Contemporary art: exhibitions not to be missed in SEPTEMBER 2025

September is the month of new beginnings—people return to the city, life gets back to normal, and art lovers start visiting galleries again. Are the holidays over? Perhaps. But the surprises aren’t.

If you too need beauty (and a touch of provocation) to face the fall, these 5 contemporary art exhibitions are for you. I’m not referring to blockbuster exhibitions or big names on the cover, but to visual and conceptual experiences that make us reflect on our time, our bodies, our memories, and our identities.

From sculpture that defies all balance to abstract painting born from data and emotions; from photography that dialogues with matter to posthuman visions that question the self and the collective.

In short: 5 galleries, 5 cities, 5 perspectives on the present.

Ready to be inspired?

Contemporary art: exhibitions to see in SEPTEMBER 2025

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Here are 5 exhibitions opening in September in 5 contemporary art galleries in Italy.
This is not a ranking of the best exhibitions!

These are 5 current proposals that offer different food for thought, together with an overview of contemporary research.

– a dialogue between photography, painting, and sculpture

– transitional, visionary, and unpredictable sculptures

– a reflection on the human condition between historical memory and the present

– a post-humanist perspective on the body and subjectivity, both individual and collective

– painting that distills data and life experiences into abstract forms and modules

Keep in art,

Alice

5 EXHIBITIONS IN AUGUST 2025: CONTEMPORARY ART IN MILAN AND VENICE

Ljubodrag Andric: LUCKNOW 3, 2024, stampa ink jet su carta Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth / ink jet print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth paper, 161,3 x 122 cm (165,3 x 126 cm con cornice / with frame)

Ljubodrag Andric.
Spazi, soglie, luci

curated by Francesco Tedeschi

Over the years, Ljubodrag Andric has developed a precise photographic investigation that focuses on place, in which photography is not limited to representation but becomes a vehicle for images that border on abstraction. His works detach themselves from their original subject, creating a balance between sign and archetype, where the processing and post-production phase is essential to creating a dialogue between photography, painting, and sculpture. Through architecture, his favorite subject, Andric also explores musical rhythms and inner perceptions, blending structural rigor and organic vitality. (from the press release)

opening Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 5:00-8:30 p.m.

until October 18, 2025

BUILDING, Milan

Link: https://building-gallery.com/exhibitions/ljubodrag-andric-spazi-soglie-luci/

Claire Lindner: Green tuft, 2025,glazed stoneware, 60 x 24 x 28 cm

Claire Lindner
FLAMING WINGS

Claire Lindner’s evocative ceramic creations take the observer by surprise, blurring the lines between organic and synthetic, animal and vegetable, science and fiction. These sculptures, with their sinuous movements and colors that seem to change before our eyes, generate a sense of mystery combined with the wonder of discovery. (from the press release)

opening Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 6 p.m.

until November 14, 2025

MAAB Gallery, Milan

Link: https://www.maabgallery.com/flaming-wings/

João Vilhena
Predizione Perdizione

text by Tristan Trémeau

Playing with words, images, and techniques, Vilhena explores historical memory and contemporary concerns in a dialogue between past and present. Through newly created works, the artist invites us to look beyond the surface, to discover hidden layers and reflect on the human condition: between ruins and vital impulses, a story that repeats itself. (from the press release)

opening Saturday, September 20, 2025, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

until November 22, 2025

Galleria Alberta Pane, Venice

Link: https://albertapane.com/exhibitions/predizione-perdizione

Installation view, « Metempsychosis, Ivana Bašić », MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, 2025 / Foto: © Marc Domage

Ivana Bašić
Fantasy vanishes in flesh

In Fantasy vanishes in flesh, Ivana Bašić explores the material and metaphysical limits of humanity. Marked by her experiences of war, violence, and brutality during her childhood, due to the collapse of her native Yugoslavia, the artist adopts a post-humanist perspective to explore the ways in which pressure and destruction transform not only the body, but also subjectivity—both individual and collective.

Bašić’s work contemplates the disintegration of the body and the material realm. In Fantasy vanishes in flesh, this process of dissolution is not imagined as a loss, but as a moment of radical potential — a transition from the human to the non-human; from the telluric to the celestial; from the bound to form to the unlimited.(from the press release)

opening Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 6–9 p.m.

until December 2025

FRANCESCA MININI, Milan

Link: https://www.francescaminini.it/exhibition/solo-show-2/

Elisa Alberti
Risonanze

curated by Gianluca Ranzi

Elisa Alberti’s work has method. Method, as the etymology of the word suggests, means for the artist to pursue a quest that makes art a form of experience and translation of reality. What Elisa Alberti puts into practice is therefore a process of filtering and reducing phenomena, the complexity of nature, as well as the psychic and emotional life that belongs to it, according to a method that does not lead painting towards an aseptic and impersonal zero degree of form, but on the contrary creates a real symbolic, concrete, modular and, in its own way, even playful plane that includes everything and brings everything to life in a continuous game of echoes, references, dialogues, and relationships. (from the press release)

opening Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 5 p.m.

until November 21, 2025

10 A.M. ART, Milan

Link: https://www.10amart.it/elisa-alberti

CONTEMPORARY ART SEPTEMBER 2025: SOME EXHIBITIONS ARE CLOSING!

FRINGE
until September 13, 2025, at LABS contemporary art, Bologna

Graffiti
until September 14, 2025, at Museion, Bolzano

Massinissa Selmani – Loophole
until September 14, 2025, at Galleria Umberto di Marino, Naples

Wangechi Mutu – Poems of Black Earth
until September 14, 2025, at Galleria Borghese, Rome

Still Steel – Christine Liebich
until September 26, 2025, at E3 contemporary art, Brescia

SONIA COSTANTINI AND RITA SIRAGUSA. – CHROMATIC DRIFTS AND MATERIAL LANDINGS
until September 28, 2025, at Fondazione Arsenale, Iseo

To discover all the unmissable exhibitions taking place in museums and exhibition halls throughout Italy, read the page dedicated to Exhibitions and Events, with a map to search for the event you want to see in your city.

All the exhibitions that opened last month and are still running can be found in the post Contemporary art: exhibitions not to be missed in AUGUST 2025.

As always, enjoy the art!

Alice

Post a cura di: Alice Traforti