June is full of energy and creativity, inviting us to go out, discover and immerse ourselves in the art that transforms spaces and emotions.
It is the perfect season to be surprised by the new views and experiment with shapes, colors and textures that arouse curiosity. From the majestic monumental abstractions to the art and natural history that Ibiza exudes. The best time to let yourself be captivated by the June’s art and seven art highlights.
Portraits of the Bowie legend
FotoNostrum presents this June a must-see exhibition for music and photography lovers: Bowie through the lens of Sukita. After the exhibition dedicated to Lee Miller, more than 70 images cover four decades of collaboration between David Bowie and Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita, from the glam explosion of the 70s to his last years of introspection. The exhibition reflects Bowie’s artistic and personal evolution, marked by his ever-changing reinventions and stage identity.
Down of Hope 1973 © Photo by Sukita
The exhibition includes intimate portraits, previously unpublished images taken in Japan and concert scenes that show Bowie’s intensity on stage. Among them is the legendary photograph that became the cover of the album Heroes in 1977, symbol of an era. In addition to Bowie, Sukita portrayed artists such as Iggy Pop or Y.M.O., consolidating his career in 20th century music photography. This is the first time that a major retrospective of the Asian photographer is presented in Barcelona, a unique opportunity to explore the universe of the great musician in the gallery.
When? From May 23 to September 15, 2025.
Where? Calle Princesa, 19, Barcelona.
Opening hours: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11.00h to 21.00h. Thursday and Sunday from 11.00h to 19.00h. Monday and Tuesday closed.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
Basel: the heart of art
Basel becomes the art capital of the world this June with two fairs that offer different but complementary perspectives. Art Basel, opens the fair with 289 renowned galleries, monumental installations and projects curated by key voices of contemporary art. From Unlimited to Parcours, each section promises and transforms the city each year into a map of visual experiences. Meanwhile, just 200 meters away, VOLTA celebrates its 20th anniversary with a boutique spirit and a keen eye for emerging art. Two fairs and two worlds that dialogue between the institutional and the independent.
Wounds also bloom, Alexander Grahovsky. Editorial credit: The Platform.
This year VOLTA highlights the participation of La Plataforma, the only Barcelona gallery selected, which joins three other Spanish representatives. Founded in Poblenou and a reference in creative production, its presence in Basel is a milestone for Catalan contemporary art. With more than 70 galleries from 29 countries, VOLTA presents the MENA Pavilion and a program that deals with equity, geopolitics and the new dynamics of the art market. For locals, there is also free admission one day with a love letter to the city.
When? Art Basel and Volta: June 19-22, 2025.
Where? Art Basel: Messe Basel, Messeplatz, 10, Basel, Switzerland. Art Basel: Messe Basel, Messeplatz, 10, Basel, Switzerland. Volta: Hall 4.U, Messeplatz 21, Basel, Switzerland.
Opening hours: Art Basel: Thursday to Sunday from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm. Volta: Wednesday from 10.00h to 20.00h. Thursday from 11.00h to 20.00h. Friday from 11.00h to 21.00h. Saturday from 11.00h to 19.00h. Sunday from 11.00h to 18.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your Art Basel ticket here. From Volta here
The art that inspired Proust
The exhibition Proust and the Arts at the Thyssen Museum immerses us in the universe of the French writer through a careful selection of works that dialogue with his life and literature. Starting with the character of Elstir, the fictitious painter of In Search of Lost Time, a visual constellation that connects Proust with impressionism, Parisian modernity and the history of art is explored. Manet, Monet, Renoir, Whistler or Fisher appear as models for Elstir and as references for the author himself, who frequented private collections. In addition, a lesser-known facet is also recovered: his link with Spain through Mariano Fortuny and Raimundo de Madrazo, reflected in the inclusion of canvases and dresses.
The Dogana and San Gioegio Maggiore, Joseph M. W. Turner. Editorial credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The exhibition places Proust in the context of the Third French Republic, in a city crossed by electricity, Haussmann’s boulevards and modern art. From his first publications, such as The Pleasures and the Days, to his magnum opus in seven volumes, the exhibition reflects the environments that inspired his literature: the Champs Elysées, the Bois de Boulogne or the beaches of northern France, portrayed by artists such as Pissarro, Boudin or Dufy. There is also space dedicated to his theatrical passion, with pieces such as the painting of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin.
When? From March 4 to June 8, 2025.
