Art & design exhibitions, events & news

London

EXHIBITION: Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
VENUE: V&A South Kensington
DATES: Opens 21 March 2026

The UK's first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer's influence. It traces the fashion houses's groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry. 

 

EXHIBITION: The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40
VENUE: Saatchi Gallery
DATES: 5 November 2025 to 1 March 2026

Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art and creativity, The Long Now is an expansive group show featuring iconic and new works by artists closely associated with Saatchi Gallery's dynamic history alongside fresh voices from a new generation.

Spanning two floors and nine major exhibition spaces, the exhibition features special commissions, installations, painting and sculpture, and culminates with Richard Wilson's iconic 20:50. A landmark in Saatchi Gallery's history, 20:50 has been shown at each of the Gallery's past locations and now, for the first time, is presented on the top floor. 

 

EXHIBITION: Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
VENUE: National Portrait Gallery
DATES: 5 March 2026 to 31 May 2026

This exhibition, curated in collaboration with the artist, will be the first major museum exhibition of her work in the UK. Opie's work questions representations of home, intimacy and family, and on a national and international level explores politics, identity and power structures.

Works featured in the exhibition will span her first major work, Being and Having (1991), her portraits of LGBTQ+ friends inspired by court painter Hans Holbein, through to her Baroque-like portraits of artists. Portraits work in dialogue with one another to create new narratives, challenging viewers to reflect on the figures most commonly portrayed in art and those who go unseen. 

 

EXHIBITION: Tracey Emin
VENUE: Tate Modern
DATES: 26 February 2026 to 31 August 2026

This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Emin's groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing. 

 

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Liverpool

EXHIBITION: Vivienne Westwood: Designer in Focus
VENUE: Walker Art gallery
DATES: 17 April 2025 to 17 October 2026

A captivating display celebrating the groundbreaking fashion designer's remarkable career spanning over five decades. This stunning showcase brings together a collection of Westwood's revolutionary designs, from her punk beginnings to her status as a British fashion icon.

There are 17 outfits in the display, representing 11 different Westwood collections, dating from 1981 to 1994. Highlights include a grey wool 'Koo tunic' from the Witches Collection (1983-84) featuring artwork by Keith Haring, the conic 'Dunbar Suit' in pink Gordon tartan from the Anglomania Collection (1993-94) once worn by Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Holly Johnson, and a black velvet suit from the Time Machine Collection (1988-89) gifted by Liverpool-born model Julie Bramwell.

 

Paris

EXHIBITION: Renoir the Illustrator
VENUE: Musée D'Orsay
DATES: 17 March 2026 to 5 July 2026

This is the first exhibition to be dedicated to Renoir's drawings, and highlights the importance of graphic techniques in his artistic development. It also reveals the close relationship between his paintings and his drawings, in particular from the 1880s onwards when he began to move away from Impressionism. 

 

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Barcelona

EXHIBITION: Miró and the United States
VENUE: Fundació Joan Miró
DATES: 10 October 2025 to 22 February 2026

An intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and American artists, showing how their creative practices mutually enriched and contributed to the development of 20th-century art.

The exhibition will include more than 140 works from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró's own collection, both by Miró and by a range of artists from various generations: Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Alice Trumbull Mason, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, among many others.  

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Berlin

EXHIBITION: CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė
VENUE: Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwwart
DATES: 1 May 2026 to 10 January 2027

For the second edition of the CHANEL Commission Lina Lapelytė will transform the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography. Visitors will be invited to actively participate in this large-scale commission, which places te unique architecture of Hamburger Bahnhof at its core during the anniversary year. 

 

EXHIBITION: Cassirer and the breakthrough of Impressionsim
VENUE: Alte Nationalgalerie
DATES: 22 May 2026 to 27 September 2026

Cassirer, based in Berlin, made a decisive contribution to the spread of French Impressionism in Germany with several hundred exhibitions at his gallery. Through him, artists such as Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh gained greater attention in the German-speaking world for the first time. Through the presentation of their works, Cassirer had a lasting impact on th German cultural landscape and sparked passionate public debate.

 

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Amsterdam

EXHIBITION: Hedy Tjin - Universal Color
VENUE: Stedelijk
DATES: From 5 July 2025

From 5 July 2025, the space surrounding the historic staircase of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will be adorned with vibrant murals by Hedy Tjin. With her expressive style and bold colours, Tjin celebrates the power of connection and solidarity. These works are part of Post/No/Bills, a series showcasing new creations by emerging graphic artists. 

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Venice

EXHIBITION: Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy
VENUE: Gallerie dell'Accademia
DATES: 6 May 2026 to 19 October 2026

Internationally renowned artist Marina Abramović will make history in 2026 as the first living female artist to be honoured with a major exhibition at the Gallerie dell'Academia. The exhibition marks the artist's 80th birthday and establishes a profound dialogue between her pioneering performance art and the Renaissance masterpieces that have shaped Venice's cultural identity.

The exhibition unfolds across both the permanent collection and temporary exhibition spaces - a first in the institution's history - placing Abramović's research at the very heart of Venice's heritage.

 

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New York

EXHIBITION: Taking Back Our Space - Photographic Perspectives
VENUE: MoMA
DATES: 20 September 2026 to Spring 2027

In 1972, the West German artist Marianne Wex began a visual survey of gendered body language. She picked up her camera and covertly photographed people in her hometown of Hamburg, observing how men and women were socialised to inhabit space differently.

Presenting a robust selection, the exhibition also brings Wex's watershed feminist project into dialogue with contemporary artists such as Nona Faustine, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara and more. These contemporary practitioners reappraise the relationship of bodies to public space from Black, queer, and 21st-century feminist perspectives. In this context, the notion of "taking back space" resonates as a reclamation of physical territory, historical narratives, and the ability to represent oneself. 

 

EXHIBITION: Collection in Focus | Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can't Be Stopped
VENUE: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
DATES: 10 October 2025 - 3 May 2026

This exhibition features over a dozen seminal works from the Guggenheim's collection along with major loands from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which together highlight the artist's radical use of materials and media. Celebrating Rauschenberg's 100th birthday, the show joins a global tribute to Rauschenberg's boundary-pushing creativity, experimental spirit, and lasting impact on contemporary art.  

The centerpiece of the exhibition is Barge (1962-63), a monumental 32-foot-long silscreen painting made predominantly over a 24-hour period and the largest in a series of approximately 80 Silkscreen Paintings works the artist created between 1962 and 1964. This pivotal work returns to New York for the first time in nearly 25 years.

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