de Vence, 1985), universally known for his floating figures and colorful enchanted atmospheres, managed to keep alive the memory of his homeland, tradition, and affections, always projecting them towards new expressive horizons.
