Festivals and Films
London What's on
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction.
22 June-1 Oct 2006. Focussing on the first half of Wassily Kandinskys career from 1908-1922, this exhibition at the Tate Modern presents over 50 paintings and 30 works on paper by the Russian-born art...
Barcelona What's on
Repblica! Political posters (1931-1939).
20 April-11 Sept 2006. The Museum of Catalan History (Museo de Historia de Cataluna) presents an exhibition of Republican posters entitled Repblica! Cartells i cartellistes (1931-1939) documenting the...
Berlin What's on
7 June-3 Oct 2006. Over 100 years of artistic, historical and political ties between Japan and Germany are explored in the exhibition Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Stdte at the Neue Nati...
Barcelona What's on
17 May-8 Oct 2006. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona (CCCB) presents an exhibition documenting the lasting effects of the...
Vienna What's on
12 May-17 Sept 2006. An exhibition of art from the 1960s and 1970s is on show in Hall One of Viennas Kunstalle exploring the phenomenon of psychedelia and the relationship between contemporary art and...
London What's on
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
12 June-20 Aug 2006. This is the 237th edition of the largest and most popular open art exhibition in the UK, which has been held every year without exception since 1769. The first summer exhibition,...
Madrid What's on
22 March-11 June 2006. Over 140 etchings by the 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt Van Rijn are currently on display at Spains national library. The exhibition, entitled Rembrandt: The Light of Shado...
Oxford What's on
26 May-31 Aug 2006. The River & Rowing Museum at Henley on Thames presents an exhibition of antiquities from the Thames Valley. People throughout the ages have found the Thames Valley a desirable plac...
Vienna What's on
27 Jan-31 Dec 2006. The building at Domgasse 5, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived in style on the first floor from 1784 to 1787, has now become a museum, with four floors of exhibitions dedicated to...
Barcelona What's on
24 March-4 Jun 2006. The work of 1996 Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon is featured in this exhibition entitled What you want me to sayI am already dead at the Fundaci Joan Mir. Glasgow-born Gordon u...
Vienna What's on
14 March-5 June 2006. To mark Austrias presidency of the European Union, the Kunsthistorisches Museum presents the Europe Without Borders exhibition in the Special Exhibition Hall. Bringing together w...
Oxford What's on
9 May-23 July 2006. An exhibition by Scottish independent photographer Norman McBeath at the Ashmolean Museum examines the shadowy and mysterious world of Oxford at night. A graduate in psychology, No...
Dublin What's on
5 May-27 Aug 2006. A retrospective of the work of Dublin-born artist and writer Brian ODoherty inaugurates the new extension to Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Since 1972 ODoherty has exhibited his...
Paris What's on
28 April-8 May 2006. Divided into Leisure, Home and Garden, and Life Abroad, the annual Foire de Paris at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles covers 220,000 sqm of exhibition space with around 3,000 ex...
Madrid What's on
30 March-11 June 2006. La Casa Encendida hosts an exhibition entitled De Ida y Vuelta. Africa showing painting, film, video, sculpture and photography by 20 African artists spanning five generations,...
London What's on
Tate Triennial 2006 New British Art.
1 March-14 May 2006. Now in its third edition, the Tate Britains three-yearly exhibition showcases the latest developments in contemporary British art. Thirty-six artists working in video, film, paint...
Amsterdam What's on
24 April-18 June 2006. The annual Dutch-based World Press Photo competition, open to professional news photographers from all over the world, culminates in an exhibition which then tours 85 countries....
Oxford What's on
7 March-30 April 2006. Modern Art Oxford presents the work of seven very different artists in an international group show that includes painting, photography, video and mixed-media artworks. Entitled...
Berlin What's on
Gnter Kupetz. Industrial design.
5 April-5 June 2006. The Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design in Berlin presents the work of industrial designer Gnter Kupetz on the occasion of his 80th birthday. During the 1950s and 1960s, Kupetz was o...
Barcelona What's on
Ancient Persia: the forgotten empire.
8 March-11 June 2006. The CaixaForum hosts an exhibition of over 500 artefacts, weapons, items of jewellery, sculptures and wall paintings from the Persian Aquemnida empire, which flourished between 5...
