Exhibitions in Europe
Brussels What's on
Theo van Doesburg: A New Expression of Life, Art and Technology
26 Feb-29 May. The Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) is known for his avant-garde paintings, writings, poetry and architecture but is best remembered as the founder and leader of De Stijl....
Copenhagen What's on
21 April-18 Sept. Abdoulaye Konaté is one of the most important figures in African contemporary art and the Malian artist's work has been exhibited in major art institutions around the world. Born in...
Berlin What's on
Architectural Master Drawings from the Albertina
12 March-10 July. Exhibition presenting architectural drawings from the architecture and graphic collections of the Albertina in Vienna.
The Tchoban Foundation-Berlin Museum for Architectural Draw...
Copenhagen What's on
Illumination: New contemporary art at Louisiana
1 March-11 Sept. Almost 100 international contemporary works acquired by the Louisiana over the past three years, including painting, photography, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition is exc...
Barcelona What's on
Documents of Action. Works from the Denney and Cordier Collections (1947-1965)
28 Jan-22 May. Exhibition of some 60 European and Japanese postwar works from two separate collections: the Antony Denney Collection and the Daniel Cordier Collection.
The exhibition unites the Am...
Brussels What's on
Andres Serrano: Uncensored photographs
18 March-21 Aug. The contemporary American artist Andres Serrano is known as much for the "shock value" of his disturbing photographs, as his desire to push the boundaries of censorship.
The centr...
Vienna What's on
Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant-Gardes
26 Feb-26 June. The Albertina examines Russia's contribution to the avant-garde period, between 1910 and 1920, when modernism advanced at a rapid pace and embraced numerous styles.
The exhibition...
Paris What's on
16 Dec-18 April. The Centre Pompidou presents France's first retrospective in over 30 years dedicated to the leading German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer.
One of Germany's first post-war artis...
Brussels What's on
12 Feb-17 April. The Belgian comic author Ben Gijesmans began working in the rooms of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium to gain inspiration for his new stories.
As time went by the museum...
Oxford What's on
25 Feb-19 Feb 2017. Described as a selection of the "most magnificent items" of the Bodleian Libraries, this exhibition features treasures including J. R. R. Tolkien's illustrations from The Hobbit, M...
Amsterdam What's on
20 Feb-22 May. For the first time the entire 14 versions of Girl in a Kimono by the Dutch painter and photographer George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) will be displayed alongside each other.
An im...
Madrid What's on
Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio
1 March-19 June. In conjunction with the Denver Art Museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Europe's first retrospective on Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, leading figures of 20th-century American reali...
London What's on
Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection
12 Feb-29 May. The Pre-Raphealite movement, founded in London in 1848, rejected what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael. The Pr...
Madrid What's on
9 Feb-22 May. The Thyssen-Bornemisza shows 90 works by a group of 20th-century realist painters and sculptors who lived and worked in Madrid, including Amalia Avia, Richard Estes (see Telephone Booths...
Oxford What's on
1 Jan-6 March. Exhibition displaying 26 albumen prints by the Burton Brothers who ran a successful commercial photography studio in New Zealand in the late 19th century.
The Dunedin studio was kno...
Berlin What's on
Neue Galerie: The Black Years: Histories of a Collection: 1933–1945
21 Nov-31 July. Exhibition showing works which were either created or acquired by the Nationalgalerie between 1933 and 1945, or else seized by the Nazi regime during this dark period in German art....
Barcelona What's on
11 Dec-20 March. Retrospective focusing on the work of Spanish painter and illustrator Xavier Gosé who worked in the Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles and is described by exhibition organisers as one of...
Brussels What's on
20 Jan-15 May. With the subheading Master drawings from a Belgian private collection, this exhibition at the Belgian Fine Arts Museum features 90 drawings dating from the 16th- and early-17th century....
Vienna What's on
16 Dec-3 April. Exhibition dedicated to the creations of modernist architect, designer and design critic Josef Frank whose prodigious body of work is still considered "contemporary" in today's design...
Vienna What's on
19 Nov-29 Feb. The artwork from Austrian cigarette advertising in the 1920s is the subject of this exhibition at the Leopold Museum.
In 1928 the JTI tobacco company invited celebrated Secession ar...
