GLOBAL CULTURAL BULLETIN | HAPPENINGS | WORLD OF CABANA 

A monthly guide to the events and exhibitions on Cabana's Radar: a global cultural bulletin and a must-read for anyone looking to keep their finger on the pulse of art and design. Read on to discover our highlights from June, which promises to be one of the busiest and buzziest months of 2025 yet. 

CURATED BY TEAM CABANA | HAPPENINGS | 1 JUNE 2025

EXHIBITIONS

MILAN, ITALY

Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025

Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025, photocredit Delfino Sisto Legnani

Marking two decades of rarefied elegance, Giorgio Armani Privé 2005–2025 at Armani/Silos is a dazzling retrospective of the designer’s 20 year Haute Couture oeuvre and the house's savoir-faire. Curated by Armani himself, the exhibition charts a serene, seductive path through sculptural silhouettes, jewel-like embroideries, and the quiet drama of light, sound, and scent. A study in restraint and reverie, the show invites visitors into a world where craftsmanship is poetry and fashion is timeless.

Through December 28, 2025, Armani/Silos, MILAN, ITALY

MADRID, SPAIN

Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025

Left: Japanese ceramicist Kunimasa Aoki's winning work. Right: Monument by Studio Sumakshi Singh, which received a special mention © Loewe Foundation.

Now in its eighth year, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize carries great prestige and excitement, with the Spanish brand elevating craft on a global scale. On 29 May, in Loewe’s home city of Madrid, Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar presented the 2025 prize to Japanese ceramicist Kunimasa Aoki for his meticulous coiled clay creation (pictured above, left), while actor Meg Ryan presented a special mention to Delhi-based Sumakshi Singh for her column-like tapestry woven from fine copper thread (pictured above, right).

The accolade of winning, or even being shortlisted, has proved transformative for hundreds of craftspeople around the world, and the works of all 2025's 30 finalists can be viewed in Madrid until 30 June.

Through 30 June, 2025, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, MADRID, SPAIN

PETWORTH, UK

Andy Warhol: My True Story’ curated by Jean Wainwright

Andy Warhol at the Factory with 'Flower' p aintings, 1964 © Bob Adelman Estate. Courtesy the Bob Adelman Estate and Westwood Gallery NYC.

Newlands House Gallery’s upcoming exhibition offers a peek behind the smoke-and-mirrors facade of Andy Warhol’s persona to reveal a more intimate and unexpected portrait. Curated by Jean Wainwright, Andy Warhol: My True Story gathers rarely seen drawings, photographs, audio recordings and ephemera—many touched by the artist’s inner circle—to trace the private currents behind the public icon. Set within the quiet elegance of an 18th-century townhouse, the show unfolds like a confidential biography, rich with tenderness, contradiction and creative passion.

June 7 - September 14, 2025, Newlands House Gallery, PETWORTH, UK

CHICAGO, USA

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World

Gustave Caillebotte. House Painters, 1877. Private collection, on deposit to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo courtesy of Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sophie Crépy.

A quietly radical eye among the Impressionists, Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) turned from the whirl of café society to document the world immediately around him—his brothers at leisure, workmen in the street, friends at play, and bathers behind closed doors. This expansive exhibition—which debuted at the Musée d’Orsay as Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men—now arrives to the Art Institute Chicago, gathering over 120  iconic as well as rarely seen works, to reveal the richly personal and authentic world of an artist who painted modern life on his own deeply intimate terms.

June 29 - October 5 2025, Art Institute Chicago, CHICAGO, USA

NEW YORK, USA

Forma & Estetica: Exploration of Italian Design

Forma & Estetica at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York, photography by Matt Harrington, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery (2)

Mid-century icons and contemporary visionaries of Italian design meet at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery's New York Forma & Estetica exhibition—a celebration of beauty and function shaped by urbanisation and tradition. From Gio Ponti’s glass-and-wood desk for Vetrocoke, to Vincenzo De Cotiis’s Murano-glass chandeliers and Giacomo Ravagli’s angular marble forms, the show explores how material, proportion, and imagination define Italy’s design language and enduring global influence. 

