10 Events and exhibithions not to be missed in Italy in September 2025

September is the month when Italy is transformed into a stage of art, excitement and discovery. From the Alps to Sicily, lights shine on extraordinary experiences. With our guide 10 Must-See Exhibitions and Events in Italy in September 2025, you will find wonders to experience with all your senses. Exhibitions, festivals and unique encounters await you. Prepare to be guided through experiences that will surprise you.

September 2025 opens with an Italy pulsating with cultural life, including art cities, seaside villages and unexpected spaces transformed into settings of emotion and beauty. From Munch's visionary masterpieces in Milan, to the magic of glass illuminating Venice, via philosophical festivals, contemporary photography and immersive shows, each event is an invitation to be surprised. The guide 10 Must-See Exhibitions and Events in Italy in September 2025 collects the most immersive experiences not to be missed. Let us accompany you to discover these extraordinary events!

Venice invites you to a unique experience suspended between art, tradition and wonder: The Venice Glass Week, the international festival dedicated to the magic of art glass, returns with its ninth edition. From September 13 to 21, 2025, the calli and canals of Venice, Murano and Mestre will come alive with a rich schedule of events, exhibitions, installations, workshops, shows and guided tours, all united by the transparent and luminous thread of glass. An opportunity to discover up close the thousand-year-old art that has made the lagoon famous throughout the world, between tradition and innovation, enchantment and knowledge. Among the proposals not to be missed, the Murano Glass Museum will host Vero Casanova, an immersive exhibition curated by Matteo Silverio that interprets the multifaceted soul of Casanova through eleven extraordinary glass works by Murano masters. Also in the same museum, you can visit "Stories of Factories. Stories of families. FRATELLI TOSO", a tribute to one of the most influential glassworks between the 19th and 20th centuries. At the Glass Rooms on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Marino Barovier presents 1932-1942.

Also returning in 2025 is Fotografia Calabria Festival, an unmissable event for photography lovers and for those who wish to explore, through images, the profound relationship between places and identity. From August 1 to October 12, San Lucido - a charming village overlooking the Calabrian Tyrrhenian Sea - will be transformed into an open-air laboratory of visions, reflections and visual stories. The theme chosen for this fourth edition, “Common Roots: Places” invites us to rediscover the affective, cultural and political value of the spaces we inhabit and imagine, making them mirrors of our memory and transformations. Sixteen exhibitions, among streets, historic buildings and exhibition spaces, will take visitors on an exciting journey between real and inner places, thanks to the works of established artists and young talents from the international scene. Names such as Marie Tomanova, Hashem Shakeri, Mykhaylo Palinchak, Kazuaki Koseki and many others await you in a visual journey full of stories, memories and visions of the world. An invitation to be traversed by the evocative vibes of San Lucido (CS) - August 1 to October 12, 2025.

In the heart of Milan, within the iconic spaces of the Triennale, Inequalities, the 24th International Exhibition, comes to life: a profound and choral journey reflecting on the inequalities of the contemporary world. After investigating sustainability and the invisible universe in the past editions, this new stage concludes the thematic trilogy with a powerful, urgent and political reflection, focusing on the economic, social, cultural and gender fractures that run through our cities and bodies. Artists, architects, intellectuals and institutions from around the world come together to propose visions, narratives and possible solutions, in a vibrant dialogue between exhibition spaces, performances, meetings and international participations. Be inspired by this journey through stories, ideas and global perspectives. From May 13 to November 9, 2025, we look forward to seeing you at the Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6.

Pordenonelegge, the Festival of Books and Freedom, is back, and with it the magical moment when an entire city is transformed into a widespread stage of words, ideas and encounters. From September 17-21, 2025, Pordenone and Friuli Venezia Giulia will host the 26th edition of this extraordinary festival, which lights up the squares, streets and hearts of thousands of readers every year. More than 650 voices from around the world, 350 events and 50 venues involved will enliven five intense days, where the most precious freedom will be celebrated: that of reading, writing, imagining. Between novels, poetry, current affairs, philosophy and science, the festival will offer an in-depth look at our time, touching on pressing issues such as democracy, identity, technology and the future of Europe. Big names in culture are scheduled, including Shirin Ebadi, Ildefonso Falcones, Clara Sánchez, William Wall and architect Massimiliano Fuksas. There will be no shortage of exciting encounters, concerts and unprecedented spaces such as the Europa Arena, a place for discussion and reflection on the present. All events will be free admission subject to availability. A special opportunity to experience the city through the wonder of the written word.

We look forward to seeing you in Pordenone, September 17-21, 2025.

A valuable opportunity to discover a lesser-known but surprisingly rich face of one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century, The Other Picasso is the exhibition hosted at the Regional Archaeological Museum in Aosta until October 19, 2025. It is a fascinating journey through the artist's multiple expressions, winding through fine etchings such as the Vollard Suite, theatrical sets for the ballet "The Three-Pronged Hat", poetic writings and a surprising ceramic production. It is an intimate, experimental, curious Picasso who confronts the classical world, the written word and clay as new creative territory. Particularly striking is the section devoted to ceramics, the medium through which Picasso, already 65 years old, rediscovered the enthusiasm of creating, like a child before a universe waiting to be explored. The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalog that enriches its reading, making the dialogue with the work even deeper. An invitation to be amazed by an unseen Picasso, far from stereotypes, but always brilliant, in the magic Aosta Valley.

