July 2025's Essential Exhibitions: From Arles Photography to Haneke Retrospectives
The Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles kicks off on 7 July in Arles, France, and will continue until 5 October, centered around the theme 'Disobedient Images'. This event will showcase more than 60 exhibitions, including Todd Hido's 'The Light from Within' and Keisha Scarville's 'Alma'. At Église Sainte-Anne, Indigenous Australian photographers will present 'On Country', while Latin American artists are featured in 'Ancestral Futures' at Église des Trinitaires. From 4 July to 14 September, Fiona Tan curates 'Monomania' at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The 12th SITE Santa Fe International, with 71 artists, is scheduled from 27 June to 12 January. Other notable exhibitions include Lubaina Himid's 'The Thin Black Line' at London's ICA and Jessica Vaughn's 'Cognitive Fatigue' in New York.
Key facts
- Les Rencontres d'Arles runs 7 July–5 October with theme 'Disobedient Images'
- Fiona Tan is first artist to curate from Rijksmuseum archive in 'Monomania'
- SITE Santa Fe International features 71 artists across multiple New Mexico venues
- Lubaina Himid's 1985 exhibition 'The Thin Black Line' returns with all original artists
- Folkestone Triennial's sixth edition curated by Sorcha Carey explores 'deep time'
- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's survey at MAIIAM spans four decades of multidisciplinary work
- Michael Haneke retrospective at Barbican includes 'Funny Games' and 'Caché'
- Jessica Vaughn's 'Cognitive Fatigue' features USPS Informed Delivery scans as art
Entities
Artists
- Todd Hido
- Keisha Scarville
- Fiona Tan
- Théodore Géricault
- Cecilia Alemani
- Ali Cherri
- Sky Hopinka
- Mire Lee
- Simone Leigh
- Wael Shawky
- WangShui
- Godfrey Reggio
- Lubaina Himid
- Sutapa Biswas
- Claudette Johnson
- Marlene Smith
- Ingrid Pollard
- Helen Cammock
- Pratibha Parmar
- Andra Simons
- Alice Walker
- Jessica Vaughn
- Claudio Cretti
- Manuel Brandazza
- Raphaela Melsohn
- Camila Bechelany
- Andrea Schlieker
- Lewis Biggs
- Yoko Ono
- Antony Gormley
- Tracey Emin
- Paloma Varga Weisz
- Sorcha Carey
- Dorothy Cross
- Monster Chetwynd
- Emeka Ogboh
- Cooking Sections
- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
- Michael Haneke
- Eve Tagny
- Étienne-Jean Georget
- Waldemar Januszczak
- La Malinche
- N. Scott Momaday
- Cormac McCarthy
- Manet
Institutions
- Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles
- Rijksmuseum
- SITE Santa Fe International
- ICA London
- David Peter Francis
- Galeria Marília Razuk
- Folkestone Triennial
- Collective gallery
- Edinburgh Art Festival
- MAIIAM
- Barbican
- Westfälischer Kunstverein
- Espace Van Gogh
- Salle Henri-Comte
- Église Sainte-Anne
- Église des Trinitaires
- Cooper Cole gallery
- Arts Review
- The Guardian
- United States Postal Service
Locations
- Arles
- France
- Amsterdam
- Netherlands
- Santa Fe
- New Mexico
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- New York
- São Paulo
- Brazil
- Folkestone
- Edinburgh
- Chiang Mai
- Thailand
- Münster
- Germany
- Toronto
- Canada
- Montreal
- Belgium
- Austria
- Switzerland