May 2025's Major Art Events: Venice Architecture Biennale, Global Gallery Weekends, and Major Exhibitions
The 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled 'Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective,' will take place from 10 May to 23 November 2025, under the curation of Carlo Ratti. A related exhibition by AMO/OMA at Fondazione Prada will focus on diagrams. Gallery Weekend Berlin is scheduled for 2 to 4 May and will showcase Sky Hopkina's work at Tanya Leighton alongside Meduza's 'No' at Kunstraum Kreuzberg. The Spore Initiative presents 'Unsettled Earth.' At MoMA PS1 in New York, 'The Gatherers,' featuring 14 artists including Geumhyung Jeong, is open until 6 October. Tina Girouard's retrospective 'SIGN-IN' at Museo Tamayo is from 21 May to 14 September. Gallery Weekend Beijing occurs from 23 May to 1 June, while Dala Nasser's installation at Kunsthalle Basel runs from 16 May to 21 August. Ching Ho Cheng's 'Tracing Infinity' is available from 2 May to 14 June, and Rambert and (LA)HORDE's 'Bring Your Own' will be held from 7 to 10 May. The Setouchi Triennale continues until 9 November, with the Open City Documentary Festival taking place from 6 to 11 May.
Key facts
- Carlo Ratti curates the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, focusing on intelligence beyond artificial contexts.
- Gallery Weekend Berlin features Sky Hopkina's new work and Meduza's exhibition on fascist regimes.
- 'The Gatherers' at MoMA PS1 includes 14 artists exploring postwar globalization through assemblage and video.
- Tina Girouard's retrospective at Museo Tamayo revisits her 1970s collaborative performances and textiles.
- Gallery Weekend Beijing coincides with multiple art fairs and showcases domestic galleries like Galerie Urs Meile.
- Dala Nasser's installation at Kunsthalle Basel uses Lebanese geographic sites to re-narrate history.
- Ching Ho Cheng's 'Tracing Infinity' displays minimalist works from his Chelsea Hotel period in New York.
- The Setouchi Triennale spans eight months across Japanese islands, featuring over 200 international artists.
Entities
Artists
- Carlo Ratti
- Rem Koolhaas
- Sky Hopkina
- Geumhyung Jeong
- Ser Serpas
- Tolia Astakhishvili
- Nick Relph
- Miho Dohi
- Jean Katambayi Mukendi
- Emilija Škarnulytė
- Selma Selman
- Karimah Ashadu
- Tina Girouard
- Wang Xingwei
- Tant Yunshu Zhong
- Xinyi Cheng
- Evelyn Taocheng Wang
- Ye Linghan
- Nguyễn Trinh Thi
- Dala Nasser
- Ching Ho Cheng
- Andy Warhol
- David Hockney
- Charles James
- Marie Rambert
- Yayoi Kusama
- Olafur Eliasson
- Chiharu Shiota
- Jakkai Siributr
- Kenji Yanobe
- Jacob Dahlgren
- Raqs Media Collective
- Chim↑Pom
- Takashi Murakami
- Do Ho Suh
- Maeve Brennan
- John Smith
- Armand Yervant Tufenkian
- Maxime Jean-Baptiste
- Anicka Yi
Institutions
- Venice Biennale
- Fondazione Prada
- MIT
- Senseable City Lab
- Tanya Leighton
- Kunstraum Kreuzberg
- Meduza
- Spore Initiative
- MoMA PS1
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Museo Tamayo
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- Gallery Weekend Beijing
- Beijing Dangdai
- Art021 Beijing
- 798CUBE
- UCCA
- Red Brick
- Galerie Urs Meile
- Tabula Rasa
- Antenna Space
- Spurs Gallery
- Kunsthalle Basel
- Carnegie International
- BANK/MABSOCIETY
- Rambert
- (LA)HORDE
- Ballet national de Marseille
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Southbank Centre
- Setouchi Triennale
- Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
- Benesse
- Fukutake Foundation
- Naoshima New Museum of Art
- Open City Documentary Festival
- Berwick Film Festival
- Sheffield Doc Fest
- University College London
- Barbican
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- White Columns
- 112 Greene Street
- FOOD
Locations
- Venice
- Italy
- Berlin
- Germany
- New York
- United States
- Mexico City
- Mexico
- Beijing
- China
- Basel
- Switzerland
- London
- United Kingdom
- Lebanon
- Adonis River
- Qana Cave
- Hamburg
- Chelsea Hotel
- Paris
- France
- Seto Inland Sea
- Honshū
- Shikoku
- Japan
- Naoshima
- Southern Italy
- California
- French Guiana
- Lithuania
- Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
- Chernobyl
- Havana
- Cuba
- New Orleans
- Louisiana
- Ho Chunk Nation
- Palestine
- Israel
- Vietnam
- Jarai
- Armenia