october exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
October brings a brand new set of exhibitions that open conversations throughout artwork, design, and structure, with museums and galleries presenting tasks that look again by means of historical past and ahead into the longer term. Among them are Virgil Abloh: The Codes on the Grand Palais in Paris, and Dream Rooms at M+ in Hong Kong. The aptly-timed present, Ghosts: On the Trail of the Supernatural opens in Switzerland, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art debuts a survey of Frank Lloyd Wright’s furnishings observe. Meanwhile in Kyoto, teamLab unveils its first everlasting Biovortex set up.
Some of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and our devoted occasion information stay on view, giving designboom readers extra time to come across them of their travels. On the entire, the broad record of exhibitions exhibits the vary of themes taken by each designers and galleries the world over.
virgil Abloh: The Codes
The Virgil Abloh Archive, in partnership with Nikepronounces Virgil Abloh: The Codesthe primary main European exhibition devoted to the late designer’s work. Opening on September 30, 2025 — Abloh’s birthday — and operating by means of October ninth on the Grand Palais in Paristhe present attracts from the 20,000-object Virgil Abloh Archive to chart practically twenty years of his multidisciplinary observe.
Curated by Chloe Sultan and Mahfuz Sultan, the exhibition expands on the 2022 version of The Codes, presenting a whole bunch of objects, prototypes, sketches, and pictures alongside items from Abloh’s private collections and library. The set up traces the ‘codes’ that outlined his method to attire, footwear, structure, music, and past, whereas spotlighting the collaborations and collective spirit that formed his influential profession.
identify: The Codes
artist: Virgil Abloh
gallery: Large palace
location: Paris, France
dates: September thirtieth – October ninth, 2025
picture courtesy of Grand Palais
Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design
Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design highlights the architect’s ignored contributions to furnishings, presenting forty chairs alongside drawings and pictures that chart his evolution from Prairie School to Taliesin West. The present emphasizes how Wright used his houses and studios as laboratories, experimenting with type, supplies, and the position of furnishings in twentieth century home life.
In addition to historic items, the present debuts newly fabricated works based mostly on Wright’s unrealized designs, created from archival sources and exhibited for the primary time. Produced in partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin Institute, these reconstructions are framed as explorations of Wright’s course of and philosophy, providing a deeper view of his design legacy.
identify: Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design
designer: Frank Lloyd Wright
gallery: Museum of Wisconsin Art
location: Wisconsin, USA
dates: October 4th, 2025 – January fifth, 2026
picture courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ
teamlab: Biovortex
teamLab will debut Biovortex Kyoto on October seventh, 2025, establishing its first everlasting museum within the metropolis and the collective’s largest venue in Japan. Set simply east of Kyoto Station, the ten,000-square-meter house is designed as a completely immersive atmosphere the place the artwork responds to the presence of every customer.
More than fifty works will unfold throughout a number of flooring, combining new commissions with well-known installations such because the Forest of Resonating Lamps and the cleaning soap bubble-formed Massless Amorphous Sculpture. Each work reacts to motion and sound to generate an expertise that’s by no means the identical twice. The exhibition emphasizes the concept that the paintings exists within the interplay between folks and house, and with shifting mild, colour, and type to form a fluid panorama.
identify: teamLab: Biovortex
artist: teamLab
location: Kyoto, Japan
dates: October seventh, 2025 (everlasting)
picture © teamLab
leandro erlich
Amos Rex in Helsinki presents the primary Finnish exhibition of Argentinian artist Leandro Erlichidentified for immersive works that subvert on a regular basis expertise. Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Erlich has constructed a global popularity for creating large-scale installations that invite audiences to query the reliability of notion and the steadiness of acquainted environments.
The exhibition consists of signature items that remodel abnormal settings into disorienting encounters: a climbable Helsinki facade, a classroom which appears to be deserted to ghosts, and an elevator foyer with no vacation spot. Erlich overturns bodily logic and visible certainty, and levels conditions which might be playful and unsettling.
identify: Leandro Erlich
artist: Leandro Erlich
gallery: Amos Rex
location: Helsinki, Finland
dates: October eighth, 2025 – April sixth, 2026
Leandro Erlich, Bâtiment, 2004, Courtesy of Leandro Erlich Studio 2004, France, Nuit Blanche, Paris
Ronan Bouroullec – Inchiostri
Ronan Bouroullec — Inchiostri presents a brand new collection of Murano glass vases created in collaboration with Maestro Simone Cenedese. Each piece consists of 4 distinct parts — blocks of forged glass, a blown glass tube, and a shallow dish — organized in shifting combos of measurement, thickness, peak, and colour. From a near-infinite vary of potentialities, Bouroullec has chosen twenty compositions that proceed his long-standing curiosity in modularity, steadiness, and the reversibility of assemblage.
The works sit between sculpture and vessel, their layered transparencies and unpolished surfaces emphasizing colour, mild, and depth. With Inchiostri, Bouroullec extends a career-long exploration of type and performance, highlighting how easy parts could be joined, reconfigured, and reimagined to probe questions of utility, fragility, and transformation.
identify: Ronan Bouroullec — Inchiostri
artist: Ronan Bouroullec
gallery: Giorgio Mastin Fine Art Gallery
location: Venice, Italy
dates: September thirteenth – October thirtieth, 2025
Ronan bouroulullec x Giorgio mastinu, Image © GROSTINO
Robert Rauschenberg Guggenheim
This exhibition marks the centenary of Robert Rauschenberg with a centered presentation of key works from the Guggenheim’s assortment, alongside vital loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Together, they hint the artist’s experimental method to supplies and media, underscoring his position as a pivotal determine in shaping the trajectory of latest artwork. The choice situates Rauschenberg’s work inside a broader international tribute, celebrating a observe outlined by threat, invention, and cross-disciplinary trade.
At the middle of the exhibition is Barge (1962–63), a 32-foot-long silkscreen portray executed largely in a single day. The largest in a collection of roughly 80 works created between 1962 and 1964, Barge exemplifies Rauschenberg’s embrace of scale, immediacy, and image-based experimentation. The work returns to New York for the primary time in practically twenty-five years.
identify: Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped
artist: Robert Rauschenberg
gallery: Guggenheim New York
location: New York, USA
dates: October tenth, 2025 – May third, 2026
Robert Rauschenberg, Yellow Body (1968) © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY/ARS, New York
Diagrams by AMO/OMA
Diagrams: An Exhibition by I like/oma on the Prada Foundation in Venice brings collectively greater than 300 works, starting from medieval manuscripts to up to date digital media. Installed throughout the bottom and first flooring of the Palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina, the exhibition assembles paperwork, publications, pictures, and movies that hint the diagram as each a historic device and a up to date mode of communication.
Organized thematically, the show situates diagrams inside urgent international contexts whereas additionally highlighting their lengthy and different lineage. By presenting materials that spans centuries and cultures, the present demonstrates the capability of the diagram to bridge disciplines and eras, displaying how visible techniques proceed to form design and collective understanding.
identify: Diagrams: An Exhibition by AMO/OMA
architect: I like/oma
gallery: Prada Foundation
location: Venice, Italy
dates: till November twenty fourth, 2025