WHERE YOU SHOULD GO: YOUR DAILY GUIDE
A selection of worldwide events curated by COEVAL.
The 70th International Festival of Contemporary Music turns sound into collective catharsis. From 10 to 24 October, A Child of Sound, directed by Caterina Barbieri, asks Venice to listen the way a child listens.
Imagine Magazine opens issue 03 Unfinished in Zurich on October 15.
Opera Series returns with Cheval and La Bek at Very Small Club in Budapest on October 15, from 6PM.
Rehearsal No.4 — Vexations takes place at Galerie Carole Lambert in Paris on October 15 at 8PM, as part of the exhibition PORNOGRAPHIE curated by Raphaël Giannesini.
Ardere presents the fourth edition of Contaminazioni at Detune in Milan on October 15.
On October 16, Museion in Bolzano marks the opening of RAMM:ELL:ZEE TIME:LINE with a night that takes over the institutional space.
Ambra Castagnetti Kos brings Notre-Dame de Paris to Stück in London on October 16.
Guillaume Bollier opens Fortuites Symétries [#3] at Espace Parallèle in Paris on October 16, 6–9PM.
Inner_Spaces brings Aho Ssan and Tim Exile to Auditorium San Fedele in Milan on October 19 at 8:30PM.
Delvis (Un)Limited brings Instructions for Collectible Design to Espace Parallèle in Paris during Art Week, October 20–23.
AMAA opens the Out of Sight lecture series at University of Antwerp on October 20 at 7PM.
Table Nexus comes to Paris on October 20 and 21 for two dinners under the dome of Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, as part of Offscreen Paris 2026.
Miu Miu presents Geste de Consolation at Palais d'Iéna in Paris, October 21–25, as part of Art Basel Paris' Public Program.
For sixteen years Semibreve has built its reputation on curation rather than size. The Portuguese festival comes back to Braga from 22 to 25 October 2026 with world premieres, joint commissions and a programme where sound and image work as one material.
Cura Magazine launches issue 47 Artist+Artist in Paris on October 22 during Art Week.
C2C Festival marks 25 years in Turin from October 29 to November 1.
FASHIONCLASH Festival returns to Maastricht from 13 to 15 November 2026 for its 18th edition. For three days, more than 100 young designers, artists and performers from over 25 countries take over the city, from the Sphinxkwartier to the Peutzhal at ENCI.
Slam Jam and Università IUAV di Venezia host an open lecture with Armature Globale on October 14 at Auditorium Cotonficio in Venice.
Gatto Verde at Contatto Club in Milan on October 9. Doors at 11:30PM, Corso Sempione 76.
Cane Studio takes over Giardino Nascosto in Milan on October 9, 5–10PM.
Uwilldie and Section80 Bar host a pop-up at Via Farini 44 in Milan on October 8 from 7PM. Sample sale, graveyard prices.
Offprint Paris returns October 22–25 at Césure in the 5th arrondissement.
DJ Barracuda's set for Pure at Bonfim in Genoa is now up on NTS. Recorded live September 27 at 1AM.
Lars Müller Publishers is at the Frankfurt Book Fair October 7–11.
Cahier Central launches GABBER IS THE SPORT. in Paris on Tuesday 6 October, a book named after the athletic streak of Dutch hardcore.
Janine Grosche presents Omen at PATH in Paris, October 2–7. Translucent latex skins, wearable objects, and sculptural forms.
Alberto Anhaus grows a field of soil and seedlings under suspended speakers at Vesper Milano Atelier. Campo di Soglia stays open until Sunday 4 October and closes with a live performance.
Mag to Mag hosts r0002, the second release exhibition, on October 3 and 4 in Milan.
ACUD Galerie opens Orbital Decay, the third act of Tenants of Tender Armour, the exhibition series curated by Gabriela Matuszewska through 2026. Six artists start from the image of a body falling back to earth and use it to ask what it means to stay unreadable to the systems that sort us. On opening night, Kuba Stępień of Bastard Bath plays a solo set.
Phonetics Art Publishing Festival returns for its second edition in Turin, October 30 to November 1.
Inner_Spaces presents Syntax Ensemble and Ben Frost on September 28 at Auditorium San Fedele in Milan.
Outpump launches issue seven at Slam Jam in Milan on September 28.
SELF, curated by Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Lea Reich, opens at Galerie Kramer in Paris on September 28.
Alviero Martini opens its Milan archive for two days only. Fantazia and U.I. present a rare look at pieces that trace the house's history, staged in the windows of via Leone Pancaldo.
Forever Was My Idea takes over Due000 Contemporary Archive in Milan on September 27, 3–8PM.
Serving the People and .MgC host Middle Grounds at Fabbrica Bini in Milan on September 26.
A two-day symposium accompanying CANICULA takes place October 26 and 27 at Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
Slam Jam and Salomon launch the XT-EVO on September 25 in Milan. Music by Alakaij.
Conflux Festival returns to Rotterdam for its fifth edition with a programme centred on ‘Tactics for Cultural Resistance’.
Section80 Bar and Frankenstein celebrate their latest issue together on September 23 in Milan.
Durazzi Milano opens The Atrium Show on September 22 at Via Rosolino Pilo 14 in Milan.
Inner_Spaces opens its autumn season on September 14 at Auditorium San Fedele in Milan.
On September 12, Nike SNKRS takes over Via Sammartini 72 with Dolce XOXO, a day and night dedicated to the Air Max Dolce and to a generation raised online, with eleven artists in the room from 3 to 3am.
From 10 to 20 September, Transart26 takes over Bolzano and the valleys around it. Concerts, films, wordless theatre and one bell hanging from a balloon, staged where industry, architecture and mountain tradition already live.
Conforma joins Factory, the designers' exhibition of Paris Design Week, from September 10 to 14 at Espace Commines. The magazine occupies the mezzanine with its current volume, open daily 10am to 7pm. One year of editorial work, printed once, placed among the practices it writes about. 17 Rue Commines, 75003 Paris.
