Porcelain bowls drifting across pools in Athens, paintings that shift with the temperature in London and a Ghanaian factory rebuilt inside a Paris foundation are among the exhibitions on view across Europe this autumn. From architecture and photography to fashion and sculpture, here is a country-by-country guide to what to see, and until when.
Greece
clinamen, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
At Onassis Mandra in Athens, white porcelain bowls float across three circular pools, producing soft chiming sounds whenever they touch.
The French artist first developed the work in 1997, naming it after the Epicurean idea of the unpredictable swerve of atoms. Installed in a historic open-air theatre, the piece absorbs its surroundings, with rainfall adding its own layer to the composition. Visitors are invited to pause and listen to a work that never sounds the same twice.
On view from 26 September to 5 December 2026.
Italy
Broken: The Power of the Fragment
Palazzo Strozzi in Florence explores why damaged and incomplete sculptures have fascinated viewers across centuries and cultures.
Organised with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the exhibition looks at the forces that alter sculpture, including war and iconoclasm, as well as works deliberately made as fragments. It shows how a surviving piece can bear witness to destruction while taking on a new life as art.
On view from 25 September 2026 to 24 January 2027.
Luciano Fabro: Abitare lo spazio. Inhabiting Space
Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan presents around 50 sculptures and installations by Luciano Fabro, in the first museum retrospective devoted to the artist in Italy since his death in 2007.
The exhibition traces his work from early pieces with reflective surfaces to the architectural environments he called "habitats", several of which have been rebuilt from his original plans. These spaces shape how visitors move through and see the exhibition.
On view from 8 October 2026 to 21 February 2027.
France
Remember Me
Marking 200 years since the invention of photography, the Bourse de Commerce in Paris brings together around 700 works by more than 70 artists from the Pinault Collection. Curators Matthieu Humery and Lola Regard have abandoned chronological order, allowing historical and contemporary images to speak to each other.
The title comes from a work by Barbara Kruger, who also presents an installation in the museum's rotunda.
On view from 7 October 2026. The closing date has not yet been announced.
Ibrahim Mahama: Le Temps des récoltes
For his first exhibition in Paris, the Ghanaian artist brings parts of a former glass-bottle factory into the Fondation Cartier. His installation Things Fall Apart reconstructs the industrial building from its original materials.
A new version of Parliament of Ghosts uses traditional wooden Ashanti stools to form a parliamentary chamber where visitors can sit, and which will host performances and discussions during the exhibition.
On view from 22 October 2026 to 28 February 2027.
Penn & Fashion
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie traces Irving Penn's fashion photography from 1947 to 2008, beginning with Parisian haute couture.
Particular attention is given to his collaboration with Issey Miyake, whose sculptural garments found an ideal match in Penn's pared-back style.
On view from 30 September 2026 to 17 January 2027.
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents 70 works spanning more than four decades of the American painter's career, including eight created for the exhibition. Marshall places Black figures within pictorial traditions that have long excluded them, from everyday scenes in beauty salons to imagined portraits of historical figures and works addressing the Middle Passage.
On view from 18 September 2026 to 24 January 2027.
Trop mignon! L'art du bonheur
Louvre-Lens asks why some images and objects make us feel comforted. Bringing together nearly 300 works, from an ancient toy hedgehog to contemporary kawaii culture, the exhibition explores the appeal of animals and the colour pink.
Works by Rosa Bonheur and William Wegman sit alongside pieces revealing the more ambiguous feelings that can lie beneath an adorable surface.
On view from 23 September 2026 to 18 January 2027.
Metamorphoses: Hats by Maison Michel
At la Galerie du 19M in Paris/Aubervilliers, the Parisian hat maker, founded in 1936, reveals the materials and craftsmanship behind its creations. Archive pieces sit alongside new work and collaborations with young designers. Visitors can try working with straw and felt, join a collaborative weaving workshop by Emma Bruschi, or make a short film in Michel Gondry's Home Movie Factory, set in a space inspired by an early 20th-century hat shop.
On view from 23 September to 13 December 2026.
Spain
Kenny Scharf
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid welcomes the brightly coloured creatures of Kenny Scharf, as part of its programme dedicated to the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The Los Angeles-born artist emerged from New York's East Village scene in the 1980s, developing a style he calls "Pop Surrealism", which extends beyond painting into public and everyday settings.
On view from 29 September 2026 to 17 January 2027.
Solange Pessoa: Of Day or Night
Centro Botín in Santander hosts the Brazilian artist's first exhibition in Spain, curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz. Using organic and mineral materials linked to the landscape of Minas Gerais, where she lives, Pessoa's work draws on Brazilian modernism and Indigenous cosmologies.
Early pieces from the 1990s are shown alongside recent work and two installations created specifically for the venue.
On view from 10 October 2026 to 28 March 2027.
United Kingdom
This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
Organised with the Fondation Magritte at Gagosian's Grosvenor Hill gallery in London, the exhibition places René Magritte's paintings, sculptures and works on paper alongside responses by more than 40 artists, some created especially for the show. Familiar motifs such as apples and bowler hats reappear throughout, tracing the Belgian surrealist's influence across generations.
On view from 24 September to 12 December 2026.
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing
At Serpentine South, Justin Caguiat's paintings use heat-sensitive pigments, so that forms appear and fade as the temperature in the gallery changes. Bronze bells cast in the shapes of flowers and seeds ring in shifting sequences, following a score by Lily Pickett inspired by the English tradition of change ringing.
On view from 8 October 2026 to 10 January 2027.
The 90s: Art and Fashion
Curated by Edward Enninful, Tate Britain revisits a decade when British art and fashion were closely intertwined.
Works by Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst appear alongside photography by Juergen Teller and David Sims and fashion by Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, recalling the era of i-D and Dazed magazines.
On view from 8 October 2026 to 14 February 2027.
Germany
Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein explores the work of the Sri Lankan architect, whose buildings incorporate existing trees and rocks and extend into surrounding gardens. Covering more than 50 years, from private homes to Sri Lanka's parliament, the exhibition combines archival drawings and models with newly commissioned photographs and films. It also highlights his collaborations with artists and craftspeople. The exhibition design is by Lina Ghotmeh Architects.
On view from 26 September 2026 to 28 February 2027.
Netherlands
Adam Pendleton: Some Wild Kind of Language
At the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Adam Pendleton presents 11 paintings and eight large-scale drawings, many of them new. The museum's central staircase has been transformed from white to black, and his layered works, blurring the line between mark and letter, enter into dialogue with the collection.
On view from 10 October 2026 to 17 January 2027.
Denmark
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk presents nearly 40 years of Tracey Emin's work, from her famous unmade bed to her recent paintings. Developed with the artist and organised by Tate Modern, the exhibition includes works shown for the first time and traces how personal experience, pain and recovery have shaped her practice.
On view from 8 October 2026 to 18 April 2027.
With information from designboom
