GLAMCULT’S PICK OF EXHIBITIONS YOU NEED TO SEE, URGENTLY

Looking for your art fix? We got you: no matter where you are or how many tabs you have open. This is a pan-European exhibition guide, filled with shows you can—and must—see sooner rather than later. From rituals that make you squirm to portraits that make you think you and your iPhone could have done that (spoiler, you can’t), these exhibitions cover it all. TLDR: If you’re into mud, go check out the Barbican’s latest fashion exhibition; into pain and endurance? Head to Miles Greenberg at Het Stedelijk. If you want to talk about the political and economic state of the world right now – go check out Nan Goldin’s artistic and activist dive into cinema, and go a bit deeper into heritage at Embroidering Palestine at MoMu. Love digging into the complexity of being (or becoming) a woman? Momu’s Girls or Huis Marseille’s Michella Bredahl exhibition are for you. Fashion devotee? Rick Owens is in Paris. Looking for a cute winter getaway? Athens has Juergen Teller’s You Are Invited. Look, feel, think, repeat.

Juergen Teller: you are invited
Onassis Ready, Athens, until 30 Dec 2025
Teller is here to tell life as it is: messy, funny, tender. His portraits, still lifes, and videos from the ‘90s to now capture moments that make you laugh, sigh, or squint in recognition. Intimate but never shy, the exhibition at Onassis Ready features both new work and work from the 1990s onwards.

Flaying of Marsyas – Miles Greenberg
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 13 November 2025
Greenberg turns endurance into a spectacle you can witness. Trained by Marina Abramović, Greenberg is known for performances that treat the body as sculptural material, pushing physical boundaries. For one day, the Stedelijk becomes a stage for his body-as-sculpture performance, reimagining the myth of Marsyas in oil, pigment, and stillness. It’s long, it’s mesmerizing, it’s slightly terrifying. Be there or miss it forever.

Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
The Barbican, London, until 25 Jan 2026
Dirty Looks examines fashion’s fascination with imperfection, from rebellious transgression to radical sustainability. The exhibition considers the “dirtiness” of our own bodies and fashion’s waste streams, highlights colonial and indigenous perspectives, and visualizes paradise regained through folklore, neo-paganism, and queer and sex-positive expression. It reveals how imperfection and regeneration challenge beauty norms, reimagine luxury, and inspire sustainable futures for fashion and our relationship with the earth. Featured designers include: Miguel Adrover, JW Anderson, Balenciaga, Hussein Chalayan, Hodakova, Comme des Garçons, Dilara Findikoglu, Jean Paul Gaultier, Helmut Lang, Alexander McQueen, Rick Owens, Carol Christian Poell, Michaela Stark, TRASHY Clothing, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood, XULY.Bët, Yohji Yamamoto – a.k.a., you don’t wanna miss this one. 

GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between
MoMu, Antwerp, until 1 Feb 2026
This exhibition refuses the depiction of GIRLS to be an innocent, silent subject, it features art that truly centres girlhood, without then trivialising its value. This exhibition unpacks girlhood in all its complex, messy, rebellious glory, from fashion and photography to film and art. Cherubic, clever, confounding, and wonderfully in-between. GIRLS invites visitors to reflect on growing up. With work by: Louise Bourgeois, Veronique Branquinho,Sofia Coppola, Chopova Lowena, Jenny Fax, Martin Margiela, Meret Oppenheim, Simone Rocha, Harley Weir, Juergen Teller, Meryll Rogge, D’heygere, Ashley Williams and many more.

Michella Bredahl: Rooms We Made Safe
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, until 8 Feb 2026
Michella Bredahl’s first museum solo is a tender and disarming excavation of home, memory, and womanhood. Growing up in a turbulent home outside Copenhagen, Michella Bredahl learned early that safety isn’t guaranteed. This exhibition revisits that past through intimate portraits and family archives, tracing how domestic spaces can hold both danger and care. Her fascination with pole dancers—born from a friendship and her own lessons—adds a layer of liberation: bodies claiming strength, grace, and control within their own rooms.

Embroidering Palestine
MoMu, Antwerp, until 7 Jun 2026
Palestinian embroidery, tatreez, carries a living language of identity, resistance, and pride. Embroidering Palestine stitches together past and present, pairing historic garments with contemporary designs by Ayham Hassan, GmbH, Reemami, and others. Through motifs rooted in nature and stories of displacement, the exhibition reveals how threads once used to mark village, status, or love now trace resilience and belonging.

Rick Owens: Temple of Love
Palais Galliera, Paris, until 4 Jan 2026
Step into the church of Rick. Temple of Love at Palais Galliera is a full-body immersion into the designer’s brutalist romance. Over 100 looks trace Owens’ path from DIY drapes in ’90s L.A. to Parisian divinity, surrounded by sketches, relics, and the spectral presence of Michèle Lamy. Monolithic, mystical, and unapologetically weird, the show proves what Owens preaches. A must-see for every fashion devotee.

Feng Li: White Nights in Wonderland
Fotografiska, Berlin, until 16 Nov
Feng Li sees the world like nobody else. Teamed up with his camera and blazing flash, he turns the mundane into the utterly absurd. From Chengdu to Paris, Tokyo to Shanghai, Li captures moments that are uncanny, magical and just downright funny. Around 150 images across two decades show the absurdities, weird beauty, and fleeting theatre that he’s encountered—all framed in Li’s sharp eye and perfect compositions.

Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, until 15 Feb 2026
Nan Goldin turns Milan’s HangarBicocca into a cinematic confession booth. This Will Not End Well is her first big leap into film, and in true Nan Goldin style it’s brutally honest. Across a maze of dark rooms by architect Hala Wardé, her slideshows unfold in a raw, cinematic documentation of love, loss, addiction, rebellion, and activism. The exhibition premiers ‘Gaza’, a short film compiled from journalists’ and civilians’ footage. “I could talk about elegant things,” she said, “but really, this is where my mind has been for the past two years.” 

FUTURESPECTIVE — PhotoVogue x Vogue Ukraine
Saatchi Gallery, London, until 16 Nov 2025
FUTURESPECTIVE brings 34 Ukrainian photographers together under one raw, luminous roof, blurring personal stories with fashion and art. Curated by Vogue Ukraine with PhotoVogue, the show feels less like an exhibition and more like a pulse check on a generation that’s still dreaming out loud. There’s grief here, coming-of-age under air raid sirens, but also youth, beauty, and a lot of fresh talent.