Festivals and Films
Madrid What's on
Camboya, Tierra de Esperanza (Cambodia, Land of Hope)
19 June - 18 October 2009. Cambodia has suffered tremendously for many years due to war and famine. 'Camboya, Tierra de Esperanza' documents the lives of anonymous people whose bravery in the face of...
Copenhagen What's on
5 September 2009 - 10 January 2010. Denmark's Louisiana begins its autumn season with a major contemporary art exhibition featuring work by more than 20 internationally recognised artists, many exhibi...
Paris What's on
16 June-27 September 2009. This exhibition documents the origin of the fictitious but popular character of Tarzan. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan has been the subject of countless cinematic r...
Berlin What's on
The Photographs of Herlinde Koelbl (1976 - 2009)
17 July - 1 November 2009. A photographic exhibition of Herlinde Koelbl's works from 1976
Amsterdam What's on
Until 1 November 2009. One of Holland's most well known museums, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has a unique collection of glass in all its varied forms from decorative to functional. '1500 Years of Glas...
Oxford What's on
Carolyn Drake: Photographs of Central Asia
14 May - 15 November 2009. Carolyn Drake is an award-winning photographer whose wide selection of photographs and documentary work from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are on show in the Pitt Rivers Museum....
Jersey What's on
17 Aug-12 Sept 2009. 19th century Japanese ukiyo-e prints 20th century ceramics from York Museum Trust collection.
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock printing used from the 17th-20th centurie...
Dublin What's on
Titled 'Blaze Away' after the phrase used to start a duel, this exhibition examines the history of duelling in Ireland and the work of two Dublin families who made guns and swords in the 19th century....
Copenhagen What's on
Divine Madness: Charlotte Bergman Johanssen and Mille Rude
15 August -18 October 2009. Nikolaj is Copenhagen's contemporary art centre and is situated in the former Nikolaj Church in the middle of Copenhagen. This exhibition focuses on the notions of dreams a...
Berlin What's on
A Different Approach to the World: The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace
9 July 2009 - 17 January 2010. This exhibition explores key ideas involving the future sharing of the Humboldt Forum by The National Museums in Berlin, the Humboldt Universit
Barcelona What's on
Maurice de Vlaminck: A Fauve Instinct
2 July-18 October 2009. Born in Paris in 1876, de Vlaminck started his career as a musician and later gave violin lessons by night while painting by day. A chance meeting on a train with another young...
Brussels What's on
18 June 2009 - 10 January 2010. Born in Antwerp in 1913, Willy Vandersteen was a celebrated comic artist and a prominent figure in the founding of Flemish comic books. His career was long and his outp...
Oxford What's on
25 July-6 Sept 2009. The Oxfordshire Museum is holding an exhibition which looks at life through the eyes of a child during the reign of Britain's longest-serving monarch. The show includes the paraso...
Vienna What's on
Global:Lab: Art as a Message. Asia and Europe 1500-1700
3 June-27 Sept 2009. The Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) presents an exhibition exploring the developments in European and Asian art over two centuries, concentrating on the idea of art as a mea...
Amsterdam What's on
At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century
20 June 2009 - 31 Jan 2010. An exhibition of more than 1,800 artifacts on loan from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is currently on show in the newly restored Amstelhof Hermitage museum bu...
Paris What's on
25 June-8 Nov 2009. Tonnes of toys of the vintage and musical variety abound in this eclectic exhibition suited to children and nostalgic adults. The Toy Gallery is festooned with flutes, trumpets, wo...
London What's on
12 June-20 Sept 2009. Another of the many exhibitions throughout Europe to celebrate the centenary of the publication of the Marietti
Berlin What's on
22 July - 04 October 2009. The 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus movement is celebrated with an exhibition of work by the Bauhaus masters and their students. The comprehensive display is...
Amsterdam What's on
'The Colours of Water' by Marco van Middelkoop
9 July - 30 August 2009. Marco van Middelkoop, a celebrated Dutch photographer, presents his latest exhibition: 'The Colours of Water' at The Melweg.
What makes van Middelkop's images of water uniqu...
Brussels What's on
10 July - 13 Sept 2009. This installation of sculpture and photography by Jan De Cock pays tribute to photographer Jean-Pierre Beauviala who pioneered the development of the 16mm A
