Exhibitions in Europe
Brussels What's on
Wassily Kandinsky is the subject of a major exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium.
Heralded as the founder of abstract art and considered one of the 20th century's most important...
Vienna What's on
The Architecture Centre Vienna presents the Az W Gold collection on the occasion of the museum's 20th anniversary.
The exhibition displays some of the most interesting items held in the collection...
Oxford What's on
Andrea Stultiens: The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Until 8 Sept. Dutch artist Andrea Stultiens presents the archival account of a Ugandan man, Kaddu Wasswa, whose personal story provides a unique glimpse into the social and cultural life of...
Amsterdam What's on
The exhibition presents 32 Dutch genre paintings "leftover" from the current display dedicated to the Van Abbemuseum collection, established in 1936 by Dutch cigar manufacturer Henri van Abbe.
Prod...
London What's on
Life and death: Pompeii and Herculaneum
The British Museum presents a major exhibition of some 250 objects from the ill-fated southern Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, both of which were destroyed by lava from the Mount Vesuvius v...
Paris What's on
The Philippines: Archipelago of exchange
The Musée du quai Branly celebrates the diversity of ancient Philippine art dating from before the archipelago's 7,000 islands were colonised by Europeans in the 16th-century.
The exhibitio...
Dublin What's on
Essential Ireland: a mini tour
The National Gallery has assembled a selection of paintings depicting some of Ireland's favourite beauty spots, offering what it terms a "one-room tour of Ireland".
Comprising a mix of urban and r...
Oxford What's on
Chinese Landscape from the Ashmolean Collection
The Ashmolean Museum presents an exhibition of traditional Chinese landscape paintings from its own collection, including some important 17th-century pieces that have rarely been seen by the public....
Copenhagen What's on
A 12-m long multi-touch screen wall provides visitors with street-level access an eclectic database of 20,000 images from the history of the Danish capital.
With its ever-changing imagery, the mob...
Paris What's on
Mexican Art at the Louvre: Masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries
The Louvre showcases colonial-era Mexican art, highlighting an area of its collection which the museum intends to expand in the future.
The 11 masterpieces on show include large-scale works such a...
Berlin What's on
Following extensive renovations the new-look Museum Berggruen reopened to the public on 15 March with the permanent exhibition "Picasso and his Time".
The show comprises more than 100 of Picasso's...
Brussels What's on
Tetrachromat is a solo show by Tauba Auerbach, a Californian artist whose paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books are inspired by mathematics, physics and topology. Auerbach's paintings play...
Madrid What's on
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presents a major retrospective of Hyperrealism, an art movement which began in the US in the late 1960s and whose paintings were created to resemble a high-resolution pho...
Vienna What's on
Under the subheading "Fleeting Worlds" the Clouds exhibition at the Leopold Museum presents a collection of paintings by a diverse group of artists from the 19th century to the present day, all o...
London What's on
The Victoria & Albert Museum presents more than 300 objects relating to influential British pop singer David Bowie, in the first international retrospective dedicated to the artist's career.
Th...
Barcelona What's on
MACBA presents a major exhibition of almost 350 drawings produced by important New York conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner over a 50-year period.
Comprising a large and varied collection of drawings...
Berlin What's on
A Tribute to David Bowie HAUPTSTRASSE The Berlin Years 1976 - 1978
On January 8th 2013, his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised the whole world by publishing on the Internet a video with the new song Where Are We Now, a touching wistful retrospect of his Berlin year...
Dublin What's on
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) explores the early decades of Cubism with an exhibition featuring the work of leading Irish exponents of the genre, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, May Guinness, Mary...
Oxford What's on
The Ashmolean presents "Landscape Landscript", a major exhibition devoted to the landscapes of Xu Bing, the prominent Chinese artist.
Bing is among China's most critically acclaimed artists, best...
Berlin What's on
Diversity Destroyed: Berlin 1933
This exhibition at the German Historical Museum charts the social and democratic decline of Berlin under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.
The exhibition is part of Berlin's 2013 "Theme Year"...
