Matisse — Invitation to the Voyage
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland 22 September 2024 to 26 January 2025
 
This fall, the Fondation Beyeler holds the first Henri Matisse retrospective in the German-speaking world in almost 20 years. Matisse’s ground-breaking work has profoundly influenced generations of artists, from his contemporaries up to the present day. Featuring over 70 works from major European and American museums and private collections, the exhibition highlights the development and diversity of the artist’s ground-breaking oeuvre.
Beginning with the early works created around 1900, it will move on to the revolutionary paintings of Fauvism and the experimental works of the 1910s, the sensual paintings of the Nice period and the 1930s, before culminating in the legendary cut-outs of the 1940s and 1950s. 

Monet and London. Views of the Thames
The Courtauld, London 27 September 2024 to 19 January 2025
 
A series of 21 paintings by Claude Monet depicting views of London’s Thames River will be exhibited for the first time in the UK at the Courtauld Institute of Art from September 27. The French artist, widely regarded as the father of impressionism, started the works during three visits to the English capital totaling six months between 1899 and 1901. He then finished them in his studio in Giverny, north of Paris.
As reported by the gallery, the show presents “extraordinary views of the Thames as it had never been seen before, full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light and radiant color.” Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and the House of Parliament all feature, each rendered in Monet’s short impasto brushstrokes. Several of the works were painted from the balconies of the Savoy Hotel, just nearby the Courtauld.

Andy Warhol and Keith Haring — Party of Life  
Museum Brandhorst, Munich 28 June 2024 - 26 Jan 2025  
Warhol and Haring had a shared vision: Art should be accessible to all and reach as many people as possible. With “Andy Warhol & Keith Haring. Party of Life,” Museum Brandhorst presents the world’s first comprehensive institutional exhibition dedicated to these two artists.
The title of the show borrows the motto from Keith Haring’s birthday celebrations: “Party of Life” relays the cosmos of the 1980s, of MTV, discos, vogueing, hip-hop, New Wave, and graffiti. The exhibition traces Haring’s and Warhol’s friendship in this environment. With over 130 works by the artists, the show reveals parallels in their artistic identity, their openness to cooperation and collaborative projects.

Francis Bacon: Human Presence
National Portrait Gallery, London 10 Oct 2024 - 19 Jan 2025 
 
Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. 
From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story.
Accompanied by the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer. Other artists that will be featured include Francis Goodman, Cecil Beaton, Dmitri Kasterine, Peter Stark, Reginald Gray, to name just a few. 

Maurizio Cattelan — The Third Hand  
Moderna Museet Stockholm24 Feb 2024 - 12 Jan 2025  
 
Using satire, humor, provocation, and seriousness, Maurizio Cattelan questions the conventions of society in general and the art world in particular. The exhibition includes several of Maurizio Cattelan’s most iconic works alongside pieces that he has chosen from Moderna Museet’s collection. “The Third Hand” comprises six exhibition rooms in which Maurizio Cattelan’s work meets artworks by Swedish and international artists from Moderna Museet’s collection, including Eva Aeppli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Cecilia Edefalk, Lena Svedberg, Rosemarie Trockel and the editorial staff of the underground magazine PUSS.
In each exhibition room, art takes on a new perspective on power. Positions are turned around and power relationships shift: between art and religion, art and politics, art and military force, art and power as an abstract, subtle phenomenon. 

Jenny Holzer, “Light Line”
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Until September 29
 
This exhibition presents a reimagination of Jenny Holzer’s landmark 1989 installation Light Line at the Guggenheim. Climbing all six ramps of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda to the building’s apex, the site-specific installation transforms the building with a display of scrolling texts, featuring selections from her iconic series, such as “Truisms” and “Inflammatory Essays”.
Holzer’s voice is vital and incisive, and her work, whether on posters, electronic signs, stone benches, or paintings, explores some of the most pressing issues of our time, from climate justice to women’s rights, from corruption to war. As reported by the New Yorker, “In the exhibition Light Line, the best work is made of phrases on an L.E.D. spiral, which add up to a single epic poem that is a gift to art history.”

In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s
RA, London
Until 13 October 2024
 
A touring exhibition at the Royal Academy in London continues to examine the spread of modernism in Ukraine between 1900 and the 1930s, exposing it to the audience in the UK. In the Eye of the Storm, an exhibition that has been touring European art institutions since November 2022, starting from Madrid, features work from the early decades of the 20th century by a host of artists who made Ukraine a hotbed of modernism.
Fifty-one works were duly despatched in trucks from Kyiv: from the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine. The artworks from Ukraine were supplemented by pieces from private and public collections abroad, and now the collection includes Archipenko, Kasymyr Malevych, El Lissitzky and Alexandra Exter, as well as Mykhailo Boichuk and Oleksandr Bohomazov.

Yoshitomo Nara
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain Until 3 November 2024
 
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a retrospective exhibition which reveals and explores the world of Yoshitomo Nara, through his evolving creativity from the origins of his ideas. Organized by theme, rather than chronologically or according to technique and materials, the exhibition offers an insight into Nara’s conceptual and formal processes. The selection of artworks on display were made over the course of the last four decades – 1984 to 2024 – reflects his empathetic response to the people and places he has encountered over the years.
Nara’s childhood memories marked by a feeling of isolation, his travels abroad, time in Germany, and his knowledge of art history, are key to an understanding of his work. It is also deeply rooted in the music he listened to as a child: folk songs by American singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, with their anti-war message during the Vietnam war and support for the civil rights movement; the introspective, melancholic sounds of the blues; and grassroots folk music coming out of England and Ireland.

Gabriele Münter: The Great Expressionist Woman Painter
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 12 November 2024 to 9 February 2025
 
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first retrospective in Spain on Gabriele Münter, a key figure in early 20th-century German Expressionism and one of the founders of the Munich-based group of artists The Blue Rider.
The exhibition, which includes more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, aims to reveal an artist who rebelled against the limits imposed on women of her day and to demonstrate the richness and variety of her work. The exhibition reveals her private world of landscapes and everyday objects, friends, lovers and her own image, which are all refined to their essence through Münter’s precise lines and intense colours.