november exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
November continues with exhibitions that transcend disciplines and generations, exploring the intersections of artwork, design, and structure by way of materials and reminiscence. From Gerhard Richter’s sweeping retrospective in Paris to Ruth Asawa’s survey in San Francisco, the month’s highlights hint how artists rework course of into poetry.
In Milan, Alchimia. The Revolution of Italian Design revisits a radical period of experimentation, whereas Histories of Ecology at MASP in São Paulo redefines our relationship with the pure world. Janet Echelman’s Radical Softness reveals the quiet energy of kind and light-weight, and Jeff Koons’s Porcelain Sequence transforms fable into trendy artwork.
A number of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and our devoted occasion information stay on view, giving designboom readers extra time to come across them of their travels. On the entire, the broad listing of exhibitions exhibits the vary of themes taken by each designers and galleries the world over.
kaws Household
KAWS: FAMILY invitations guests into the artist’s vibrant and emotionally charged world. Introduced because the artist’s first main museum exhibition on the West Coast, the present spans three many years of labor, tracing his capacity to faucet into shared emotions and collective tradition.
Work, drawings, sculptures, and interventions, from advert takeovers to collaborations and toys, present the breadth of KAWS’s evolving visible language, constructed round recurring figures and reimagined pop imagery.
At its heart stands FAMILY (2021), a monumental bronze sculpture that gathers KAWS’s well-known characters collectively. Their gestures of tenderness and fragility mirror our personal experiences of care and connection. By reframing acquainted animated icons by way of his personal lens, KAWS turns nostalgia into reflection, creating area for empathy and shared cultural reminiscence.
identify: KAWS Household
artist: KAWS
museum: SFMOMA
location: San Francisco, USA
dates: November fifteenth, 2025 — Might third, 2026
KAWS Household, 2021, courtesy the artist © KAWS
Meriem Bennani: sole crushing
For her solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Meriem Bennani transforms the Fondation into an enormous resonant instrument with Sole Crushing, a multi-floor sound set up the place greater than 2 hundred flip-flops carry out a composition mixing orchestral concord with the power of collective noise.
As they strike surrounding surfaces, the flip-flops evoke the heart beat of crowds — protests, stadiums, or dakka marrakchia gatherings — turning a easy, acquainted sound right into a meditation on neighborhood and individuality.
Reimagined from its 2024–25 presentation at Fondazione Prada, this model incorporates a new soundtrack by Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner) and a site-specific design attuned to Lafayette Anticipations’ structure.
identify: Meriem Bennani: Sole Crushing
artist: Meriem Bennani
gallery: Lafayette Anticipations
location: Paris, France
dates: till February eighth, 2026
view of Meriem Bennani’s exhibition Sole Crushing at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery (LA), Lodovico Corsini Gallery (Brussels), and Sadie Coles Gallery (London) © Aurélien Mole
shigeru ban: structure and social contributions
Opening on the Manggha Museum of Japanese Artwork and Expertise in Kraków, the exhibition dedicated to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban will span two flooring of the Europe-Far East Gallery and stay on view for six months.
Showcasing Ban’s creative use of supplies — particularly wooden and cardboard — the exhibition traces his work throughout numerous contexts, from non-public residences and company buildings to public establishments and humanitarian initiatives responding to crises equivalent to earthquakes and wars.
Unique fashions arriving from Japan, France, and Ukraine, together with reconstructions, drawings, pictures, and diagrams, will illuminate Ban’s stability of structural experimentation, spatial readability, and social objective.
identify: Shigeru Ban: Structure and Social Contributions
architect: Shigeru Ban
museum: Manggha Museum of Japanese Artwork and Expertise
location: Kraków, Poland
dates: till Might third, 2026
Mount Fuji World Heritage Centre, Japan, 2017, picture by Hiroyuki Hirai, © Shigeru Ban
paola pivi: I Don’t Like It, I Love It
On the Artwork Gallery of Western Australia, Paola Pivi — I Don’t Like It, I Love It transforms AGWA’s Brutalist areas right into a vivid, imaginative world the place humor and gravity meet. Identified for her surreal situations — feathered polar bears, inverted airplanes, zebras in snow — Pivi explores coexistence, empathy, and environmental fragility.
The exhibition options new commissions, together with a large inflatable comedian cell made with Large Nate creator Lincoln Peirce, three new polar bears, and a rooftop set up of suspended trays full of coloured liquid that play with gentle and area. Pivi blends pleasure with reflection, and invitations viewers to expertise artwork as an area of connection and marvel.
identify: Paola Pivi: I don’t prefer it, I like it
artist: Paola Pivi
gallery: AGWA
location: Perth, Australia
dates: November eighth, 2025 — April twenty sixth, 2026
‘Paola Pivi: I don’t prefer it, I like it,’ picture courtesy AGWA
strates
To mark its tenth anniversary, Philia presents STRATES, a significant exhibition staged throughout two brutalist icons in Noisy-le-Grand — Jacques Kalisz’s iconic Mont d’Est parking construction and Ricardo Bofill’s Espaces Abraxas. Bringing collectively one emblematic work from every Philia artist, the exhibition retraces a decade of dialogue between artwork, design, and structure.
