The must-see exhibitions in Florence

All the must-see events

All the must-see art events in Florence.

Rotkho a Firenze (until August 23)

The major exhibition will be held at Palazzo Strozzi until August 23, 2026, the major exhibition dedicated to Rothko curated by his son Christopher Rothko and Elena Geuna. The exhibition features over 70 works, including iconic and monumental canvases, exploring the artist's connection to the Florentine Renaissance, including satellite venues at the Museum of San Marco and the Laurentian Library.

Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13, 1949

Baselitz. AVANTI! (until September 13)

The Museo Novecento in Florence presents Baselitz. AVANTI!, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the leading figures in contemporary art, organized in collaboration with the artist's studio.
For the first time in Italy, this wide-ranging exhibition focuses on a fundamental and often less explored aspect of Georg Baselitz's practice: engraving.
Spread over the museum's three floors, the exhibition brings together around 170 works, including prints, paintings, and sculptures, reflecting the complexity and radical nature of a career spanning over sixty years. The selected works illustrate the variety of themes addressed by the artist and reaffirm his idea of art as a process, transformation, and subversive gesture, far removed from any form of reassuring harmony.

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Please Take This Seriously at Gallery Hotel Art (until fall 2026)

Please Take This Seriously is the new exhibition by Roman artist Daniele Sigalot, hosted at the Gallery Hotel Art in Florence and open to the public free of charge through fall 2026. Curated by Valentina Ciarallo, the exhibition invites the public to reflect on the fine line between seriousness and irony, a central theme in the artist’s work. Through site-specific pieces, iconic works, and new installations, Sigalot transforms everyday objects into monumental and surprising presences. Among the works on display are the famous lacquered aluminum Post-it notes, the interactive piece The Ping Pong Paradox, and a series of stainless steel paper airplanes with reflective surfaces. The exhibition thus offers a reflection on the meaning of contemporary art, its value, and the mechanisms that govern the cultural system, engaging the viewer in an open dialogue rich in paradoxes.

Mostra Please Take This Seriously al Gallery Art Hotel

Ottone Rosai. Poeta innanzitutto (until October 4)

The exhibition begins with a comparison between the paintings from the Rosai Bequest and the artist's works from the Alberto Della Ragione Collection, brought together for the first time in a single exhibition. Divided into two distinct areas, the exhibition allows visitors to explore the figures and places dear to Ottone Rosai (Florence, 1895 – Ivrea, 1957), providing a complex picture of the painter and his relationship with his city and the intellectuals of his time. The exhibition is completed by a selection of documents from the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux, Archivio Contemporaneo Alessandro Bonsanti. The exhibition also constitutes an important link between the Florentine civic collections and the figure of Georg Baselitz, who will soon be the subject of a major exhibition at the Museo Novecento. Baselitz is in fact a great admirer of Ottone Rosai, whose works he discovered during his first stay in Florence in 1965.

Ottone Rosai Ph Leonardo Morfini

Firenze Déco. Atmosfere degli anni Venti a Palazzo Medici Riccardi (fino al 25 agosto)

In the 1920s, Florence was one of the most dynamic centers of Italian artistic culture, distinguishing itself as a creative hub in the fields of decorative arts, fashion, and design, in dialogue with major international capitals. This period of great ferment is the focus of the exhibition Firenze Déco. Atmospheres of the 1920s, on view through August 25, 2026, at Palazzo Medici Riccardi. The exhibition explores the cultural vibrancy of the decade through a rich selection of works—including ceramics, furnishings, jewelry, textiles, clothing, and posters—that bear witness to the convergence of tradition and innovation. The exhibition highlights key figures and master craftsmen, from Gio Ponti to Galileo Chini, from Thayaht to Ferragamo and Gucci, underscoring Florence’s role on the national and international scene and the decisive contribution of those years to the city’s modern identity.

