Our Top Exhibitions to see in New York, Seoul and London this Fall

New York

Harminder Judge – Wherever I went, I went when I was sleeping
Sean Kelly
5 September – 18 October 2025

Sean Kelly presents Harminder Judge’s first exhibition with the gallery, featuring new large-scale plaster-and-pigment panels that merge painting, sculpture, and architecture. Alongside these works are shaped wall pieces that project into space like fragments of geological matter. A major component of the show is a site-responsive floor installation spanning the front gallery, constructed from the same materials as the wall works and altering the way visitors move through the space. Judge, who draws on Indian neo-tantric traditions as well as Western abstraction, refers to his works as portals: objects that hover between the material and immaterial, surface and threshold. Together, the exhibition highlights Judge’s interest in process, materiality, and the interplay between object and environment.

Pedro Reyes
Lisson Gallery
11 September – 1 November 2025

Featuring monumental stone sculptures and, for the first time, a series of wall-based mosaics, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a sculptural forest—blending myth, material, and movement. Rooted in Mesoamerican cosmology, Reyes’ work draws on Mexica and Olmec carving traditions, reimagined through a contemporary lens that echoes Art Deco and modern abstraction. His sculptures become vessels of memory and cultural resilience, bridging ancient and modern worlds. New animal figures—jaguar, coyote, monkey, axolotl—join his abstract, totemic forms, rendered with precision that merges symbolism and modern form. The newly developed stone mosaics offer a rhythmic, intimate counterpoint to the larger works, inviting viewers into a space where myth and matter fluidly converge.

Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World
Museum of the City of New York
12 September 2025 – 19 April 2026

This dynamic exhibition highlights Rauschenberg’s groundbreaking use of photography and found objects, reflecting his deep engagement with everyday life and his complex relationship with New York City. Central to his practice was a drive to incorporate the world around him—transforming found materials, magazine clippings, and street detritus into vibrant works of art. More than just a collector of images, Rauschenberg was a visionary photographer, and this often-overlooked facet of his work is a key focus of the show.

Richard Serra Running Arcs (For John Cage)
Gagosian, West 21st Street
12 September – 20 December 2025

Marking its U.S. debut, Richard Serra’s Running Arcs (For John Cage) (1992) will be on view at Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street, from September 12 through December 20, 2025—exactly thirty-three years after its first and only prior exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. The monumental sculpture consists of three identical conical steel plates, each approximately 52 feet long, 13 feet high, and 2 inches thick, installed in a staggered formation with alternating orientation.

Keith Haring – Liberating the Soul
Gladstone Gallery, 24th Street
18 September – 1 November 2025

For the first time in a decade, Gladstone presents an exhibition dedicated solely to Keith Haring’s late-career canvases and painted tarps. Highlighting Haring’s enduring focus on global unity, healthcare during the AIDS crisis, and the joyful, communal power of art, the show captures a more introspective side of the artist. While best known for his iconic subway drawings and public art, Haring also developed a rich studio practice informed by art history and his peers. His emotionally charged paintings balance humor and joy with sharp critiques of injustice. The exhibition features Haring’s final work, Untitled (DPEP), a jubilant composition of repeating, outstretched figures. The painting evokes unity and celebration, embodying Haring’s vision of art as a tool for community and hope.

Monet and Venice
Brooklyn Museum
11 October 2025 – 1 February 2026

Claude Monet once called Venice “too beautiful to be painted,” yet he met the challenge with a stunning series of late-career works. Monet and Venice is the first exhibition dedicated to these luminous paintings since their 1912 debut—and the largest Monet show in New York in over 25 years, featuring 100+ artworks, books, and ephemera. The exhibition places Monet’s ethereal, unpeopled visions of Venice in dialogue with works by Canaletto, Signac, Sargent, and Renoir, highlighting his focus on light, color, and architecture over the city’s bustling life.

Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped
Guggenheim Museum
10 October 2025 – 5 April 2026

Marking the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth, this exhibition brings together over a dozen key works from the Guggenheim’s collection alongside major loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Together, they showcase the artist’s groundbreaking approach to materials, media, and image-making—celebrating his experimental spirit and enduring influence on contemporary art. At the heart of the show is Barge (1962–63), a monumental 32-foot-long silkscreen painting created largely in a single day. The largest in a series of roughly 80 Silkscreen Paintings made between 1962 and 1964, Barge returns to New York for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Seoul

Mark Bradford, Keep Walking
Amorepacific Museum of Art
through 25 January 2026

This institutional exhibition is Mark Bradford’s first solo exhibition in South Korea and his largest in Asia, presenting over 20 years of his practice. Known for monumental abstract paintings made from urban materials like billboard paper and beauty salon endpapers, Bradford transforms everyday detritus into layered works that merge personal history with broader social issues. Describing his approach as “Social Abstraction,” Bradford addresses race, class, gender, and power through a distinctive visual language. The show features around 40 works, including large-scale paintings, video installations, and new commissions created for the museum’s architecture.

Louise Bourgeois – The Evanescent and the Eternal
Ho-Am Art Museum
through 4 January 2026

This exhibition marks the first major museum showcase of Louise Bourgeois’s work in Korea in 25 years. It features iconic pieces from the Leeum collection, including the monumental Maman (1999) and the haunting Cell XI (Portrait) (2000), along with more than 110 works spanning the artist’s entire career. Visitors will also gain insight into Bourgeois’s inner world through a selection of her personal writings, offering a deeper understanding of her creative process and psychological landscape.

