Exhibitions in Europe
London What's on
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape
8 Dec-17 Feb. The Royal Academy presents a major exhibition celebrating three artists who had a profound influence on the development of British landscape painting: Constable, Gainsborough and JMW Tur...
Berlin What's on
Nefertite centenary exhibition
The special exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the finding of the bust of Nefertite opens at Berlin’s Neues Museum on 6 December.
The exhibition, called “In the Light of Amarna. 1...
Barcelona What's on
27 Oct-20 Jan 2013. MACBA presents the work of Iranian artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi who, in 2011, began collaborating on a series of works inspired by two very different but interconn...
Madrid What's on
3 Oct-7 Jan. The Reina Sofía Museum highlights how the art world was affected by the turbulent events of the 1930s, a decade in which power and art both coexisted and clashed.
The exhibition...
Paris What's on
26 Sept-7 Jan 2013. Since the 1970s, French artist Bertrand Lavier has tested people's perception of art by painting or stacking random objects and presenting them as artworks, as well as producing...
Barcelona What's on
8 Nov - 17 Feb 2013. MACBA stages an exhibition that reflects upon the periodic "systemic crises" that have affected and shaped the world of contemporary art since the late 1950s.
Drawing from its...
Berlin What's on
The Destroyed City was my Chance: Hilde Weström on her 100th Birthday
26 Sept - 25 Feb 2013. The Berlinische Galerie pays tribute to pioneering German architect Hilde Weström on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
Along with Ilse Balg and Vera Meyer-Waldeck, We...
Paris What's on
L'art en guerre: France 1938-1947
12 Oct - 17 Feb 2013. With almost 400 works by over 100 artists, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris reconstructs a wartime exhibition that it held in 1942, in occupied...
Amsterdam What's on
26 Oct - 13 Jan 2013. The Amsterdam Photography Museum (FOAM) exhibits 200 photographs by renowned New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971). The exhibition in Amsterdam displays the art...
Oxford What's on
Threads Of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
9 Nov - 27 Jan 2013. The Ashmolean presents an exhibition of rare ornamental textiles made for western homes during Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912).
The sumptuous textiles were produced...
Vienna What's on
13 Oct - 3 Feb 2013. MUMOK hosts a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Dan Flavin (1933-1996), one of the principal exponents of the Minimalist art movement.
In particular the exhibition focuses...
Paris What's on
L'art en guerre: France 1938-1947
12 Oct - 17 Feb 2013. With almost 400 works by over 100 artists, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris reconstructs a wartime exhibition that it held in 1942, in occupied Paris....
Brussels What's on
François Walthéry: 50 years of comics
9 Oct - 24 Feb 2013. The CBBD pays tribute to Belgian cartoonist François Walthéry with a retrospective exhibition of his work. His first cartoons, published in 1962 when he was 16, were...
Madrid What's on
Gaugain and the Voyage to the Exotic
9 Oct - 13 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum dedicates an exhibition to the role played by Tahiti in the work of French expressionist Paul Gauguin.
His primitive painting style was revived and ins...
Berlin What's on
The Journey to St. Petersburg - Benefit Exhibition for Pussy Riot
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Dublin What's on
Art Surpassing Nature: Dutch Landscapes in the Age of Rembrandt and Ruisdael
29 October – 20 January 2013. The National Gallery of Ireland is displaying its superb collection of Dutch landscape paintings and drawings over the winter months.
The collection includesht...
Berlin What's on
Border Experiences: Everyday Life of a Divided Germany
12 September - 31 December. The original border control checkpoint known as Tränenpalast, or the "Palace of Tears", at Berlin’s Friedrichstraße station recalls the harsh rea...
Copenhagen What's on
14 Sept - 13 Jan. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art dedicates an exhibition to the self-portrait genre from the 20th and 21st centuries, displaying 150 works by international artists from early mo...
Madrid What's on
Eduardo Chillida: La tinta pesa
20 September - 25 November. Exhibition displaying a selection of works created from paper by Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), a Basque sculptor noted for his monumental abstract works....
Barcelona What's on
1 June - 10 February. This exhibition examines the different types of infections that have effected humans throughout the ages, as well as the medical breakthroughs in the battle against disease and i...
