Exhibitions Not to Miss: Autumn 2025 Highlights
This season, several VOLTA exhibitors present thought-provoking exhibitions that look to the future. Imagining new possibilities, challenging perceptions, and reshaping how we see the world to come, these presentations reflect the forward-facing vision of our gallerists. From poetic reflections on memory to surreal carnivals and urgent meditations on tomorrow, these shows spotlight artists and galleries driving the conversation ahead.
Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Colours in Motion | Alireza Varzandeh
Until 22 November
Alireza Varzandeh, Cullera (ava), 2025, oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm, © Alireza Varzandeh
With dynamic brushwork, Alireza Varzandeh moves between sensual gesture and compositional clarity. His figures – fragmented, in motion, often anonymous – resemble snapshots of fleeting everyday encounters. Varzandeh lets color and form dance together, creating works that radiate both vitality and melancholy. In this painterly balance, a space opens up for projection, memory, and quiet nuances.
La Plataforma, Barcelona, Spain
The Greatest Show on Earth (and Other Lies) | Nathalie Rey & Ece Haskan
Opens 16 October
Nathalie Rey, Rabbits
Enter a world where lights dazzle and illusions unravel. Rey and Haskan transform the gallery into a surreal carnival - a playful space of belief, spectacle, and questioning what is real.
Bishop Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Reminder: The Children Are Our Future | Group Exhibition
Opens 1 November
Rapior,The Bind
Bishop Gallery presents a heartfelt group exhibition exploring the power of art to nurture, protect, and uplift future generations. The show brings together over 15 artists whose work champions hope, resilience and empowerment.
Delamour Gallery, Paris, France
2060… and after | Mats Carduner & Basile Pelletier
November 13 – December 6, 2025
Baslie Pelletier, Laundry
Faced with the climate crisis, Carduner and Pelletier imagine our shared future. Their visions—both urgent and poetic—explore adaptation, uncertainty, and our desire to preserve the world we know.
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
Der Rest ist Poesie | Stefan Hunstein
November 13 – December 20, 2025
Untitled, 2025, c-print on Hahnemühle paper, framed, museum glass 80 x 80 cm
Hunstein’s photographic works, exposed directly onto museum glass, intensify our perception of familiar imagery. Drawing on collective memory, his pieces blur the lines between reality, history, and imagination.
TAMARA KREISLER Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Selva Negra|Iván Rickenmann
October 23, 2025 – November 29, 2025
BLACK FOREST, 2025, enamel and charcoal on acetate, 200 x 180 cm
A visual interpretation of nature—drawings of moments and experiences rescued from deep memory. A kind of cultural and visual baggage the artist brings with him after leaving his life in Colombia.