Exhibitions in fall 2023
This fall, art enthusiasts are in for a treat as four of Europe's cultural capitals showcase a treasure trove of unmissable exhibitions.
SARAH LUCAS, TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
28 September 2023 – 14 January 2024
One of the most enduring artists of the Young British Art era, Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold, brash and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged the understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.
Breaking boundaries with humour and daring, Lucas shows us the whole spectrum of what it means to be human. This exhibition, which is narrated in her voice, highlights the sheer diversity of her practice, bringing together her work across sculpture, installation and photography.
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ, ROYAL ACADEMY, LONDON
23 September 2023 - 1 January 2024
Deferred due to the pandemic, the Royal Academy’s long-awaited major Marina Abramović show will finally open the next month in London, bringing together over 50 works spanning her entire career, including performance works within the galleries.
It will explore how Abramović has reflected on the temporal nature of performance art by extending its impact through its traces: photographs, videos, objects, installations and re-performances of her works by young performers.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI. A PAINTER AND HIS DEALER, MUSÉE DE L'ORANGERIE, PARISSeptember 20th, 2023 to January 15th, 2024
When the visions of the artist and his art dealer meet: the Musée de l'Orangerie highlights the emblematic relationship between Amedeo Modigliani and Paul Guillaume, his art dealer.
The exhibition focuses on exploring the way in which links between the two characters may throw light on the artist’s career. Paul Guillaume encouraged him, rented him a studio in Montmartre, and made his paintings known in Parisian literary and artistic circles.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, BELVEDERE, VIENNA22 September 2023 – 28 January 2024
On its three-hundred-year jubilee, the Belvedere will dedicate a major solo exhibition to an artist who has shaped the art of today. Presented in the Baroque galleries of the Lower Belvedere, Louise Bourgeois’s paintings from the 1940s will be placed in dialogue with a selection of sculptures, installations, drawings, and prints from all periods of her career. This event marks the first major exhibition of Bourgeois’s work in Vienna in a generation.
FRANS HALS, THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON
30 September 2023 – 21 January 2024
One of the world’s best-known Frans Hals’s pictures ‘The Laughing Cavalier’ will be loaned for the first time in autumn 2023. The portrait will be a major draw in an exhibition at the National Gallery that will be the largest devoted to the artist’s work for more than thirty years.
Four hundred years since they were painted, Frans Hals’s portraits still breathe with life. There’s the hint of a smile, a hand resting nonchalantly on a hip, and just occasionally, a burst of laughter.
VAN GOGH IN AUVERS-SUR-OISE. THE FINAL MONTHS
MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS
From October 03rd, 2023 to February 04th, 2024
This exhibition will be the first to be devoted to the works produced by Vincent Van Gogh during the last two months of his life, in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris. The exhibition is the result of years of research on this crucial phase in the artist’s life.
Although the painter only spent a little over two months in Auvers, the period was one of artistic renewal with its own style and development, marked by the psychic tension, as well as by some of his greatest masterpieces.
GOYA AND MUNCH: MODERN PROPHECIES, MUNCH MUSEUM, OSLO
28 October 2023 – 11 February 2024
This exhibition will take the audience into visions of Francisco de Goya and Edvard Munch, exploring the mystical and grotesque side of humanity. In two disturbing series of around 80 prints each, Goya documented the depravity and amorality he witnessed in society, and the horrors of war that ravaged Spain during his lifetime.
The series Caprichos and Disasters of War are presented in entirety. Arranged in sections focusing on War, Faith and Society, the exhibition’s shadowy, atmospheric corridors will take visitors deeper into Goya’s and Munch’s imaginations.