As autumn unfolds, small international galleries and curated fairs continue to shape conversations across the global art scene. art highlights across Rome, New York, Kampala, and Paris. Together they demonstrate how international gallery exhibitions are offering fresh ways to engage with history, politics, and the intimate narratives of daily life.
Crossover | Magazzino (Rome)
Curated by Graziano Menolascina, Crossover continues themes introduced at Art Basel 2025. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a space where memory, geography, and ideology intersect. Andy Warhol’s Vesuvius (1985) anchors the show, its volcanic energy echoed by works from Antonio Biasiucci, Rashid Johnson, Alessandro Piangiamore, and Anselm Kiefer. With contributions from Elisabetta Benassi, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Dadamaino, Francesca Leone, Pino Pascali, Mario Schifano, and others, the exhibition creates a constellation of voices where past and present collide.
July 10 – September 30, 2025
Magazzino, Rome
magazzino.gallery | @magazzino.gallery
Liz Collins: Motherlode | RISD Museum (Providence, Rhode Island) and 4Spaces (Zurich)
The RISD Museum presents Motherlode, the first U.S. survey of artist Liz Collins’ expansive career. On view through January 2026, the exhibition features more than 80 works spanning three decades of experimentation in textiles, fashion, installation, and performance. Collins’ practice reclaims fiber as a medium of storytelling and resistance, while celebrating queer feminist expression and community.
Highlights include immersive environments shaped by Collins’ dynamic use of pattern and color, as well as collaborations with Zurich-based textile innovators 4Spaces and ZigZagZurich. A salon-style section, co-curated with RISD students, spotlights works by queer artists across generations, reinforcing the exhibition’s sense of dialogue.
July 19, 2025 – January 11, 2026
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
risdmuseum.org | @risdmuseum
4spaces.ch | @4spaces
Bonnie Lucas: Dear Martin | ILY2 NYC (New York)
𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺, 1990 – 95
assemblage
19 x 14 x 3 1/2 inches
48.3 x 35.6 x 8.9 cm | Courtesy Image ILY2 NYC
For nearly fifty years, Bonnie Lucas has transformed mass-produced goods into layered reflections on femininity, sexuality, and consumer culture. Dear Martin traces her career from early East Village exhibitions in the 1980s with gallerist Martin Hason to her present practice. Assemblages of toys, jewelry, and textiles shift between playful and unsettling, highlighting contradictions of domesticity and desire.
The exhibition follows Lucas’ acclaimed solo at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2024 and anticipates her 2027 show at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. By revisiting her roots with Avenue B Gallery, Dear Martin affirms her enduring relevance and feminist commentary.
September 14 – November 1, 2025
ILY2 NYC, New York
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Upcoming at ILY2: Sasha Fishman, Shad Mode (Portland, September 20 – December 20, 2025) and Umico Niwa (Paris Internationale, October 22 – 26, 2025).
April Kamunde: Fabric of our Being | Afriart Gallery (Kampala)
Oil on canvas, 80x116cm, ©April Kamunde
Following its debut at The African Arts Trust in Nairobi, April Kamunde’s Fabric of our Being travels to Kampala for her first solo exhibition at Afriart Gallery. Known for luminous figurative paintings, Kamunde portrays African women at rest—reading, basking, napping, or pausing—capturing moments often overlooked in a culture that demands constant labor.
This body of work continues her Rest: The Pursuit of Peace series, focusing on the dera dress as a motif. At once practical and symbolic, the garment embodies contradictions of comfort, modesty, sensuality, and domesticity. Through this lens, Kamunde highlights rest as both radical and restorative, reclaiming the quiet dignity of everyday life.
September 20 – November 8, 2025
Afriart Gallery, Kampala
afriartgallery.org | @afriartgallery
Mirko Leuzzi: Paura della solitudine | Galleria Anna Marra (Rome)
Curated by Vittoria Mascellaro, Paura della solitudine presents Mirko Leuzzi’s latest works created between 2024 and 2025. Emerging from his earlier project Le mie mani, this body of work continues the artist’s instinctive practice developed in response to existential unease during the pandemic.
Leuzzi’s canvases combine vulnerable bodies, symbolic animals, and suspended figures within layered compositions. The result is a visual language that maps inner landscapes and explores the tension between intimacy and distance, offering viewers an emotional geography that is both personal and universal.
September 25 – October 25, 2025
Galleria Anna Marra, Rome
galleriaannamarra.it | @galleriaannamarra | @vittoriamascellar
OFFSCREEN Paris – 4th Edition | La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière (Paris)
Returning from October 21 to 26, OFFSCREEN Paris presents its fourth edition during Paris Art Week, coinciding with Art Basel Paris. Unlike a traditional fair, OFFSCREEN functions as a curated salon of solo presentations in a historic setting. This year, the event moves into La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, an architectural landmark that once hosted site-specific works by Anselm Kiefer and Bill Viola.
Guest of Honor Shigeko Kubota, pioneer of video sculpture and Fluxus participant, will be celebrated through rarely seen works. Highlights also include more than 27 participating artists, a showcase of historic medical photography from Dr. Charcot’s sessions, and the launch of “Acquisitions and Discoveries” featuring the Centre Pompidou and ZKM.
October 21 – 26, 2025 (VIP & Press Preview: October 20)
La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris
offscreenparis.com | @offscreen_paris
Looking Ahead
From Rome to Paris, these exhibitions and fairs reflect the global pulse of contemporary art. They offer distinct perspectives while building connections across cultures, mediums, and generations. As international gallery exhibitions 2024 continue to unfold, they underscore how smaller, independent voices remain central to shaping the future of art worldwide.