Set throughout the sculptural concrete spirals of Kalisz and the theatrical facades of Bofill, STRATES explores how reminiscence and projection form each objects and place. Extending Philia’s dedication to structure as context and neighborhood as medium, the challenge prompts Mont d’Est’s evolving public realm by way of installations and workshops with artists. See designboom’s protection right here!
identify: Strates
gallery: Galerie Philia
location: Paris, France
dates: till November thirtieth, 2025
Espaces Abraxas by Ricardo Bofill, picture © Studio Brinth, courtesy Galerie Philia
wes anderson: The Archives
The Design Museum presents a landmark exhibition providing uncommon entry to Wes Anderson’s private archives, revealing over thirty years of the filmmaker’s artistic world. For the primary time in Britain, greater than 600 objects — from storyboards and polaroids to puppets, costumes, and miniature units — hint the evolution of Anderson’s craft and collaborations.
Guests can discover highlights just like the pink mannequin of The Grand Budapest Resort, merchandising machines from Asteroid Metropolis, Margot Tenenbaum’s FENDI fur coat, and the stop-motion puppets from Improbable Mr. Fox and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. These artifacts all collectively illuminate Anderson’s devotion to element and design, and present how his handmade sensibility and visible precision have formed a whimsical and deeply human cinematic universe. See designboom’s protection right here!
identify: Wes Anderson: The Archives
artist: Wes Anderson
museum: Design Museum
location: London, UK
dates: November twenty first, 2025 — July twenty sixth, 2026
Wes Anderson © Searchlight Footage, picture by Charlie Grey
juergen teller: you’re invited
The inaugural exhibition on the Onassis Basis’s new Athens area, ‘you’re invited,’ presents a wide-ranging view of Juergen Teller’s evolving observe. Bringing collectively pictures, movies, and new, beforehand unseen photographs from the Nineteen Nineties to at this time, the exhibition traces Teller’s distinctive mix of intimacy and irony throughout portraits, nonetheless lifes, and private scenes.
Alongside his iconic photographs of figures like Iggy Pop, Kate Moss, and Charlotte Rampling, the present displays a deepened emotional register formed by current experiences — photographing Pope Francis at a ladies’s jail through the Venice Biennale, documenting Auschwitz’s eightieth liberation anniversary, and ongoing collaborations together with his spouse, Dovile Drizyte. Balancing humor and gravity, Teller’s work right here takes on a renewed sense of objective, exploring religion and fragility with an openness that’s without delay private and common.
identify: Juergen Teller: you’re invited
artist: Juergen Teller
gallery: Onassis
location: Athens, Greece
dates: till December thirtieth, 2025
Leg, Snails And Peaches No.43, London, 2017, picture courtesy Juergen Teller
Studying from design Maestros
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT presents Studying from Design Maestros, an exhibition directed by Noriko Kawakami and Kaoru Tashiro that displays on six visionary figures whose concepts proceed to form the best way we take into consideration design and life: Bruno Munari, Max Invoice, Achille Castiglioni, Otl Aicher, Enzo Mari, and Dieter Rams.
By means of movies, archival supplies, and key works, the exhibition reveals how these designers fused creativity, instructing, and social consciousness to redefine their disciplines. It additionally highlights the angle of Shutaro Mukai, whose friendships with Invoice and Aicher helped set up Japan’s Science of Design.
By revisiting these masters’ classes in an period of fast change, the exhibition invitations guests to think about how design stays a significant technique of understanding and shaping the world.
identify: Studying From Design Maestros
gallery: 21_21 Design Sight
location: Tokyo, Japan
dates: November twenty first, 2025 — March eighth, 2026
Enzo Mari, Timor, 1967, picture courtesy Danese Milano
Jeff Koons: Porcelain Sequence
Gagosian presents Porcelain Sequence, an exhibition of latest sculptures and work by Jeff Koons, marking the primary present devoted totally to this physique of labor. Drawing on imagery that ranges from the on a regular basis to the mythological, Koons transforms acquainted types into radiant, reflective icons that discover magnificence, need, and cultural reminiscence.
His mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures, crafted by way of superior digital and mechanical processes, invite viewers into their gleaming surfaces, blurring the road between object and observer.
