Art & design exhibitions, events & news

London

EXHIBITION: The World of Tim Burton
VENUE: The Design Museum 
DATES: From 25 October 2024 to 21 April 2025

Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers. 

This major exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats.

Drawn from Tim Burton’s personal archive and representing the artist’s creative output from childhood to the present day, this collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, moving-image works, sculptural installations, set and costume design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton’s art and film

 

EXHIBITION: National Gallery turns 200
VENUE: The National Gallery
DATES: Untill May 2025

As the National Gallery turns 200, keep an eye out for collaborations across the country. From limited edition coins, show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and an episode of Songs of Praise filmed at the Gallery, there's plenty of ways to join in the celebrations. For the whole year, they are going to celebrate the past and look forward to the future with a year-long festival of art, creativity and imagination which sets the tone for the third century. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/ng200-programme   

EXHIBITION: Anthony McCall Solid Light
VENUE: The Tate Modern
DATES: Untill April 2025

Step inside sculptures of light.

Beams of light projected through a thin mist create large three-dimensional forms in space, which slowly shift and change. As you move through these translucent sculptures of light, you’ll create new shapes and discover your own mesmerising perspectives.

Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema, drawing, and performance, McCall is known for his innovative installations of light. In 1973, his seminal work Line Describing a Cone redefined the possibilities of sculpture.

 

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Liverpool

EXHIBITION: Bees a story of survival
VENUE: World Museum
DATES: 4th May 2024 to 5th May 2025

Using sculptural sound and light environments, the exhibition provides visitors with a real-time connection to bees within their natural habitat, revealing and expressing an ever changing picture of their activity.

Journey with us into their universe, from the tiny and fascinating anatomy of a single bee to the magic and wonder of bee colonies, the role bees play in the environment and the threats they face.

Bees are facing extinction. With more than 20,000 known species, they are vital to our way of life and essential to the planet’s survival.

Could the decline in bees be a reflection of the impending destruction of our natural world? Join us on an emotional and thought-provoking voyage of discovery, reminding us all that the time for action is now.

 

Paris

EXHIBITION: The MET at the Louvre
VENUE:  The Louvre
DATES: Until 28th September 2025

The Louvre and The Met have created a unique dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the Louvre's permanent galleries. These 'special guest' artworks from The Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre's collection. In some cases, a pair of objects has been reunited for the first time, while in others, pieces complement each other by virtue of specific historical features of their respective collections. Representing Central Asia, Syria, Iran and Mesopotamia, this dialogue between collections is (re)introducing visitors to these extraordinary, age-old works of art and the stories they tell.

 

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Barcelona

EXHIBITION: Mari Chorda
VENUE: Museu d'Art Contemporani
DATES: Until 12th January 2025

Mari Chordà (Amposta, 1942) used the image, language and social action as a material in her work, and as an inextricable part of her life. The artist, writer, poet and activist form an inseparable bond that sustains and attitude and certain convictions that are the backbone of her work and her biography. She moves in a present continuous, in which everything she does is a simultaneous and inseparable experience. An active observer and aware of the reality that surrounds her, she needs to get involved, agitate and subvert what she sees, from certain principles, through feminism: they emerged as a response to the stifling context of the Franco regime, but have remained throughout time in a society that still has to change many of its values and has to restore the visibility and recognition of the work of women.

 

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Berlin

EXHIBITION: Alexandra Pirici
VENUE: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
DATES: Until 6th October 2024

With her expansive new work Attune, Alexandra Pirici explores the ways in which human beings – and their more-than-human counterparts – resemble, influence, and attune to one another to bring forth complex structures, whether chemical, physical, mineral or social. Pirici creates within the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof a vibrant imaginary landscape. She interweaves active sculptural elements with live action and musical pieces of her own choreography and composition. In this at once archaic and futuristic environment, chemical reactions, mineral formations, and physical phenomena perform alongside living bodies in acknowledgement and celebration of the continuum of living and non-living matter. Together these actors show how stable structures emerge from the random behaviors of atoms, molecules, and cells. The wonder of self-structuring matter comes to the fore.

 

EXHIBITION: Caspar David Friedrich Infinite Landscapes
VENUE: Alte Nationalgalerie
DATES: From 19th April until 4th August 2024

On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie, in cooperation with the copper engraving cabinet of the State Museums in Berlin, is showing a major exhibition of the work of the most important German Romantic painter for the first time. Around 60 paintings and 50 drawings from home and abroad, including world-famous icons, will be on display.
Such an exhibition is long overdue in Berlin, simply because numerous acquisitions and public presentations in the Prussian capital contributed to the artist's early fame during Frederick's lifetime and because the National Gallery houses one of the largest Friedrich painting collections in the world.

 

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Amsterdam

EXHIBITION: The permanent collection: Van Gogh's masterpieces
VENUE: Van Gogh Museum
DATES: Ongoing

View Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces in the museum and immerse yourself in his development as an artist. Step into Van Gogh's world and discover the ideas and ambitions behind his art. In the permanent collection you can see Vincent van Gogh's famous masterpieces, such as Sunflowers , Almond Blossom and The Potato Eaters , as well as his drawings and letters. You discover the ideas and ambitions behind his art.

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Rome

To be announced.

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Venice

EXHIBITION: BIENNALE ARTE 2024, 60th International Art Exhibition
VENUE: In the Giardini, the Arsenale & other venues in Venice
DATES: 20 April to Sunday 24 November, 2024

The 60th International Art Exhibition will take place from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November, 2024 (pre-opening on April 17, 18 and 19), curated by Adriano Pedrosa. “I am honored and humbled by this prestigious appointment, especially as the first Latin American to curate the International Art Exhibition, and in fact the first one based in the Southern Hemisphere”, Pedrosa commented.
Adriano Pedrosa (Brazil) is currently the artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, where he has curated many exhibitions, including Histories of Dance (2020) and Brazilian Histories (2022). He has recently been appointed the 2023 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, that was presented to him by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.

 

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New York

EXHIBITION: The African Origin of Civilization
VENUE: MET
DATES: Ongoing

This exhibition pays homage to Diop by presenting masterpieces from the Museum's collections from west and central Africa alongside art from ancient Egypt for the first time in The Met's history. Through twenty-one pairings of works from different African cultures and eras, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to appreciate the extraordinary creativity of the continent across five millenia, revealing unpexpected parallels and contrasts. Although there was no contact between their creators, the works share deep and underrecognised histories. 

 

EXHIBITION: Monuments of Solidarity
VENUE: MOMA
DATES: 12th May to 7th September 2024

For this exhibition, Frazier has reimagined her diverse bodies of work as a sequence of original installations that she calls “monuments for workers’ thoughts,” which address the harmful effects of industrialization and deindustrialization, the healthcare inequities facing Black working-class communities in the Rust Belt, the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and the impact of the closure of a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. 

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