Through August 16, 2025, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, NEW YORK, USA

ATHENS, GREECE

A Telegram to my dear Suki

A song to a tearful garden, 2024 (performance documentation). Featuring performer Milo Mosquera, © Oscar Murillo, PH Reinis Lismanis, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

Oscar Murillo’s Athens exhibition at Gagosian is a layered homage to friendship, mark-making, and the fragile act of communication. From intimate Flight drawings shaped mid-air to resonant video works and oceanic canvases of dense blue, Murillo conjures a visual language of memory, and movement.

June 20 - August 30, 2025, Gagosian, ATHENS, GREECE

WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY

The Shakers: A World in the Making

»The Shakers- A World in the Making« © Vitra Design Museum, graphic design- Matt Kay, A Practice For Everyday Life based on photos by Alex Lesage

Devotional chairs, oval boxes and gift drawings form the quiet grammar of a radical utopian American experiment. The Shakers: A World in the Making at the Vitra Design Museum, gathers over 150 artefacts—from hand-woven baskets to celibate dwellings—alongside new commissions by contemporary artists to explore how this 18th-century religious sect shaped a design ethos of sublime utility and spiritual clarity that continues to echo through time.

June 7 - September 28, 2025, Vitra Design Museum, WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY

REDCAR, UK

Arctic Expressions: A British Museum Partnership Exhibition

Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich ( Koyukon Dené and Iñupiaq), Shedding Natchiayaaq from Kigiktaq © The Trustees of the British Museum © Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich. 

In a land shaped by ancestral memory and challenging, ever-changing environments, the Arctic’s Indigenous communities have long woven artistic expression into the fabric of daily life. Bringing together fifteen historic and contemporary works—from ceremonial carvings to Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich’s luminous new sculpture—Arctic Expressions reveals a world where artistry is inseparable from survival, spirituality, and storytelling. Set against the vast, shifting backdrop of Alaska and Canada’s North, these objects speak of resilience, reverence, and an enduring dialogue with the natural world.

June 7 - September 28 2025, Kirkleatham Museum, REDCAR, UK

LONDON, UK

Marcin Rusak, Vas Florum: Resina Botanica

Marcin Rusak ¨Vas Florum' exhibition view © Benjamin Baccarani.

Steeped in the memories of Polish forests, rivers, and mountains, Vas Florum is time suspended and flora immortalised. Artist and designer Marcin Rusak casts blooms in rust- and moss-hued resin, drawing on a family legacy of flower growers and the wild solitude of the Bieszczady Mountains to create sculptural pieces where petals, lichen, and time itself seem to drift beneath the surface.

Through August 30, 2025, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, LONDON, UK

BIRMINGHAM, UK

Thread the Loom

Raisa Kabir Nil. Nargis. Blue. Bring in the tide with your moon... (2019) Documentation of Sea loom weaving performance, Cove Park Courtesy of the artist and Ikon gallery.

Thread the Loom at Ikon Gallery gathers a rich tapestry of contemporary textile practice within the walls of Ikon Gallery—expect handwoven silks, crocheted bodies, and rush baskets echoing riverbanks. At its heart, a working AVL Studio Dobby loom—on loan from Birmingham City University—activated through residencies with the West Midlands weavers and international artist Seulgi Lee. Thread the Loom elevates the loom from tool to metaphor: a vessel for community, memory and resilient craft.

June 25, 2025 - September 7, 2025, Ikon Gallery, BIRMINGHAM, UK

MARGATE, UK

Anna Bohiguian | The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories

Anna Boghiguian, The Square, the Line and the Ruler. Ambiguous Philosophers / Ambiguous Politicians, Vienna, 2019

Turner Contemporary hosts Egyptian Armenian artist Anna Boghiguian’s latest site specific installation—one that unfolds like a giant pop-up book of a maritime fable. Brightly colored cut-outs on Khadi paper, The Sunken Boat immerses visitors in a world where the sea becomes both storyteller and stage, a witness and participant in global histories, and will be joined by earlier works that chart histories of trade, power and planetary change in Boghiguian’s unmistakable paper-theatre style.

