To end the year, we’re sharing a selection of 10 international exhibitions where artists explore our relationship with the environment, and the challenges of our time. A way to close 2025 with reflection, creativity, and awareness.

 

Back to the source
Ana Mendieta
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Until January 17, 2026

Back to the Source brings together major works created between 1972 and 1985, a prolific period spanning the years Mendieta spent in Iowa, Mexico, and Cuba. The exhibition includes ten digitally remastered films, new photographic prints, drawings, and ephemeral sculptures.

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Eternal [Kalpa]
Thailand Biennale
Andrew Thomas Huang, Ampannee Satoh, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Aleksandra Domanović, Oliver Laric, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Robert Zhao Renhui, Tsai Ming‑liang, Wilawan Wiangthong, Wu Tsang, Doug Chi‑Yu, Haig Aivazian, Ibrahim Mahama, Megane Cope, Melati Suryodarmo, Minnette de Silva, Noémie Goudal, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Pratchaya Phinthong, Rossella Biscotti and many others

Until April 30, 2026

Untitled “Eternal Kalpa”, the 4th Thailand Biennale takes place in Phuket for six months exploring our relationship to nature, memory and love. This island becomes a real contemporary path. This year, the French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin is highlighted among an international program, dealing with landscapes and local culture.

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La fin du monde
Alfredo Jaar
La Patinoire Royale – Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium

Until December 23, 2025

With a provocative statement, Alfredo Jaar first monograph exhibition at the Patinoire presents a work produced between 2023 and 2024, The End of the World, with the ten most precious worldwide minerals : cobalt, rare earths, copper, tin, nickel, lithium, manganese, coltan, germanium and platinum.

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Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial
Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal
Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK

Until January 31, 2026

Settled as an exhibition and inaugurated by a real trial, the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a tribunal founded by lawyer, academic and writer Radha D’Souza and artist Jonas Staal that prosecutes climate crimes by states and corporations. The British East India Company is put on trial 425 years after its founding and 168 years after its dissolution in 1857, as legal, institutional and ideological frameworks for ecological and social collapse.

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36th Bienal de São Paulo
Firelei Báez, Frank Bowling, Isa Genzken, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Laure Prouvost, María Magdalena Campos‑Pons, Ming Smith, Moffat Takadiwa, Otobong Nkanga, Oscar Murillo, Wolfgang Tillmans, Song Dong, Kader Attia, Nari Ward, Camille Turner, Leiko Ikemura, Shuvinai Ashoona, Sadikou Oukpedjo, Theo Eshetu, Nguyễn  Trinh  Thi, Emeka Ogboh, Precious Okoyomon and many others
São Paulo, Brazil  

Until January 11, 2026 

Entitled Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, the metaphor of the estuary – a place where different water currents meet and create a space for coexistence – guides the curatorial project of the biennale, inspired by Brazilian philosophies, landscapes and mythologies. 

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Seven Times The Color of The Sun (Solar Kin)
Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Saodat Ismailova, Olof Marsja, Ina Otzko, Angelo Plessas, Alf Magne Salo
Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Norway

Until January 04, 2026 

The exhibition is the second chapter of Solar Kin, a long-term curatorial project that follows artistic explorations of post-carbon imaginaries in the context of the global transition from fossil fuels to renewables, particularly solar energy. It approaches the sun as a vital source of life and a central figure in ancestral cosmologies, while tracing its contemporary reframing as a symbol of ecological promise.

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Flowers of fire
Anaïs Tondeur
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK

Until December 20, 2025

This exhibition grows from a pressing question: what might plants teach us about living together in a world on fire? From Chernobyl Herbarium, created with flora from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to Flowers of Fire, formed among the charred and contaminated earth of the Terra dei Fuochi in southern Italy, I follow plants as guides, learning from the ways they make worlds even amid the ruins.

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The Shore
Cristina Iglesias
Hauser & Wirth, London, UK  

Until December 20, 2025

The exhibition features three newly created large-scale bronze works from the artist’s Littoral (Lunar Meteorite) series, part of her ongoing exploration of geological themes.

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Detriti / Frammenti / Schegge / Brecce
Giorgia Accorsi, Marco Andrighetto, Francesco Ardini, Alessia Armeni, Ariele Bacchetti, Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun, Massimo Barbierato, Michele Bazzana, Andrea Bocca, Edoardo Bonacina, Giovanna bonenti, Laura Bouyard, Thomas Braida, Lucia Bricco and many others
Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Casso (Erto e Casso), Italy  

Until December 31, 2025

The exhibition is part of the Dolomiti Days 2025 program, an initiative promoted by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia in collaboration with the Dolomites UNESCO Foundation, among others. It brings together 56 artists around the themes of fragments, breaches, shards, and debris. Geology and decarbonization also remain central themes.

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Desire Path
Agata Ingarden
Kunsthalle Appenzell, Appenzell, Switzerland

Until February 8, 2025

This solo exhibition by Agata Ingarden presents imaginary worlds beyond anthropocentric perspectives, combining organic forms with cultural and industrial references.

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Selection coordinated by Alice Audouin and Juliette Soulez
Editing Nina Laffont

Art of Change 21 Journal
(ex Impact Art News)

December 2025

Cover: Saodat Ismailova, Melted into the sun, 2024