A trip to the coast can also be an opportunity to explore the world of contemporary art. Here are ten unmissable exhibitions along the Mediterranean coast, from Gibellina and Stromboli to the Balearic Islands, Provence and the EMST in Athens.
What happens when the spaces that are meant to orient, protect and shelter us stop doing so? In contemporary art, architecture has become a privileged site for giving shape to anxiety, transforming houses, interiors and built environments into mirrors of the vulnerabilities of the present.
From his famous American flags to his dialogues with Duchamp, Picasso, and Beckett, the exhibition “Jasper Johns: Night Driver” at the Guggenheim in Bilbao traces the more than seventy-year career of one of the most influential and enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
Through Pentothal, Zanardi, Frigidaire and the spirit of Italy’s 1977 Movement, Andrea Pazienza captured the country’s shift from collective utopias to the disillusionment of the 1980s. Today, RaiPlay and MAXXI are bringing renewed attention to the artist who transformed Italian comics and visual culture.
From Leonardo to Vermeer, passing through Rembrandt: some paintings are not limited to being observed, but construct an ambiguous space in which the viewer ends up, inevitably, feeling observed in turn.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
Chiara Camoni, the artist representing Italy at the 2026 Biennale, creates an exhibition of earth, ash, minerals and yarns to probe the increasingly blurred boundary between nature, industry and human presence.
Forbidden apples, sacred pomegranates, and Dionysian grapes: from Tintoretto to Caravaggio, fruit in art has never been mere still life, but rather desire, eros, fleetingness, and a promise of eternity.
The Cittadellarte project by the master of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto, has opened a hotel designed for visitors who want to experience the Biella-based foundation at a slower pace. It marks the latest addition to what has effectively become the “Pistoletto brand.”
From Baroque painting to medieval iconography, a journey through art, alchemy, and symbolism explores the heart as the spiritual, emotional, and cosmic center of human existence.
In the exhibition “Invisible Sun” in Milan, American artist Tracey Snelling transforms the Vele di Scampia into a sound sculpture made of flickering televisions, interviews, street noises, and memories gathered during the complex’s eviction.
Besides the Venice Biennale and New York Art Week, Domus has selected fifteen must-see exhibitions in Italy, Europe, and other destinations around the world – events that are well worth the trip.
