Exhibitions in Europe
Dublin What's on
1-31 January. The National Gallery of Ireland holds its annual tribute to the groundbreaking English landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) whose oils and watercolours are seen as...
Madrid What's on
17 Oct-21 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in an unprecedented exhibition.
The show, which features more than 100 works fro...
Madrid What's on
Giorgio de Chirico: Sueño o realidad
23 Nov-18 Feb. CaixaForum pays tribute to the Italian master and founder of the metaphysical art movement Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with a retrospective of his work. The exhibition spans de Chiri...
London What's on
23 Nov-2 April. The work of Italian figurative painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is the subject of an exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Central to the show are 12 of Modigliani's sensuo...
Dublin What's on
Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War
6 Oct-21 Jan. Dublin's Chester Beatty Library displays 40 prints from the Disasters of War series by Spanish master Francisco Goya (1746-1828).
The library owns the entire collection of 80 prints fro...
Barcelona What's on
26 Oct-28 Jan. Exhibition highlighting Picasso's return to Barcelona from June to November 1917, after having lived for many years in Paris.
Earlier in 1917 the artist had been working in Rome wher...
Madrid What's on
Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat
18 Oct-26 Feb. The Reina Sofia dedicates an exhibition to the pioneering American cartoonist George Herriman, whose work developed in the new comic strip medium of US newspapers around the turn of the...
Vienna What's on
Ferdinand Hodler: Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele
13 Oct-22 Jan. The Leopold Museum presents Austria's most comprehensive retrospective devoted to Ferdinand Hodler since the artist’s successful showing at the 1904 Secession exhibition.
Hodler (185...
Paris What's on
18 Oct-15 Jan. François I patronised numerous northern European artists active in France during his reign from 1515 until his death in 1547.
This exhibition at the Louvre comprises paintings, drawi...
Brussels What's on
The New Wave of Flemish Comic Strip
19 Sept-3 June. The Belgium Comic Book Centre highlights the work of a younger generation of Belgian comic authors and illustrators whose award-winning work has been translated into several languages....
Copenhagen What's on
Ugo Rondinone: Vocabulary of Silence
16 Dec-30 Dec. ARKEN presents a year-long installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone.
The colourful "dreamscape" features 45 hyperrealistic clown figures, all of whom are in various stages of sleep...
Amsterdam What's on
23 Sept-3 June. Exploring diverse aspects of the theme migration, the Stedelijk Museum draws on its own collection to highlight artists' views on migration and how the subject is presented in their wo...
Brussels What's on
Gao Xingjian: The awakening of consciousness
29 Sept-31 Dec. Although best known for winning the Nobel prize in Literature winner in 2000, the French-based Chinese author Gao Xingjian is also a visual artist.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Berlin What's on
29 Sept-7 Jan. The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents the latest disturbing works of cutting-edge British artist Ed Atkins.
The exhibition features unnerving imagery such as babies and old men weeping, al...
Barcelona What's on
Francesc Torres. The entropic box
20 Oct-14 Jan. With the subheading [The museum of lost objects] this installation by Catalan artist Francesc Torres explores the role of the museum as a meeting point between history and culture.
T...
Dublin What's on
25 Oct-14 Jan. The National Gallery of Ireland offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Irish-born artist Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) who is best known for his highly-finished 1864 wat...
Madrid What's on
William Kentridge: Enough and more than enough
1 Nov-19 March. The Reina Sofía Museum focuses on the stage work, including theatre, opera and performance, of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.
The exhibition also examines the sc...
Copenhagen What's on
7 Oct-25 March. ARKEN presents a "sensory explosion" of music videos, video art, sculptures, paintings and installations.
The 22 works on display are designed to raise questions about the interplay...
Vienna What's on
Thomas Bayrle: If It’s Too Long—Make It Longer
25 Oct-2 April. This installation by German artist Thomas Bayrle combines traditional craft techniques with computer-generated art.
Born in Berlin in 1937, Bayrle is known for his so-called superfo...
London What's on
Poster Girls: A century of art and design
13 Oct-31 Jan. The London Transport Museum highlights the artistic contribution of female graphic designers to London's transport network over the last century.
Displaying more than 150 posters and...