June 14, 2025 - October 26, 2025, Turner Contemporary, MARGATE, UK

LONDON, UK 

Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings

Dr Rogers House, Wimbledon House at night © arcaidimages.com

From June until September, Sir John Soane’s Museum will present the UK’s first retrospective survey of visionary architect Richard Rogers’ life and work since his death in 2021. The exhibition will focus on Rogers' eight favorite projects from 1967 to 2020: including the Zip-Up House, the Centre Pompidou and Lloyd’s of London. Designed and curated by Richard’s son, Ab, the show will be accompanied by a specially commissioned installation by Rogers’ former practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, showcasing its impact on global urban spaces.

June 18, 2025 - September 21, 2025, Sir John Soane's Museum, LONDON, UK

BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim in the 1980s in Paris, wearing a paper coat designed in 1967 and a pair of glasses designed in 1976. Photo: Claude Lê - Anh, Paris,  © Hauser & Wirth

Meret Oppenheim remains one of the 20th century’s most elusive and electrifying figures. Hauser & Wirth Basel present a new exhibition spanning four decades of the artist’s oeuvre—shedding fresh light on her boundary defying practice. From dreamlike paintings to surreal objects and radical designs, many rarely before seen works reflect Oppenheim’s lifelong resistance to categorization, her sharp subversions of gender and identity, and the enduring charge of her singular imagination and intellectual wit.

June 4 - July 19, 2025, Hauser & Wirth, BASEL, SWITZERLAND

LONDON, UK

Michael McHugh: Another World at Reindeer Antiques

Michael McHugh, Moorea, 2025 © Courtesy the artist and Reindeer Antiques

This June, the botanical dreamscapes of Australian artist Michael McHugh, find an unexpected home amid the dark woods and classical silhouettes of Reindeer Antiques in Kensington. In Another World, McHugh’s first UK solo show, vibrant, layered canvases reimagine the natural world in bold colour — where archive botanicals and oceanside memories collide. The one-off exhibition was sparked by a chance meeting in a hot air balloon over Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, leading to this pairing of contemporary flora and Georgian form.

June 24, 2025 - August 2, 2025, Reindeer Antiques, LONDON, UK

YORKSHIRE, UK

William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity

William Kentridge in his studio with Laocoön, Johannesburg, 2021. Photo Stella Olivier.

A master of many trades, South African artist William Kentridge brings his imagination to the rolling grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Known for his charcoal drawings, stage productions and stirring meditations on memory and history, Kentridge now turns to sculpture. This major exhibition—his first in the UK to focus on 3D work—unfolds across the landscape and galleries in over 40 pieces of various scale and material, made between 2007 and 2024. 

June 28, 2025 - April 1, 2026, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YORKSHIRE, UK

EVENTS

LONDON, UK

WOW!house 2025

Interiors with Soul, hosted by Cabana at Wow!house 2025.

London's most spectacular 'show house' returns to Design Centre Chelsea Harbour this June where 22 leading designers, working in collaboration with renowned design brands, will each create a unique, full-size room in the 600 sqm space. 

From Alessandra Branca's Casa Branca bedroom and Thurstan's snug with Hector Finch, to Maison Artefact's entrance hall with Cox London, Peter Mikic's dining room with Benjamin Moore and Kelly Hoppen's sitting room with Visual Comfort & Co, this year's house is set to wow. Along with the chance to snoop around the 22-room house, Design Centre will run a series of inspiring talks with leading voices in design, including the designers themselves. On Tuesday 3 June at 11:30am, Cabana will host a talk on designing 'Interiors with Soul' (details pictured above). Book tickets here.

June 3, 2025 - July 3, 2025, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, LONDON, UK

LONDON, UK

London Design Biennale 2025

World Monuments Fund and English Heritage, ‘Coastal Connections’ © Hurst Castle and the London Design Biennale 2025.

Returning to Somerset House for its fifth edition, the London Design Biennale unfolds as an international salon of ideas, where innovation, research and material poetics collide across more than fifty global pavilions. This year’s theme—Surface Reflections—asks how internal experience and external environment shape the way we think, feel and build. Among the many standout contributions is Coastal Connections, an atmospheric pavilion from the World Monuments Fund and English Heritage, spotlighting the fragility and resilience of global coastal heritage through immersive storytelling and design.

