Rembrant at the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Time | From March 8 to June 3, 2018
Center | Rembrant
The exhibition features portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in wedding attire, painted by Rembrandt. These precious works were acquired from the Rothschild family in 2015. In 2016, the Rikjksmuseum and the Louvre bought them for $160 million. The two museums will be showing them to visitors, and this will be the first time the public has had the honor of seeing the works in quite some time. The exhibition also features portraits from four centuries, including masters such as Cranach Elder, Veronese, Velázquez, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Sargent and Manet.
Ticket price: 17.5 euros
Time:From 9am to 5pm daily. Reference: Rijksmuseum.nl
Rembrant's $160 million work
Artist Grayson Perry at Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Time| April 13 - September 2
Focus| Kenilworth AM1
If you missed Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Serpentine in London last year, now is the time to revisit it at Kiasma, Finland’s leading contemporary art gallery. The show will include Perry’s ceramics, sculptures, tapestries and costumes, which explore issues of gender, race, class and religion. Perry’s journey through Europe on his pink Harley Davidson Kbucklehead, which he named “Kenilworth AM1”, attracted a lot of attention, decorated in bright pink, with a teddy bear on the back. The exhibition will then move to 11Conti at the Monnaie de Paris from 19 October to 3 February.
Ticket price: 14 €.
When: Free first Friday of every month, opening hours vary, closed Mondays. See kiasma.fi
The Upper Class at Bay, 2012 by Grayson Perry
Picasso 1932 – Tate Modern, England
Time | Until September 9th
Focus|Marie-Thérèse Walter nudes
This is the much-anticipated exhibition, “Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy”. 1932 was one of the most successful years for this great abstract artist. The exhibition includes more than 100 works. The most prominent is “Girl in front of a mirror” with the story in 1927, when he was still living with his wife, the artist met a 17-year-old girl named Marie Therese Walter and fell in love with her. The image of Marie-Therese in the “surrealist period, expressing gentle, pure femininity. Instead of tense, broken emotional lines (Dance - 1925) are rounded, complete lines. The female body in Picasso's paintings is now both strong, gentle and clear in the works: "Dream, Woman with Flowers, Nude on a Chair, Mirror, Girl in Front of a Mirror"... Picasso's nude paintings of his lovers appear together for the first time in 85 years. Notably, the work "Girl in Front of a Mirror" rarely leaves the MoMa museum in New York and "Dream" has never been exhibited in the UK.
Ticket price: 22 pounds
Time:From 10am-6pm, except Friday and Saturday until 10pm. Reference: tate.org.uk
Many rarely seen nude paintings by Picasso
Painter Delacroix (1798-1863),Louvre Museum, Paris
Time | March 29 – July 27
Focus | Liberty Leading the People
This is the first exhibition of the famous painter Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) since 1963 at the Louvre Museum. Along with Gericault, he was considered a "rebel" with works expressing tragedy, misfortune, intense emotions and romantic lyricism. His typical works such as: "Liberty Leading the People", "Dante's Barque", "The Death of Sacdanapalus", "The Massacre at Chios", "The Woman of Algiers", will be displayed at the National Gallery (UK), Met (New York), National Gallery (Canada).
Ticket price: 15 €.
Hours: 9am-6pm; Wednesday and Friday: open until 9:45pm. Closed Tuesdays. Reference: Louvre.fr
Louvre Museum, Paris. Photograph: Helen Ross/Getty Images
Rembrandt | Explore the masters of painting, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Time | 7/7 - 14/10
Focus | Portrait.
This exhibition is a research report on the 18th century enlightenment masters. It offers a perspective on the famous painter Rembrandts from the origin of his works, his thoughts, and his portraits from his teenage years.
Ticket price: 13.50£
Hours: 10am-5pm, Thursdays to 7pm. Visit: Nationalgalleries.org.
The Scottish National Gallery with Edinburgh Castle
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti,Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Time | October 19, 2018 - February 24, 2019
Theme: Femme de Venise
If you missed the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the TateModern in London, now is the time to catch a glimpse of the famous Swiss artist. The new exhibition on Jean Paul Sartre, dubbed the “perfect contemporary artist,” includes sculptures and paintings from his life, from his cubist period to his surrealist period, until his death in the mid-1960s.
Ticket price: 9 - 16€, under 12 years old free.
Time: Tuesday - Sunday, from 10am-8pm. Reference: Guggenheim-bibao.eus
Photo: Murdo Macleod/Guardian
Wanderlust |Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Date | May 10 - September 16
Focus | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Wandering journeys in nature, across the Alps, in life are the main themes of this inspiring exhibition. Travel was one of the important themes in 19th century European art. The exhibition includes 100 works by famous painters Caspar David Friedrich, Johan Christian Dahl of Norway, Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and many others.
Ticket price: 12 €
Hours: 10am-6pm. Thursdays open until 8pm. Closed Mondays. Reference: smb.museum.
"The Englishman of Campagna" by Carl Spitzweg. Photo: Jorg P Anders/ Alte Nationalgalerie.
