Festivals and Films
London What's on
19 January - 25 April 2011. The Tate Modern presents an exhibition by Gabriel Orozco who is known for collecting random items and recreating them as works of art, making the viewer look twice at an im...
Paris What's on
Until 21 March 2011. In an attempt to extract the artist from the movement, the Centre Pompidou assesses the work of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and his dual identity as the leading figure...
Madrid What's on
26 November - 25 April 2011. The exhibition "ctrl" at the Reina Sofia museum sees acclaimed Polish sculptor Miroslaw Balka examining symbols of power structures and ideologies.
Balka inverts and co...
Dublin What's on
Post-War American Art: The Novak/O’Doherty Collection
8 September - 27 February 2011. Currently on show at Dublin's IMMA is the Novak/O'Doherty Collection.
Comprising watercolours, drawings, prints, paintings and photographs, the collection was gifte...
Amsterdam What's on
15 January - 23 March 2011. Amsterdam's Photography Museum presents Kosmos, an ingenious exhibit by Joris Jansen, recipient of the prestigious photographic award, the Steenbergen Stipendium in 2009....
Barcelona What's on
Zoomania: Ceramic Animal Figures: From Symbols to Pets
27 October - 27 March 2011. This exhibition of ceramic animal figures from the archives of the Museum of Ceramics is divided into sections which focus on various aspects of the depiction of the animal...
Oxford What's on
Rad Cam by Emma Dougherty & Tim Steward
15 January - 13 February 2011. An exhibition of dynamic new views of Oxford's celebrated building, the Radcliffe Camera, by UK-based artists Emma Dougherty and Tim Steward.
Dougherty is an artist...
Vienna What's on
8 December 2010 - 1 May 2011. One of Austria's most influential contemporary artists, Eva Schegel is concerned with attempting to portray the ephemeral in different materials such as glass and mirrors...
Oxford What's on
Henry Aldrich - An Oxford Universal Man
3 November - 30 January 2011. Celebrating the tricentenary of the death of Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church from 1689 until his death in 1710, this exhibition displays some of the most prominent p...
Brussels What's on
3 December - 24 April 2011. A selection of 200 objects and works of art reveal how people in the 16th century perceived death. Due to factors such as malnutrition, disease and war, life expectancy of...
Amsterdam What's on
Dutch winters from the Rijksmuseum collection
24 November - 21 March 2011. The Rijksmuseum Schiphol displays a selection of 17th- and 19th-century works from its collection depicting the theme of winter. Due to its brutal winters the period betwe...
Barcelona What's on
1 December - 26 March 2011. This exhibition features over 40 paintings of Afghan people by residents of Kabul as well as a collection of black and white images by photographers who have have stayed in...
Madrid What's on
Made in USA: American Art from the Phillips Collection
22 November - 16 January 2011. This selection of paintings from the Phillips Collection of Washington D.C. constitutes a comprehensive snapshot of the history of American art from the mid-19th to mid-...
Oxford What's on
Thomas Houseago: What Went Down
11 December - 20 February 2011. In the first major solo show in a UK public gallery by Thomas Houseago (born 1972) the Modern Art Oxford presents an exhibition of recent sculpture by the Los Angeles-b...
London What's on
Ben Johnson: Modern Perspectives
8 December - 23 January 2011. While analysing the view of Trafalgar Square from the roof of London's National Gallery Ben Johnson noticed a similarity with Canaletto's Stonemason
Vienna What's on
Birgit Jürgenssen: Retrospective
16 December - 6 March 2011. The Bank Austria Kunstforum and the Sammlung Verbund present the first posthumous retrospective of the work of Viennese artist Birgit J
Brussels What's on
2 December - 20 March 2011. As part of the 18 month trio of presidencies of the Council of the European Union, Brussels presents an exhibition which unites the Fauve art of Belgium and Hungary.
Fo...
Copenhagen What's on
Encountering Japan: Degas, Monet, Gauguin
11 September - 23 January 2011. At the World Fair in Paris in 1867, for the first time Japan presented its woodcuts to an instantly receptive Western audience.
The previously unseen material becam...
Berlin What's on
26 November- 6 March 2011. Celebrating the centenary of the death of sculptor Reinhold Begas (1831-1911) who created some of Berlin
Barcelona What's on
The Baroque (D)ef(F)ect: Politics of the Spanish Image
9 November - 7 March 2011. In this exhibition the links between Spain and Latin America are meticulously examined through the Hispanic cultural framework.
The exhibition's curators, art historians...