Antony Gormley, Inextricable
White Cube, in collaboration with Thaddaeus Ropac
2 September – 18 October 2025

Titled Inextricable, the exhibition examines the complex ties between the human body and the urban landscape, in a time when more than half the world’s population lives within cities. It considers whether art can meaningfully engage with the freedoms and constraints shaped by urban life. As Antony Gormley states, “the relationship between humanity and the city has become inextricable to the point where this world now builds us.” The works in the show function as diagnostic instruments, offering insight into how the built environment influences our physical and mental states.

Louise Bourgeois, Rocking to Infinity
Kukje Gallery
2 September – 26 October 2025

Lee Bul, From 1998 to Now
Leeum Museum of Art
4 September 2025 – 4 January 2026

Featuring approximately 150 works, this exhibition offers a wide-ranging survey of Lee’s practice from the late 1990s to the present. It opens with early landmark series such as Cyborg, Anagram, and the karaoke installation, and centers on Mon grand récit—a series of large-scale sculptural installations developed since 2005. Also included are works from her recent Willing To Be Vulnerable and Perdu series, alongside drawings and maquettes that reveal her exploratory process. Together, these works reflect Lee’s ongoing investigation into the relationship between humans and technology, utopian ideals, and the persistent tension between progress and its discontents.

London

Mika Tajima – Anthesis
Pace, Hanover Square
3 September – 4 October 2025

On view from September 3 to October 4, Anthesis is Mika Tajima’s first solo exhibition in London since joining the gallery in 2022, debuting a new body of work titled Negentropica. For nearly two decades, Tajima has explored how human agency is shaped by built and virtual environments through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work engages recurring themes of control, freedom, and performance, translating complex ideas into sensory, material form. Named after the moment a flower reaches full bloom, Anthesis reflects on transformation and impermanence through acts of recording, containment, and resistance to decay.

Theatre Picasso
Tate Modern
17 September 2025 – Spring 2026

Pablo Picasso was fascinated by performers, their power to transform and captivate. Dancers, entertainers and bullfighters not only inspired his art but also helped shape his public image as Picasso the Artist. Marking 100 years since Picasso painted The Three Dancers, this exhibition curated by acclaimed artist Wu Tsang and author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca offers a new perspective on Picasso’s work. The space becomes a theatrical stage for more than 45 pieces from Tate’s collection, alongside major European loans including paintings, sculpture, textiles and works on paper, some never seen in the UK before. The show explores how Picasso crafted a mythic persona, both celebrated and outsider, through what we now call performativity—the idea that identity is created through words and actions.

Danielle Mckinney – Second Wind
Max Hetzler Gallery
18 September – 1 November 2025

Mckinney’s work captures quiet moments of introspection and intimacy through interior scenes, where Black female figures emerge from darkness in carefully composed chiaroscuro. Lit by a lamp or the glow of a cigarette, her subjects rest in stillness, accented by vivid details like red fingernails. In her latest paintings, Mckinney adopts a looser, more visceral style, embracing silence and in-between spaces as a response to change. Intimate in scale, the works invite viewers to slow down, reflect, and sit with discomfort as a path to growth.

Victor Man
David Zwirner
18 September – 31 October 2025

This marks the artist’s debut exhibition with David Zwirner following the announcement of their representation in 2024. Man’s paintings resist easy categorization, weaving nonlinear references to literature, art, and poetry into vivid explorations of the human condition. Centered on the cycles of life and death, the works feature enigmatic figures rendered with a quiet, contemplative intensity, inviting layered interpretations of existence. The show will also include self-portraits.

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Royal Academy of Arts
20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026

Marshall’s vivid, predominantly large-scale paintings place Black figures at the forefront, challenging the Western tradition of history painting by making visible those who were historically excluded. Rich with references spanning art history, civil rights, comics, science fiction, and personal memories, his work reflects on the past, celebrates everyday life, and envisions hopeful futures. This exhibition, the largest of his paintings outside the US, offers many in the UK their first opportunity to experience his powerful work firsthand.

Rachel Jones – Site-specific commissions
for the Entrance Hall, The Courtauld Gallery
Unveiling on 25 September 2025

Rachel Jones is creating two new site-specific commissions for The Courtauld. These paintings extend her ongoing conversation with the institution’s renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Jones has described Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), part of The Courtauld’s collection, as her favorite and most inspiring work in a London public collection, calling it “the epitome of how to use colour, texture and a sense of self to create an image.”

Peter Doig: House of Music
Serpentine Galleries
3 October 2025 – February 2026

Transforming the gallery into an immersive listening environment, House of Music combines recent paintings with sound for the first time in Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers—originally made for cinemas and large auditoriums—through which music selected by the artist plays. Drawn from his extensive archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes collected over decades, the soundtrack is delivered via ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers. Each painting explores music differently: some depict spaces where music is heard or played, others capture musicians performing or people dancing. Many of these works were created during Doig’s years in Trinidad (2002–21), a period that enriched his connection to music through sound-system culture and cinema.