June 6-29, 2025, Somerset House, LONDON, UK

BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Art Basel 2025

Art Basel 2024, Public interactions © Art Basel

Art Basel returns to Messeplatz with its signature blend of gravitas and spectacle, assembling 289 top galleries from 42 countries in a rich orchestration of modern and contemporary art. Katharina Grosse transforms the fair's outdoor plaza into a vast chromatic landscape, curated by Natalia Grabowska of Serpentine, London. A newly launched Art Basel Awards Summit will honor 36 trailblazers shaping the future of contemporary art.

June 16-22, 2025, Messe Basel, BASEL, SWITZERLAND

LONDON, UK

London Gallery Weekend 2025

María Berrío 'To Weight the Stars Above Us' 2025 Collage with Japanese papers and watercolor paint on linen © María Berrío Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro for Victoria Miro's 40th anniversary—part of London Gallery Weekend 2025.

London Gallery Weekend is a city-wide celebration of contemporary art, and proudly the largest event of its kind. Bringing together both renowned galleries and emerging spaces, the three-day program unfolds across different corners of the capital, with each day dedicated to a distinct area of London. From curator-led tours to family workshops and special events—free for all—the weekend invites the public to immerse themselves in the rich and ever-evolving landscape of London’s gallery scene. 

June 6-8, 2025, LONDON, UK

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

3daysofdesign

Main visual © 3daysofdesign 2025.

This June, 3daysofdesign is set to unfurl across Copenhagen’s showrooms, galleries, streets, and studios. Now boasting over 400 exhibitors, the festival presents a curated display of furniture, lighting, materials, and visionary ideas from Denmark and beyond. With its blend of heritage and innovation — this year’s theme KEEP IT REAL focusing on individual expression and experience — 3daysofdesign offers not just a glimpse of what’s new, but an immersive portrait of design’s future from the Danish capital.

June 18-20, 2025, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

SUSSEX, UK

Sussex Craft Week

Artist Alison Crowther, Photo: Danil Ripnar, Gallery57 for Sussex Craft Week, 2025.

For nine days this June, Sussex Craft Week takes over the South East, spotlighting a region where the hand-made is not a novelty, but a way of life. From trug makers and willow weavers to ceramicists and surrealist legacies, this inaugural celebration draws a vivid thread between the county’s medieval roots and its modern renaissance. With exhibitions, workshops, and a new awards program, it’s a quietly radical counterpoint to the mass-produced—an ode to place, practice, and enduring craft.

June 14-22, 2025, SUSSEX, UK

NEWBURY, UK

The Attic Sale: Powderham Castle & Brocklesby Park

Powderham photographed by Barney Hindle © Dreweatts 

Dreweatts presents The Attic Sale: Powderham Castle & Brocklesby Park—a rare unveiling of long-hidden treasures from two of England’s great private estates. From a George III Axminster carpet commissioned for Powderham’s Music Room, to Qing-dynasty lacquered sedan chair poles said to have borne the Kangxi Emperor, the sale offers a window into 700 years of country house history. The objects—oftentimes opulent, eccentric, and deeply personal—chart the evolution of taste and the quiet continuity of noble life behind castellated walls.

Live auction on June 3, 2025, Dreweatts Donnington Priory, NEWBURY, UK

Last Chance... 

NEW YORK, USA

A Mysterious Vision: The Uncanny and Lingering Influences of Surrealism in Contemporary Art

A Mysterious Vision, Laura Krifka - Smile, © the Artist and Robilant+Voena.

Contemporary works by sixteen artists—including Arghavan Khosravi, Lars Elling, and Nicola Verlato—are placed in vivid conversation with historic Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Giorgio de Chirico in Robilant+Voena's A Mysterious Vision. Exploring psychic interiors, dreamlike landscapes, and uncanny figuration, the show conjures a century-spanning dialogue between subconscious imagery and material form.

The exhibition is set to travel to Milan this coming autumn.

Through June 17, 2025, Robilant+Voena, NEW YORK, USA