This autumn’s exhibition calendar offers an exceptional selection of museum retrospectives and solo shows dedicated to major modern and contemporary masters—artists who reshaped visual languages, materials, and exhibition spaces.

Below is our curated guide to the exhibitions currently open to the public, featuring iconic figures in painting, sculpture, and avant-garde experimentation, complete with practical visiting details and direct links to the official museum venues.

Venue: Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan
Dates: On view until October 25, 2026
Curated by: Alberto Mattia Martini

The celebrated, virtuosic polychrome ceramic sculptures by the duo Bertozzi & Casoni enter the historic rooms of this Milanese house-museum. Featuring hyper-realistic still lifes, accumulations, floral compositions, and vanitas allegories, these contemporary ceramic creations establish an intriguing dialogue with Renaissance furniture and historic masterpieces.

Venue: Palazzo Albergati, Bologna
Dates: October 9, 2026 – March 29, 2027

An extraordinary exhibition bringing over one hundred masterpieces from the prestigious Carmen Thyssen Collection to Bologna. The route highlights the evolution of Spanish modernity through its greatest pioneers, featuring a key nucleus dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s formal revolution, alongside Joaquín Sorolla, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró.

Venue: Reggia di Venaria Reale, Turin
Dates: October 2, 2026 – February 14, 2027

Organized in collaboration with the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, this ambitious exhibition at Venaria Reale explores the artist’s studio as an intimate laboratory of experimentation and self-reflection. Picasso is represented through pivotal works that testify to the continuous reinvention of his painterly language.

Venue: Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma)
Dates: September 12 – December 13, 2026

Marking the 50th anniversary of the master’s passing, the renowned “Villa dei Capolavori” hosts the most extensive retrospective ever dedicated to Man Ray in Italy. Over 300 works—iconic photographs (such as *Le Violon d’Ingres* and *Tears*), paintings, rayographs, sculptures, and readymades—celebrate the multifaceted visionary of Dada and Surrealism.

Venue: Complesso Monumentale di San Giovanni, Catanzaro
Dates: October 8, 2026 – January 8, 2027

Twenty years after the loss of the pioneer of décollage, his hometown honors him with a major exhibition. The show focuses on the monumental scale of his works produced between the 1980s and the early 2000s, including large-scale décollages, réplicages, and overpaintings marked by powerful visual presence.

Venue: Real Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo
Dates: On view until December 27, 2026

An incisive investigation into consumerism, mass production, and seriality in modern society. Fernandez Arman is showcased through his seminal accumulations and inclusions, set in direct aesthetic dialogue with Mimmo Rotella’s torn film posters and Andy Warhol’s iconic silkscreens.

Venue: La Galleria BPER Banca, Ferrara
Dates: October 8, 2026 – January 31, 2027

A sophisticated thematic exhibition investigating the enigma of time and symbolic still life. The works of Felice Casorati—characterized by suspended geometries, silent atmospheres, and metaphysical composure—represent the apex of the transition from 19th-century symbolism into 20th-century classical rigor.

Venue: SATURA Palazzo Stella, Genoa
Dates: October 3 – October 24, 2026
Curated by: Mario Napoli

Forty years after his death, Genoa pays tribute to one of the most poignant voices of European Art Informel. The exhibition retraces Scanavino’s unique iconography of the “knot” and calligraphic mark-making, in which graphic gestures become profound existential records.

Venue: Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano
Dates: Opening October 2026 – Spring 2027

Six decades after the emergence of American Minimalism, Fondazione Dalle Nogare re-evaluates the pioneering legacy of Robert Morris and his peers, scrutinizing the relationships between sculptural form, architectural space, and the phenomenological experience of the viewer.

Opening dates and visiting hours are subject to change. We always recommend checking official museum websites before planning your visit.