We look forward to seeing you at the Regional Archaeological Museum in Aosta, until October 19, 2025.

"A Timeless Kiss" is much more than a show: it is an immersive and poetic experience that weaves art, music, dance and technology into a visual and sensory tale capable of touching the soul. At the Ristori Theater in Verona, until Sept. 21, 2025, a fascinating journey conceived by Massimiliano Siccardi and Luca Longobardi comes to life, in which Klimt's famous Kiss meets the eternal love of Romeo and Juliet, while Beethoven and David Bowie chase each other in a sonic dialogue between epochs and suggestions. Verona, the city of lovers par excellence, is thus transformed into a suspended, dreamlike place, reconstructed through the skillful use of artificial intelligence and hand-created images. The viewer is enveloped in a visual and musical symphony that accompanies him between the splendors of the Viennese Secession and the tragic passion of the two young lovers, concluding with the symbolic power of the Tree of Life. A total, emotional work to be experienced with all the senses.

We look forward to seeing you at the Ristori Theater in Verona, until September 21, 2025.

A fascinating encounter between past and present comes to life at the Galleria Borghese in Rome with "Wangechi Mutu. Poems of the Black Earth", an exhibition that invites the viewer to reconsider space, matter and history through the visionary gaze of one of the most original artists on the contemporary scene. Through Sept. 14, 2025, the museum's rooms host sculptures that do not overpower but harmonize with the permanent collection: slight, suspended presences that seem to dance in the air or rest like silent breaths on surfaces. Works such as Ndege, Suspended Playtime and the Weeping Heads hang delicately from the ceilings, defying gravity and offering new perspectives. Mutu, through organic materials such as wood, feathers, earth and bronze - the latter reinterpreted as a vehicle of memory and transformation - opens up a poetic and fluid space where narratives reshuffle and visual hierarchies are redrawn. It is a powerful homage to metamorphosis, to becoming, and to the possibility of seeing with new eyes.

We look forward to seeing you at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, through September 14, 2025.

Back in Bergamo is the Landscape Festival - I Maestri del Paesaggio, now in its 15th edition, an event that each year transforms the city into an open-air laboratory of visions, ideas and projects dedicated to landscape culture. At the heart of the 2025 edition is the desire to offer space and voice to those who, through their work, have been able to imagine and create landscapes in which man, community and city coexist in balance with nature. A valuable opportunity to meet the “Masters of Landscape,” international figures who propose concrete solutions for urban regeneration and environmental sustainability. The Festival is based on the belief that the landscape is a living organism in constant transformation, shaped by the interaction between the natural environment and human activity. Conferences, installations, workshops and experiential moments offer the public a privileged look at new forms of living, integrating innovation, beauty and ecological awareness.

We look forward to seeing you in Bergamo for the Landscape Festival, September 5-22, 2025.

Back in Monopoli is PhEST - International Festival of Photography and Art, which this year celebrates its 10th edition transforming the Apulian city into a fascinating open-air stage. From August 8 to November 16, 2025, among alleys, historic buildings and glimpses of the sea, an evocative dialogue between photography, contemporary art and installations will come to life, guided by the artistic direction of Giovanni Troilo. This year's theme, This Is Us - A Capsule to Space, invites us to reflect on who we are and what we would leave as humanity's legacy to a hypothetical extraterrestrial observer. A journey between memory, technology, nature and collective identity that spans ten years of the festival's history. Among the protagonists is the renowned Martin Parr with his ironic look at contemporary society, along with artists such as Alexey Titarenko, Phillip Toledano, Rhiannon Adam and Piero Percoco. A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in an immersive visual experience that combines science, emotion and imagination.

We look forward to seeing you in Monopoly, from August 8 to November 16, 2025, to experience art at the center of the universe together.

For three days, Festivalfilosofia 2025 will transform Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo into a lively open-air laboratory where reflection meets daily life and thought becomes shared experience. From Sept. 19 to 21, the squares, courtyards, historic centers and symbolic places of the three cities will host more than 50 keynote lectures given by great voices of contemporary philosophy, both Italian and international, all dedicated to the key-word of this 25th edition: paideia, the ancient Greek concept that indicates the formation of the human being in its entirety, between education, ethics and citizenship. Alongside the meetings, a rich program of exhibitions, performances, concerts, workshops, films and even philosophical dinners, designed to make the great questions of our time accessible-and surprising. The whole city participates: museums, libraries, associations, restaurants and stores join in a celebration of knowledge that is also a new way of inhabiting public space together.

We look forward to seeing you in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo, September 19-21, 2025, to experience philosophy together as a living, shared experience.