Firenze Déco. Atmosfere degli anni Venti (ph. Nicola Neri)

Visioni in Blu and Profondo Blu at Palazzo Medici Riccardi and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno

Florence is dedicating two solo exhibitions to the young Chinese painter Juan Lin, one of the emerging voices in international contemporary painting. The exhibition project is spread across two venues: Visions in Blue at Palazzo Medici Riccardi (July 31–August 13) and Deep Blue at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (August 18–30, 2026). The 54 works on display revolve around blue, the color that symbolizes the artist’s aesthetic, which becomes a space for memory, contemplation, and emotion. Through suspended landscapes and dreamlike atmospheres, Juan Lin blends Eastern and Western artistic traditions, transforming cities, mountains, and horizons into inner evocations. Curated by Claudio Rocca, the dual exhibition invites the public to embark on an immersive and meditative experience, where the landscape does not represent reality, but rather the memory it leaves within us.

Juan Lin

Inferno - Esperienza Immersiva nella Divina Commedia di Dante at Cattedrale dell'Immagine (until November 15)

Through November 15, 2026, the Cattedrale dell'Immagine transforms into a true sensory portal into Dante’s Inferno. The new immersive exhibition INFERNO – An Immersive Experience in the Divine Comedy takes the public to the heart of Dante Alighieri’s poetic universe through an experience that combines digital art, virtual reality, and state-of-the-art multimedia installations. The journey unfolds as an emotional descent through the circles of Hell, amid monumental sets and immersive environments that give visual form to the verses of the Comedy. From the Dark Forest to the City of Dite, all the way to the ninth circle, visitors are accompanied by Dante and Virgil in an experience that blends storytelling, light, and sound, bringing to life the full imaginative power of the poem. Alongside the main installation, a VR experience stands out in the historic Coro area, conceived as a shared journey through 13th-century Florence and Dante’s imagination. A project that does not merely recount Dante, but reinterprets him as a living, contemporary, and deeply immersive experience.

Inferno, Cattedrale dell'Immagine

An American in Florence at Hotel Savoy (until August 9)

An American in Florence is a photography exhibition by Kristin Krebs Dick at the Hotel Savoy in Florence. American by birth and Florentine by choice, the artist uses images to convey her personal perspective on the city and on Italy, a vision that has evolved since 2016, the year she moved to Florence. The project, also inspired by the Renaissance thought of Leon Battista Alberti, finds expression both in the exhibition and in the book Through Alberti’s Window, transforming photography into an intimate and contemporary narrative of the relationship between the observer and the city. The works and the book are available for purchase, and the proceeds will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, an organization that supports young people through educational and creative programs. The exhibition is part of the Hotel Savoy’s ongoing commitment to promoting artistic and cultural initiatives in dialogue with the Florentine creative scene.

An American in Florence all'Hotel Savoy

Fall Exhibitions

Broken. The Power of the Fragment (September 25, 2026 – January 24, 2027)

The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation presents Broken. The Power of the Fragment, a major exhibition exploring the theme of the fragment from archaeology to contemporary art, celebrating the evocative power and fascination it has held for humanity from antiquity to the present day. Curated by C. D. Dickerson and Andrew Sears and organized in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it will be presented in the spring of 2027, the exhibition brings together over ninety works spanning different centuries and cultural contexts, highlighting both the formal power of the fragment and the complex historical narratives they embody. The selection spans the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesoamerica, Etruria, and Greece, extending to premodern and early modern cultures, from Peru to Cambodia. Alongside masterpieces from the past, the exhibition also features works by modern and contemporary artists who have taken the fragment as a starting point for new expressive possibilities, including Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois, Huma Bhabha, Francesco Vezzoli, and Danh Vo. The exhibition explores the reasons and circumstances that led to the breaking or fragmentation of sculptures, from ancient and modern iconoclasm to wars, from vandalism to natural disasters and forces of nature. The exhibition takes visitors through pivotal moments in history, from ancient shipwrecks to the Protestant Reformation, from World War II to the flood that struck Florence in 1966, offering a broad reflection on the political significance these works have acquired through their breakage or fragmentation. The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.