Five Gallery Exhibitions to See This Summer

Walter Pichler: Sculptures, Drawings, Models 
Gladstone Gallery, New York (US)
On view through August 1, 2025 

Curated by Olivia Shao, Gladstone Gallery presents Walter Pichler’s first exhibition at the gallery in over two decades. It also marks a special tribute to the late Barbara Gladstone, as Walter Pichler: Sculptures, Drawings, Models was the last exhibition she actively oversaw in close collaboration with Shao and the Walter Pichler Estate.

The exhibition highlights the artist’s multifaceted practice through 14 works in various mediums, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, as well as Pichler’s exploration of architecture, history, and the relationship between the human body and technology. Pichler developed a committed way of working that was “entirely on his own terms,” as Shao shares. He shunned the art world and primarily worked from his Austrian countryside home from 1973 until his death in 2012. Here, he built a series of buildings that housed his artworks which were not purely functional but became an extension of his art—exemplifying the synergy between space and form that underlies his work. Pichler employed traditional materials such as metal, clay, wood, and other ephemeral material to construct minimalist, geometric forms and visionary environments. His practice resists easy categorization, bridging utopian design, experimental architecture, and sculptural tradition in a singular, extensive body of work.

Megan Rooney: Yellow Yellow Blue 
Thaddaeus Ropac, London (UK)
On view through August 2, 2025 

In Megan Rooney’s latest exhibition Yellow Yellow Blue at Thaddaeus Ropac, the artist deepens her exploration of abstraction and materiality through a body of work guided almost entirely by color. From her signature “wingspan” canvases (measured out to the width of the artist’s outstretched arms) to large-scale paintings with monumental presence—Rooney builds her compositions over time, layering, sanding, and repainting in a cyclical process that absorbs both internal and environmental shifts.

Finalized in spring, the presented works span the chromatic space between yellow and blue, producing rich fields of green that speak to the season’s rebirth. Though abstract, forms occasionally surface—ladders, clouds, trees—like fleeting memories or half-dreamed images. Drawing on impressions gathered while moving through the city, Rooney’s canvases become sensory landscapes, engaging in a dialogue with a lineage of artists who responded to London’s light and atmosphere.

Anselm Kiefer 
White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (UK)
On view through August 16, 2025

Anselm Kiefer returns to the subject of the landscape as a locus of historical, mythological, and material inquiry in and exhibition now on view at White Cube. The exhibition explores Kiefer’s long-standing engagement with the legacy of Vincent van Gogh, a relationship that began in 1963 when Kiefer, then 18, retraced Van Gogh’s travels across Europe.

In this recent series, Kiefer responds to key iconographies associated with Van Gogh’s time in the south of France through his own artistic lens, most notably the sunflower and wheatfields, informed by themes such as the transience of life, memory, and metaphysical reflection. Featuring paintings, sculptural works, and silver gelatin prints, the exhibition includes Kiefer’s signature paintings rendered through the materiality and dense use of ash, clay, burnt straw, and gold leaf, as well as canvases inscribed with literary and mythological references—such as William Blake’s Ah! Sun-flower and the Greek tale of Clytie—another distinctive element of the artist’s work. Even though created a century apart, both Kiefer and Van Gogh’s work situate the landscape as a means to explore artistic and philosophical ideas, in which the material presence of paint and other media plays a central role.

Poetic Lives, Intimate Visions of Modern France
Bailly Gallery, Old Town, Geneva (Switzerland)
On view through September 10, 2025 

Bailly Gallery presents Poetic Lives: Intimate Visions of Modern France, a summer exhibition that brings together a selection of eight artists whose works offer a lyrical and nuanced perspective on French painting from the late 19th to the early 20th century. Tracing a period of artistic introspection and expressive freedom, the exhibitions highlights include the contemplative still lifes and portraits by Moïse Kisling, Henri Martin’s bright, nearly spiritual landscapes, and pointillist compositions by Achille Laugé. Collectively, their works articulate a personal and poetic vision of modern France. The exhibition reveals a generation of artists who turned inward and captured the subtle textures of daily life through sensitive brushwork and emotive palettes.

Giorgio Morandi and Bertozzi & Casoni: The Encounter Between the Everyday and the Extraordinary 
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m, Paris (France)
On view through September 15, 2025

In line with Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m.’s curatorial approach to exploring dialogues between modern and contemporary art, the gallery’s latest exhibition brings together the distinct yet philosophically aligned practices of Giorgio Morandi and artist duo Bertozzi & Casoni. In this dialogue, Morandi’s exploration of the everyday through recurring subjects such as his still lives with vases and bottles and flower arrangements finds reinterpretation in Bertozzi & Casoni’s hyper realistic ceramic flower vase sculptures—created as an explicit tribute to Morandi in 2019. Their highly detailed works echo the painter’s suspended stillness while extending his vocabulary into three-dimension, simultaneously exploring the themes of vanitas and memento mori which have long been central to Bertozzi & Casoni’s practice. This encounter invites a reconsideration of time not as a linear progression, but as a suspended, cyclical presence—where forms, subjects, and ideas are revisited and reimagined.