Exhibitions in Europe
Amsterdam What's on
6 Oct-7 Jan. The Rijksmuseum dedicates an exhibition to the Dutch master Johan Maelwael (c.1370-1415), a pioneering artist who worked at the courts of the Dukes of Guelders and Burgundy around 1400....
Berlin What's on
Fabio Barilari: Architecture and atmosphere
8 Sept-4 Nov. Under the subheading Reading the city: a dialogue between library architecture and urban context in Germany, the Humboldt Library presents Architecture and atmosphere, an exhibition by I...
Vienna What's on
21 June-1 Oct. With the subheading Design between Human and Machine, this comprehensive exhibition examines our relationship with new technology and the opportunities and challenges presented by robot...
Paris What's on
21 June-23 Oct. The Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with the Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, presents a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to David Hockney, one of the 20th cen...
Madrid What's on
NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst
28 June-8 Jan. The Reina Sofía presents Spain's first retrospective dedicated to the artist group NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), which was to the cultural forefront in 1980s Yugoslavia, during the Cold...
Brussels What's on
1 June-3 Sept. The Belgian Comic Book Centre hosts an exhibition cum learning game, centred around the adventures of Asterix among the Belgians by Goscinny and Uderzo. The exhibition makes reference t...
Amsterdam What's on
Jana Euler: High in Amsterdam: The Sky of Amsterdam
20 May-15 Oct. The Stedelijk hosts an exhibition by Jana Euler whose energetic works focus on the interplay of painting, sculpture, words and images.Euler examines contemporary issues, often playing...
Madrid What's on
Renaissance Venice: The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting
20 June-24 Sept. This exhibition is dedicated to the central themes that underpinned 16th-century Venetian painting.
Comprising portraits alongside mythological and religious works, the display foc...
London What's on
21 June-8 Oct. Dulwich Picture Gallery stages the first UK show in almost a century devoted to watercolours by the Anglo-American artist, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).Described as "a triumph and re...
Berlin What's on
Lucian Freud: Closer: Etchings from the UBS Art Collection
22 July-22 Oct. The Martin-Gropius-Bau shows 51 etchings by the important 20th-century British realist painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011) who was born in Berlin and is best known for his intimate, visce...
Copenhagen What's on
8 July-3 Sept. The Louisiana highlights three classical genres of art history: landscape, still life and portraits.
Showing selected works from its permanent collection, the Louisiana's summer exhibi...
Barcelona What's on
Ismael Smith: the beauty and the monsters
23 June-17 Sept. This exhibition re-evaluates the career of eccentric artist Ismael Marí Smith who was born in Barcelona in 1886 but died in a psychiatric institution in New York in 1972.
Although...
Amsterdam What's on
8 July-15 Oct. The Stedelijk presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands dedicated to South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi whose photographs document her country's black l...
Vienna What's on
Egon Schiele: Self-Abandonment and Self-Assertion
10 July- 20 Dec. This exhibition at the Leopold Museum displays its collection of works by Austrian painter and leading figure of Austrian Expressionism Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
The works are presen...
Copenhagen What's on
17 June-22 Oct. The Louisiana presents the first major retrospective in Europe dedicated to the work of pioneering body and performance artist Marina Abramović who is known for her physically and ment...
Brussels What's on
14 Feb-3 Sept. The Belgium Comic Book Centre presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of leading comic book artist Gianni Alfonso Pacinotti, better known as Gipi.
Originally from Pisa, Gipi produ...
Amsterdam What's on
24 June-15 Oct. The first retrospective in the Netherlands of Polish artist Edward Krasiński is being held at the Stedelijk Museum. Considered among the most prominent eastern European artists of the...
Barcelona What's on
17 March-25 Sept. Exhibition highlighting Picasso's life-long fascination with interpreting portraiture and the human figure.
Picasso rarely worked to commission which granted him the liberty to pain...
Brussels What's on
Remigio Cantagallina: An Italian traveller in the Southern Netherlands
12 May-28 Aug. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium has enlarged a series of small drawings created more than 400 years ago by Florentine artist Remigio Cantagallina who worked at the court of th...
Copenhagen What's on
11 Feb-30 Aug. ARKEN presents an exhibition of light sculptures that shimmer, flash and light up unexpectedly in the dark.
Described as a sensual experience, the show comprises spatial sculptural...
