10 art exhibitions to see in Europe during summer 2023

A look at ten of the most interesting art exhibitions that will be on view in Europe during summer of 2023.

Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Wheatfield under Thunderclouds,” 1890. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam // Source: Van Gogh Museum / MACBA / Alte Nationalgalerie / National Gallery of Ireland / National Gallery, London/ Tate Modern / Museo del Prado / Louvre / Belvedere / Städel Museum

Amsterdam

Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise

Van Gogh Museum, (until 3 September 2023)

In the exhibition, we follow Van Gogh from his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he optimistically and ambitiously set to work, through to his last works. By this time, feelings of failure, loneliness, and melancholy had gained the upper hand, but Van Gogh nevertheless continued to make enormously powerful works.

Barcelona

Laura Lima

MACBA, (until 24 September 2023)

The Museum transfers Lima’s “Balé Literal” (presented for the first and only time in June 2019 at the crossroads where A Gentil Carioca gallery is located, in Rio de Janeiro) to the interior of the MACBA galleries and thus turns it into a large, permanently functioning, passable device.

Berlin

Secessions. Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann

Museumsinsel Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie (until 22 October 2023)

The exhibition comprises some 200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by a range of artists. Through a collaboration with the Wien Museum, Klimt’s oeuvre forms the focus of the exhibition, with more than 50 works on display. The show also shines a spotlight on some of the women artists of the Secession movements, from Dora Hitz to Käthe Kollwitz.

Dublin

Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker

National Gallery of Ireland, (until 27 August 2023)

This isthe first monographic exhibition to examine Fontana’s work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her portraits. It brings together a selection of her most highly regarded works from international public and private collections, alongside the artist’s celebrated “The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon”, from the Gallery’s own collection.

Frankfurt

Images of Italy. Places of Longing in Early Photography

Städel Museum (until September 3, 2023)

In an exhibition comprising 90 works, the Städel Museum presents a selection of early photographs of Italy from the years 1850 to 1880 from its collection.

London

After Impressionism

National Gallery (until 13 August 2023)

While celebrating Paris as the international artistic capital ‘After Impressionism’ is also one of the first exhibitions to focus on the exciting and often revolutionary artistic developments across other European cities during this period.

London

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian

Tate Modern, (until 3 September 2023)

This is the largest presentation of Hilma af Klint’s work in the UK to date, with highlights including all ten of her monumental paintings from the series “The Ten Largest”, 1907, presented together in the UK for the first time. It is also the first major UK exhibition in over 25 years to highlight Piet Mondrian’s early work alongside the iconic grid compositions for which he is best known.

Madrid

Picasso – El Greco

Museo del Prado, (until 17 September 2023)

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, the Museo del Prado presents a dialogue between the works of Picasso and those of another of the great masters of Spanish and world painting, El Greco.

Paris

Naples in Paris: the Louvre hosts the Museo di Capodimonte

Louvre, (until 8 January 2024)

Approximately sixty major masterpieces from Capodimonte are exhibited in three different places in the Louvre. Extending beyond the Louvre’s galleries, an ambitious programme of cultural events will lend this occasion the dimension of a veritable Neapolitan season in Paris.

Vienna

Alois Mosbacher

Belvedere, (until 10 September 2023)

Ropes, balls, cacti, tents, backpacks, a ladder – all unremarkable objects, but in Alois Mosbacher’s work, they become snapshots of highly private and perceptive experiences of nature. Enigmatic images of nature emerge, full of chance encounters and paradoxical interactions between objects that, at first glance, seem very out of place in the landscape.