Columna Rota is now on view at the Museo de la Ciudad de México. This large exhibition explores how rejection shapes both our personal lives and our shared history. Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s Broken Column, the project brings together more than 125 contributors and is built from many voices instead of one. It places Mexico City at the center of a global conversation about art, politics, and community. The exhibition extends across the museum, the Church of Jesús Nazareno, and nearby streets. These historic spaces become places for reflection, memory, and creative expression. Through installations, performances, and archival materials, Columna Rota addresses themes such as visibility, censorship, vulnerability, and the importance of stories that are often overlooked. Fully funded by civil society, the exhibition is an independent cultural effort. It reimagines what a group show can be and highlights Mexico City as a vibrant cultural center where new connections and shared ideas can grow. Photo Credit: Tom de Peyret

• Museo de la Ciudad de México
• José María Pino Suárez 30, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Messico
• 8 novembre 2025 – 22 febbraio 2026

The Fondation Carmignac presents the exhibition Vertigo, evoking the dizzying sensations of the Mediterranean sun, the mistral wind, the spray of the sea, and the deep, telluric forces of the earth. Inspired by the island of Porquerolles, the show explores the relationship between natural phenomena and post-1950 abstract art, capturing moments of disorientation, floating, and wonder. Organized into six sections—water, cosmogony, air, infinity, land, and abyss—the exhibition brings together around fifty works from museums, private collections, and the Carmignac Collection, alongside pieces created specifically for the show. Highlights include the vibrant colors of Yves Klein, James Turrell, and Jesús Rafael Soto, cosmic visions by Olafur Eliasson, Anna-Eva Bergman, and Hans Hartung, immersive environments by Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Frank Bowling, and Flora Moscovici, optical experiments by Ann Veronica Janssens and Carlos Cruz-Diez, and the infinite skies of Otto Piene and Caroline Corbasson.

• Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island
• Piste de la Courtade Île de Porquerolles, 83400 Hyères, Francia
• 26 aprile – 2 novembre 2025

In many ways, the shadow stands at the beginning of art history. According to Pliny the Elder, the first image was created when the daughter of the potter Butades traced her lover’s shadow. In Plato’s allegory of the cave, shadow images represent illusion, contrasted with the light of knowledge. For centuries, shadows carried ambiguous or even sinister meanings until Romanticism linked them to the psyche—most famously in Chamisso’s tale of Peter Schlemihl, where losing one’s shadow is akin to losing one’s soul. Though shadows appeared in painting earlier, they became central only in the 19th century with the invention of photography and film. Featuring around 40 international artists, this exhibition is the first in a German museum to explore the shadow’s emancipation as an image-producing and media-reflective theme in contemporary art. It surveys shadow worlds from the existential to the political, highlighting the shadow as a meeting point of presence and absence. Both attached to the body and distanced from it, the shadow functions as trace, index, and projection surface. It emerges as a metaphor for the crisis of the subject and a key indicator of realities that lie beyond the visible.

• Kunstmuseum Bonn Museumsmeile
• Helmut-Kohl-Allee 2 53113 Bonn
• 3 luglio – 2 novembre 2025