Painter Bruegel,Kunst Historisches Museum, Austria
Time | October 2 - January 13, 2019
Focus | Two Monkeys
Next year marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. He left behind only 40 masterpieces, 12 of which are owned by the Kunst Historisches Museum, including “The Tower of Babel”. The exhibition will feature other valuable works borrowed from other museums and private collections. Many have never been seen before.
Ticket price: 20€.
Hours: 10am-6pm, open until 9pm on Thursdays. Closed on Mondays. Reference: khm.at
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria
New Berlin, 1912-1932 |Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium.
Time | October 5 - January 27, 2019
Focus | Otto Dix
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium's collection covers works from the 15th to the 21st century, providing a broad panorama of Western art including outstanding collections of Belgian and former Southern Netherlands artists. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints... prominent among them are works depicting the horrors of World War I, the excitement of the Roaring Twenties and the subsequent crises. Social change and movements through the works of Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Kazimir Malevich and others. The focus of this prestigious exhibition is the works of Otto Dix - an artist who fought in World War I and is famous for his paintings depicting the brutality of war. His style is stark and uncompromising. He was one of the key members of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) school in Germany.
Ticket price: 14.50€
Opening hours: 11am-5pm; weekends 11am-6pm. Closed Mondays. See fine-arts-museum.be
Georg Scholz's Noise in the Night. Photo: Private collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's.
Artist Gabriele Münter | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Time | May 3 - August 19
Focus | Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin
The German artist and her husband Wassily Kandinsky were one of the most influential couples in the world. Gavriele Munter and her husband helped create modern art movements such as Expressionism. The exhibition includes 130 works at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Munter was also a photographer and a stained glass artist. Many of the works have never been shown before.
Ticket price: 15£.
Hours: 11am – 10pm. Weekends from 6pm. Closed Mondays. Visit: en.louisiana.dk.
Photo: Bjarke Orsted.
Dada is Dada | Bildmusseet, Umea, Sweden
Date | Until May 20
Focus | Sonia Delaunay
There's still time to visit the Dada exhibition at Bildmuseet in Umea, Northern Sweden. The works include paintings and collages, sound recordings, and films by dozens of Dada artists, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, and several female artists, such as Sonia Delaunay, Sophie Taeuber Arp, and Beatrice Wood.
Free program.
Hours: 10 am to 5 pm, Fridays open until 9 pm. Closed Mondays. See bildmuseet.umu.se.
Photo: Johan Gunseus
Andy Warhol - After Munch |Munch Museum, Oslo
Time | May 26 - August 26
Focus | The Scream (After Munch)
If “The Scream” is Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, then artist Andy Warhol is a fan of this artist. He visited the Munch Museum in 1983 and was inspired to create “After Munch” with interactive works with Munch’s masterpieces including drawings, silkscreen prints and paintings. The interactive works are versions of “The Scream”, Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm and Madonna, and the film Kiss (1963).
Ticket price: 3£.
Hours: 10am-5pm daily (in summer). Reference: munchmuseet.no
Andy Warhol's "The Scream" (After Munch), 1984. Photo: Andy Warhold Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Ideas of the North | Baltic, Gateshead Bridge
Time | May 11 - September 30
Focus| Sirkka Liisa Konttinen
Part of a major exhibition in the North, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art’s summer break in Newcastle and Gateshead is imaginative and assertive. A series of dioramas and films from Hadrin’s Wall (one of the largest defensive fortifications on the north-western border of the ancient Roman Empire) to images of a Cumbrian cave in the 1990s. A photography exhibition by female artists curated by Sirkka Liisa Konttinen.
Free program.
Time: 10am-6pm daily; Tuesday: from 10:30am. Reference: getnorth2018.com
Frida Kahlo |Hungarian National Exhibition, in Budapest.
Time | 6/7 - 4/11
Focus | Broken Column by Frida Kahlo.
More than 30 works by prominent Mexican artists will be on display at the Hungarian National Gallery this summer, many on loan from the Dolores Olmedo Museum of Art. Portraits include a signed portrait of Kahlo from 1926, among others. If you visit in October, you’ll see works by Bacon, Freud and The School of London.
Ticket price: 5£
Hours: 10am-6pm, closed Mondays. Reference: mnf.hu
The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo, 1944. Photo: Erik Meza/ Otaola.
Sculptor Miró, the wild soul | Miró Mallorca Fundacío, Palma
Time | Until 2019
Focus | TBC
An exhibition about the artist Joan Miró, from prehistoric cave paintings to Japanese art. Before focusing on the creative work he produced in Mallorca after settling in 1956. Cala Major, where he lived and worked until his death in 1983, includes a house, museum, and sculpture garden. From June, the area will reopen after renovations. His fans can take a trip to Valletta, Malta, where the Picasso/Miró exhibition runs from April 7 to June 30.
Ticket price: $7.50.
Hours: 10am-7pm; Sundays open until 3pm. Mondays closed. See miromallorca.com
Photo: Pep Escoda
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