The accompanying work layer pure landscapes, gestural brushwork, and metallic leafing with motifs from artwork historical past, creating luminous compositions that bridge centuries of visible custom. Throughout each mediums, the artist displays on humanity’s enduring pursuit of transcendence by way of artwork.
identify: Jeff Koons: Porcelain Sequence
artist: Jeff Koons
gallery: Gagosian
location: New York, USA
dates: November thirteenth, 2025 — February twenty eighth, 2026
Jeff Koons, Three Graces, 2016-22 (element), picture courtesy Gagosian
petersen automotive
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles opens a brand new exhibition, Efficiency and Status: A Historical past of Aston Martin, tracing the British firm’s evolution from its 1913 origins. Put in within the Meyers Gallery, the presentation gathers greater than a dozen automobiles that embody the altering language of pace and craftsmanship that has outlined Aston Martin for over a century.
The Aston Martin exhibition is the primary within the museum’s historical past. The gathering of fashions is organized to convey the shifting priorities of automotive design, which advanced from the pragmatic, streamlined sculpting of post-war racing prototypes to the expressive surfaces of latest hypercars. See designboom’s protection right here!
identify: Efficiency and Status: A Historical past of Aston Martin
museum: Petersen Museum | @petersenmuseum
location: Los Angeles, California
dates: October thirtieth, 2025 — October 2026
1979 Aston Martin Bulldog, picture courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum
Gerhard richter
Fondation Louis Vuitton presents a sweeping retrospective devoted to Gerhard Richter, some of the influential artists of the previous century. Bringing collectively 275 works spanning greater than six many years, the exhibition presents an unparalleled view of Richter’s observe — from early photo-based work to his last abstractions, in addition to glass and metal sculptures, works on paper, and overpainted pictures.
Tracing his lifelong engagement with each picture and materials, the exhibition reveals how Richter regularly redefined portray’s prospects, filtering actuality by way of images, reminiscence, and abstraction. Organized chronologically, it highlights the artist’s stressed experimentation and his enduring fascination with notion, historical past, and the act of constructing.
Persevering with the Fondation’s custom of main monographic exhibitions, this presentation stands as essentially the most complete exploration thus far of Richter’s imaginative and prescient, and exhibit his deep influence on up to date artwork.
identify: Gerhard Richter
artist: Gerhard Richter
museum: Fondation Louis Vuitton
location: Paris, France
dates: till March 2nd, 2026
Gerhard Richter, 4900 Farben, 2007. laquer on Alu Dibond, 196 panels, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris © Gerhard Richter 2025, picture © Primae / Louis Bourjac
fungi: Anarchist Designers
FUNGI: Anarchist Designers reimagines mushrooms not as supplies for human use however as autonomous collaborators in shaping the world. Curated by anthropologist Anna Tsing and architect-artist Feifei Zhou, the exhibition at Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut challenges the human-centered narratives of ‘sustainable design,’ and positions fungi as unruly co-designers that flourish within the margins and ruins of capitalism.
By means of installations, sculptures, sound, and multimedia works — many created in collaboration with scientists — the exhibition explores how fungi join species, environments, and economies, from decaying forests to nuclear fallout zones.
Rejecting polished notions of eco-innovation, FUNGI embraces decay and unpredictability as artistic forces, inviting guests to rethink design as a shared, anarchic course of amongst people and different residing beings.
identify: FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
museum: Nieuwe Instituut
location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
dates: November twenty first, 2025 — August ninth, 2026
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Fungi Anarchist Designers, n.d. digital {photograph}. courtesy the artist. from the 2025 grant to Nieuwe Instituut for the exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers. picture courtesy Graham Basis
ruth asawa: A retrospective
‘I’m not so within the expression of one thing. I’m extra serious about what the fabric can do,’ mentioned Ruth Asawa, whose six-decade profession is widely known in Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective at MoMA. Gathering almost 300 works throughout mediums — wire and bronze sculptures, drawings, prints, and public commissions — the exhibition traces the artist’s lifelong fascination with materials transformation and spatial stress.
From her early research at Black Mountain School to her San Francisco studio, Asawa pursued the probabilities of humble supplies like paper and wire, creating types that merge abstraction and illustration.
Deeply dedicated to neighborhood and humanities training, she approached making as an extension of residing, seeing creativity in each act. This retrospective honors that imaginative and prescient, inviting viewers to expertise the quiet radicalism of an artist who discovered infinite variation within the easiest of means.
identify: Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
artist: Ruth Asawa
museum: Museum of Trendy Artwork (MoMA)
location: New York, USA
dates: till February seventh, 2026
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, set up view, The Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York. digital picture © 2025 The Museum of Trendy Artwork, photograph by Jonathan Dorado
alchimia
Alchimia. The Revolution of Italian Design is the primary complete retrospective dedicated to the Milanese collective based by Alessandro and Adriana Guerriero in 1976. Following its debut in Berlin, the exhibition returns to Milan in an expanded kind with a brand new show conceived by Alessandro Guerriero himself — a poetic ‘carpet-raft’ that invitations guests into the group’s imaginative, utopian world.