Where? P.º del Prado, 8, Madrid.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 10.00 h to 19.00h. Saturday from 10.00h to 23.00h. Monday closed.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
The essential art of Hiroshi Kitamura
Numa Foundation hosts in Ciutadella the second exhibition since its opening, with a proposal that invites to observe in a leisurely manner. The protagonist is the Japanese artist Hiroshi Kitamura, who establishes a subtle and profound dialogue between nature, body and time. The 32 pieces that make up the exhibition, 25 large-format sculptures and seven monumental inks, highlight concepts such as transformation, impermanence or memory, through materials such as oak, cypress or olive wood and traditional techniques such as hyougu. Materials, far from being violently molded, is accompanied by the artist in a process where listening and respecting are creative acts.
Interior of the exhibition hall. Editorial credit: Fundación Numa.
The exhibition meditates on the cycles of life, where everything decomposes to be reborn in another form. The wood reveals its knots, its history, its latent energy; the ink traces voids that vibrate with ancient silences. Kitamura cooperates, guides, gives rise to the unexpected, and reminds us that we too are part of the same flow that crosses trees, mountains and seas. The exhibition seeks to answer essential questions: how do we inhabit the world?, what place does the living occupy in our perception? Thus, Kitamura’s exhibition calls us to stop, look and remember that we are made of the same pulse that runs through the earth.
When? From May 7, 2025.
Where? Plaça Quintana de Mar, Ciutadella de Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 10.30h and from 17.00h to 21.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
Archaeology of living painting
MUSAC presents Estación total, an immersion in the monumental work of Secundino Hernández, which covers a decade of pictorial exploration in dialogue with the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. From the polyptych Four Seasons. Between Summer and Fall (2017), never before exhibited in Spain, the show unfolds a set of pieces that interrogate the materiality of painting. Cut canvases, eroded surfaces, visible seams that reveal the process as an essential gesture for Hernández to make hidden layers and forgotten textures emerge.
Untitled, 2024, Secundino Hernández. Editorial credit: Secundino Hernández studio. VEGAP, León, 2025.
The painting transforms the support itself when the canvas becomes a field of action, a space where pigments tighten, accumulate or disappear. The works reflect an organic rhythm marked by repetitive patterns that both erode and reveal themselves. Along with his well-known “subtractions”, the exhibition includes aluminum bas-reliefs and other lesser-known series, showing the breadth of his language.
When? From June 14 to October 19, 2025.
Where? Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, León, Spain.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 h to 14:00 h and from 17:00h to 20:00h. Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 11.00h to 15.00h and from 17.00h to 21.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
Can Art Ibiza celebrates the connection of the history of its island
In its fourth edition, CAN ART Ibiza turns the island into a neuralgic point of contemporary art with more than 30 galleries and 110 artists. This year, the OFF Program, which starts on May 30, expands to include artists based in the Balearic Islands, with exhibitions in emblematic spaces in Ibiza and Formentera. The fair consolidates its commitment to local art through collaborations with institutions like the MACE or the Nave Salinas Foundation. As for the CAN Local program, it also strengthens the ties between the insular and international scenes. Abstraction, dialogue with the territory and emotional memory are present in many of the proposals.
Adrián Martínez presents A Wander Walk. The main pieces are made with natural techniques and materials. Editorial credit: CAN ART Ibiza.
Some of the highlights are Heavy Little Things, by Samuel Almansa, iron sculptures that evoke playful figures but arrested by their physical and symbolic weight. The tension between the playful and the structural becomes a metaphor for memory and childhood. He exhibits at Blanco Hotel Formentera, where he also presents works created with airbrush inspired by the duality of his hometown, El Arenal. Also noteworthy is Adrián Martínez, who exhibits in Sa Punta des Molí textile works dyed with local plants, where he draws scenes between art and comics.
When? Can Art from June 25th to 29th.
Where? Eivissa to Sant Antoni road, Ibiza, Spain.
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday from 17.00h to 21.00h. Sunday from 12.00h to 18.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
The golden thread that has linked textile art for centuries
The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac presents Au fil de l’or, a fascinating exhibition that traces the millennial history of gold in the textile arts. Beyond jewelry, gold is shown in fabrics, tunics and ornaments ranging from antiquity to contemporary haute couture. The exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces that reveal techniques from civilizations such as Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Chinese and Muslim, where gold is intertwined with silk and linen fibers. Among them are kimonos from the Edo period, silks from Southeast Asia and funerary textiles from different cultures.
The exhibition of dresses and garments on display. Editorial credit: Léo Delafontaine.
The exhibition also includes a stunning selection of fourteen haute couture dresses by Chinese designer Guo Pei, fusing tradition and modernity. Au fil de l’or highlights the role of gold as a symbol of power, identity and refinement, as well as its technical function in textile art over the centuries.
When? From February 11 to July 6, 2025.
Where? 37 Quai Jacques Chirac, Paris, France.
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10.30h to 19.00h. Thursdays from 10.30h to 22.00h. Monday closed.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
