Autumn 2025 promises to be very rich for art lovers, with several truly unmissable events. From Milan to Rome, passing through Turin, we present five extraordinary exhibitions in which visitors will be able to cross different styles, eras and cultures. Here are the 5 exhibitions that deserve a visit in the coming months.
Leonora Carrington conquers Milan
Palazzo Reale welcomes a retrospective for the first time in Italy dedicated to Leonora Carrington. The British artist, born in Clayton Green in 1917 and disappeared in Mexico City in 2011, crossed Europe before definitively settling in Mexico. The exhibition, open from 20 September 2025 to 11 January 2026, presents over sixty works that tell the path of an absolute protagonist of surrealism.
Natio lancashire and the Celtic roots emerge in the artist’s canvases, which lived between Florence, Paris, the South of France and Spain, before landing in New York and finally in Mexico. Here Carrington found his definitive house and the recognition that he puts her next to figures like Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. The Milanese rooms guarantee a journey through fantastic worlds and dreamlike visions that made the artist a unique voice in the surrealist panorama.
When: from 20 September 2025 to 11 January 2026
Where: Palazzo Reale, Milan
The return of Pellizza from Volpedo to the Gam
The Modern Art Gallery in Milan dedicates an exhibition to Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo more than one hundred years after the last Milanese staff of 1920. The exhibition, which can be visited from 26 September 2025 to 25 January 2026, celebrates the Piedmontese artist born in Volpedo in 1868 and died in 1907.
The museum houses the fourth state, a symbol of work and social struggle, together with other significant paintings of the artist. Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti have edited a path that the Municipality of Milan and Mets of art courses have created with the Pellica da Volpedo museums. During the Milanese exhibition, visitors will also be able to discover an itinerary that extends to the Pellizziani places, a real dialogue between the city and the territory of origin of the artist.
When: from 26 September 2025 to 25 January 2026
Where: Gam, Milan
Chiharu Shiotata debuts at the Mao of Turin
The Oriental Art Museum of Turin presents the first Italian Mountain of Chiharu Sleeta. Japanese artist born in Osaka in 1972, he brings to the Mao “The Soul Trembles”, an exhibition that can be visited from 22 October 2025 to 28 June 2026.
Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum of Tokyo where the project took shape, took care of the exhibition together with Davide Quadrio, director of the Mao, with the assistance of Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti.
The installations of Sileta transform the museum spaces with networks of wires that give life to highly immersive environments, where daily objects are loaded with meanings that go beyond the material. The Turin museum thus becomes the ideal stage for the artist’s national debut in an institution dedicated to Asian art.
When: from 22 October 2025 to 28 June 2026
Where: Mao, Turin
The Pharaohs arrive at the Scuderie del Quirinale
Rome welcomes one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the Italian cultural season. “Treasures of the pharaohs” opens on 24 October 2025 at the Scuderie del Quirinale and remains open until May 3, 2026. The supreme council of Egyptian antiquities and the stables offer center -three masterpieces from the main Egyptian museums.
The exhibition accompanies the public through millennia of pharaonic civilization. Statues, jewels, papyri and ritual objects tell the greatness of ancient Egypt in a setting that promises to attract Italian and international visitors.
When: from 24 October 2025 to 3 May 2026
Where: Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
The relational art protagonist at Maxxi
The Maxxi in Rome closes this review with “1+1. The Relational Years”, the first great retrospective dedicated to relational art. From 29 October 2025 to 1 March 2026, Galleria 3 of the Museum welcomes an exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, theorist of this artistic movement, with the collaboration of Eleonora Farina.
The exhibition traces over thirty years of a phenomenon that has transformed the dynamics of contemporary art, where the work arises from the interaction between artist, public and social context.
When: from 29 October 2025 to 1 March 2026
Where: Maxxi, Rome
