Exhibitions in Europe
Vienna What's on
The Albertina holds a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the internationally-acclaimed Vienna artist Arnulf Rainer on his 85th birthday.
Rainer has always been to the forefront of development...
Brussels What's on
Sensation and Sensuality: Rubens and his legacy
The BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts examines the legacy of the Flemish Baroque master painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
A colourful character, Rubens' extravagant work emphasised movement, colo...
Paris What's on
Marcel Duchamp: La peinture, même
The Centre Pompidou presents a new interpretation of the paintings of avant-garde French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), whose work shook the foundations of 20th-century art.
The painter, sculpt...
Copenhagen What's on
Photography: Works from the Louisiana Collection
This year the focus of the annual photographic exhibition of the Louisiana collection is photography as a medium in an artistic context.
The works on show examine numerous aspects of photography, f...
Amsterdam What's on
This thought-provoking exhibition is centred around how geographical location informs museum collections and exhibition policies, both historically and today.
The Stedelijk asks fundamental questio...
Barcelona What's on
Polish writer and photo journalist Ryszard Kapuściński travelled around the former Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991, documenting its people and landscapes.
Kapuściński died in 200...
Dublin What's on
Chester Beatty's A to Z: from Amulet to Zodiac
The Chester Beatty offers an A-Z checklist of its treasures, providing visitors with a broad insight into the library's wide-ranging and valuable collection.
This curators’ choice show featur...
Madrid What's on
Alma-Tadema and Victorian Painting in the Pérez-Simón Collection
Fairytales, nymphs and nudes, mythology and sourcery all feature in the 50 paintings on show at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum.
The works belong to the Aesthetic movement that emerged in Victorian E...
Brussels What's on
Constantin Meunier (1831-1905)
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium hosts a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the work of 19th-century realist painter and sculptor Constantin Meunier (1831-1905).
The exhibition provi...
Paris What's on
The work of French sculptor, painter and film-maker Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is the subject of an exhibition that provides a general overview of the unconventional artist.
Saint Phalle firs...
London What's on
The Victoria & Albert Museum dedicates an exhibition to German-American photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-99) whose celebrated images focused mainly on women and fashion but also included interior...
Copenhagen What's on
A radical installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson greets unexpecting visitors at the Louisiana.
The huge site-specific project focuses on nature, taking the natural environment from...
Berlin What's on
The Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin joins cultural venues in Barcelona, Paris and Rome in celebrating the Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975).
A contro...
Amsterdam What's on
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
The Stedelijk presents a retrospective comprising over 200 drawings and paintings by the South African artist Marlene Dumas who has lived in Amsterdam since 1976.
The artist now works mainly with o...
Vienna What's on
The Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art - MAK commemorates its 150th birthday with a number of celebratory events.
Two exhibitions run concurrently from 11 June-5 October: Exemplary: From Arts and...
Barcelona What's on
Lluïsa Vidal: la pintora modernista
The Museu del Modernisme Català dedicates an exhibition to the work of Lluïsa Vidal (1876-1918), one of the few women artists in the male-dominated Catalan modernism. Vidal studied art in...
Madrid What's on
The Reina Sofia presents a Spanish history of the photobook, defined as a publication comprising a series of photographs telling a story, a format often used by historians and art photographers.
Th...
Berlin What's on
The World c. 1914. Colour Photography Before the Great War
The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents an exhibition featuring rare colour photographs and films commissioned by the French banker Albert Kahn.
Excited by the advances in colour photography being develope...
Paris What's on
The Quai Branly devotes an exhibition to the history of tattooing and traces it from its origins in so-called primitive societies in the Orient, Africa and Oceania.
It also examines the social, rel...
Copenhagen What's on
The Louisiana celebrates the work of German-Danish painter and printmaker Emil Nolde (1867-1956) with an exhibition described by organisers as the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist in sev...
