Inside the World’s Most Significant Museum Shows on View This Winter
November 5, 2025- Must-See Fashion and Art Exhibitions 2026 in Europe and Beyond
As winter descends, the art world opens its doors to unmissable exhibitions across Paris, Europe, and beyond. Meanwhile, these shows explore art history from 18th-century royalty to contemporary Afrofuturism. They invite you to step inside the minds of those who shaped our visual language. Prepare to witness seven decades of Kusama’s infinity, walk through Richter’s monumental career, and discover how a queen’s taste still resonates today.
The season introduces an unprecedented depth of artistic exploration. In Paris, two major shows present contrasting scales: Gerhard Richter’s comprehensive retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton showcases 270 works spanning six decades, while Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce distills artistic expression to its purest form. In London, museums celebrate two distinct visionaries: Marie Antoinette’s enduring style legacy at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Lee Miller’s groundbreaking photography at Tate Britain. Meanwhile, Basel pays tribute to Yayoi Kusama’s iconic patterns in Switzerland’s first major retrospective of her work.
Gerhard Richter
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris | Running Until March 2, 2026
The Fondation Louis Vuitton dedicates its entire architectural space to a monumental retrospective of Gerhard Richter, universally regarded as one of the most important painters of our time. This is the most comprehensive exhibition ever staged of his work, featuring an astonishing 270 pieces that chart his artistic evolution from 1962 to 2024. Visitors will journey through the entire spectrum of his stylistic innovations, from the blurred photo-paintings that first defined his career to the monumental abstract canvases where he scrapes away layers of paint to reveal stunning chromatic depths. The exhibition also includes his intimate overpainted photographs, his hauntingly reflective glass and steel sculptures, and his delicate ink drawings and watercolors. This retrospective is a profound meditation on the nature of perception. The tension between representation and abstraction, and the enduring power of the painted image in a media-saturated world.
More info 🔗 Fondation Louis Vuitton
Minimal
Bourse de Commerce, Paris | Running Until January 19, 2026
Minimal brings together over a hundred works by some forty international artists from the Pinault Collection and other prestigious holdings. Curated by Jessica Morgan, the exhibition explores seven thematic sections: Light, Mono-ha, Balance, Surface, Grid, Monochrome, and Materialism. The show traces the evolution of Minimalism from the 1960s to the 1970s, revealing how artists stripped art to its essentials while challenging traditional approaches. Through light installations, geometric constructions, and monochromatic paintings, visitors experience the radical simplicity and global reach of the movement. The pieces emphasize form, material, and perception, inviting viewers to contemplate art in its purest state.
More info 🔗 Minimal
Marie Antoinette Style
Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Running Until March 22, 2026
This landmark exhibition delves deep into the enduring legacy of history’s most fashionable queen. It explores how Marie Antoinette’s distinct style, a blend of extravagant elegance and pastoral simplicity, transcended her tragic fate to become a perennial source of inspiration. The show traces her cultural impact across more than two and a half centuries, showcasing her influence on everything from the decorative arts of her own time to the runways of contemporary designers like Vivienne Westwood and Moschino. Through portraiture, fashion, furniture, and film, including Sofia Coppola’s iconic 2006 movie, the Exhibition presents the queen as an early modern celebrity whose fashion choices continue to captivate and influence the worlds of design, fashion, and popular culture.
More info 🔗 Victoria and Albert Museum
Lee Miller
Tate Britain, London | Running Until: February 15, 2026
Tate Britain presents the most extensive retrospective of Lee Miller’s photography in the UK. The exhibition spans her career from the 1920s to the 1970s, including 250 vintage and modern prints. Visitors follow Miller from her beginnings as a model to her avant-garde work in Paris, New York, and London, and her pioneering war photography. The show highlights her contributions to surrealism, fashion, and documentary photography while revealing lesser-known series, including her Egyptian landscapes. Through carefully curated sections, Miller’s experimental eye and fearless approach to photography emerge, offering insight into her artistic collaborations and enduring influence.
More info 🔗 Tate Britain
Yayoi Kusama
Fondation Beyeler, Basel | Running Until January 25, 2026
The Fondation Beyeler presents the first major retrospective in Switzerland of the legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Organized in close collaboration with the artist, the Exhibition spans seven decades of her extraordinary and influential career. It features her iconic infinity nets, vibrant polka-dot sculptures, and pioneering soft sculptures, alongside early works never before exhibited in Europe. For this occasion, Kusama has created a new, immersive Infinity Mirror Room, offering visitors a chance to step into her unique vision of infinite space and cosmic dots. This retrospective celebrates Kusama’s global cult status and her profound impact on contemporary art, showcasing her lifelong obsession with repetition, obliteration, and the sublime.
More info 🔗 Fondation Beyeler
Nan Goldin. This will not end well
Hangar Bicocca, Milan | Until February 15, 2026
This pioneering exhibition is the first dedicated to Nan Goldin‘s work as a filmmaker. IT presents the largest collection of her seminal slideshows ever assembled. The Italian edition, housed within a unique village-like environment of structures designed by architect Hala Wardé, includes two works shown for the first time in a European museum. A newly commissioned sound installation amplifies the raw emotional power of Goldin’s intimate narratives. While the title suggests a somber outlook, the Exhibition ultimately conveys the resilience, irony, and unyielding vitality that define Goldin’s decades-long chronicle of love, loss, and survival.
More info 🔗 Hangar Bicocca
Warhol, Pollock and other American spaces
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid | Running Until January 25, 2026
This exhibition creates a compelling dialogue between two titans of American art: Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. It explores Warhol’s documented fascination with Pollock. From his desire to own a Pollock painting to the thematic connections between Pollock’s death and Warhol’s Death and Disaster series. By placing their works alongside those of their contemporaries, the show reveals shared concerns with spatial experimentation, shifts in pictorial tradition, and the allure of the large-scale format. It challenges superficial readings of their differences. It uncovers a common drive to redefine the possibilities of American art in the post-war period.
More info 🔗 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York | Running Until February 7, 2026
This expansive retrospective is the first posthumous survey of Ruth Asawa‘s groundbreaking work. It features approximately 300 pieces revealing her profound exploration of form and material. The Exhibition traces her evolution from her iconic, intricately woven wire sculptures, which seem to draw in space, to her later works in bronze, cast from everyday objects like desert flora. It also highlights her works on paper, public commissions, and advocacy for arts education. Asawa’s practice challenged conventional distinctions between sculpture and drawing, interior and exterior, demonstrating a unique artistic vision that found complexity and beauty in the interplay of line, light, and shadow.
More info 🔗 MoMA
Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture
MAD Museum, New York | Running Until March 15, 2026
Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture exhibition presents 75 sculptural works by artist and metalsmith Douriean Fletcher. Exploring how her jewelry articulates Black identity and embodies spiritual meaning. The show documents Fletcher’s evolution from a self-taught artisan to an influential designer whose adornments helped define the iconic aesthetics of Marvel’s Black Panther franchise. It highlights her deep research into African and African American jewelry traditions. Positioning her work as a powerful force in building bridges between Black communities across the diaspora. Fletcher’s pieces, crafted from brass, gold, and semi-precious stones, are presented as artifacts of Afrofuturism. Tangible visions of a future built on cultural pride and resilience.
More info 🔗 MAD Museum
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