Energetic till 1992, Alchimia emerged throughout a time of social transformation, fusing design, structure, artwork, vogue, and efficiency right into a free-spirited laboratory of experimentation. Rejecting the constraints of functionalism by way of their idea of ‘banal design,’ the collective reasserted design’s emotional and symbolic potential.
That includes over 150 works, from furnishings and objects to work and movies, the exhibition traces Alchimia’s radical redefinition of design as an area for irony, storytelling, and visionary thought.
identify: Alchimia: The Revolution of Italian Design
gallery: ADI Design Museum
location: Milan, Italy
dates: November eleventh, 2025 — January twenty second, 2026
picture courtesy ADI Design Museum
cerith wyn Evans: types in Area… By means of gentle (in time)
Types in Area… by Mild (in Time) presents a monumental set up by Cerith Wyn Evans, composed of an intricate community of white neon suspended within the Oval Gallery. The work unfolds as each sculpture and choreography of sunshine, tracing rhythm and movement by way of area.
Joined by sound items, installations, and movies, the exhibition reveals the conceptual depth and sensory precision that outline Wyn Evans’s observe. The Welsh artist’s work originated with experimental cinema, and has since expanded with influences from music, literature, and philosophy to create experiences which can be cerebral and atmospheric.
identify: Cerith Wyn Evans — Types in Area… by way of Mild (in Time)
artist: Cerith Wyn Evans
museum: MAAT: Museum of Artwork, Structure and Expertise
location: Lisbon, Portugal
dates: till February sixteenth, 2026
picture by Bruno Lopes, courtesy MAAT
adam pendleton: Who owns Geometry Anyway?
Friedman Benda presents Who Owns Geometry Anyway?, an exhibition by Adam Pendleton marking the artist’s first collaboration with the gallery and his debut exploration of furnishings as kind. Identified for weaving collectively expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual rigor, Pendleton reimagines geometry as each language and construction.
Circles, squares, and triangles — recurring motifs in his work and sculptures — reappear right here in wooden, onyx, and granite, remodeled into purposeful objects that merge precision with poetics. The works have interaction the encompassing structure by way of painted geometric interventions, creating a complete setting that blurs the road between artwork and design.
Evoking Isamu Noguchi’s perception that artwork needs to be inseparable from its setting, Pendleton’s set up displays on kind, stress, and openness—suggesting that geometry, like that means, is all the time contingent, shifting, and shared.
identify: Adam Pendleton: Who Owns Geometry Anyway?
designer: Adam Pendleton
gallery: Friedman Benda
location: New York, USA
dates: November seventh — December nineteenth, 2025
Adam Pendleton, EXTENDED FORM ONE, 2025, picture courtesy Friedman Benda
Histories of Ecology
Within the 12 months Brazil hosts COP30 in Belém, MASP presents Histories of Ecology, an exhibition that broadens the thought of ecology past the local weather disaster to embody the intertwined relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.
Bringing collectively works by 116 artists — many from the World South — the exhibition examines how colonialism, environmental racism, and capitalism have formed up to date ecological realities whereas foregrounding resilience, solidarity, and interconnectedness. Rejecting the notion of ‘nature’ as one thing separate from society, it as an alternative proposes ecology as a residing community of forces — fluid, relational, and continuously reworking.
Organized into 5 thematic sections, Histories of Ecology traverses religious, territorial, and planetary dimensions, inviting viewers to think about extra inclusive methods of inhabiting the world and to see the longer term as a shared, collective endeavor.
identify: Histories of Ecology
museum: MASP
location: São Paulo, Brazil
dates: till February 1st, 2026
Aycoobo Wilson Rodríguez, Calendário, 2024, picture courtesy MASP
janet echelman: Radical Softness
Radical Softness presents an intimate view of Janet Echelman’s outstanding profession, tracing her evolution from early experiments in drawing, portray, and textiles to the monumental internet sculptures which have remodeled cityscapes worldwide.
Identified for utilizing historic fishing-net methods along with superior engineering, Echelman creates huge, floating types that render wind, gentle, and movement seen — poetic expressions of humanity’s connection to the pure world.
The exhibition explores her use of softness as each materials and philosophy, revealing how pliancy, transparency, and suspension turn out to be acts of energy and empathy. That includes works from throughout 4 many years, alongside new cyanotypes, Radical Softness displays on the ability of artwork to unite individuals and invite stillness throughout the rhythms of latest life.
identify: Janet Echelman: Radical Softness
artist: Janet Echelman
gallery: Sarasota Artwork Museum
location: Sarasota, Florida, USA
dates: November sixteenth, 2025 — April twenty sixth, 2026
Janet Echelman (American), Enfold, Hill Home Montecito, CA, 2022, picture by Joe Fletcher, courtesy the artist
