July invites us to travel this summer on a cultural journey full of color and history. This month, the exhibitions stand out for their diversity: from the natural splendor and delicacy of painting to the legends that have left a legacy through the centuries.
Every highlights of July are an opportunity to disconnect and rediscover new stories and unique perspectives that enrich and awaken curiosity.
The life that sprouts between canvases
Florescencia, the new exhibition by Marria Pratts, ends its run at the end of July at Mayoral Gallery, and brings together a group of works created during the artist’s two-month stay in a manor house in Son Negre (Mallorca), coinciding with the birth of her son. In that rural environment, the artist made a series of notebooks with notes and drawings that became the origin of the work. The title, Florescencia, refers to the biological process of plant maturation, but also to an emotional, intimate and vital transformation.
The interior of the exhibition installation. Editorial credit: Roberto Ruiz.
The exhibition combines large format paintings with smaller drawings. The canvases, worked with physical and gestural intensity, unfold in colors that reflect the sunrise and sunset, blues, orangey reds, grays and yellows, and are inhabited by symbolic figures, animals and mythological presences. Among them is the Heron Cow, a hybrid being inspired by a real scene observed in the Mallorcan countryside. In addition, the exhibition includes projections of family films shot by her mother in the 1980s, recovered by the artist and intertwined with her own visual imaginary. This is a dialogue between memory, painting and motherhood.
When? Until July 19, 2025.
Where? Consell de Cent, 286, Barcelona.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10.30h to 14.00h and from 15.30h to 19.30h. Saturday from 11.00h to 14.00h.
Tickets: Free admission.
Modern art full of colors
The Grimaldi Forum Monaco is filled with color with Colours!, an exhibition that brings together more than 100 works from the Centre Pompidou to explore the use of color in modern art. Paintings by great artists such as Basquiat, Picasso, Delaunay or Kandinsky dialogue with design pieces, sculptures and multisensory creations that expand the aesthetic experience.
From left to right: Made in Japan – La Gran Odalisca”, 1964, by Martial Raysse. Autumn Forest, 1950, by Natalia Goncharova. Crédito editorial: Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn.
Throughout the exhibition, seven monochromatic rooms, blue, red, pink, white, green, yellow and black, invite us to a total sensory immersion. Fragrances, sounds and iconic furniture are intermingled to complete this journey through the history of color, where the work of Yves Klein coexists with Warhol, Bacon, Lempicka or Magritte in an unforgettable and unique chromatic celebration.
When? Until August 31, 2025.
Where? 10 Avenue Princesse Grace, Monaco.
Opening hours: Friday to Wednesday from 10.00h to 20.00h. Thursday from 10.00h to 22.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
The Shakers legacy in contemporary art
At the heart of the Vitra Design Museum, the past meets the present in The Shakers: A World in the Making, an exhibition that reveals how the austere aesthetic of an 18th century religious community continues to revolutionize design today. Sober furniture, tools and everyday objects from the Shakers align with creations by seven contemporary artists in a temporary dialogue orchestrated by the duo Formafantasma.
Interior of the installation showing Seed box, Mount Lebanon, 1880. Editorial credit: Vitra Design Museum.
The exhibition traces the spiritual and social roots of the Shaker legacy, where order, work and devotion were transformed into pure and functional forms. The tour opens with the communal, celibate and gender-segregated life that shaped its architecture and spirituality. It then explores the almost ritualistic precision of the Shaker style, its openness to technology and commerce, and ends with its legacy that intermingles with the contemporary. Brooms become emblems of innovation, radios as portals to the external, dances as prayer in movement. A visit where design and mysticism are connected.
When? Until September 28, 2025.
Where? Charles-Eames-Str. 2, Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10.00h to 18.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
Miguel Milá: useful elegance in design
The exhibition Miguel Milá. Designer (pre)industrial offers an intimate journey through the work of one of the great references of Spanish design. DHub Barcelona takes us on a journey from Miguel’s childhood to his evolution as a designer. The exhibition, curated by Gonzalo Miró and Claudia Oliva, features more than 200 pieces, prototypes, plans and works that narrate from the everyday, functional elegance and ingenuity.
Miguel Milá’s iconic lamps. Editorial credit: Magazine Horse.
Each space of the tour is a window to his philosophy: the house as a workshop, the street as a space of collective care or the object as a silent partner. Through the exhibition we discover a designer who observed and listened without being seen, but whose pieces were, and still are, present everywhere. Objects that speak of a useful beauty and a design that never goes out of fashion.
When? Until September 28, 2025.
Where? Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00h to 20.00h
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
The journey through the eyes of Hiroshige
The exhibition dedicated to Utagawa Hiroshige arrives at the British Museum and offers a visual journey through the Japan of the Edo period, reflecting Japanese natural beauty and urban life with poetic sensibility. This is the artist’s first exhibition in London in over 25 years, featuring prints, drawings and illustrated books that reflect the everyday life and landscapes that marked his time.
The color woodcut, Seba, from The 69 Stations of the Kiso Road. Editorial credit: British Museum.
Hiroshige, born into a samurai family, broke through social barriers to depict popular customs and create works accessible to all, from refined landscapes to portable fans. The exhibition also explores his global impact, showing how his style influenced artists such as Van Gogh and continues to inspire contemporary artists. A perfect show to delve a little deeper into Japanese cultural charm.
When? Until September 7, 2025.
Where? Great Russell St., London, United Kingdom.
Opening hours: Saturday to Thursday from 10.00h to 17.00h. Friday from 10.00h to 20.30h.
Tickets: Free admission.
Minimalism with baroque soul at Palacio Quintanar
This summer at the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia, history is molded to the silence of color in Dejar que pase, the exhibition by Rodriguez Silva that moves between the monumental and the intimate. With a large site-specific installation and pieces from previous series, the Sevillian artist dialogues between the sobriety of minimalism and baroque dramatism.
The artist Rodríguez Silva and one of his works, Simultánea Ultramar. Editorial credit: Cano Estudio.
Textures and materials, such as aluminum, act as guides that force the body to move and feel. The artist redefines space with minimal gestures and meditated colors, bringing the pictorial tradition of the 17th century into a new contemporary era. Series such as Nuevas Distancias and Simultánea reveal Rodríguez Silva’s obsession with tone and just the right light, which invites us to stop and observe in order to let it all happen.
When? Until October 5, 2025.
Where? Calle San Agustín, s/n, Segovia, Spain.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 11.00h to 14.00h. Sunday from 11.00h to 15.00h.
Tickets: Free admission.
The legacy of the last pharaoh of Egypt
The exhibition The Mystery of Cleopatra at the Institut du Monde Arabe invites us to discover the complex figure of the last queen of Egypt. Through archaeological pieces, coins and religious objects, the exhibition reveals the political and cultural context of her time, highlighting her role as an intelligent and reformist ruler in an Egypt under Roman rule.
Peacock headdress, scenic jewel created for Sarah Bernhardt in Cleopatra by Victorien Sardou, 1890, Editorial credit: Alberto Ricci.
In addition, the exhibition examines the myths and conflicting versions surrounding Cleopatra, from the Western image of a fatal seductress to the Arab vision that highlights her wisdom and leadership. Contemporary works and theatrical and cinematic representations enrich the tour, offering new perspectives on her historical and symbolic legacy.
When? From June 11, 2025 to January 11, 2026.
Where? 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, Paris, France.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 h to 18.00h. Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10.00h to 19.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
